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Holy crap.

On Sunday, July 15, 2012 2:29:14 PM UTC-5, djandus wrote:
>
> The issue was, what I originally thought I could upload quickly is 
> actually very broken up and disjointed.
>

 So, I figured something out that should help explain both this and what I 
mean by "let me handle line endings."

For all displayed text in boxes at the bottom, (what I'm broadly calling 
"dialogue") there are about 4 different line ending types. They vary based 
on extra instructions of clearing the two lines, merely going to the next 
line, continuing to a new page, etc. They have very confusing interactions 
that I'm still getting the hang of.

The terrible part is that these endline characters are written in as 
references to instructions or characters that are contextually determined. 
So, the endline character set for the pokedex entries is different from 
when Professor Oak is talking in the intro is different from when Professor 
Oak stops you from leaving Pallet Town is different from when you talk to 
that random stallion in that one place...

yeah. Assembly is awesome.

And while I'm on random assembly tidbits, somepony else disassembled the 
code I'm working with. They have spent two years on the project, giving 
everything good variable names and even commenting the code pretty well. 
The fun part is, whoever did this actually has found some pretty amusing 
bugs in the code. My favorite comments so far are:

During movement:

> ; the code below is strange
> ; it computes whether or not the player did a 180 degree turn, but then 
> overwrites the result
> ; also, it does a seemingly pointless loop afterwards


During the beginning of a turn in a battle, when it checks for fly/dig 
status, etc:

> ; this code is buggy. it's supposed to prevent HP draining moves from 
> working on substitutes.
> ; since $7b79 overwrites a with either $00 or $01, it never works. 

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<div>Holy crap.</div><div><br></div>On Sunday, July 15, 2012 2:29:14 PM UTC=
-5, djandus wrote:<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0;marg=
in-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;"><div>The iss=
ue was, what I originally thought I could upload quickly is actually very b=
roken up and disjointed.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>&nbsp;So, I =
figured something out that should help explain both this and what I mean by=
 "let me handle line endings."</div><div><br></div><div>For all displayed t=
ext in boxes at the bottom, (what I'm broadly calling "dialogue") there are=
 about 4 different line ending types. They vary based on extra instructions=
 of clearing the two lines, merely going to the next line, continuing to a =
new page, etc. They have very confusing interactions that I'm still getting=
 the hang of.</div><div><br></div><div><ponifytext>The terrible part is tha=
t these endline characters are written in as references to instructions or =
characters that are contextually determined. So, the endline character set =
for the pokedex entries is different from when Professor Oak is talking in =
the intro is different from when Professor Oak stops you from leaving Palle=
t Town is different from when you talk to that random <ponify title=3D"guy"=
>stallion</ponify> in that one place...</ponifytext></div><div><br></div><d=
iv>yeah. Assembly is awesome.</div><div><br></div><div><ponifytext>And whil=
e I'm on random assembly tidbits, <ponify title=3D"someone">somepony</ponif=
y> else disassembled the code I'm working with. They have spent two years o=
n the project, giving everything good variable names and even commenting th=
e code pretty well. The fun part is, whoever did this actually has found so=
me pretty amusing bugs in the code. My favorite comments so far are:</ponif=
ytext></div><div><br></div><div>During movement:</div><blockquote class=3D"=
gmail_quote" style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; bo=
rder-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left=
: 1ex; "><span style=3D"font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">; the code below =
is strange</span><br style=3D"font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style=
=3D"font-family: arial, sans-serif; ">; it computes whether or not the play=
er did a 180 degree turn, but then overwrites the result</span><br style=3D=
"font-family: arial, sans-serif; "><span style=3D"font-family: arial, sans-=
serif; ">; also, it does a seemingly pointless loop afterwards</span></bloc=
kquote><div><br></div><div>During the beginning of a turn in a battle, when=
 it checks for fly/dig status, etc:</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-col=
or: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">; th=
is code is buggy. it's supposed to prevent HP draining moves from working o=
n substitutes.<br>; since $7b79 overwrites a with either $00 or $01, it nev=
er works.&nbsp;</blockquote>

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