This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.
Both sides previous revisionPrevious revision | Next revisionBoth sides next revision | ||
super:intermediate_guides:credits [2017/12/19 23:35] – nodever2 | super:intermediate_guides:credits [2017/12/20 21:21] – Lots of general cleanup at the bottom, and elaborated more on everything down there nodever2 | ||
---|---|---|---|
Line 48: | Line 48: | ||
A few tips I've learned: | A few tips I've learned: | ||
- | * **MAKE ROM BACKUPS FREQUENTLY!!!** There' | + | * **MAKE ROM BACKUPS FREQUENTLY!!!** There' |
* Make sure you have at least a screen of blank space at the end of your credits (shown below) or else the screen won't clear properly, and you will still have credits on the final screens of the game (where you are shown your completion percentage, etc.) | * Make sure you have at least a screen of blank space at the end of your credits (shown below) or else the screen won't clear properly, and you will still have credits on the final screens of the game (where you are shown your completion percentage, etc.) | ||
- | {{: | + | {{: |
//(Notice in this image, the Credits Editor is scrolled all the way to the bottom. You want that empty space!)// | //(Notice in this image, the Credits Editor is scrolled all the way to the bottom. You want that empty space!)// | ||
Line 58: | Line 58: | ||
* Edit the contents of each the Credits Tile Editor (box on the right) __// | * Edit the contents of each the Credits Tile Editor (box on the right) __// | ||
- | * Sometimes, when you exit and re-open the credits editor, you'll notice that the credits have been changed - typically, you'll see the vanilla bottom section of the credits repeated there, even though you didn't place it. This can happen | + | * Sometimes, when you exit and re-open the credits editor, you'll notice that the credits have been changed - typically, you'll see the vanilla bottom section of the credits repeated there, even though you didn't place it [to-do: find out why this happens and how to reproduce consistently]. However, as long as the glitch seen in the next bullet point below doesn' |
- | * Sometimes, the end of your credits | + | {{: |
- | {{: | + | * Sometimes, the end of your credits (as seen in the editor) will become a horrible glitchy mess (seen below). If this happens, your credits were likely too long. It may be possible to delete all those extra lines that were created and still have functioning credits, but you should assume the glitch credits broke something else in your ROM. I highly recommend to revert to an older backup of your ROM at this point, or use SMILE' |
+ | |||
+ | {{: | ||
+ | |||
+ | //(When the in-game credits scroll to this point, the player will most likely see a glitchy mess, followed by a crash. Avoid!)// | ||
+ | |||
+ | * Some twisted combination of these bugs can cause another bug where SMILE to crashes every time you try to save the credits. If this happens, from what I've seen, your copy of SMILE RF is fine - it's the specific ROM that is causing this. The crash randomly stopped happening to me after I saved the credits of a // | ||
(feel free to expand this section if you learn more!) | (feel free to expand this section if you learn more!) |