2014-02-07, 08:11 PM
I ran into a scary bug recently; the Wyvern sprite was disappearing when facing upwards in battle. But I finally tracked down the cause and squished it 
The simple version is that a single op code from the Wyvern's draw-sprite routine just happened to have the identical value as the text-pointer for the vampire attack's description. My auto-scan tool that looked for text pointers in the game, wrongfully identified the Wyvern's code as a pointer and edited it.
This sort of problem would be rare, but it is almost impossible to detect until it produces an error because of how crazily Brigandine's pointers are arranged. Some text in the game has upwards of 10 pointers for a single word!
On a separate note, a guy (supermania23) has been helping me convert my old translation files into Armips compatible ASM files. The ASM files are more edit friendly once they are made, and they also support any text encoding (Russian,Norwegian etc) so they will make it far easier for to translate BGE into other languages. The work can be mind numbing so a big THANKS to him! 
Holy invisible Wyverns Batman!!!
The simple version is that a single op code from the Wyvern's draw-sprite routine just happened to have the identical value as the text-pointer for the vampire attack's description. My auto-scan tool that looked for text pointers in the game, wrongfully identified the Wyvern's code as a pointer and edited it. This sort of problem would be rare, but it is almost impossible to detect until it produces an error because of how crazily Brigandine's pointers are arranged. Some text in the game has upwards of 10 pointers for a single word!
On a separate note, a guy (supermania23) has been helping me convert my old translation files into Armips compatible ASM files. The ASM files are more edit friendly once they are made, and they also support any text encoding (Russian,Norwegian etc) so they will make it far easier for to translate BGE into other languages. The work can be mind numbing so a big THANKS to him!
Holy invisible Wyverns Batman!!!