ARTICLE: Background Row Patch - Joystick

[CommanderSpleen]

I was about to ask a question regarding changing the images that are used in the high score table in Keen1.

I'm using the patch that makes items and doors become the first tile on their row when collected, and the joystick is in the wrong spot for it to be collected (the first frame is on the start of a row), and when it is replaced with other tiles the high score tables show the wrong images.

But I found a better, more obvious solution, and I'm posting it here for anyone else who may have overlooked it as I did:

First: Leave the original joystick animation! Create a new one elsewhere.

Second: Bask in the glory.

Third: Shake your head at the fact that Spleen didn't think of this sooner.

The same may be necessary with the whiskey (as two frames overlap onto the following row) but I don't think it would make a difference if one of the first two frames are used.

I've been beating myself over the head with this problem for a few days, and it held up my progress quite a bit (as stupid problems that are really easy to fix often do).

Still, if you can patch this, Andrew, do tell... it'd save another four or eight tiles... :)

>Commander Spleen