Average Rom Hacking Session

Zero turned into ViA for a second there.

That's Zero using X's animation patterns! Neat! But also probably a huge headache, I bet.

Yup! The pointer to the right animation tables needs to be updated. That's one issue down. Though I'm more concerned about the stage data getting overwritten for some reason 🤣

That's probably going to be a tough thing to crack. Every stage in X4 had it's own 'X' and 'Z' version, and from what digging I've done on X5\X6 the same holds true, so I speculate it might something to do with Zero's tilemaps encroaching on X's stage data, maybe?

Nope. I'm pretty sure it's just the player ARC file I'm loading not being written where I need it to be (where the current data is, not after it). Stuff like that is to be expected though, because I'm not starting from a completly flushed RAM state. I need to track down what's strictly necessary to be flushed and do it manually. I'll probably need to make the player ARC files exactly the same total size too, so the data that's loaded after it can stay in the same place. As for the stage data, they only have separate CLUT files (color tables), not the entire thing. In X4, IIRC, it's the same. They only have separate stage files in the few stages where they have different bosses/routes.

Ah, right, I had forgotten that. Anyway, did the stage glitches persist after a reload of the checkpoint? Also, I remember finding an address in RAM while playing around that switched X's behavior to Zero's and vice versa.

So this the new mechanic for the sigma virus if you get max infected

That's ViA From X DiVE, I can't believe it 😧😂

Look at him go!! There goes my hero!! WATCH HIM AS HE FALLS!!

wow that was wild. somehow the lag remind me of that one x5 prototype on sigma stage

The best part is that this Zero(X mode) was practically 100% playable while X(Zero mode) was not, at least on the original X5

Incredible. Is it possible to make the dash feel like the SNES version? Without the delay in the stop animation?

Blue zero health bar lol

No sabía que Zero podía bailar

😂😂😂

Zero seems like he’s in pain