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Message: 6622
Author: andrewbroad
Date: 29/01/2010
Subject: Re: Droplets
john_elliott_uk
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Back in 2007, I wanted to use Droplets to represent explosions in JSW64MM: James Bond (specifically "You Only Live Twice"), but for some reason, I couldn't get it to work, regardless of whether the byte at 0:#FF61 is 00 or 08. This game is based on Variant Z.
> The patch isn't built into JSWED; you have to apply it manually with
> the hex editor. Change the byte at 0:#FF61 to zero.
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> http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/manicminerandjetsetwilly/message/5434
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> This is usually referred to as the 'droplet' patch, and if you
> search group messages for 'droplet' you'll find more mentions of it.
However, I have just discovered a bug in JSWED v2.3.2 that converts Skylabs to Droplets on a guardian-by-guardian basis!
I just tried adding a Skylab to "You Only Live Twice" [4], resulting in the following hex for the guardian:
08 62 00 40 04 9D 10 60
But if I edit this using JSWED's guardian-editor (even by using '!' to add it to a fresh copy of JSW64MM: James Bond v1.1), it changes the second byte to 02 when I click "OK", resulting in the following guardian, which behaves as a Droplet:
08 02 00 40 04 9D 10 60
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Dr. Andrew Broad
http://abroad.sqweebs.com/spectrum/mmjsw/
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