Changelog

Version 3.1.0 (2018-Abr-26)

• SA-1 support. REQUIRES ASAR 1.60 OR NEWER.
• Added Ice Flower.
• Added Cloud Flower.
• Added Bubble Flower.
• Included some UberASM Tool codes.
• Added information about powerups in the readme.
• Fixed Mario going up in the overworld tile.
• Fixed tile reveal animation in the overworld.
• Fixed a graphical error when two or more powerup items were loaded in the same frame.
• Fixed swimming poses not being properly displayed at specific cases, this also fixes several other poses.
• Boomerangs from Boomerang Mario didn't properly stop uploading their GFX if they were catched by Mario.
• Feathers from super koopas now spawn appropriately.
• Mushroom from bubbles now spawns appropriately.
• Goal tape item now spawns appropriately.
• Cape flight is now reset when the player gets another powerup.
• Frog Mario physics are disabled when the player isn't controlling Mario, this fixes some issues with animations.
• Adjusted Frog Mario collision points with layers when he's swimming.
• Adjusted some Frog Mario poses.
• Fixed a rare error related to graphics insertion.
• Fixed a potential crash in SA-1 ROMs regarding poses.
• Propeller suit item seems to behave properly now.
• Optimized a bit extended sprites' sprite detection routine.
• Mushrooms taken when Mario was in his mini form didn't have any effect.
• Fixed a pose when Frog Mario jumped out of the water
• Mini Mario no longer activates the drop item box routine when dying.
• Removed Per Level Sprites support from projectiles. Nobody uses them and their tables used a good amount of free space (8KiB for each projectile).
• Reworked how projectiles killed their DMA routine, it should be working as expected now.
• Included the, unfinished, Penguin Suit powerup. If someone wants to finish it, go ahead.
• ExtendedGetDrawInfoSpecial now clears the DMA bit flag if it detects that the sprite is dead in the current frame, just in case of bad coding practices.
• Adjusted addons' freespace finder to use banks in the 10-3F/90-BF range.
• Fixed a few addresses not using FastROM addressing.
• Fixed crash when hitting a sprite if your powerup status number was over $10
• Fixed powerup_items.palmask not masking out the correct colors.
• image_engine.asm was slightly optimized.

Version 3.0.4 (2018-Jan-24)

• Implemented a define to force users to read the readme so people actually read it.
• Made possible to edit palettes with LM, instead of building tables you just edit a .mw3 file in powerups_files/powerup_misc_data/palette_files
• Fixed a problem with dynamic powerup tile allocation when a propeller suit was using the second dynamic item tile.
• Dynamic powerup items DMA routine got reprogrammed, it now uploads only the required graphics and it's faster in most cases.
• Fixed a potential SA-1 crash/unintended behavior in the powerup items DMA routine.
• Reworked the logic behind the dynamic item tile allocation, this fixes a issue where new powerup items would overwrite old items graphics if the latest item that you got was the newest one.
• Reworked the logic behind Projectile DMA, now it uploads the necessary graphics when it's actually required.
• Cape/Extra tile DMA routine doesn't get executed if there's no tile set for the current powerup state.
• GFX and Extra Tile indexes are now stored to RAM (Read only).
• Adjusted Shell Mario's speed when the player is inside of the shell so it doesn't break have some clipping issues.
• Added a few defines in Shell powerup defines file.
• Fixed Shell suit's question mark block.
• Boomerangs didn't stop uploading their graphics if they were catched by Mario
• Fixed some alignments with Boomerang Mario graphics.
• Added missing frames for Boomerang Mario.
• Fixed some misalignments of the Raccoon tail
• Extra tile now disappears if Mario was instantly killed
• Reseted some statuses for Frog Mario
• Made possible for Frog Mario to carry sprites.
• Added a define to decide if Frog Mario is able to ride Yoshi.
• Reseted some statuses for Mini Mario
• Raccoon tail now attacks both back and front when doing a spin attack.
• Fixed YXPPCCT properties for the tanooki suit and super leaf powerup items when they are in the item box.
• Fixed some issues when trying to insert with an older asar the propeller mushroom powerup. You should be using the latest asar version anyway.
• Fixed some X speeds for the iceball projectile. Not that the powerup is actually usable though...

Version 3.0.3 (2018-Jan-16)

• Added Question Mark blocks that spawns powerups
• Added a folder with some defines that you need, this was added in case someone have different folders for GPS and PIXI
• Added the missing stuff for PIXI
• Added a missing global palette file.
• Implemented a Install Byte, this fixed the problem for autocleaning stuff that you shouldn't.
• !power_ram is now initialized when getting a powerup.
• Fixed the mushroom graphics for the bubble sprite and fishin' lakitu.
• Implemented !slide_flag and !ducking_flag.
• Extra tile is now properly displayed in the overworld.
• Made dynamic the 1-up mushroom spawned by 1-up checkpoints.
• Frog Mario now slides automatically on slopes if the player isn't pressing Left or Right.
• Frog Mario no longer ducks. Quack.
• Frog Mario now has a better behavior on slopes
• Frog Mario can't hold items underwater anymore.
• Fixed a potential SA-1 crash or unintended behavior related to Frog Mario losing Yoshi.
• Removed "C3 Beta" from the print statement

Version 3.0.0 C3 Release(2018-Jan-14)

• Added several powerups
• !ride_yoshi_flag wasn't working properly
• 5th tile now properly hides when its told to disappear with $78 and the settings
• Fixed item box graphics not reloading when loading a sublevel
• Fixed a garbage item appearing instead of a mushroom when triggering an invisible mushroom
• Commented out the code regarding cover up tiles
• Added !power_ram, basically a small block of reserved RAM for usage with powerups
• Fixed item box items spawning in the same coordinates as the sprite that hurt Mario
• Added !insta_kill_flag.
• Expanded default powerup states to $12
• Fixed some items breaking the item box graphics
• Made several RAMs clear every frame
• Included some addresses at $028008 for easier reading.

Version 3.0.0 Beta(2017-Aug-16)

• 32x32 patch integration
• Removed Mario's 8x8 tiles DMAer patch
• Included a proper readme
• Dynamic powerup items are now available
• Made possible to use a 5th tile
• Cape tile is now isolated from GFX32
• Annoying sound effect when using !disable_spin_jump is gone
• Removed other_patches directory.
• Added a bonus room fix if using Dynamic Items.
• Cape shenaningans are fixed
• Introduced !ride_yoshi_flag, so you can disable riding Yoshi without very specific stuff
• Made some optimizations to some files.
• Got rid of some bad formatting in most of the asm files

Version 2.1.1 (2016-Jun-27)

• Added a little patch that disables riding yoshi if !flags isn't zero.
• Fixed a bug with Raccoon-like powerups making the wrong SFX.
• Fixed a bug with Raccoon-like and Cape powerups not being able to kill enemies with cape/tail.
• Made !wait_timer usable again.
• Fixed the inclusion of other_patches/custom_interaction.asm
• Removed unnecesary lines on powerups_files/palette_engine.asm

Version 2.1.0 (2016-Jun-10)

• Added Raccoon-like powerups compatibility.
• Added two extra RAMs: !cape_settings & !flight_timer.
• Fixed the bug when the player has Star power and it only flashes between normal palette and fire palette of player 1.
• Added a table that will let you to decide which palettes to show when using a Star.
• Added a file that let's you to have custom interaction codes with sprites.
• Added compatibility with Sonikku's Custom Default Interaction patch.

Version 2.0.1 (2016-Apr-13)

• Fixed a issue with some defines in extended_sprites.asm. Thanks to Rykon-V73 for reporting this.

Version 2.0.0 (2016-Mar-24)

• Every file has been moved.
• It's now easier to update (at least for me).
• Powerups have been removed from this patch, you must download them separately.
• Included a quick guide fow newbie users.
• Separated the advanced stuff in powerups_manual.txt
• Probably a lot of stuff was changed, kek.

Version 1.1.0(2016-Jan-2)

• Tiny Mushroom powerup from NSMBWii is now available.
• Cloud flower powerup from SMG series is now available. Huge thanks to Lui37.
• The patch is now fully SA-1 compatible, just insert it as you would do normally and the patch will handle everything like every new patch on SMWC.
• Hammer and Boomerangs now interact with layer 1 objects.
• Boomerang can retrieve some sprites when fired, this makes the Boomerang to not be just a Hammer clone.
• Custom interaction fields with sprites is now possible.
• Custom interaction dots/points with layer 1/2 (maybe 3?) is now possible.
• Remapping some smoke particles is now optional too. A define is included in powerup_defs.asm to decide if insert the hex edits or not.
• Added a define to control which extended sprite number will Mario shoot while having powerup that shoots projectiles.
• Added a define to change where the Projectile DMA graphics will be loaded to.
• Made some (small) name changes to some files in powerup_files folder.
• Changed the custom sprite settings table in sprites_props.asm to use bits instead of hex values.
• Minor Extender patch is now completely optional, you still require to patch the file though, specially if you want those Z tiles fixed.
• Patch size increased a bit.
• Migrated from Item Box Special 1.1 to 1.3.
• Added several custom blocks.
• THE Z TILE OF THE RIP VAN FISH IS NOW FIXED.
• Mode 7 Game Over patch detection. Clearing $7E2000 area made this patch to display an invisible Mario, this is now fixed.
• Fixed a HUGE mistake on IceBlock.asm. Changed a $1622,x to $1686,x.
• Iceball image is now properly aligned while using the projectile DMA feature.
• Riding Yoshi instantly bug is now gone.
• Projectile DMA feature now works correctly in title screen. Thanks to KDee for reporting this.
• Mario's 8x8 tiles weren't showing correctly on title screen, it's fixed now.
• Fixed several misplaced things.

Version 1.0.0 (2015-Aug-21)

• Bubble projectile is now available.
• Mario ExGFX integrated in the patch.
• Added a feature that uploads dynamically the projectiles GFX to the VRAM and it can be disabled if the user wants.
• Optimized most of the graphic files for the powerup tilemaps, now they are 12kB instead of 24kB.
• The new insert size of the patch is 87472 bytes instead of 178909 bytes.
• There are a bunch of defines in powerup_defs.asm that let you to remap some GFX00 and GFX01 stuff.
• DKC Status bar compatibility.
• !shell_immunity now has a purpose. Thanks to Lui37.
• Included some defines to set the tile/YXPPCCCT properties of the projectiles in powerup_defs.asm
• Added some settings for Mario Statue in sprite_props.asm.
• Tanooki suit was using the wrong combination of buttons to trigger the statue.
• Mario statue was able to climb in nets.
• Mario statue was using spin jump instead of a custom routine to detect sprites and kill them or be invincible to them.
• Fixed a bug in question block that doesn't do anything in vertical levels.
• Ice blocks weren't detecting ceilings correctly.
• Iceballs now really listen to the sprite_props.asm settings.
• Iceballs doesn't display a fireball when are about to disappear in a puff of smoke.
• And probably a lot more. I don't remember what I fixed (forgot to create a list... >.>).

Alpha versions (201X-???-??)

• Lot of stuff is lost, you can download older versions if you are curious about how this patch evolved.

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