0.6.0-alpha

0.6.0-alpha

• Major change: Text Engine overhaul:

  • Full Unicode support for all text-related procedures (console and file output, file paths),
  • Text translation procedure now supports the whole set of characters,

• Minor changes:

  • Add missing status_effects mask,
  • Fix the incorrect padding in the status_effects struct,
  • Remove support for - now deprecated - DuckStation SDL,
  • Remove crash when the game is started from the title screen,

Full Changelog: 0.5.0-alpha...0.6.0-alpha

0.5.0-alpha (ASLR)

0.5.0-alpha

• Major feature: Overhaul the way VSTrack is attaching itself to the emulator process. This gives us a few benefits:
  • No need to maintain support for specific emulator versions, as long as the executable file name stays consistent,
  • Out of the box support for ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) emulators, like:
    • DuckStation,
    • pSX,
    • no$psx
  • Ability to add support for any emulator easily, by modifying main.c source file

0.4.0-alpha

• New major feature: Enemy tracking:

  • display name, HP, and MP of every hostile character in the current room,
  • text file for this one is game_data/map/enemy_data.txt,

• Add controller input tracking, with button holding timers (debug build only),

• Add current game mode tracking (debug build only). Currently recognized modes are:

  • Normal,
  • Battle,
  • Cut-scene,
  • Menu Screen,
  • Quick Menu,
  • First Person View,
  • Activate Panel,
  • Open Container,
  • Draw Weapon,
  • Use Locked Door,
  • End of Turn

• Update supported BizHawk version to 2.6.1

0.3.3-alpha

Add experimental controller input tracking:

• output file: game_data/player/controller_input.txt

0.3.2-alpha

• Update supported BizHawk version to 2.4.2,

0.3.1-alpha

• Update supported BizHawk version to 2.4.1

0.3.0-alpha

Most important changes:

• Add partial Gazette support:
  • Kill List,
  • Weapon Usage,
• Add real-time tracking for map and treasure chest completion,
• Add function to generate list of missing map locations and treasure chests,
• Add file output for player status effects,
• Change the main loop, to update the tracking data files, only when necessary,
• Add Intro and Epilogue maps to the list of tracked locations,
• Add support for the 4-blade Ultimate Weapon leveling method (https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/ps/914326-vagrant-story/faqs/8646).

Full list of changes: 09b613b

0.2.0-alpha

v0.2.0-alpha

• Switch to 64-bit executable:
  • it allows to add support for modern (64-bit) emulators, without relying on WOW64 API,
  • add support for BizHawk 2.3.x emulator

Full list of changes: b34a2d4

v0.1.6-alpha

Commit fc521e5

• Fix the bug causing program termination on the game title screen:

  • Add checks for out-of-bounds indexes pointing to arrays with item data,
  • Add checks for invalid player stats,
  • Add a function CheckPlayerStats() which checks for if the player stats read from game memory are valid. If they are, that means, the game has been loaded properly,
  • Don't start the tracking for equipment, time and location, until the CheckPlayerStats() return TRUE. This prevents populating files with garbage data,
  • Remove the bug from the Known Issues section in README.md file.

• Change variable types from UINT8 to UINT8 for STR, INT, and AGL in PrintPlayerStats2() function

v0.1.5-alpha

Commit 9d6670d

• Refactor the time-stamp related code:
  • use global variables to store the current time and time-stamp strings,
  • change code to be more reusable,
  • change time-stamp format for file names to YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS-record-time.txt
  • move time-stamp related variables and functions to separate file,vst_utils.h