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[Orithan]

Thought I would post it here due to the fact that several people are working on tilesets ATM.

 

It has come to my attention that the Big Triforce item interacts with CSet 9 in a way that is not really well known and may cause a lot of issues for those who use it..

Collecting the Big Triforce item (or any Triforce Item with the cutscene type set to 0 in the item editor) causes the Ganon dying Sprite Palette to be loaded into CSet 9 on for the palette (not DMap or level, but the palette the DMap uses) for the rest of the questuntil you die or use F6->Continue, which may produce unintended effects for those who use the Big Triforce in place of the small Triforce piece in their quests.

Edited by Orithan, 29 February 2016 - 06:04 AM.

[Cukeman]

I've created a handy-dandy tool that's made it much easier to see/understand what's going on in these types of situations:
 
ColorDebug.png

___What you do is Grab this image into your tileset -any tileset, it doesn't have to use my palettes (my colors will automatically be replaced with your own)- using Leech with 8-Bit Color Depth. Now you have  a 4x4 set of tiles with all 256 colors from CSets 0-15 (yes, even the colors that don't display correctly in ZQuest, but don't worry- they'll display fine in Zelda Classic).

___Now go to your subscreen editor, choose (or create) a passive subscreen, go to Edit > New > Tile Block and select the tiles you just imported. Set the tile width to 4 & the height to 2 or 3 to get the top part of the image, then do it again to get the bottom half, and arrange them on your subscreen so you can see everything.

___Now when you open your quest in Zelda Classic you have a constant display of what's going on in every CSet, allowing you to see when CSets are swapped or overwritten

 

As an example, here's what my color debug passive subscreen looks like:

 

Edited by Cukeman, 24 April 2016 - 08:24 PM.