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[P.JBoy]

I'm hoping to start trying to crack down that Event++ system once and for all.  Will be posting progress and logs here, that way anyone who's up to GBA ASM can do their part.

If anyone's up for learning GBA ASM, they can always come on #metconst or #jzd.  I myself, learnt ASM from these two resources while learning to make cheat codes: Basic stuff, actual ASM stuff.  In fact, everything on that site is useful, here's the list of event anyways:

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All ones encased in quotes are Adam

00   "Go to quarantine bay"
01   "Quarantine bay is just ahead"
02   Killed quarantine bay hornoad
03   "Level 0 doors unlocked"
04   "Actually, go download missiles"
05   Skippable by going into next room: "Data room is just ahead, right there, you didn't need to talk to me really"
06   In missile download room
07   Downloaded missiles <--compatible with my patch
08   Elevator's down
09   "Elevator's down, go beat Arachnus while I fix it"
0A   Morphball-get
0B   "Go to SRX and then talk to me some more"
0C   Entered elevator room that SA-X destroys
0D   Entered elevator area
0E   "Elevator's broke, but I'm lazy, I'll let some unknown agent fix it for me. Also go clean the stabilizers for me"
0F   Charge beam-get
10   All stabilizers cleared
11   "Go to TRO and exterminate our unknown intruder"
12   "Actually, it's the SA-X, so run. And get bombs while you're at it, after unlocking level 1 doors of course"
13   Level 1 doors unlocked
14   Skippable by getting bombs "You've released level 1 doors! now go get bombs"
15   In bombs download room
16   Downloaded bombs
17   SA-X blown up return route
18   Used alternate room exit
19   Hi-jump-get - Cacoons - SA-X blown up return route
1A   Escaped SA-X
1B   "Right, you know the pattern: Sector 1, then 2, and what comes next? That's right, 4"
1C   "Remember Serris from Metroid II? Well now you have to go kill it"
1D   Speed booster-get
1E   Skippable by entering pump control unit "Empty" <--why you have to lower the water
1F   Entered pump control unit
20   Water level lowered
21   "Head on to PYR to get EVEN MORE POWERFUL MISSILES (and no, I still haven't fixed the main deck elevator yet)
22   "Of course, the room is conveniently blocked by level 2 doors, unlocking those could let the x parasites in, but they could just go through the walls anyways
23   Level 2 doors unlocked
24   Skippable by getting super missiles "'Congratulations, you unlocked level 2, now get the missiles already dammit"
25   In super missile download room
26   Download super missiles
27   Reached end of pre-BOX room
28   Wild BOX escaped <--can't skip this
29   "Unfortunately, ARC is sub-zero...in kelvin...so lets head off to NOC 'cause I forgot to send varia suit in that download"
2A   Left above navigation room
2B   "Does Samus suspect anything?" "What? Who the frak are you?" "Oh shit, wrong number" "hmm"
2C   Above conversation over
2D   Skippable by going straight to NOC "No, not this sector, NOC (some people...)"
2E   In NOC navigation room
2F   "Ya know, I think 'varia' might be a typo, meh. But deja-vu eh? You're vulnerable to the X again! But this time shooting them *will* work"
30   SA-X enters
31   Escaped SA-X
32   Core-X exits data room
33   Varia suit-get
34   Reached top of post-Mega-X room
35   "Hm, you should really get plasma beam, especially since you can't get ice beam, although, we can still get some ice missiles! Yeah! Lets get to ARC already then
36   "Hah, another security level, and I'm still not gonna tell you where it is!"
37   Unlocked level 3 doors
38   Skippable by getting ice missiles "'Congratulations, you unlocked level 2, now get the missiles already dammit". Ya know, I feel like I've said this before..."
39   In ice missile download room
3A   Downloaded ice missiles
3B   "Meltdown! Apparently the cooling machine for the boiler broke, I knew we should have put the boiler in ARC"
3C   Wide beam-get
3D   Cooling unit operational
3E   "Remember when I said that some unknown agent would fix the main deck elevator, well...I just turned the power on, and it works...coincidently there might be survivors up there..."
3F   Etecoons and Dachora's released
40   "How exactly did they get out of that room? The door was closed when you got to it wasn't it? Anyways, go go power bombs!"
41   "Just to make sure you know where you're going, now get off of my lawn!"
42   Downloaded power bombs <--compatible with my patch
43   SA-X enters
44   Escaped SA-X
45   "Samus, come to me." <--I still don't get why he can't just tell here then and there
46   Power cuts out
47   "Be a dear and go get me a can of power will ya?"
48   Entered Yakuza's room
49   Space jump-get
4A   Auxiliary power engaged
4B   "Well you have me again! But no doors or elevators, but they don't matter right(?)"
4C   Engaged with SA-X
4D   Escaped SA-X
4E   Plasma beam-get
4F   "What, NOOO, NOT PLASMA BEAM. Oh crap crap crap, you go to ARC, I gotta go..."
50   "Remember Nightmare from Metroid II, ya know, the one that could manipulate gravity, go kill it"
51   Gravity suit-get
52   In security room
53   Unlocked level 4 doors
54   "Oh shit, intended sequence break [role secret message]"
55   In data room
56   Downloaded diffusion missiles
57   "Oh hey, wtf, we didn't send those. >_> <_<;. Well now that you have them, go finish BOX"
58   ":O BOX has become much stronger (only 2/3 stronger actually). Also, don't go into the no Samus zone, because...er...the SA-X is tracking you down...yeah"
59   Reached end of pre-restricted zone room
5A   BOXquake
5B   Wave beam-get
5C   Reached dead end in restricted zone
5D   60 seconds to detachment of Restricted Laboratory
5E   Escaped
5F   "Damn it Samus, you killed all the Metroids, again" "......" "Are you mute or something" "..... sorry I was just thinking of monologue to think of"
60   Screw attack-get
61   "Samus, you're done here, we don't need you anymore" "I don't work for you, I hunt my own bounty" "We don't care! Just go to your damn ship"
62   Doors don't open...
63   "How am I meant to go to my ship when you've locked me in here!" "Ugh, it's that time of the month again" "That's it, I am sooo destroying this planet"
64   "Just make sure the ship isn't on the planet"
65   Entered SA-X fight room
66   Ice beam-lose
67   Orbit change implemented
68   Skippable by entering ship room: I don't know how to get this event
69   Entering ship room
6A   Omega Metroid kills SA-X
6B   Ice beam-get
6C   Killed omega Metroid
6D   Escaped planet

I have a symbolic debug file for no$gba as well, helps a lot, it replaces known RAM and ROM addresses to the names in the file.  The file name needs to have the same name as the ROM you're using.  See the attachment

[Quietus]

I know you're experienced enough to know your way around it all, but good luck anyway.  This'll be a milestone if you pull it off, and can't help but galvanise hacking for this game.

[person701]

Good luck. I wish you return alive.

* person701 salutes.

[Parabox]

It's funny how you named things... Escaped planet lol.

[zephyrtronium]

This is the third time this has been attempted? As in, this time is the charm?

[P.JBoy]

Here's the first small chunk, I'm pretty sure this subroutine is called more than once throughout the game so...

[P.JBoy]

Second update, trying to figure out what those BL's do; sure didn't expect a 5K plethora of code for one of them BL's (~20 times as big disassembled).  Should really find out what 03000060 is...

[person701]

Keep grinding PJ. Fusion would be awesome if i weren't for it's linear progression.

[P.JBoy]

Gettin' there...  I'm pretty sure it's down to 03000060 and the 'Ability data' as I've named it.

[Quietus]

Man, you're a machine.  Go, P.JBoy! 

[P.JBoy]

Well, lets see.  I've got it so that you can fight bosses in any order and it'll give you the item it should.  Of course it still sets the event in the event counter, and that affects all the environmental states and whatnot.  Also, certain bosses/events are only accessible after doing other specific events, so that needs to be fixed :)

[P.JBoy]

Here's a video:

Event++ hack

[Parabox]

Scary. But awesome. A new generation of Fusion hacks will come to be. I hope a Doom themed one as well.

[P.JBoy]

Well, at this point, the game's perfectly non-linear, after just taking away the events; navigation rooms and grey doors just need to be removed with a level editor.  The only editing that'd still be needed is if you want to add your own events, or to still use some of Fusion's

[person701]

Sooo wait... you cracked it?! :O WEWT! GO PJ BOI! Another suggestion is have the level editor be able to custom the event timeline in the way you want it... though that sounds like it's out on quite the limb.

[Parabox]

The only thing (in my humble opinion) left to do now is splitting the beams. It would be awesome if you could use them all seperately, not?

[P.JBoy]

you cracked it?

Well, if you were to make a proper hack that redesigned the entire map, then events wouldn't affect you.  However, smaller hacks that just change the room layout would be horribly broken by beating the bosses out of order

[person701]

In other words, you cracked it. :D Good job PJ Boy! With no events people can be dicks and make Yakuza the first boss!

* person701 shoots self.

[Malpercio]

sweet. so is there a patch link? or a doc somewhere on what changes to make? now that the stupid event system's dead, we can finally start making actual hacks, instead of visual revamps and room layout changes, etc.

[P.JBoy]

Well, I was given a great idea on IRC to recreate a better event system, one which binds navigation rooms to their events.  I need to change any boss AIs that read the event counter to see if they should exist as well, then I'll release a patch/document