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Disable Epoch time gauge?
« on: January 20, 2018, 12:32:39 am »
Just wondering if, once you have the flying Epoch, is it possible to disable the time gauge? So you'd have a flying car to tool around 12,000 BC in, but you wouldn't be able to time travel until you do some event that makes the time gauge available again.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #1 on: January 20, 2018, 01:21:16 am »
It looks like it wouldn't be too hard to add a flag for that purpose. Will Temporal Flux let you claim 027FE0-027FFF with Override Free space set to true in the Custom Data section?

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2018, 01:56:16 am »
Huh, never looked in there before.

It highlighted the start and end offsets in cyan and let me name the entry. I've got Override Free Space marked as true... Does this mean it let me? No messages are generated so it's hard to tell!
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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2018, 02:47:51 am »
If the start and end offsets were highlighted in cyan, there should have been a message at the bottom saying "Warning - Space requested is in use".

Try 027FF4-027FFF. If that doesn't work, try 02FEE1-02FEEC. If neither of those work, try 02FEE9-02FEEC and 027FFC-027FFF. Let me know what you end up using.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2018, 01:06:37 pm »
Okay, I see the message you're talking about.

The good news is 027FF4-027FFF is available!

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2018, 02:10:10 pm »
Excellent. At 0x244D7, put F4 7F.  This changes the destination of the jump to different code when you press the Y button aboard the Epoch.

At 0x27FF4, put AF 62 28 7E D0 03 4C C7 45 4C 09 45. This will check 7E2862, and if it's not 0, cancel opening the menu.

In your events, you'll want to write 0 or 1 to 7E2862 as a 2-byte value when enabling or disabling the Epoch's time gauge.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #6 on: January 20, 2018, 09:05:12 pm »
Works like an absolute dream.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #7 on: January 20, 2018, 10:41:14 pm »
I do not have such a thing.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #8 on: March 27, 2018, 05:48:48 pm »
I'm using a ChronoTrigger ROM with a "broken" Epoch Time-Gauge.

 :picardno

If I move the gauge to the end of the selector, and move it back through the list, it bounces past an index in the list and skips it entirely. Has anyone (that is using the ROM I speak of) come across this, and/or found a solution to this?

I propose rewriting the Epoch selector screen, but some fix of the index pointer selection would hopefully be much easier. (though I've just been getting into the ASM of the code, so I don't know how to do that just yet).

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #9 on: March 27, 2018, 06:11:02 pm »
Did that ROM do anything unusual with time periods? That behavior sounds like the current era skip being applied incorrectly.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #10 on: March 27, 2018, 08:03:40 pm »
Did that ROM do anything unusual with time periods? That behavior sounds like the current era skip being applied incorrectly.

Not that I've noticed, I've actually used that ROM for quite some time. And what you've mentioned is exactly it.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #11 on: March 27, 2018, 08:16:30 pm »
If you could send me a patch, and any notes on changes to eras or the time gauge you've made, I'll take a look. Is it always the same era being skipped?

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #12 on: March 28, 2018, 02:44:05 pm »
It seems so, I'll test it out a bit more tonight and get back to you(with a patch) in my next reply.

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Re: Disable Epoch time gauge?
« Reply #13 on: August 08, 2019, 03:27:54 am »
 :picardno

Okay I'm not sure what is causing this I should just make a video of it. Think I'll do that.

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