Edit Chainsaw codes

i was saying to copy+paste portions of Function C2/388D, not edit any of it.

that is, you'd duplicate some of that function in C2/2B3B as opposed to calling it.  the reasoning there was that the Scimitar/X-Kill routine does too much that we don't want (the dice-up animation, writing additional entries to two animation buffers in the process, and setting Hide on the target).  writing code to roll back all this crap got big in a hurry.  and running the full C2/388D then undoing like 40% of it is a lot slower (albeit probably not consequentially) than simply performing a subset of its steps.

but as i mentioned, the wastefulness depends on how much undoing is actually required.  so let's start with a small subset of the rollbacks, and see how it works.

add the following to Function C2/2B3B:

Code:

LDA #$12
STA $2D77      (replace $B5 in the 3rd entry of the ($76) buffer with
                12h, the Mimic command, which acts as Null.  the goal
                is to overwrite the Magic command animation that
                performs the dice-up.)
JMP extra

[...]

(somewhere in free space:)

extra:
LDA $3DE9,Y
AND #$DF
STA $3DE9,Y    (remove Hide from Status to Set)
RTS

So maybe now I am understanding a little better - but does this mean the original patch actually worked by using the Scimitar/X-kill death animation?  I thought this was just a fun optional feature to change the death animation to the slice effect, but if I am understanding correctly, the patch actually functions by using this effect to check for instant death status, etc..  I also don't understand ASM code much beyond just applying it to my hack. Assassin, do you have discord? I could probably resolve this in a 5-minute chat as opposed to going back and forth and making you type more explanations on here! Coding is my kryptonite, after all.