Divergent Paths: The 3 Scenarios

Terra's scenario is complete! It was a stroke of luck on my part. I had forgotten that EXP was not gained on the Veldt, so this scenario would leave whomever was in it under-leveled. It just so happens that the characters are Terra, who leaves the party after the battle to save the Esper and then is auto-leveld later in the game, Banon, who never joins your party again, and Gau, who joins right at the end and starts at a higher level.

Anyway, it took nearly 5 hours to figure out how to branch from the Serpent Trench to the "Choose a Scenario" room, since the Serpent Trench segment ends not in the trench, but on the dock in Nikeah. Darn embedded vehicle segments! I stumbled across a solution by having the Nikeah dock load in the background without music playing. Then, if you hadn't yet completed the scenario, the game would bring you back to the "Choose a Scenario" room. If you HAD completed the scenario, it would start up the music and restore the screen from fade. The load takes about 1 second longer, and your character starts on the dock standing upright (due to space issues), but I couldn't think of another way to do it.

I also changed around Gau's Father so that he is no longer sexist. He'll babble about his repairs to anyone who isn't a child or an animal. Also, almost 20 years after I first played the game, I finally gave him a clock that you can examine!

The one "error" I have right now is when you recruit Gau. Normally, the screen will fade, Sabin's character sprite will morph into an Imp, and the Imp will explain how to use "Rage". During the process, it will change to Gau's sprite, back to the Imp sprite, and then finally back to Sabin. Since Sabin is no longer IN this scene (all his actions were replaced with Banon), the sprite changes don't work. If anyone wants to examine that code and offer pointers, I'll hear them. For now, I've just changed that scene so that Gau explains his own abilities, and all of the sprite changes purposely fail out.

I will upload a new patch if people request it. Otherwise, I'll keep working in the background.