- Now actually from the relevant GP difficulty's Cupgrid, instead of the top-level Play choice
- Permits a much cleaner M_StartCup, combining two of the previously four copypasted, slightly modified level startup regions (which could be further combined for sanity's sake, but would take a LITTLE more work right now than I have in me)
- Shows a funny exclamation mark from Sonic Rush on the relevant cup on the grid
- Selected by default when loading the menu, if appropriate
Associated menu stuff is rough and unpolished, but it's 1am for the author of this commit.
- Activated for this session by either of the following Passwords.
- `savetheframes`
- `savetheanimals`
- The idea is that if Ring Racers were ever ran at a GDQ, runners would swear their alliegance to a particular Metroid routing at the startup stage, because I think it's funny and cute.
- A live event backup is created/overwritten on non-cheated grandprix level change.
- It's wiped on reaching the podium.
- When hitting PLAY on the main menu, if a live event backup exists, make a Menu Message.
- If you hit A, turn live event backups on for this session, and load the backup.
- If you hit B/X, delete the backup and proceed to character select.
- Done this way to avoid cheating a different character to the end of GP.
- Unlike the (maybe a little over-)engineering of ringdata.dat, liveringbak.bkp is streamlined as all hells and has very little recovery for differing file lists.
I would've liked to make it use a single allocate function to do this very cleanly, but these cases were very clearly not meant to be standardized and use wildly different methods to allocate & free...
This caused some scary issues with P_SaveNetGame the other day, and it's making ACS net sync harder. Let's just cut this off right now.
Also fixed some scary mix-ups in some of the Lua archiving code.
All typedefs for structs that were present in other header
files have been moved to here. (Except node_t because the
renderer and netcode both define node_t LOL.)
All this refactoring, just to resolve#162. Specifically, it engages savegame events not at level load (except for savefile start) but on level completion, just after you've gotten all the intermission bonuses but before the intermission actually starts.
Also fixes a never-before-discovered bug where if the titlemap has LF_SAVEGAME, your save file will be overwritten upon returning to the title screen. This game is a mess of hacks, I swear...
One unintended side effect: It may actually be faster in some speedrun circumstances in mods with cutscenes to complete the map, exit back to the title screen, and reload the file. It's a common feature of optimal runs in games with cutscenes, though, and Marathon Run has a toggle for cutscenes, so I'm not particularly bothered.
* Changed the save format a little more, since I had free reign over it.
* Modified the string drawing functions to not awkwardly clip at the very edges of the screen, considering the relevant patch drawing functions avoid out-of-range memory writes.
* Each time you die, the number of game overs you've had is counted.
* Your save file updates to record this.
* The number of startinglives is determined by the number of times you'ved game-overed, with the maximum being infinity lives (thereby providing a cap on the number of game overs you can go through in a typical game).
Requires a new patch.dta, but I'm not uploading that yet because not happy with the icon we've got going for infinity lives on the save select menu.
