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Battle with Monsters

This Code can be activated either by stepping on a spot (placing an object at the spot and making it's arb. 0 this code) or by touching an enemy (Making the enemies arb. 0 this code)

Arbitrary 0

ExploreModeOff
Move Party //move party to correct tiles
Move Sprite //if this is not the enemies arb do a callObjectFunction
Scroll Screen //params are upper left corner tile (x,y)
Battle
//if this is a random encounter (not touching enemy)
Remove (object)
ExploreModeOn

Draw Geometry

You can only see it's effects if there is a Brighten command right after it. The brighten command controlls the color, intensity, duration, etc. of the geometry, and the Draw Geometry data controlls what it looks like, how it forms, it's angle, various other stuff. Play around with both of them for cool effects. The other variables are fuzzy.

• 00 . Modality - which coordinates are active, etc.
• 01 . Point 1 X1 - which moves to...
• 02 . Point 1 X2
• 03 . Point 1 Y1 - which moves to...
• 04 . Point 1 Y2
• 05:08 . Point 2
• 09:0C . Point 3
• 0D:10 . Point 4

Someone else should take a look at this to confirm. The modality byte is fairly confusing. The coordinates are pixel relative to the screen (not the map). X can handle a value of 0xFF. Y cannot (not sure of maximum).

Now, for a demonstration:

Drugged / Confused Effect

Set these memory values to make the screen wobbly.

• 7E1DFD to 1
• 7E1DF9 to 1

Fade / Darken

All notes use

Memory Copy
Multimode 2E
Mode 40

Except where noted

Darken the Scene

Use this to darken the entire scene a little, making it appear gloomy.

Fade a Character to White

Use this to fade a sprite to almost pure white permanently; put it in that object's event code.

• MemCpy88(40,0F,0F,01)

You can undo the effect and return the character to normal with this.

• MemCpy88(40,0F,F0,08)

To use this, a certain MemCpy command must be employed:

Memory Copy
Multimode 88
Param 1 - F
Param 2 - F
Param 3 - 1
Data - Leave empty

Fade in Characters from Black

These two memcopy commands will start your characters out completely black, and then slowly fade them into color.

• MemCpy2E(50,80,80,00)
• MemCpy2E(50,80,80,0F)

Of course, you can split these two up if you want them to stay dark while something goes on, and then fade them in afterwards.

Fade in Scene from Black

This 4 command memcopy segment is for the begining of an area, it fades the location in from black slowly (like it did for the characters, except this is for the whole screen).

• MemCpy2E(50,00,1C,00)
• MemCpy2E(50,1F,E0,00)
• MemCpy2E(50,00,1C,0F)
• MemCpy2E(50,1F,E0,0F)

Fade in Scene from White

Here is one that flashes the background white, like lightning, and fades back in, all smooth and cool-looking.

• MemCpy2E(40,10,70,08)
• MemCpy2E(40,10,70,80)

Fade the Background to Black with Visible Characters

This one fades the background to black, but your sprites remain visible.

• MemCpy2E(50,10,62,F0)
• Pause(0.500) (0.125)
• MemCpy2E(50,72,0A,F8)

Combination Fade

This one fades the screen in from black, but the characters fade in first, and then the background.

• MemCpy2E(50,00,80,00)
• MemCpy2E(50,7C,04,0F)
• Pause(3.000) (0.750)
• MemCpy2E(50,72,0A,08)
• Pause(4.000) (1.000)
• Pause(2.000) (0.500)
• MemCpy2E(50,72,0A,8F)
• Pause(1.000) (0.250)
• MemCpy2E(50,00,72,0F)

Make a Treasure Chest

Make A Chest:

1. Place on Map, Place Open Chest off map 2. Make an Object and set Coordinates on the chest 3. Pseudo code that Object

Startup/idle:

set Object Coord //at chest area
if(MemorySpotOfChest && Bit)
---Copy Tiles from open chest on map
---remove this object

Activate:

ExploreMode Off
Copy Tiles as before
7f0200==Index of Item
"you got {item}"
BitMath(MemorySpotOfChest, Bit, Set)
RemoveObject
ExploreMode On

Note 1: Every memory spot of chest has 8 bits you can set to either true of false, thus every memory spot can be used for 8 chests.

Note 2: 7f0200 is the memory spot used when you put {item} in a string. You set 7f0200 to the number of the item you'll be receiving then by saying "you got {item}". It'll display you got Wood Sword (for example).

Random Enemies or NPCs

I make use of the Random Number generator and have some comparison commands decide which monster gets loaded into the scene. In this example, I have 2 monsters, Gato, and Masa& Mune. Only one of them will load, based on the random number written to memory. Walk into Gato's Exhibit and Gato may be there, but the next time, maybe Masa & Mune will be there waiting. Imagine dungeons and areas where the monsters can be as unpredictable as you want (with a little work). If there are 255 possible random numbers to be generated, you could code in a monster for each possibility.

That would make for an awesome Colloseum type area (think FF6), where one party member is chosen, to face a random monster, and win a random prize...Here is my code, not copied from anywhere in the ROM, just sort of thrown together (I'm surprised it works).

The Random Number is written to a different space in memory (It's 8 bytes off) but it's easy enough to see where using Geiger's Debugger RAM viewer. (That's why my comparison checks are checking a different location than what the Random Number command says it's writing to).

Remember in Final Fantasy 7, in the Golden Saucer, the shady guy that would appear at random and sell you points in exchange for your money? That would be cool to have a super rare occurance of some sort of merchant that sold great items, like one value out of 255 possibilities the player would run across this salesman. Or a powerful optional enemy that the most unlucky players will come across when they least expect it...Hey... random title screens! Why just have one? Every time they power on, they get a different title screen.... Nothing too fancy, just some fun automated events to watch, give the player more reasons to keep coming back. Anything is possible!

Thanks to Jsondag2, Chickenlump, and others

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