03-11-2010, 10:31 PM
Huh.
I didn't know anyone would be interested in a standalone patch to make monsters able to have 24-bit HP (for a max of 16,777,215 HP instead of 65,535).
But yeah, I did make such a modification for Pandora's Box. Actually, I made it for a hack I was doing pre-PB, but it never was released. It involved a lot of changes, and it took most of about 3 afternoons to do, mostly because there are so many special effects that either use HP or effect it somehow. Well, there were a couple bugs I had to work out (healing HP was messed up when wrapping into the third byte). But that patch, being such a major one, was tested properly with many test cases, so I fixed all the issues.
It probably wouldn't be too hard for me to isolate the changes and release a patch. I could do that if the community would actually use it. The only real issue is that I have almost 0 free time these days.
I didn't know anyone would be interested in a standalone patch to make monsters able to have 24-bit HP (for a max of 16,777,215 HP instead of 65,535).
But yeah, I did make such a modification for Pandora's Box. Actually, I made it for a hack I was doing pre-PB, but it never was released. It involved a lot of changes, and it took most of about 3 afternoons to do, mostly because there are so many special effects that either use HP or effect it somehow. Well, there were a couple bugs I had to work out (healing HP was messed up when wrapping into the third byte). But that patch, being such a major one, was tested properly with many test cases, so I fixed all the issues.
It probably wouldn't be too hard for me to isolate the changes and release a patch. I could do that if the community would actually use it. The only real issue is that I have almost 0 free time these days.
I appreciate the prayers and good wishes. Those who don't know, I was diagnosed with stage 4 melanoma in 2019, and I have done well with the treatment, but eventually treatments stop working and you change. I recently had a seizure at work, now I am healing but not able to work or really do much at all. The focus is just to get better. Again, thanks for the support and if I can help you I will. I've forgotten more about this game than most people should ever learn, lol.