* Fixed a bug where you'd see :nick: on the current character selection screen if you didn't have many skins loaded.
* Fixed a bug where character skins loaded in PK3s would attempt to load every single lump of the PK3, even if it wasn't in the same subfolder as the original S_SKIN, as a sprite into the player struct. Could stand to be ported to vanilla.
Requires new chars.kart, which was created using the help of the indev 2.2-based Kartmaker update which will be available shortly.
* Fix the title card fade's one-frame invalid memory read.
* Disable a redundant gamestate-activated wipe, which A) horribly broke Encore wipes, B) made normal map transitions take longer than they should, and C) held on the one glitchy title card wipe frame to make the game look more broken than it was.
* Fix Encore wipes being broken by the merge.
* Disable (not remove; may want to use later) the :nick: patch draw attempts from the title card drawer.
* Re-add zonettl support to the title card drawer.
* Move the title card drawer in front of the fade (Looks better for if we showcase 2.2 merge footage before creating a better title card).
- Split HUD stuff into k_hud.c/h
- V_SPLITSCREEN replaces the old function that sets V_SPLITSCREEN/V_HORZSCREEN flags system, and instead automatically moves it based on player number
- V_SLIDEIN makes HUD items slide in after the intro animation.
Basically a dedicated Record Attack-like experience for speedrunning the game as a continuous chunk rather than ILs. Has several quality of life features.
Benefits include:
* An unambiguous real-time bar across the bottom of the screen, always displaying the current time, ticking up until you reach the ending.
* Disable the console (pausing is still allowed, but the timer will still increment).
* Automatically skip intermissions as if you're holding down the spin button.
* Show centiseconds on HUD automatically, like record attack.
* "Live Event Backups" - a category of run fit for major events like GDQ, where recovery from crashes or chokes makes for better entertainment. Essentially a modified SP savefile, down to using the same basic functions, but has its own filename and tweaked internal layout.
* "spmarathon_start" MainCfg block parameter and "marathonnext" mapheader parameter, allowing for a customised flow (makes this fit for purpose for an eventual SUGOI port).
* Disabling inter-level custom cutscenes by default with a menu option to toggle this (won't show up if the mod doesn't *have* any custom cutscenes), although either way ending cutscenes (vanilla or custom) remain intact since is time is called before them.
* Won't show up if you have a mod that consists of only one level (determined by spmarathon_start's nextlevel; this won't trip if you manually set its marathonnext).
* Unconditional gratitude on the evaluation screen, instead of a negging "Try again..." if you didn't get all the emeralds (which you may not have been aiming for).
* Gorgeous new menu (no new assets required, unless you wanna give it a header later).
Changes which were required for the above but affect other areas of the game include:
* "useBlackRock" MainCFG block parameter, which can be used to disable the presence of the Black Rock or Egg Rock in both the Evaluation screen and the Marathon Run menu (for total conversions with different stories).
* Disabling Continues in NiGHTS mode, to match the most common singleplayer experience post 2.2.4's release (is reverted if useContinues is set to true).
* Hiding the exitmove "powerup" outside of multiplayer. (Okay, this isn't really related, I just saw this bug in action a lot while doing test runs and got annoyed enough to fix it here.)
* The ability to use V_DrawPromptBack (in hardcode only at the moment, but) to draw in terms of pixels rather than rows of text, by providing negative instead of positive inputs).
* A refactoring of redundant game saves smattered across the ending, credits, and evaluation - in addition to saving the game slightly earlier.
* Minor m_menu.c touchups and refactorings here and there.
Built using feedback from the official server's #speedruns channel, among other places.
