Reign of Legends 4 (xLIB)

[Ragol666]

If you alerady read my other topic in the idea section of this site you should alerady know about the project. If not, let me explain:

I always liked Kévin Ouellet ROL series for the TI-83+, because they had many things not in other calculators RPG, even in ASM, even on the TI-89. However they were slow. In his last game, it took one minute to load maps and it took one minute to load the title screen. Because the author have not released another ROL since 2004, I figured he would never release one. So I sent an e-mail to him, requesting permission to continue the serie. He accepted, so I've started modifying the menu engine I have on my calculator and made it look like a ROL game.

I will have it like ROL3, but with differences

I don't remake ROL3..I will use similar system, same sprites (plus a few of me), however:

-It will have a job system. I mean, you all start Fighter. But then you get new classes, like Sky Mage, Hell Mage, Thief, Knight, Mime. They can use new battle commands after the level of the job is increase. Example: Sky mage level 1 will only use level 1 sky orbs. Level 2 will use level 2 orbs too, etc. A level 2 knight will be able to Cover allies with 1/4 of HP. The level up will make you able to use the commands with the job removed as well. If you played Final Fantasy 5 this is the same job system

-There will be some magic that are not in ROL3

-The CONFIG menu is removed. I think it just take memory and speed for nothing.

-There is only one save file instead of two. I removed one because the ones in ROL4 are HUGE. 9 jobs x 3 persons , 2 vars each (ABP and LV). I don't want to compress them like Kévin did in ROL3 because this will take too much time to load when you start the program.

-When you run the program ROL4, you will not have to wait one minute to load the title (I think that was to rearchive the programs in case you quitted in a battle). xLIB have a program copy command, I will use this and have each programs separated in archive and RAM folders in the final zip file.

I made pictures so you can see how it will look like (there is errors, but I will fix them)

The menu (I am in the game! :ninja: )

The job selection

The ability equipement

The orb option

The row change. Front means attack x 4, middle means attack x 2 and defense x 2, back means defense x 4

The status

A battle screen


I will use most magic and monsters from ROL3, but here is one of the magic animation that was not in ROL3. I did a cool wave effect



EDIT: I forgot to post the classes :-P

-FIGHT: Default job. Can equip 2 commands and have max HP/STR by default. Attacks misses often though.
-SKY: User of sky orbs (mostly curative stuff). Have crappy atk
-HELL: User of hell orbs (mostly offensive). Have crappy atk
-THIEF: Can steal orbs from enemies.
-KNIGHT: Powerful attacker and defender. Sacrify themselves in battles.
-EVOKER: Summon entities in battles. Have crappy attack
-SPACE: User of space orbs (most powerful offensive orbs). Crappy atk.
-NINJA: Throw money at enemies to cause massive damage
-MIME: Mime last command

[luby]

Wow. This went somewhere fast. I can't wait to see how this turns out, or to beta test it!

Edited out a speling error --Super Speler

[Delnar_Ersike]

I posted a few ideas/questions on MaxCoderz. I'm just too lazy to post them here, but not too lazy to repeat the same message as on Omnimaga. :biggrin:

[kermmartian]

Looks cool, I particularly like the xLib-driven wave effect.

[calc84maniac]

What?! You're not cutting xLib down like you usually do?! I'm amazed! :o

lol

[Xphoenix]

Ooo, cool.

You want to make the abbreviation for "Level" with a lowercase "v"? In my opinion, it looks better and is slightly easier to read. (But then again, I could be biased due to Pokemon Purple )

[Ragol666]

No, no lowercase , takes two bytes instead of one. I have no idea why this happens. I noticed this when I decided to make the entire menu in lowercase. It was 8 Ko, now it's 6

[Xphoenix]

It's a well known fact that lowercase takes up an extra byte, but depending on how many times you show level, an extra 10~30 bytes won't make that big a difference, will they?

[Ragol666]

but why just LV? If using lowercase for level, the author would use it for everything else, right?

I guess it's just my point of view

[Xphoenix]

Could be just my point of view, because like I said, I'm most likely biased b/c of pokemon
If you don't think it needs to be changed, then it's ok if don't.

(Or maybe they just use a smaller font, which makes me think it's lowercase (lowercase v and small uppercase v are basically the same).)

[Fallen Ghost]

[Ragol666]

See why there is only 9 jobs and 13 commands %)

Actually I leave 2 pixels between text and borders though, I could have let one, but then it make my menu selection program look weird. At least I don't waste 2 colums for an arrow cursor, because I highlight the menu choice instead (for some reasons it didn't showed in the pictures)

[calc84maniac]

[leofox]

[calc84maniac]

Actually, that's not true. All special variable names (matrices, lists, strings, and equations, at least) are two bytes. v is an equation var.

[Xphoenix]

Yep. Before posting (in my above posts), I checked to make sure. It takes two bytes.

[Harrierfalcon]

As far as I know, ANY lowercase character or special symbol is 2 bytes.

Nice job, Ragol, this looks really cool!

[Ragol666]

THanks, at least there is interests here, on MaxCoderz I get no more replies

[Delnar_Ersike]

[Ragol666]

I mean, before you check