XML2 Fix v1.3.0

Engine work for mods whose conversations and pickups were written for X-Men Legends I's engine (the community port), and one more engine limit. Drop in the new dinput.dll. Two of the on-by-default changes reach XML2's own conversations too (its six voiced replies now play out; a hub menu come back to keeps a reply highlighted); the rest changes nothing for XML2 as it ships.

On by default

• Conversation lines that run by themselves. A mod marks a line with a negative timeDelay and the line goes on once its voice has played (the game never reads the attribute; X-Men Legends I's tours and cutscene chains needed Enter after every line on it). A menu of two or more replies is never picked for the player. Off: [Game] AutoAdvance=0.
• A chosen reply's voice plays out before its answer; the game used to stop it one frame in (XML2 has six voiced replies, the port 239). Accept skips it. Off: [Game] ReplyVoices=0.
• A reply menu come back to keeps a reply highlighted. The game's menu builder stored the visible count as the cursor when the previous pick was hidden, so nothing was highlighted and Enter did nothing until up or down. Off: [Game] ReplyCursor=0.

New, when you ask for it

• addSkillPoints(name, n), a ninth script function registered with the forced-party ones ([Game] ForcedTeams present): one to twenty unspent skill points to the hero named - an item's onactivate names the hero who took it as _ACTIVATOR_ - through the game's own counter, which the skills screen spends from and the save keeps. X-Men Legends I's free-skill-point pickup; the game has no call of its own.
• [Limits] ItemEnhancements (376 to 1024): the item manager's pool of enhancement records, past which Data/items stops loading. XML2's own table uses 374 of 375, so one more enhancement made every later item vanish. Saves store record numbers, so the pool grows at the end of a bigger item manager and nothing moves; the port uses 512. The game's random affix pickers still keep room for 375 prefixes and 375 suffixes (the fix warns in the log past that).

Every patch checks the bytes it relies on against the retail XMen2.exe first; on any other build that feature stays off and xml2-fix.log says why. Every setting, with its default: README -> Settings.

Install: copy dinput.dll into the folder that contains XMen2.exe (replace the old one). See the README.

Unofficial fan fix, not affiliated with or endorsed by Activision, Marvel, Disney, Raven Software or Beenox. No game files included: you need your own copy of the game.