Death counter for the BizHawk console emulator
This Lua script is written for the BizHawk multi-system emulator. It adds a death counter on the game screen to keep track of the number of times the player has died. The death count persists through game-overs, save states and soft and hard resets (but not core resets).
Download DeathCounter.zip from the releases page and unpack it into the Lua subfolder of the BizHawk installation.
After starting the emulator, go to Tools -> Lua Console to open the Lua script manager.
From there, go to Script -> Open Script and load the DeathCounter script (not the DeathCounterGameList script).
The output window will tell you if a configuration for this game exists or if a new configuration is created.
The way this plugin works is that every frame it looks for a certain memory location to contain a certain value. If that value is found at that location, that means the player died.
Finding the correct memory location and value can be a little tricky, and requires some understanding of and experience with using the RAM Search
If you have a found a correct memory location and value pair, press Shift + F to open the game configuration window. Here you can specify the memory location in the equals memory location, and the value to look for in the equals value box.
Clicking Apply will apply the configuration to the game. Clicking Save will save the configuration of the game into the games/ folder.
If you have a working new configuration, please send the game json file from the games/ folder to me via a pm or a pull request and I'll add it to the repository.
Press Shift + F to open the game configuration window.
image filename is the filename for the image to display, which by default is the skull you see next to the counter. Leaving the name empty will cause no image to be displayed.
image x, y are the co-ordinates where the image is displayed.
Label is a line of text you can have displayed on the screen (perhaps instead of an image).
Label x, yare the co-ordinates where this text is displayed.
Counter x, yare the co-ordinates of the death count number on the screen.
Clicking Apply will apply these changes to the game. Clicking Save will save the configuration to file.
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
Shift + F |
Show game configuration form |
Shift + NumpadMinus |
Reduce the death counter by 1 |
Shift + NumpadPlus |
Increase the death counter by 1 |
Shift + NumpadEnter |
Reset the death counter to 0 |