Proposition for a "Skills" system

Ryru’s hack…?

No
Hextator’s hack ._.

Carl made a skill hack?

No one had even touched skills in 2006 aside from myself though

In the off chance you all seriously forgot, it

  • Adds Astra, Adept and Vantage to the game
  • Creates several bitmaps for toggling which classes (and which weapons, in the case of Sure Shot) are able to use which skills (including the new ones)

and it has

  • A bug with Vantage that eats the defender’s attack instead of delaying it
  • An issue with the battle queue in the vent a skill (probably Astra) overfills the battle buffer

because

  • The whole thing was written in straight binary (there is no source file or code - not even in assembly)
  • It was written by a kid with < 6 months of experience with hacking video games (that is to say less than 6 months prior I had no idea what a hex editor even was)

It’s still not a bad starting point (there are some notes on various skill processing routines) but it is difficult to reverse engineer and even more difficult to analyze without doing so.

There has been a video of Astra on my YouTube channel for almost as long.