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Message: 6171
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 20/06/2007
Subject: According to JSWED, "The Bank" has four items!
From my Manic Miner Room-Format:
>>>An item should not have a colour-attribute of 0 or 255. Setting an
item's colour-attribute to 0 removes that item, and setting it to 255
terminates the sequence, removing that item and any others after it.
The original Manic Miner has items which are 'removed' in this way:
Room 14 ("The Bank") has a colour-attribute of 255 for the fourth
item (which causes the fifth item to be removed also), and Room 15
has a colour-attribute of 255 for the fifth item. The other four
bytes of these three items suggest that they are genuine items which
were deleted (intentionally or unintentionally) by Matthew Smith.
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<http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/mm_format.html>
Looking at the original Manic Miner in JSWED, I just noticed a fourth
item in "The Bank" [14] which does not appear in the game! It's in a
Water 2 cell, so it probably /was/ deleted intentionally by Matthew
Smith.
IMO, such items should not be displayed in a MM-editor, as they are
of no consequence when playing the game. They should only be of
interest to specialised utilities to seek out items and guardian-
instances that have been 'removed' in this way.
--
Dr. Andrew Broad
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/
http://geocities.com/andrewbroad/spectrum/willy/
P.S. There's a small chance I might update my website again before
Wimbledon (25th June to 9th July), but the greater probability is
that it will have to wait until after Wimbledon.
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