Patch: Pugs Rage

author: SilentEnigma
Version 1.2 released 2021-12-31
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Okay! I think this is ready enough.

This patch makes it possible to view the Pugs rage in the field menu and select it in battle.

Big thanks to @assassin for a lot of way-paving on this topic previously at Slick:
https://web.archive.org/https://slickpro...ic=2245.60


& shouts out again to @seibaby for the post that got the wheels turning for me.

A few tidbits on the implementation:

• In the field menu list (non-Checklist variants), Null is now indicated by "any unexpected I.D. for the rage normally displayed at that position"
  
• In the battle menu rage list, Null is now indicated by "any value equal to the preceding value in the list" determined by the max index in the compressed list
  
• The learned rage counter $3A9A is allowed to overflow.
  
• If $3A9A overflows, a different RNG function (0 - 255 range) is used to pick the random rage ID
  
• The random rage IDs for Muddle status are now initialized once together at the start of battle, rather than once before first use. (#$FF needs to indicate Pugs, so it can no longer serve as a null (uninitialized) value here) The rage ID for each ally is 2 bytes, so the high byte is now used to indicate null / non-null, rather than the low byte.
  
• The strange loop C2/05ED - C2/05F9 has been nuked.
  
• Combining with Terii Senshi's "Rage" makes it possible to learn & use all 256 rages.
  

The main compromise is that Gau must have at least one rage learned at all times. This is the case with vanilla FF3us, so I think it should be a fair tradeoff for most.

See the Readme for more & better info.