Rocks'n'Diamonds

method 1: in a level that uses the supaplex engine, insert a tape that solves the level (or record one yourself) start the level, then die to something while you are dead, press f2 to quick-load the tape method 2: start a level that uses the supaplex engine (regardless of what tape is saved), then d...

simperror wrote: ↑Mon Jun 03, 2024 6:22 pm If you would like, I can upload three other level packs from other Heartlight maniacs.

having just finished the official heartlight levels (on DOS), i'd be very interested in seeing the 3 other level packs.

4.4.0.0-test-3.
steps to reproduce:

1. go up 6 tiles
2. go left 2 tiles
3. game crashes

if this is an invalid state for a supaplex level, know that i got here by just resizing a blank level template to 15x15, then changing the engine to supaplex.

this is on 4.4.0.0-test-3

notice it takes a brief while for the snik-snaks to become visible:
i don't think it was always this way?

it still happens if quick menu doors is enabled and fade screens is disabled

I recommend that if you do this work, you go all the way to having separate high score lists for each [ levelset, level, number-of-players ] tuple. It is of course understood that for 99% of levels, only the [ levelset, level, 1 ] tuple will ever be filled in. Then, for 95% of levels where anyone m...

in the editor, the "only one player must enter exit" option in the config for players 1-4 should also be in the config for the relevant exit elements: exit_closed exit_open em_exit_closed em_exit_open steel_exit_closed steel_exit_open em_steel_exit_closed em_steel_exit_open sp_exit_closed ...

technically all levels allow multi-player (e.g. if you have multiplayer/team mode enabled, then any player 2/3/4s that spawn in a level through magic ball/CE will be controllable) but what i meant here was levels that start with more than 1 player color (and thus show the player count when viewed in...

Eizzoux wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 6:11 pm Right after that I got a possibly strange idea - what if, specifically in R'n'D gnomes of MM engine would instead be replaced with these little rockfords?

based on the mindbender title screen, i would say the wizard himself should be replaced with rockford

recently i played the actual dos version a bit. for reference, the correct behavior in the situation i posted (going through a one-way road that becomes blocked at the end) is that the player doesn't emerge at all and is considered to be dead.

in levels that allow multi-player, multi-player tapes can easily score higher than single-player tapes, because 2 players can go their separate ways and collect gems in different parts of the level, more efficiently than 1 player can. additionally, multiplayer levels with "only one player must ...

likewise.

in Marek Roth->Crazy Dream->Crazy Dream 2, level 9 ("Cave H"), bombs are incorrectly set to explode into gravestones instead of time penalties . when playing this in gdash, the bombs are set to contain time penalties, and a bomb exploding results in 5 time penalties being placed, each with...

here's the graphics for sand balls and loose sand properly colored like sand 2, if you need:

these element pairs currently have the same editor appearances & icons despite being different: steel wall & explodable steel wall time penalty & gravestone [time penalty incurs a time penalty when spawned; gravestone looks the same but has no time penalty] for ease of editing they shoul...