Patch: Stuck in a Pose fix

author: SilentEnigma
Download (obsolete - see below)

 StuckInAPose_v2.9.zip (6.64 KB, 10 downloads)

From Novalia Spirit's "100+ Bugs":

After any event-dictated movement occurs, the hero sprite may appear to be stuck in its last pose or its walking pose. The easiest way to see this is to go up and down some stairs. Most of
the time, if you stop walking, the hero sprite should appear in a walking pose. Other examples of this are when you jump on a turtle, when trying to go up a conveyor belt to no avail, and after a scene where your party was split temporarily.
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One better example of this bug is when you're within the airship and talk to the guy who can unequip your characters. While you do so, the hero sprite should look South and be in a walking pose, yet, even if the said guy isn't South of the hero sprite, you can still talk to him since the game still considers you're facing him.

This hack fixes the bug by tapping into some code that deals with sprite-drawing, in a section that executes repeatedly when the player has control but is not pressing any directional buttons. A new subroutine in the range C0/D780 - C0/D7F2 (115 free bytes) checks the direction of the character and transitions to the appropriate "standing-still" sprite if the character is in some other pose. 

Edit: The latest version of the patch is v2.9, updated 2021-04-26 (see attachment).