In-game Font Switching experiment

[Vehek]

This morning, I got font switching in the battle menu working. I just managed to make a patch for it.
This patch is NOT stand-alone. It needs my menu font switching patch to work. (It uses the same font pointer table as my menu font switcher.)
Original Code:

$CC/E018 A9 60       LDA #$60                A:0018 X:C975 Y:CC90 P:enVMxdIzc

$CC/E01E A9 8C       LDA #$8C                A:0060 X:C975 Y:CC90 P:enVMxdIzc

$CC/E024 A9 FF       LDA #$FF                A:008C X:C975 Y:CC90 P:eNVMxdIzc

These assemble the location it starts copying from (FF8C60).

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[justin3009]

^-- ^___________^!  Works very nicely. 

Here's a pointless patch that has both menu switch AND battle switch font in one.

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[Anacalius]

Wow, awesome work. Keep it up.

[Vehek]

The battle menu loads from an earlier point than the normal menu, which starts loading the font from FF8E60 in the original game. I didn't leave that much space between fonts. I hope that won't cause any trouble. (Though you can just move the fonts and change the pointers.)
Well, I think there's no more skeleton programming to do here besides adding onto the dialog font switcher.
(Actual menu option is not "skeleton" to me.)

[Agent 12]

Did you overwrite the "menu"  data to store the fonts or are the fonts stored in unused space?

--JP

[justin3009]

The fonts are stored in unused space above the menu font.  The menu font is stored after the end of the rom at like 410260 or something for the first one.

[Vehek]

Something I made on Sunday to fix the save file backgrounds. I haven't decided where exactly the code should go.

$C2/9561 22 00 00 42 JSL $420000[$42:0000]

$42/0000 C0 00 0E    CPY #$0E00
$42/0003 D0 04       BNE $04    [$0009]
$42/0005 A9 41       LDA #$41
$42/0007 80 02       BRA $02    [$000B]
$42/0009 A9 FF       LDA #$FF
$42/000B 8D 04 43    STA $4304  [$00:4304]
$42/000E 6B          RTL

$C2/9565 EA          NOP

[justin3009]

Very nice