GameSpeed is a single fast-forward multiplier applied uniformly to the
whole logic clock -- overworld walking, menu navigation and battle turns
all scale together. A player who wants 4X battles but 1X overworld (so a
cutscene or NPC dialogue doesn't blur past) has no way to get both.
Splits save.options.speed into speedOverworld/speedBattle/speedMenu, each
cycling independently, with an automatic migration so an existing save's
speed choice carries over. Game.speedCategoryInStack resolves which
category is active by walking the state stack (the same idiom
wideBattleInStack/fillScaleInStack already use), so a menu opened mid-
battle inherits battle speed rather than resetting to whatever "menu"
defaults to. Adds a new core.logic_speed hook so a mod can read or
override the resolved multiplier for the current frame regardless of
which category produced it, sitting after the link-play and run-argument
overrides so neither is a seam a mod can defeat.
RFC 0007 status: Proposed.
A platform-specific launcher wrapper (a native shell embedding this engine,
owning its own UI around the game window) needs to pause the simulation
while its own UI is on top, live-reload options it wrote outside any Lua
UI, and veto main.lua's "closing the window returns to the Lua launcher"
behavior when it owns that job itself. Implementing this by hand-patching
main.lua's love.update/love.quit directly ties every such integration to
editing the one file every other engine change also touches, guaranteeing
merge conflicts. No existing hook covers "should the per-frame simulation
step run" or "should closing the window return to the Lua launcher."
Adds two generic, additive hooks (src/core/PlatformHooks.lua): core.update
and core.quit_to_launcher, replacing what would otherwise be inline
main.lua special-casing. Also adds Manifest.force_enable_env, letting a
mod that cannot function disabled on the one build where its env var is
set (a platform-bridge mod bundled only with that build) re-enable itself
regardless of a saved disable.
RFC 0006 status: Proposed.
Yellow's IsSurfingPikachuInParty swaps the player's overworld sheet to
a Pikachu-on-a-surfboard when the party mon that knows SURF is a
Pikachu. The recomp was missing both halves of this: the sheet was
never extracted, and the engine had no seam for the swap.
Extraction: SurfingPikachuSprite (gfx/sprites/surfing_pikachu.2bpp)
loads outside SpriteSheetPointerTable via
LoadSurfingPlayerSpriteGraphics2, the same bypass RedBikeSprite uses.
Added the symbol to the Yellow manifest and a parallel extract in
RomExtractor / build_rom_data / extract/sprites, minting
SPRITE_SURFING_PIKACHU. PaletteFX colors it (player OBP palette, same
as the bike).
Engine: new field.playerSprites.surfPikachu (default
SPRITE_SURFING_PIKACHU, guarded so before extraction the ride keeps
the Seel). Player.new caches surfPikachuSprite; pose() picks it when
surfing and the SURF-mon is a Pikachu. New
OverworldState:syncSurfingPikachu derives the flag from partyKnows at
every surf-state toggle (mount, dismount, fly, teleport, blackout,
forced-surf tile, boot-restore). Runtime-only, re-derived at load so a
party change between save and load is honored.
Lane B: RFC at docs/rfcs/0001-surfing-pikachu-sprite.md.
Backward-compatible — existing mods see no change (surf still defaults
to SPRITE_SEEL; surfPikachu only resolves on a Yellow import after
regeneration). Parity tests in tests/parity_surfing_pikachu_sprite.lua
(12/12) and tests/mod_world_tests.lua (19229/19229 with the new
boot-seed checks). tests/parity_cinnabar_east_surf.lua (24/24)
unchanged.
Regeneration required: re-run make_yellow_manifest.py against a
pret/pokeyellow checkout, then re-import the Yellow ROM.
bryanthaboi
david
MaxTomahawk
Andrew Barnes
AverageConsumer
Andi Miller