Force unlock more of the map at night through flowscript.

[atomic ether]

Trying to add a way to warp to the Iwatodai Strip Mall at night through the map but nothing I'm doing is working, according to the loose file loading log, it's loading lmap_data.bin, but when I edit the the bf inside with a drastic change like this, it doesn't reflect it whatsoever. What am I doing wrong?

tried fiddling with fld_sel_ex but it seems like it only controls the cursor placement when the map screen loads

anyone wanna try loading this file and see if anything changes?

[atomic ether]

doesn't work on hardware either

not a PC L

ok according to the P3P Debug Menu cheat file for PSP, it's clearly running init_lmap

which means my code change is failing

[atomic ether]

set it up for merging to make testing easier

still running out of ideas

my only idea is that it's just not loading the file somehow

whoops forgot to remove the base file

oop game crashes loading the file 💀

that's fun

ok fixed the crash

code still doesn't change a thing 😔

i'm beginning to think ill need to replace the map select screen with a menu at night

and i don't wanna do that

[atomic ether]

ok to summarize

print file log clearly points to this file being loaded

in lmap_data.bin there's an lmap.bf

in the init procedure there's this code

P3P PSP debug menu cheat points to this procedure being loaded when the map loads

function_0033 is the time check and 5 is night

so when it is night time, and the day is 8/16, then it shows the shrine i believe

and if it's not 8/16 it shows two options

if it's not night time, it shows the entire map

you'd think that all i have to do is just flip one of the 0's to a 1 and it shows everything, right?

NOPE

it doesn't work no matter what i do 😭

i tried making everything a 1 and nada, zilch, nothing

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

where do dumped emulated pak files go?

in the game folder under femulator stuff

got it

ok so the emulated file clearly has my code in it

which means my code check is failing

so what if i just remove the night time check lol

game crash 😎

hooooooooooooooooooooooooly shit ok so

no effect

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ok so hardcoded probably

removed all the fucking night time checks and just left it with this and nothing

how does one check if something is hardcoded or not

because P3P debug menu doesn't list procedures in the exe, does it?

[atomic ether]

genuinely have tried every possible option

i got somewhere by adjusting the map call functions in the dorm entrance field

it rests on something that's not visible

but no matter what value i set it to, it just loads port island station

@thick stratus any idea? is it possible to check if something is hardcoded in ghidra?

[thick stratus]

I can have a quick look

[atomic ether]

thank you

[thick stratus]

Is it always just Paulownia Mall and the dorm btw? I don't remember

[atomic ether]

seems so

[thick stratus]

k

[atomic ether]

during the day it’s everything

i tried going to 8/16 with time travel and you don’t even get access to the map on that day

so that check is pointless

[thick stratus]

It is hardcoded but I'm pretty sure I can change it. It's just the shrine and strip mall that you need right?

[atomic ether]

oh no just the strip mall honestly

[thick stratus]

Oh ok

[atomic ether]

wait

can you visit the shrine at night in P3R?

[thick stratus]

No you can't

[atomic ether]

i actually don't know

ok then yeah

[thick stratus]

I wanted to make it so you could though

[atomic ether]

no shrine lol

[thick stratus]

That's why I was thinking that ig

[atomic ether]

oh?

yeah i mean it would totally work

i would need to add a new background file probably

[thick stratus]

I'm pretty sure it would if you wanted to

Up to you, it's trivial to change which ones are shown now that I understand

[atomic ether]

oh nice

then yeah just the strip mall for now

[thick stratus]

[atomic ether]

i still gotta figure out how i'm gonna do all the background stuff lol

[thick stratus]

Yeah, good luck with that

[atomic ether]

then i gotta figure out how to recreate the sunday hangout thing with flowscript too

i got such a migraine working on that

[thick stratus]

It would be cool to take them from p3r but that'd require a lot of work

[atomic ether]

yeah true

[atomic ether]

https://discord.com/channels/746211612981198989/1207456758495318036

was doing that here and got nowhere after so long 😔

it's kinda fascinating what they hardcode in this game though

like the map screen? really?

when you clearly have code for it in lmap_data.bin?

actually would it be possible to unhardcode it and point it towards the actual lmap_data.bin file code?

so if i wanted to enable it i would just flip each locations associated value from 0 to 1?

[thick stratus]

Maybe, but that sounds like a lot of effort

[atomic ether]

true.....

[thick stratus]

It is just a mask currently

[atomic ether]

yeah not worth it for a one off mod ay

oh

that looks super easy lmao

[thick stratus]

It's something you could easily change in the patch, I'll send it to you in a second

[atomic ether]

alrighty lol

thanks for the help with this btw

i do hate having to assume something is hardcoded in a game like this though

[atomic ether]

sweeet

thanks again swine

[thick stratus]

Here's the expatch. Put it in a folder called InabaPatches in your mod and set Inaba Exe Patcher as a dependency of it

[atomic ether]

that's a load off for sure lmao

[thick stratus]

If you decide you want to add the shrine or something later on the mask and number of options is set at the top of that patch