Patch: Reward Display

though... all "blank/empty" spots say empty, could you not default them to just be blank, rather than all say empty?

I recycled the function, used by shops, to format the item strings. For the empty item, it doesn't format the string as a full sequence of spaces. Instead, it formats the string as the 'empty' string.

I had my own misadventures with this hack and, at the time, I didn't consider it to be of importance. Now that the hack is functional, i can think about it. I will try to implement your suggestion in the next hack update.

Yeah, it's a nice patch, what i don't like is that ???????? prizes are not hidden anymore...

Can I ask you why? For the original game, there are public documents of the Colosseum. They display all bet items, enemies and the reward items. They don't hide the masked items in their documentation. Why should this patch hide the masked items if all documentation in the web don't do it? You will know the reward items anyway after you win the first time, it only will not be displayed in the item screen...

your items should be in the left column in order of being more readable, does the rom denies you to do that, for some reason?

It is a question of personal preference. In the screen after the item selection, where you select a character for the opponent, the reward item is on the left and the bet item is on the right. It is the main reason i choose the order of the items for display.

Technically, there is not significant difference to put the reward item in the right or left positions. In the next update, i will do an alternative patch with the reward items in the right and the bet items on the left. I probably only need to change the order where the correspondent JSRs are called.