Since the coop update, the Ancient key (which is always the reward for defeating the boss) would disappear when leaving the cave, making it impossible to open the locked door behind the Ancient Cave entrance counter. While this is basically cosmetic and has no adverse effects on the multiworld (as the door does not lead to any multiworld locations and is only accessible after defeating the final boss anyway), players may still want to enter this room as part of a ritual to celebrate their victory.
Why does this happen? The game keeps track of two different inventories, one for outside and another one for the cave dive. When entering or leaving the cave, important things such as blue chest items and Iris treasures are automatically copied to the other inventory. However, it turns out that the Ancient key doesn't participate in this mechanism. Instead, the script that runs when exiting the cave checks whether event flag 0xC3 is set, and if it is on, it calls a script action that adds the key item to the outside inventory. (Whether or not the player actually had the key item in their in-cave inventory is not checked at all; only the flag matters.)
In the unmodified game, that flag is set by the cutscene script that awards the key. It actually sets two event flags, 0xC3 and 0xD1. The latter is used by the game when trying to display the boss in the cafe basement and is used by AP as the indicator that the boss goal was completed. With the coop update, the event script method that created the key was intercepted and modified to send out a location check instead. That location always has the Ancient key as a fixed item placement; the benefit of handling it as a remote item is that in this way the key essentially serves as a signal that transmits the information of the boss' defeat to all clients cooping on the slot. When receiving the key, however, the custom ASM did only set flag 0xD1. As part of the bugfix, it is now changed to set flag 0xC3 as well.
But that alone is still not enough to make it work. The subroutine that is called by the game to create the key when exiting the cave with flag 0xC3 is the same subroutine that gets called in the cutscene that originally tried to award the key. But that's the one that has been rewritten to send the location check instead. So instead of creating the key when leaving the cave, it would just send the same location check again, effectively doing nothing. Therefore, the other part of the bugfix is to only intercept this subroutine if the player is currently on the Ancient Cave Final Floor (where the cutscene takes place), thus making it possible to recreate the key item when exiting.
* - Added logic rules for reaching, then completing, the field office in order to be allowed to spend significant amounts of walnuts
* - Revert moving a method for some reason
* update DS3 setup guide to preserve downpatching instructions
we want to preserve this on the AP site as the future of the speedsouls wiki is unknown and may disappear at any time.
* Update worlds/dark_souls_3/docs/setup_en.md
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* Update setup_en.md
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When using localhost on mac, both ipv4 and ipv6 are tried and raise separate errors
which are combined by asyncio and difficult/inelegant to handle.
Python 3.12 adds the argument all_errors, which would make this easier.
FFMQR by @wildham0
Uses an API created by wildham for Map Shuffle, Crest Shuffle and Battlefield Reward Shuffle, using a similar method of obtaining data from an external website to Super Metroid's Varia Preset option.
Generates a .apmq file which the user must bring to the FFMQR website https://www.ffmqrando.net/Archipelago to patch their rom. It is not an actual patch file but contains item placement and options data for the FFMQR website to generate a patched rom with for AP.
Some of the AP options may seem unusual, using Choice instead of Range where it may seem more appropriate, but these are options that are passed to FFMQR and I can only be as flexible as it is.
@wildham0 deserves the bulk of the credit for not only creating FFMQR in the first place but all the ASM work on the rom needed to make this possible, work on FFMQR to allow patching with the .apmq files, and creating the API that meant I did not have to recreate his map shuffle from scratch.
Almost all of the events have been eradicated, which significantly improves both generation speed and playthrough calculation.
Previously, checking for access to a location involved checking for access to each panel in the location, as well as recursively checking for access to any panels required by those panels. This potentially performed the same check multiple times. The access requirements for locations are now calculated and flattened in generate_early, so that the access function can directly check for the required rooms, doors, and colors.
These flattened access requirements are also used for Entrance checking, and register_indirect_condition is used to make sure that can_reach(Region) is safe to use.
The Mastery and Level 2 rules now just run a bunch of access rules and count the number of them that succeed, instead of relying on event items.
Finally: the Level 2 panel hunt is now enabled even when Level 2 is not the victory condition, as I feel that generation is fast enough now for that to be acceptable.
- Removes the Pokémon Client, adding support for Red and Blue to the Bizhawk Client.
- Adds `/bank` commands that mirror SDV's, allowing transferring money into and out of the EnergyLink storage.
- Adds a fix to the base patch so that the progressive card key counter will not increment beyond 10, which would lead to receiving glitch items. This value is checked against and verified that it is not > 10 as part of crash detection by the client, to prevent erroneous location checks when the game crashes, so this is relevant to the new client (although shouldn't happen unless you're using !getitem, or putting progressive card keys as item link replacement items)
More speed optimizations for The Messenger. Moves Figurines into their own region, so their complicated access rule only needs to be calculated once when doing a sweep. Removes a redundant loop for shop locations by just directly assigning the access rule in the class instead of retroactively. Reduces slot_data to only information that can't be derived, and removes some additional extraneous data. Removes some unused sets and lists. Removes a redundant event location, and increments the required_client_version to prevent clients that don't expect the new slot_data. Drops data version since it's going away soon anyways, to remove conflicts.
