Disable Epoch time gauge?

[Fauntleroy]

Just wondering if, once you have the flying Epoch, is it possible to disable the time gauge? So you'd have a flying car to tool around 12,000 BC in, but you wouldn't be able to time travel until you do some event that makes the time gauge available again.

Thanks.

[Mauron]

It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to add a flag for that purpose. Will Temporal Flux let you claim 027FE0-027FFF with Override Free space set to true in the Custom Data section?

[Fauntleroy]

Huh, never looked in there before.

It highlighted the start and end offsets in cyan and let me name the entry. I've got Override Free Space marked as true... Does this mean it let me? No messages are generated so it's hard to tell!

[Mauron]

If the start and end offsets were highlighted in cyan, there should have been a message at the bottom saying "Warning - Space requested is in use".

Try 027FF4-027FFF. If that doesn't work, try 02FEE1-02FEEC. If neither of those work, try 02FEE9-02FEEC and 027FFC-027FFF. Let me know what you end up using.

[Fauntleroy]

Okay, I see the message you're talking about.

The good news is 027FF4-027FFF is available!

[Mauron]

Excellent. At 0x244D7, put F4 7F.  This changes the destination of the jump to different code when you press the Y button aboard the Epoch.

At 0x27FF4, put AF 62 28 7E D0 03 4C C7 45 4C 09 45. This will check 7E2862, and if it's not 0, cancel opening the menu.

In your events, you'll want to write 0 or 1 to 7E2862 as a 2-byte value when enabling or disabling the Epoch's time gauge.

[Fauntleroy]

Works like an absolute dream.

Do you have a Patreon?  This isn't a joke.

[Mauron]

I do not have such a thing.

[Zakyrus]

I'm using a ChronoTrigger ROM with a "broken" Epoch Time-Gauge.

 

If I move the gauge to the end of the selector, and move it back through the list, it bounces past an index in the list and skips it entirely. Has anyone (that is using the ROM I speak of) come across this, and/or found a solution to this?

I propose rewriting the Epoch selector screen, but some fix of the index pointer selection would hopefully be much easier. (though I've just been getting into the ASM of the code, so I don't know how to do that just yet).

~Z

[Mauron]

Did that ROM do anything unusual with time periods? That behavior sounds like the current era skip being applied incorrectly.

[Zakyrus]

Did that ROM do anything unusual with time periods? That behavior sounds like the current era skip being applied incorrectly.

Not that I've noticed, I've actually used that ROM for quite some time. And what you've mentioned is exactly it.

~Z

[Mauron]

If you could send me a patch, and any notes on changes to eras or the time gauge you've made, I'll take a look. Is it always the same era being skipped?

[Zakyrus]

It seems so, I'll test it out a bit more tonight and get back to you(with a patch) in my next reply.

~Z

[Zakyrus]

 

Okay I'm not sure what is causing this I should just make a video of it. Think I'll do that.

-Z