Patch: Reward Display

This is a great patch! It seems to not like my relocated item descriptions though, they are all showing incorrect on this new screen. Or, maybe it's that I swapped a bunch of items around? Is there something in the asm that can be re-pointed or am I out of luck?

It is difficult to give you an answer without prior knowledge of your hack. First, this patch, for this version 1.0, uses the free space from C3/F800 to C3/F88A. You should check if another patches use that space. In the vanilla rom, they should all be filled with #$FF values.

If you need to relocate the free space, you can recompile the code with asar. Find the following code in the asm file:

Code:

org     $C3F800         ;(*) change for any free space
print   "seg start: ", pc

Change $C3F800 to any free space in the rom and recompile it with asar. If everything is fine, it should print the addresses used in the free space.

There's a big difference between discover it while playing and searching all the info opening docs or something, of course your question makes me think that your patch is mainly intended to improve vanilla experience... yet in the case of an hack you might want to hide the prize until the player manage to win.

I personally don't like to hide the reward items from the player, but it is a valid point. The original game also have the design of masked items as well. I will try to add it in the future update of this hack. Hackers can edit the Colosseum data and determinate what items will or will not be masked. Everyone can be happy.

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Ok, I updated the hack. The new version 1.1 is here:

http://www.bwass.org/bucket/025_reward_display_11.7z

Change log

• When the line is empty without an available item, a full blank line will be displayed. In the old version, the string 'empty' was displayed for the reward and the bet items.
  
• Hidden reward items will now display as a string composed of '?' characters. In the old version, they were displayed as any normal item. Hackers can change the colosseum data to determinate the items masks.
  
• The bet items are in the left column and the reward items are in the right column. In the old version, it was the opposite positions. I believe now that it is better than the old position.
  
  

I will not upload an alternative patch with the reward items in the left because i believe now that it is not a good design. However, if someone is interested, they only need to swap the two correspondent JSR in the asm files and recompile it with asar.

Screen Shots