PATCH: Pogo on and off in Keen 2 using ammo and pogo tiles

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PATCH: Pogo on and off in Keen 2 using ammo and pogo tiles

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I'm experiementing a bit today..
Thanks to adurdin for that "pogo = zero ammo" patch he made for Xky.. This same is easy to do with Keen 1 and 3 as well.

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# Make pogo tile to take Keen's pogo (set pogo zero) in Keen 2 v. 1.31
%patch $7293 $C7 $06 $B0 $9A $00 $00
Last edited by KeenRush on Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:36 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Post by levellord »

The antipogo!

[A bit pointless since adurdin has a 'ammo= nopogo' , 'CTSpace = nopogo' and 'Keen has no pogo' patch.

Still, it could be useful...
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Post by KeenRush »

ammo= nopogo
Hmmm, I couldn't (and still can't) remember that.

But well, it could be used that ammo tile gives pogo and pogo tile takes it away. With that in some areas Keen could get pogo and on others it could be taken away. :) I might use that, just would need to change raygun to give pogo. I'll try that now.

Edit: Too bad, no success. Could you like the topic where is that "ammo= nopogo", I can't find it.. (It would be helpful.)
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Post by KeenRush »

Ok, here's patch that changes ammo tile to increase pogo value by one instead of adding some amount of shots to ammo counter.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the way those booleans there on Keen exe work. They consist of 2 bytes, so they're words. When they are false, the value is 00 00. When they are true, the value is 01 00. But it could be for example 8423, E7 20 too -- the game checks only that boolean is false if it's 00 00 and true when it's other than 00 00 (I guess). And 01 00 just happens to be simplest way to mark some other than 00 00. :)

So, this patch, used with the patch on the posts above, can allow pogo being toggled on and off. You can use pogo tile to set pogo off, and this ammo tile to give Keen the pogo. That could be used on some tricky mazes or something.

If Keen already has pogo and he gets ammo tile that gives him pogo, he can keep the pogo since the value 01 00 just changes to 02 00 which is 'true' also. (Again, correct me if I'm not right..)

Also, if I remember correct; when you're pogoing and get pogo tile while you're pogoing, and it changes pogo to zero, you can bounce until you toggle pogo off. After that you can't start pogoing.

And, as that pogo tile changes pogo value to zero, it always works (if it would only decrease pogo value by one, and pogo value would happen to be 03 00 for example, it wouldnt' work -- but since it goes to zero every time, it works).

I probably use this, unless I don't find any better use for pogo and ammo tiles.

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# Make raygun tile increase pogo counter by one in Keen 2 v. 1.31
%patch $728A $B0 $9A $01

Also, I still couldn't hit any other patch from the forum that changes pogo to go zero when getting ammo tile....
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Post by adurdin »

KeenRush wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the way those booleans there on Keen exe work. They consist of 2 bytes, so they're words. When they are false, the value is 00 00. When they are true, the value is 01 00. But it could be for example 8423, E7 20 too -- the game checks only that boolean is false if it's 00 00 and true when it's other than 00 00 (I guess). And 01 00 just happens to be simplest way to mark some other than 00 00. :)
That's correct. Booleans don't exist per se in C; instead, all true/false comparisons are actually nonzero/zero comparisons.
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