Rocks'n'Diamonds

> newly created team mode tapes with a non-standard visual playfield size store this size now in the tapes Haven't checked the code, but I imagine this is a new tape chunk which specifies the size? Then shouldn't the patched tapes use that chunk, specifying 34x34, rather than a special bug flag? I t...

My reports that 4.2.0.3 was the last version to solve them were bogus. They were cached results from the previous version of the EMC Club levels. I thought I'd cleared away all old results to validly retest all the new levels, but -- on rechecking now -- I totally forgot to do that; all of my cached...

Hah! Yes, I think I know what it is, although I have done zero experimentation to confirm this. I think one or more of these settings is key: - scroll delay: 3 - EM scroll delay: on - small game graphics: on I think some combination of different screen sizes is causing different scroll delay draggin...

> First levelset I'm trying this in -- emc_freak_mine_2_easy -- I see no key or bombs indicators. Well, I'm going to guess you were not able to reproduce this, as it was a config / setup error on my part. There might be something RnD could have done to mitigate it, though. I had these directories: /...

RnD 4.2.2.0, my build. I copied a tape from one level to another: $ cp ~/.rocksndiamonds/tapes/emc_freak_mine_{1/081,2_easy/007}.tape The resulting tape plays happily on emc_freak_mine_2_easy level 7; as it should, since the level files are byte for byte identical. But suppose I now play the tape ne...

First levelset I'm trying this in -- emc_freak_mine_2_easy -- I see no key or bombs indicators. Self-build 4.2.2.0 binary, EMC 3.1.0 installed, new 'show dynamite and keys' setting turned on (default). Switched to emc_forgotten_mine_2 -- it works there. Modifying emc_freak_mine_2_easy/graphics/graph...

Are you saying this actually affects whether the level is solvable? Or only that some designers use that to make their levels harder? And, is it that it never moves perspective, or that there is some sort of delay? Do you have to move further into the wrapped-other-end of the level before it shifts;...

> But as this feels wrong, I have fixed this so that single-step mode initially does not enter pause mode before reaching the first game frame that really handles input events. This results in the first "single-step cycle" now being 15 game frames instead of seven (which is indeed slightly noticeabl...

I have always experienced that the player does not get the first move, the game engine does. Except 'always' is 'last few years, when I've been working through EMC levels', so might be EMC engine-specific. e.g. suppose I start a game in single-step mode. The first command I give does nothing, and th...

I can deliver tape updates in ~24hrs, if you would find that useful. Else will just keep accumulating and send eventually.

> looking at the commits

Actually did by grepping the .o's for a certain key word, then it was reasonably obvious in the source. Well actually I probably did diff the most recent commit of that file, once I knew which file...

There are many things which could be displayed (at least, if it's technically possible with the skin controls), but might be overkill -- like timers for the 'see invisible' and 'shield' things, magic walls (in fact timers for these things would really be cheats...) I'm not too clear about which thin...

XSN :)

... makes it hard to see the bottom line ...

https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16978#p16978 Instability in playback of 2-player levels https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16979#p16979 Repair emc_crystal_caverns_3 level 3 https://www.artsoft.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=16980#p16980 Incorrect default artwork https://www.artso...

I don't know if these are properties of Freak Mine 1 or the whole new EMC package, but: - the editor display used to be the same height as the standard EMC playfield (30 elements tall); now it is 28. It was never possible to see everything, but since 99+% of levels have solid steel outer edges, it w...