Notices by Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club), page 7

@endrift nah I got it, I'm using arm-none-eabi-as.exe from devkitpro with -march=armv4t -mthumb

I need to get a better arm assembler. I keep using an online one and it is generating stuff that the GBA can't handle

@ben that seems to be standard for sprite viewers. it means "animation"

naturally squeenix helpfully included a sprite viewer and then forgot to make it load the palettes correctly

@jens sharing rotations makes sense
stuffing them inbetween each sprite? less so

and then inside the 6 bytes that define sprites, there's a bitfield that determines which rotation group it uses.

so there's 32 rotation groups, but they're interleaved inside the sprites. for... reasons

instead, it takes a total of 32 bytes (4 sprites) to encode one single sprite rotation entry.

So the first rotation group is at 0x7000006, 0x700000e, 0x7000016, 0x700001e

the 2 bytes between each object are the sprite rotation.

But they're not the sprite rotation for the sprite they're next to!

so there's 128 sprites that start in RAM at 0x07000000, they're 6 bytes long, and the second sprite starts at 0x07000008

yeah they're 6 bytes long but stored every 8 bytes

the GBA stores sprite rotation HOW?

@noodle interesting. It probably thinks the origin is tainted. I'll have to look into it

@noodle Try again now.

@noodle oh yeah! that's a bug with the filenames. For some reason, Desktop firefox just truncates them if they're too long for the filesystem, but android firefox just errors.

Lemme see if I can fix it

@Daveography that guy is right

@noodle interesting! What browser & OS are you on?

I pushed out a minor CSS/HTML fix to the death generator. It's now got a dark mode! It inherits it from your browser, so if your browser is set to dark mode (or your OS is, and your browser is respecting that), you'll get a darkmode Death Generator.

https://deathgenerator.com/

It's time for the first death generator done from bed: Beetlejuice, the 1991 NES game from LJN!

https://deathgenerator.com/#beetlejuice

@aburka whoops. fixed

The really annoying thing about running old versions of open source software is that I'm always getting the urge to fix a bug but
1. it's probably already fixed in a newer version I'm not using
2. they probably don't want fixes for an ancient versions
3. I really don't want to have to maintain my own weird fork