Feature request: Manual random seed
ilfirin-ms opened this issue · comments
Is it possible to somehow add possibility to add manual random seed - to have repeatable games?
Or have special hack for some predefined seeds as extra file.
Sorry, just saw this issue. Is this for the twoplayer mod? Or to create a new mod?
Mods that let you specify a manual random seed already exist, so I'll assume you want one compatible with twoplayer. I can point you to one of the manual random seed mods if that's what you're seeing.
It would be relatively easy in principal to have such a thing for twoplayer. It would be minor modification to existing "manual random seed" mods. Most of the effort is around the in-game UI to select the seed.
It was meant for single player TAUS, which happened to be incompatible with existing random seed mods.
@ilfirin-ms, did you close because it is working now?
No, I closed it, because I thought it won't be resolved and it was just feature request, so there was no need for "fix". Did I it wrong?
I'll look into this. I didn't earlier because it wasn't clear what you were hoping for. I expect I'll just make it compatible with one of the existing manual random seed mods.
It seems TAUS is compatible with HydrantDude's Fixed RNG mod v1. It can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ACY0O2T0N4YEltUYZKkkMfQdzoL-iaPc .
v2 is incompatible, but superficially, as we just use the same location for our code. It is trivial to fix, but will cause taus to be incompatible with other mods (like twoplayer):
diff --git a/taus.s b/taus.s
index eee5e06..0cdc18a 100644
--- a/taus.s
+++ b/taus.s
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ chartDrawn:
.res 1
.segment "CODE"
- ips_segment "CODE",unreferenced_data4,$0515
+ ips_segment "CODE",unreferenced_data1,$0636
initGameState_mod:
.import __GAMEBSS_SIZE__, __GAMEBSS_RUN__I've done a one-off build with that change, if you want it.
taus-v1.3.0-pre-unref1.zip
If there's some other fixed RNG mod you prefer, just point me to it and I can look into it.
Closing as fixed since there are some options available. If there's some other manual seed mod in particular that you're still interested in, I can look into it.
Sorry, tested it only slightly, but so far perfect. Thank you.