Chronotools - variable width 8pix font

If you find the standard item name length limit (10 characters plus symbol) too restricting, forcing you to make ridiculous abbreviations, you can install a support for variable width 8pix font.

This consists of the following components:

• VWF8 font
• VWF8 program module
• Binding the program module to the ROM
• Conversion of the item / tech / monster tables

You need a font. Take one from DOCS/ct8fnV.tga and edit it to match your character set.

Edit the font8vfn setting in the [font] section of your configuration file so that the insertor knows the font.

Add the following lines to your ct.cfg in the [linker] section:

# VWF8
load_code "ct-vwf8.o65"
add_call_of "EquipLeftItemFunc"  $C2A5AA 4  false
add_call_of "EquipRightItemFunc" $C2F2DC 1  true
add_call_of "ItemListFunc"       $C2B053 13 false
add_call_of "TechListFunc"       $C2BDB2 52 true
add_call_of "EquipLeftHelper"    $C2A57D 14  false
add_call_of "EquipLeftHelper2"   $C2A5B6 2   false
add_call_of "BattleItemFunc"     $C109C1 32 false
#add_call_of "BattleTechFunc"     $C10B5B 32 false
add_call_of "DialogItemCall"     $C25BA1 36 false

This tells the insertor that it must include code from ct-vwf8.o65 and insert calls of several routines to your ROM.
By selecting the right add_call_of lines you select which features of the ROM you want to patch.

You can create ct-vwf8.o65 by compiling the included ct-vwf8.a65 file with snescom, a SNES assembler, or asking me to send it to you.

Normally the items, techs and monsters are inserted as constant-width tables in the ROM, denoted by the label *l11 in your script.

When you are ready to get rid of the item length limit, replace the *l11 in the script with i11.
Same goes for techs: *l11 is changed to t11, and for monsters *l11 is changed to m11.

However at the moment only the item conversion works.

The official home page of chronotools is at http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/chronotools.html.
Check there for new versions.