Character Graphics Swap hack.

[Mauron]

Crono Swapped in the Tech Menu.


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Battle is still glitchy.

I haven't touched portraits yet.

The purpose of this hack is to allow a hack to give any character two forms. The obvious use would be to allow a hack with human Glenn, if you don't mind him having a giant tongue still.

[IHBP]

https://youtu.be/-GHX8dvuFUQ

[Mauron]

Someone is excited and/or dead.

I fixed a shop glitch today that prevented character shading.

Tomorrow I'm going to tackle battle. I'm not sure how much effort will be involved in that yet.

[IHBP]

Still alive and definitely excited, have a few questions though, what will be the trigger to switch back and forth? Can that trigger be tied to a piece of equipment? Will it just point to an empty space in the rom and be up to us to add the graphics or will there be placeholders there already?

[Mauron]

It's triggered through a set of flags on one byte of RAM, and takes full effect on the next location load.

Having certain equipment on would be tricky, but receiving it would be simple enough.

You'll have to point to empty space. Everything else is designed to be compatible with existing hacks.

[IHBP]

The words 'this isn't even my final form' come to mind. Oh the possibilities.

[Acacia Sgt]

Nice to see how far this has gotten.

Though from the comment about Frog/Glenn and the tongue, I take it stuff like tech data can't be changed as well? If not, it would certainly be a limit to what could be done with this, but if so... hmm...

[IHBP]

It's pretty easy to alter Glenn's sprites so that he isn't using his tongue in those techs. Like a grappling hook type thing.

[Mauron]

Creating a second set of tech data would be possible, but more work than just the graphical swap. Replacing Slurp and Slurp Cut with non-tongue based techs is definitely doable.

[Acacia Sgt]

It's pretty easy to alter Glenn's sprites so that he isn't using his tongue in those techs. Like a grappling hook type thing.

Heh, I was also thinking on something like a grappling hook. Though for Slurp it would need something else.

Creating a second set of tech data would be possible, but more work than just the graphical swap. Replacing Slurp and Slurp Cut with non-tongue based techs is definitely doable.

Oh, it can be done individually instead of having to create a whole new tech list? Or you mean having to creating a new list but with only slight changes?

[Mauron]

Modifying techs for one form would require a lot of data duplication. Replacing Slurp and Slurp Cut for both Frog and Glenn would be doable.

[xcalibur]

this would be useful for going super saiyan, or turning into an esper.

[IHBP]

this would be useful for going super saiyan, or turning into an esper.

That was my thought too, too bad spriting takes so long

[Mauron]

That was my thought too, too bad spriting takes so long

Yeah, definitely.

From what I can tell, battle works as long as the replacement character has the right poses, Crono -> Ayla had some crashes, but Ayla tried loading some invalid animations first.

Next is both kinds of portraits.

[IHBP]

So they have to have the same animations?