Fix a cup of coffeee

And that means things can be tested now.... As things are a bit more complex than they usually are, I do expect some trouble here....

Oh yeah, the actors had to be removed from memory... This to prevent any bugs when the Rondomo sequence begins, which is in the same section

I've scripted out the part where the party meets Dernor and Merya.... The script should also make them go away

Tag adaptions which were needed in the old game, but serve no purpose here, and would even only bug things up

Tag placement in order to make portraits appear properly accordingly

Damn, that was a highload of text....

As the outside of the cave was a separate map in the original game, I am condemned to loading a separate scenario file (as there's also text with the dragon), and I have no merger, and writing one will take more time and effort than it's worth, since I only need to do this once, and the merger takes more time to write, than this way around takes me....

Imported scenario for Dernor and Merya

The actors for Dernor and Merya should spawn now

For Itch.io things are not yet certain when it comes to uploads. I could not yet see if Itch.io actually supports hidden downloads only for personally picked alpha testers to see

Alpha Update

Due to the meeting with Dernor and Merya I have a few complicated things set up to deal with loading the place from the world map

Empty base script

There are a few issues with character specific skill exp gainings

AS this requires full concentration to do well, I think I'll first take a little break....

Not only that, but I also must be careful on working out the music, as that'll need to be done differently. I must also think on how to do the inspawning from the worldmap, but the latter I know an easy cheat for, which I actually also used on the village of Dreshka in The Fairy Tale (both the original game as the revamp.... a very easy way to "cheat")

This requires them to be fully functional actors, and thus I'll need to be creative in scripting

This will be a bit harder to do, as Dernor and Merya will not join the party yet, but walk away in stead (only to return later as fully playable characters)

Outside Area where Dernor and Merya will enter the game

And now to bring the game outside the madhouse, so I can start the works on the Black Dragon Cave and complete this chapter

And that should be all errors accounted for

Map referrence error

Take XII

Way back into the madhouse

I do suffer from some dominance issues... This was already a problem in the original game, and trying to fix those will only make things worse, so I won't

Achievement works

Take XI

Linked the achievement to the proper place on the map

The name is a referrence to Wild ARMS 4, where Yulie often exclaims this during battle

I wish I could forget all about the facility

Take X

Debug lines dummied... I can get them back if the bug persists

I think I fixed it

During Take IX I hope the debug log will tell me why Irravonia tries to learn "Meditation"

#120 As at least that has been confirmed to work

So these debug lines must give some clarity

The way the code has been written should make this impossible...

Irravonia tries to learn "Meditation" when not all skill levels are at the required height

take IX

Take VIII

Extra declaration required

Take VII

Yeah it takes a few bytes more of RAM and nobody will ever care, mind you!

Voided an issue in the #120 fix.... Doing it the correct way is too much work....

Take VI

Before I push that in order to close #120 I want to do more testing, but that will be done in this entire test session along with the test of the facility

#120

No experience on casting freeze for Eric

Take V

I've made sure the speed between faster and slower characters in battle is less excessive

Take IV

Back to the facility

Take III

Not the must beautiful fix, but caring about that will only create even uglier code

AHA! That was the evil!

Take II

Extra data about why the transporter pad refuses to work

Which was about time

Replaced by work chair

Take I

Does it work?

Transporter pad area 018 active now

I've expanded the SASKIA script for the transporter.... Was the easier way to go

I'll be back!

Issued as #119

When a 100% poison resistent enemy can get poisoned, I do know the resistance checkup is not working properly.... (And I think I already know why)

Take Three!

HP down.... This would take too long and end up in an extremely BORING fight!

Take Two!

Music referrence

Take One!

Time is not my biggest friend today, but I'll see how much time I got to throw in some tests

Yes, those who played Star Story may be able to guess the boss.... Try it!

???

Kuusi

Nelja

Kolme

Kaksi

Yksi

There is still some work to do before I can get the boss to work, though

The boss itself has not yet been put in the database, so starting the fight will crash the game... for now....

Boss script has been done

(I can't do much while JCR6 is packing, anyway).

First something to eat, as I am starving!

Packing

Quality has been approved

Music pack script adapted

Music imported and quality downgrade

I see... what I wanted to see

Still a little test

activating it will for now crash the game

Boss placed in

Boss Art

A bug in my backup tool not handling deleted files well

But that's likely not for today anymore!

Things have been set for the boss fight

Frost wand was producing fire in stead of ice

Take IX

More chances to get out of paralysis

Take VIII

Aurina

Myr has been modified a bit, as it didn't work the way it was intended to work

Element fix on Freeze

Take VII

SIIIIIIGG!

Take VI

I guess I must FORCE this

Take V

I think I fixed the flysky issue

take IV

Myr seemed to be only doing Ultra-Sonic, while it shouldn't

Take III

I dunno, but let's try this

Enemy error

Arena reference

So Take I again!

Take I was cancelled as I discovered it before the take began

Item fixed

Take I

And that should set things up.... Up to area 018 everything should be already.... On area 018 I've planned a boss fight

Random treasures have been placed

Random treasure

Random encounters

Myr

Flysky

I goes without saying, but... These items can ONLY be obtained in the second part of the science facility.... I guess you already figured that out, eh?

Super Medikit

AP Full effect

Energy Drink

Well I was about to do it again anyway, and this version had no more value, but still....

Oh, my alpha update went wrong, eh?

NEG

Myr

Flysky

Quality DownGrade "Hall of the Mountain King"

Quality downgrade "Chee zee Jungle"

Take VIII

NONE of these fixes will affect the original Star Story game, as all fixes have been applied on a copy, and I already had done a few modifications, so....

The texture used to be invisible but to cover up a cosmetic issue was never used in this game, so I had to pick another

Way back for 023 to 022

Entrance doors 023 not operating at all

No way back from 22 to 21

Doors on 020 only closing when you walk to them first

I think I fixed the sliding door issue

Take VII

Some debug lines must answer a few questions

Why the doors refuse to work is still beyond me, though....

And a missing backchain to a room you were before has been fixed too

That crash is fixed

And the doors do not respond properly when you approach them

Crash halfway

Take VI

PLEASE!!!!

GRRRR!

And Take V is now the game itself....

Which should look OK now

Take IV is just checking the data the builder shows me

I hope?

WTF is going on here?

WTF?????

Take III

Bad Alias request

Take II

Done

Forgot to link the event with Zone Action, doh!

Let's put everything to the test ....

Meta config part 2

Contrary to the original game, once moved on to floor 013 you cannot go back to floor 999 anymore....

Aliassing.... Keeps the facility a bit more as one dungeon....

Quality downgrade "Black Vortex"

I know that's lay, but I have choices to make, mind you!

But the layer remover appears defect in the current version of Kthura, so I cannot remove it, but all it does is taking up a bit of RAM, and it's the smallest layer in the entire dungeon, so I'll have to keep that the way it is, and it's not that important

I've checked the second part of the facility, and all appears well, except for the room of "the mole", but since that room will not be out of reach in this game (as the secret door giving access to it will not open in this game), there is not much point in fixing that....

Let's make sure though!

So it should be fixed now

THANK GOODNESS! It was just a code typo and not a busted swap file

They should NOT have closed again....

Error on the barriers to the facility

Take V

I've altered a few settings and hopefully this will grant me my cigar (although I don't smoke, but you get the picture) :P

Close! But no cigar!

Let's first test Tsunami -- Take IV

Music resource update can wait

Quality Downgrade "Water Prelude"

I THINK I fixed that

No more crashes, but what I see now is beyond terrible anyway, so I need to sort this out!

Wrong skill group experience on Poison Cloud

Take III

Wrong class called

Take II

A few distractions taken care of

Declaration error

Time for the test

Linked spellani to the ability itself

Wrong skill EXP on tsunami

Tsunami

Water

And that's all for not... The black dragon comes later