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Message: 5234

Author: andrewbroad

Date: 06/12/2005

Subject: Re: Manic Person / Why does a room kill you on entry?

 

Alexandra wrote:

>
> Yeah, it's my birthday, so I'm going to release the Strangel SE and
> maybe Manic Person together in one go!

So will Room 16 of Manic Person still be called "The Dining Room
(part II)", or will it be "The Dining Room" with Room 32 of Role
Reversal as "The Dining Room (part II)"?

> Only problem I have with MP is my edit of the room "Pudding" (18)
> is crashing upon loading in the emulator.

I presume you mean killing you immediately on entry, rather than
crashing (certain invalid room-data - such as all 1024 bytes being
0 - can cause the Spectrum to crash when entering a MM room).

> It's not VG's colliding with items, or any G's colliding with
> scenery, so I'm a bit stumped.

If you're absolutely sure it's not a problem with the guardians,
then Fire-cells are the next suspect:
(a) Does Willy's start-position collide with any Fire-cells?
(b) Does Fire have the same colour-attribute as another cell-class?
(c) Is it the case that Fire has white INK, while Fire and Air have
the same PAPER, BRIGHT and FLASH?

If this doesn't solve the problem, then which of the room's data
have changed since the revision in the Files section?
SPECSAISIE 1.3's Compare is the best tool to answer this question:

java Compare -bm manic_person0.sna manic_person1.sna 63488 64511

(Base address of Room r = 45056 + 1024*r for Manic Miner;
49152 + 256*r for 48K Jet Set Willy)

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