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New patch: Shadow of Chupon Bug fix BETA
« on: April 13, 2016, 12:37:39 AM »
Hi everyone! Here's a patch that was requested of me by Gi Nattak. Novalia Spirit did an OK job fixing the bug whereby Shadow's name is displayed above Chupon's when you confront him in the Colosseum, except there's one thing he didn't account for: differences in name length. If you give Shadow a name that is shorter than six characters, the rest of Chupon's name will appear next to it. For example, "Bob" becomes "Bobpon". This patch supposedly fixes both problems, but I'm giving it a beta designation because I'm not currently in a position to test it, or ensure that it doesn't break something else. It shouldn't, but if there's anything at all wrong with it, let me know immediately.
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Re: New patch: Shadow of Chupon Bug fix BETA
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2016, 09:01:03 AM »
Maybe Natttak has modified something else and broke it... Novalia's patch is fine, I have tested it right now.



And he even thought about the shortened name (taken from the readme of the patch):

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Hackers should note that expanding the name of Chupon would not result in the
additional letters being overwritten. For example, if Chupon was renamed to
"Chupong," Shadow would be listed as "Shadowg." Also note that shortening
Shadow's name would produce no adverse effects, regardless of the method.

Edit: Could it be that he modified Chupon's name to a longer one?
« Last Edit: April 13, 2016, 10:18:03 AM by Xenovant »

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Re: New patch: Shadow of Chupon Bug fix BETA
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2016, 12:01:56 PM »
I did change how long Chupon's name would be (for my hack) yes. The main reason I thought it was also an issue if Shadow's name was shorter is from when looking at the patch info section of the FF6 Improvement Project thread here the other day when looking into this, where it was noted: "Novalia Spirit's Shadow/Chupon Colosseum fix will only work so long as Chupon's name remains shorter than Shadow's name. If you change either so that Chupon's name is longer than Shadow's, however much longer Chupon's name is will appear at the end of Shadow's name.".

Either I'm misunderstanding this sentence or Darkmage was incorrect when saying the 'if you change either so that his name is longer than Shadow's etc.'.

I did see that in the readme and thought to myself that it sounds like he indeed took care of the character name issue, and I should of tested that to see first before thinking Novalia must have made a mistake.  :lame:

Well anyway, I really appreciate a fix for the longer monster name issue, even though I know doing patches intended for hacks is not exactly your thing, 1337. Sorry about that.

So testing out the patch here, while fixing the issue of Chupon's name being there, it seems to also not be showing Shadow's name on the screen, so no name monster or character at all. Looking at the asm file it looks like you intended Shadow's name to be there, so this might just be an issue.
« Last Edit: April 13, 2016, 12:31:30 PM by TheNattak »

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Re: New patch: Shadow of Chupon Bug fix BETA
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2016, 12:46:46 PM »
Yes, I've now tested this and I'm getting the same thing. In my mind it's not as bad as the rest of Chupon's name appearing after Shadow's name, but I thought this would fix it. Maybe what I should do instead is print Shadow's name followed by four spaces.
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