Segmentation Fault

Take MMMLXXII

I am really baffled about this!

Take MMMLXXI

Which function calls for key IAA (game crashes because it doesn't exist... and that non-existance also SHOULD be the case).

Take MMMLXX

I see a serious issue that could be the cause, except for one thing... Not of the other things could have worked properly this way... So I wonder why it did now...

Right, it's truely a nil value and not a string containing the word "nil" (wouldn't be the first time THAT happens).

Take MMMLXIX

It's really getting odd here. Add data in the logs turn out things are cool, but it's clear that it isn't!

Take MMMLXVIII

I'm really trying stuff now

Take MMMLXVII

Let's force a little check here!

ALL data appears to be "nil" which gives me something to think about.

Take MMMLXVI

I need to sort a few things out.

I'm out of time now, but at least I know now that all values being checked are nil, and I guess it's really a thing to find out WHY!

Take MMMLXV

I did one fix, but I doubt that will do much, since (after all) stuff should not have been able to work otherwise.

Take MMMLXIV

Well?

Take MMMLXIII

CODE TYPO!

Take MMMLXII

Still no clarity

Take MMMLXI

More information required

Take MMMLX

The function is called, but some stuff that should happen clearly doesn't happen. Another debug line should provide some clarity.

Take MMMLIX

Debug lines reactivated

let's find out why

the jewel upgrade bug still appears to be there.

Take MMMLVIII

That fixes the crash on having an Onyx

Transfer Art by April

Jewel recalc ignore should be fixed now.

Take MMMLVII

Well, my schedule today doesn't allow me much, but at least I can test a few things out. I will resume this easy mode test in The Black Castle now

Time is NOT on my side today, but perhaps I can get a few things done.

Well, House Of Cards and the Frendor Bushes appear to be in order!

Take MMMLVI

Another day!

This minigame was only a homage to one of the first games I ever created back in the 1980s on a P2000T home computer.

It may look like rubbush today, but back in the day it was quite the thing!

All appears to be in order now!

Take MMMLV

Turned off

That did indeed seem to be the issue

Take MMMLIV

It seams that class extensions are not taking static vars on the same reference. Something to sort out!

Take MMMLIII

is this really the expandable classes spooking up on me?

Size value appears to be 0 in stead of 16... How come?

Take MMMLII

Well at least that error proves the function is called, but what next?

Take MMMLI

A different approach of matters does require a few more changes as vars are not always in order anymore

Take MMML

No traces at all. Debug back on!

Take MMMXLIX

Oh wait Scyndi didn't recompile

Take MMMXLVIII

I wonder if it has to do with status functions in an extended class

According to the logs, the routine drawing the projectiles is not even called.

Take MMMXLVII

So some harsh debug is in order and a harsh debug line has therefore been added.

What I see if just crap of the first degree and it's completely unclear how this could happen.

Take MMMXLVI

???

The only thing that appears to appear well on screen is the text.

Take MMMXLV

Added: QuitRequest

Dev

Take MMMXLIV

Music

Take MMMXLIII

Fake flow

Take MMMXLII

WTF?

Take MMMXLI

Events

Take MMMXL

Screenn

Take MMMXXXIX

Audio

Take MMMXXXVIII

:=

Take MMMXXXVII

Just a nice minigame you can earn when you defeat Mid-Boss.

Neil -> Scyndi: Block shooter

And with that I can close #220

AT LAST!

Take MMMXXXVI

Amazing how something so simple can lead to over 1000 errors

Another code typo

Take MMMXXXV

No Ref

Take MMMXXXIV

. missing

Take MMMXXXIII

Let's try this with labels then!

Nope! Nothing happens!

Take MMMXXXII

Code typo

Take MMMXXXI

I hope this fixes #220

No extra take for that one, although I may need to check things out in the new game+ and the test of the hard mode!

I fixed that up!

I may need to check a few things in the transporter data, though

And so does the transporter pad at the end

The way up works

Ground floor Yaqirpa appears to be working

Take MMMXXX

Compilation order cann sometimes cause some freaky effects

Take MMMXXIX

Constructor

Take MMMXXVIII

Natural break

Script header

Take MMMXXVII

Code typo

Transporter pads

Take MMMXXVI

Map script for the comeback to the Yaqirpa

Normally aliases should suffice, but JQL appears to have trouble with aliases from block data and that will get me on debugging. I hope I can fix that someday.

A copy of the Yaqirpa

Take MMMXXV

I had a little break, but let's resume the action!

Well, that's a later concern. This is a bit strange, though.

LZMA has failed already. LZMA seems to rely a lot on "size_t". If appears C doesn't know that type... at least not GCC (C++ doesn't seem to care, it just reads the type).

Take MMMXXIV

So let's get ready to rumble. I am now halfway the first round: Science Facility.

My prime concern is now testing the game, and what I need to test now will have to work anyway, WITH or WITHOUT lzma.

Well I said lzma won't be added today, but perhaps I can take a look later to prepare a few things anyway

So far everything appears to be working including the BRUTE setting. Cool!

Take MMMXXIII

Please note, not of this has been tested (yet)

For compression all preps are now also in order.

This also means that adding lzma support itself won't be added TODAY!

Packing comes later, Ir really need a break. The headache I had this morning may have stopped, but I do notice it's still taking a bit of toll on me.

Well I did adapt JCR6 so unpacking with the kind of way PocketLZMA approaches the matter would be able to deal with it.

For zlib a few minimal changes were needed, but for lzma I need a different approach in general.

I'm now working to redo the JCR6 core a bit.

Take MMMXXII

#235, although testing is hard to impossible right now... I don't expect any more issues here, though

Take MMMXXI

My apple sauce does seem to work out... a bit.

Save game hack (or I'll risk damage my data even further. Newer sessions should not be bugged anymore, but testing the hard mode or the New Game+ will have to confirm tha).

I guess a more direcct method will be needed.

Take MMMXX

I hope this cup of apple sauce will pick me up until my "tosti" is ready.

Take MMMXIX

This is not possibile for every single bug causing damaged data, but sometimes, it is!

I've set up an automated fixer to fix the damaged data due to that

Added tag AUTO

Two Physilliums at the Hawk's navigation terminal due to a code typo.

Take MMMXVIII

Somehing I'm very bad at!

Loads to do today, but unfortunately I'm plagued by a terrible headahe. I hope I'll recover a bit over time, but I need to slow down a bit.

Take MMMXVII

Now it's not that I have no time at all, so I can put a few things to the test!

I do not have much time today to work on either project, but I will try to work out a few things.

Take MMMXVI

Well time to resume the testing

A nice thing to note is that I found a simple lzma library which could be perfect for JCR6. I need to run a few tests before I can attach that to SCI, but if it works the game could become significantly smaller, since lzma can produce smaller compression ratios than zlib can (especially on larger blocks of data or larger files. Kthura maps in particular can benefit here).

I think I "fixed" the latter, although I can only test this in future playthroughs. As I also need to test the hard mode, that shouldn't be too much trouble

And one list of Wendicka's is not listed and not an unimportant one. The ability powerups. I think I know a trick for that for future playthroughs though.

Blockmap issue in Dark Caves Of Shillington. This can be a bit of an issue, I'm afraid

Crystal and ExHuRU did not dispawn after the crash onto the Lost Planet event

 

Take MMMXV

doors appear fixed, but now I need a fresh take (which savegame being loaded) to fully confirm this

Take MMMXIV

Crash

Take MMMXIII

ExHuRU's base stats would in a New Game+ not be updated, and as his link partners are bound to go up a few levels (unless he was already at the level cap when he left, which is likely only the case by the time you are about to get close to level 10,000 as once that is the set cap it won't go up anymore in next cycle), it's important his stats are updated in the process.

I think I fixed the issue causing the kick in door effect by ExHuRU not to trigger and that should allow me to close #196 (of course testing will have to confirm this)

Take MMMXII

I think I need to enforce things!

Take MMMXI

It was a bad character table usage. That's been fixed now!

Take MMMX

Strange error! I wanna know what the fuck is going on here. An extra debug line must get me some answers!

Take MMMIX

Well ExHuRU will join soon, but I already explained, his links are unimportant until Rolf joins.... I must make sure his base stats are reloaded, though, as Rolf is slightly weaker than ExHuRU (Rolf is a natural human after all, where ExHuRU is an android). And but that comes later.... For now let's focus on ending the prologue.

In Wendicka's form it did matter, her stats are the same in both forms, so having everything linked up not only saves RAM (although not that it's really worth the trouble) but doesn't require a stat reload, and whenver something is not required, it's best not to do it. Well... in most cases.

A bug that was in the Apollo version caused Crystal's level not to be linked. That THAT much of an issue as both in the New Game+ annd in the switch from Crystal wearing her uniform to Crystal being a cyborg already made that I had to reload new statistics as they were different in both forms and it always being unlikely that Crystal would not go level up in either of her two forms already made that I had to make sure her stats were up to part.

Now the experience points of natural Crystal and cyborg Crystal have been linked, and I know my audience would hate me for it if that part was not properly in order. Hitpoints should not be linked as her cyborg form does have more HP (her implants giving her extra protection and taking over a few parts that allow her to hold out longer so in a certain sense she has more stamina. That was the idea). Checking the code this does appear to be all in order.

Crystal on the other hand is by far more complicated. In her cyborg form she's stronger than in her natural form. Her weapon upgrades handle her bionic arm so if they don't really come through that would be lesser important, as technically she shouldn't have them in her natural form (although Wendicka uses a big wrench in her casual form and a photon gun in her uniform form, yet as this only handles the prologue I can live with that little detail and I don't think anyone will notice. Her base stats and stuff are a different story). What needs to be linked is most of all her inventory.

Now Wendicka is TECHNICALLY the easy one, as there all data simply has to be linked. The looks of her clothes and the weapon she uses are not part of this database and where using their own scripting. However conflict prevention made it easier to just split her up into two characters.

I've made sure UniWendicka (code name for Wendicka while she's still wearing her uniform) has the stat Upgrades and that it would be linked to Wendicka. It's only cosmetic for me for when I use Judkha to analyse the savegame files, as it's merely a counter for how many upgrades you did to your weapons and making sure you won't get past the upgrade cap, and the only place where you can do that would be The Hawk, which you can only reach once you are in casual clothes, and thus under the normal codename Wendicka. yet I just couldn't stand it seeing that link missing. 😅

But first I'm gonna take a shower and fix myself a meal.

I feel filthy and I am also getting hungry.

Of course, if you played the game before I hear you wonder about ExHuRU, Rolf and Johnson as they are linked too. Well, that's no issue for the short term. When ExHuRU joins the party the data of the other two is not yet setup, so no linking possible then. Once Rolf joins his required stuff will be linked, and the same procedure follows for Johnson once she joins the party in the final dungoen. On the latter one I fixed the crap as it was by that time indeed really clear to me that stuff was being bugged, so that means that the most intensive checking will need to be done once I reach the point where Rolf joins the party.

Now I will have to take a look at how the linkups are in the script (as in the initial setting I had to improvise as the linking system was failing a bit on me), and once that's set up I can use the take take to get this test session from the start-up to the main game phase. I don't expect too much trouble here, but as this is very sensitive stuff and I want it to be done right! It will save me a lot of nightmares once I get to test New Game+ sessions and most of all, also the Hard Mode, and I don't want too much trouble there.

Well, that's been taken care of!