Yep, job opportunity, nothing terribly exciting though And yeah, Chinese has been a bit difficult, mostly the vocabulary, but i think debugging some of my programs is often more difficult! I'll probably speak Chinese perfectly by the time i finish all my projects

Much work remains to be done before I can announce my total failure to make any progress.

Also, the cherry bowl is empty.

Heya Iambian, good to see ya back 'round these parts again. What have you been up to?

I think juju ate them

Actually it was me, Iambian is back good to see ya

Doing yet another rebuild of this project. This will most (probably) definitely be the last time I do that. The changes include moving the game to a much more sane interrupt scheme, since it was insane to use a danmaku shooter engine to drive the grayscale to begin with.

As such, I'm retooling most of the other routines and putting together a text-script system that's about as feature-filled as it gets. Taking a page from Earthbound, I'll be putting much of the game in this system, which includes stat calculation and the battle engine. Because let me tell ya. It was hell to try to code stat calculation in assembly. At least this way, I'll be able to get through that part of the game with minimal fuss. Oh, and events! I ought to be able to code events in it too! It better be, cuz I'm not going to do it any other way.

So, in short, sorry you guys had to wait forever, and I'm sorry that you guys have to wait longer. Although I lost my contact with guy who wrote the story for this game, I should still have enough to finish the game.

Next up: Rewriting the tilemapper to be more... sane.

This is awesome Iambian! I'm really glad you're working on this again. Also, care to expand upon this text scripting system? It sounds interesting.

I'm glad that you're gonna continue this despite losing contact with the other guy. I also hope that the other guy is OK because from Cemetech posts he seemed to have severe health problems (physically). But yeah hopefully the rewrite makes it easier for you to finish the game. Will the overall game remains the same btw?

I hope Zera is okay too. The game will remain as faithful to the original ideal as I can possibly make it. Of course, there are gaps and I'm going to have to fill them however I can (missing dialog).

This is awesome Iambian! I'm really glad you're working on this again. Also, care to expand upon this text scripting system? It sounds interesting.

The text-scripting system is pretty much what it was before plus a programmable component. It gets a couple command sets, 8 registers and a stack (SP is r7), and maybe any other bells or whistles I could throw into it. The point is to be able to code the entire event system and battle system in it. And maybe a few other things.