It works, but it's too damn slow

Take IV

Neil issue with "new"

Take III

Reference error

Take II on Smoke Bomb

Conflict

A lot of fixes have been done here already, but the random factor makes proper testing impossible and as we are on the brink of release I want that move to work properly....

I've set Foxy to be forced to learn Smoke Bomb, regardless if the randomizer agrees with her.... This in order to test if that move works

The testing will resume at the start of the Facility - Part 2

But that was expected

"Cheer" works

Hey, life goes on, you know!

Other business I had to attend to

Start of Belioss

Not yet the good moment to test "Cheer" out.... But it will definitely come

And I am now at the start of Nizozemska

During the testing of the next dungeons I will see if this move works out

First I will force Cheer upon her in order to test that spell

I made a few force clauses in Foxy's ability list in order to allow more proper testing.

"I'm sexy and I know it" should now be awared when applicable

Crash

Correction

Okay, then...

Well?

I do NOT wanna talk about this!

Well..... Let's see.....

At least I hope so!

And thus I could fix it

Well on the bright side, it confirmed what I suspected

IDIOT!

Take ... how many?

I think?

Oh, man!

And a little cycle based boost

More shit

GRRR!

I am talking about that fucking boss on Volcania....

Let's see!

It must remain slow, eh?

I see that a lot of umlaut cases have nasty effects on the text... Easy to fix, but not needed before the first alpha release

We'll have to see if that works out!

Hmmm?

Hotfix

I hope that works...

I'll have to see if this works out

I see that this is not fully effective.... No idea why

"Where no man has gone before" will now work!

Let's continue the action

An event flush will take place before starting any scenario... Sometimes the first boxtext was skipped when stuff was combined with loading a new map... Hopefully this prevents that....

A corruption error... Nothing serious...

Right, the (hopefully) final cycle test prior to release has begun...

The achievements for reaching level 10,000 should all work now

Please note the alpha version will ONLY be released on Itch.io and NOT on Game Jolt.... That has to do with Butler being an easier tool to update alphas with..... (well, that and another reason I'd rather keep to myself, thank you).

Now for the FINAL pre-release test cycle... That is "FINAL" when no serious issues that spook the game up big way show up during this cycle...

Completed this test cycle

SG cleanup recovery mistake

Space created.... I will need it to prepare the actual release, as that will be needed when this test is over...

And let's resume the action

One issue with max savegames

Renamed it for immediate action

Extracted last savegame

Clean up some stuff

Added tag 7Z

This was expected to happen on the road, no worries

Savegame list full

The government has failed ..... AGAIN!

Some more testing today,..... We're almost there....

Water gun was turning the announcement icon + Crystal's portrait blue

Blockmap issue in Belioss

The 1970s version uses a different scrolling system.... It can "spook" things up a little, but it's not a real bummer, so I'll lave it the way it is

I need to see if this is true though

I think I fixed a minor scrolling issue in the normal savegame screen....

But I will have to see later if that truly works out

I've done a few more things to speed up the process on the boss in Volcania....

The first playable character of a possible Star Story II has her portrait ready!

I already suspected this, but there's a bug making stuff go over the slot cap.... I need to look into that....

A few checkups and maintenance actions will be taken care of in the meantime....

Experience points however IS correctly linked

In older savegames the data is broken, but the system can automatically detect this, and fix that, so no problem here....

...

Link error found in Crystal

All issues accounted for

Take VI

Allowing scrolling up was malfunctioning

That fixes a lot

Take V

Coordinate error on scroll up button

Take IV

Hover conflict

Take III

Syntax error

Take II

Unrelated issue, but despite the block, switching characters in the Yaqirpa prologue still worked, which shouldn't have been possible

Take I

Well, the big question is now... DOES IT WORK?

Scrolling itself

The setup is done to make sure the vault knows when scrolling might be in order

Start up the operation

I still need to repeat this one

unfortunately...

Before I get to that I must first clean up my workplace, as the GameVar internal thing created more of a mess than I expected

Okay, I've created a nice situation to see if I can get #84 to work

Cycle complete

Take XXX

GRRR!

KUT MET PEREN!

Take XXIX

I see that the ABLUSED metatable was in the deleted code... Well good thing I archived it (and that I can see old statusses on GitHub as well).

FINALLY!

Take XXVIII

Fixed

Link forgotten

Take XXVII

I forgot auto substitution (used in BoxText)

It all seems to be alright now

Take XXVI (Load)

Okay

Take XXV (save)

As a result two more takes required... One to save and one to load

Another crucial generation bug in the underlying C++ code

Take XXIV

One more test is needed to see if loading games work properly

The data Stach shows me now looks good

Take XXIII

All good now?

compiling

A few more generation bugs in the underlying C++ code

Still no good, but the worst part appears to have been taken care of now

Take XXII

Generation bug in the underlying C++ code

Missing extension in JCR file (savegame)

Stuff doesn't work on MANY accounts

Take XXI

Property != Method

Take XX

I think that will happen some more.... Oh well

Barf forgotten

Variables do load, btw... It went wrong on saving

Take XIX

Illegal function call in glue code

Take XVIII

Compiling

Show function was not internally linked to the API system

Take XVII

Wrong type number in Glue Script

Take XVI

Barf

New "Done" metatable

Take XV

Fixing a conflict in the process

Another adaption required

Take XIV

And in the Field's callback routines as well

Take XIII

FieldMap conflicts fixed

Progress.... But not close to the finish line yet

Take XII

Why lua has no boolean checker is beyond me.... Would save up a lot of code, I tell ya!

Done that now anyway

Forgot to barf, which is needed when you fix something in the Apollo glue scripts

Take XI

Another case error in the glue code fixed

Take X

A big trapdoor when linking case insensitive code to case sensitive underlying APIS and cores.

Case error in linkups

Take IX

Another conflict gone!

Take VIII

AAARGH!!!!

Take VII

Really Microsoft should know you never include .cpp files, but header files only... In normal C++ usage, that is....

#include error by VisualStudio include fuck

DA FUUUUUCK!?

Take VI

Another conflict gone

That should do it

Glue code to receive it and split it

Creating a dump

Ah, de debug dumb is (of course) no longer functional... No matter....

Take V

Fixed those too

Missed a few macros

Take IV

(Okay "everything" might be too strong of a word, but you get what I mean, right?)

That should fix eveything

Adepted two marcos

Aha! Marco issue, that explains

Let's use my Antonius tool, then...

Persistent in this impossibility, aren't we?

Take III

it claims it has an unknown identifier, however no such thing appears to be present.... Hmmmm....

A removal that was too quick -- Aurina

Take II

BARF script run

And voided a few issues in this thing in other things

Conflict caused in the Aurina implementation

Take I

I did try to make sure that old savegame will remain compatible

This is one of those bugs of which you NEVER can tell if they are fixed, only when they happen again, you can tell they are not.... Still, all I can do is test if the game works properly now, and see what happens