A manifest whose name, version, description, or category carries invalid
UTF-8 (a BOM, Latin-1 bytes) crashed the launcher's MODS panel, since
love.graphics.printf raises on invalid UTF-8. Manifest.validate now drops
invalid bytes and a leading BOM from those strings, in place so the
badge's raw.category read agrees.
CLOSES#576
The launcher skipped oaks_pc.asm's whole session -- the access text and
the 'Want to get your #DEX rated?' YES/NO -- and played the Pokedex_Rating
jingle the moment the entry was picked, before any text printed. Now the
access text types out, the YES/NO pops, and only once the completion line
and the rating tier have printed does the jingle sound (DisplayDexRating
-> PlayPokedexRatingSfx, auto.wait hands the box to the A/B path), then
the 'Closed link to PROF.OAK's PC.' tail closes the session.
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.
The battle intro slide ran at 4px/frame over 40 frames -- twice the
original speed -- and drew the pics in their normal palette instead of
as black silhouettes.
SlidePlayerAndEnemySilhouettesOnScreen scrolls SCX from $90 to 0 at
2px/frame (~72 frames) under the %11100100 silhouette palette, only
running SET_PAL_BATTLE once the pics land. Match that: introSlide starts
at 80 with a 2px/frame offset (80 frames over the full 160px width), and
picImage bakes both pics through PAL_BLACK while introSlide > 0, exactly
like the evolution movie (#279).
parity_battle_intro_chrome waited a hardcoded 45 frames for the slide to
land; bumped to 85 to cover the slower slide.
Ignore hidden ._*.gb in the ROM inbox like zips, keep mixed-rescan success notices while appending sibling errors, and cover FileData mount / PK rejection in unit tests.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Mac OpenMTP leaves ._*.zip sidecars that fail PhysFS mount and hide a good install; prefer FileData mount on Horizon and keep success notices when a sibling fails.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
NX Play for Blue failed because mountVersion relied on absolute
PHYSFS_mount first. Prefer love.filesystem.mount of blue|yellow, overlay
generated trees by version prefix, and align CacheFs.prefix in bootGame.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
PhysFS does not merge archive data/ with save-dir data/generated, so
fused NX Play crashed after import. Prepend-mount generated trees,
fall back to CacheFs.read in Data:load, keep multiline lua-error logs,
and skip Boot.run when network is unvalidated. T24 stays open.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Expose a generic seam so a mod can drive a second screen without the
engine owning any dual-screen layout policy:
- render.compose hook in Renderer:endFrame hands a mod the finished
world + UI canvases, their SGB zones, the frame metrics,
Renderer:blitCanvas (lifted from the internal blit closure) and the
SecondScreen bridge. Return true to take over the window; no wrap (or
calling next) runs the normal single-window composite byte-for-byte.
- SecondScreen.lua + the Android Presentation bridge (love_android_
secondary_* in common/android.cpp, GameActivity secondary display)
as the optional physical-second-display transport.
No battle-render changes: a mod lays out the two screens (including any
battle split) itself. Ships with a unit test, no-mod parity via
gate_hooks, and docs/modding.md (D14).
SDL labels south as a and east as b; on Switch remap so physical A
confirms and physical B cancels in launcher and NamingScreen.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
love-nx emits gamepad+raw on one press; NamingScreen saw a+b and always
erased. Skip raw when isGamepad(); align NX Y→a/X→b; prefer A if both.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
Andrew Quenehen
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