Condensing Spell List in Battle

re code snippet: or add a few to several bytes (depending on whether we want the option of going >= 256d past 3084h; i.e. setting A to 16-bit) but gain some speed with a 4-entry pointer table.

... Yeah, that would work, too. XD Which is exactly what the game already does for the start of the spell list.

that'd avoid doing the Actor ID check, but what's the best or quickest way to make sure the index _into_ the list is a proper value?

After you subtract 8Bh from A to convert the attack ID into a Lore ID, do a quick CMP to see if it's >23h? That's the first thing that comes to mind.

re building the individual $3084 lists: huh, guess i did underestimate it some.

I mean, complicated definitely doesn't mean impossible. Maybe something like...

Code:

LDY #$04      ; we don't need a 16-bit index, because Y will max out at D8
LDX #$35

.loop
LDA ($F2),Y   ;
BMI .exit     ; BMI works here to exit because if the list is already shuffled, hitting FFh means the rest of that list is null
PHX : TAX
PHY : TYA
LSR #2
TAY
STY ($F0),X   ; assuming that we save the start of the character's individual $3084 list in scratch memory at, uh, some point.
PLY          
INY #4
PLX : DEX
BPL .loop
.exit

I'm also wondering if it's worth shuffling Lores BEFORE they're copied over to the individual spell lists; for one, that means we can shuffle the magic lists in 8-bit rather than 16-bit X/Y, since our index would never go above D8h, AND we could create the Lore Position list at the end of $3084 at the same time, since it doesn't need to be done per character.

ETA: For that matter, Lores would be shuffled in 8-bit as well, since we could just do a quick 24-entry loop.