Topic: Requests/Ideas - Golvellius: Valley of Doom

mickyt888

Joined Aug 21, 2013

OP

July 3 2017, 4:14am, last edited December 12 2020, 10:52pm

Official Topic Post for discussion about

Golvellius: Valley of Doom (Master System)
Created 03 Jul, 2017 05:14 by mickyt888

Golvellius (USA, Europe).sms
Golvellius - Valley of Doom (UE) [!].sms
Golvellius (1988)(Compile - Sega).bin
mpr-11935f.ic1
RA Checksum: 2101295c258cb6b845bdb72be617691d
CRC32 Checksum: A51376FE

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mickyt888

Joined Aug 21, 2013

OP

July 3 2017, 4:15am

Working on this at the moment. Any suggestions?

A classic for me as it is one of my early memories of gaming.

~~cosmo1~~

July 31 2017, 3:01pm

OMG, please someone to achievements for this masterpiece!

~~cosmo1~~

September 13 2018, 5:18pm

No one working on this classic? so sad...

Salsa

Joined Oct 8, 2014

September 13 2018, 5:27pm, last edited September 13 2018, 5:30pm

Plan to focus on working on max one game per system at the same time starting from November, or earlier if I will be able to handle with current shedule. First half of September is busy for my, cause begining of autumn is the busiest part of the year (except for early spring) for a ranger. Also one of my girl started elementary this year and for first few weeks I needed to give her more attention.
Regardless Golvellius Aleste and Power Strike II are on my radar, if that means anything good for you.

televandalist

Moderator

Joined Oct 20, 2015

December 4 2018, 2:24pm

Golvellius (USA, Europe).sms
Golvellius - Valley of Doom (UE) [!].sms
Golvellius (1988)(Compile - Sega).bin
mpr-11935f.ic1
RA Checksum: 2101295c258cb6b845bdb72be617691d
CRC32 Checksum: A51376FE

SnakeRandom

Joined Apr 23, 2020

December 12 2020, 8:19am, last edited December 12 2020, 10:50pm

I'm starting preliminary work on a set for this gem.
Will post if/when there is any substantial progress.

Alurith

Joined Aug 6, 2017

May 7 2022, 10:16pm, last edited May 7 2022, 10:18pm

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4933/

Rom hack that adds saving.

wolfman2000

Developer

Joined Jul 17, 2021

July 26 2022, 12:31am

I'll claim this one and give it a shot. This will qualify for DevQuest 16: Wish This Set.

Background

This set was wished by ~~freakservo~~. I've been saying that I need to try an RPG at some point. Guess this is a match made in heaven.

Protection

There is a password system in this game. In order to ensure cheevos are not prematurely earned, the overworld screen must be checked (as well as gold changes as required) for verification.

Progressive Cheevos

There are key items required to progress. Most of them will need cheevos.

Challenge Cheevos

I believe most, if not all, of the bosses can be defeated without getting hit, so expect that.

There may be some potential for cheevos for maximizing your gold count and/or health, but I'm not entirely sure of that yet. We'll take things one step at a time.

Alurith

Joined Aug 6, 2017

July 26 2022, 1:15am

Any chance of supporting the save patch?

wolfman2000

Developer

Joined Jul 17, 2021

July 26 2022, 2:09am

I'd have to verify the RAM first before I can allow it. Ideally, it should work. I'm going to do my investigations on the vanilla version first.

Nydaxn

Developer

Joined Jun 26, 2020

July 27 2022, 3:01am

The icon has been outvoted and replaced, here is a backup:

wolfman2000

Developer

Joined Jul 17, 2021

August 2 2022, 2:41am

The set is live. The SRAM patch did not work based on my testing, so it was not included. Other developers are free to do their own testing and link it if, on continuing games, the amount of gold is roughly halved each time. (Yes, that's an in-game mechanic.)

TheFG

Joined Jul 13, 2021

August 5 2022, 3:01am

The amount of gold halves since I've just tested both clean and patched ROMs, the gameplay is not affected as far as I played, the benefit of the patch is not to enter a password of many characters each time.

wolfman2000

Developer

Joined Jul 17, 2021

December 11 2022, 12:06am

Well this is an embarrassing fix.

Bested Golvellius (25)

Ticket #54453
Old Logic:

N:0xH065f=27_0xH0175=120.1._R:0xH080d!=16_R:0xH065f=32_R:0xH065f=25_R:0xH065f=6_R:0xH065f=12_R:0xH065f=3_R:0xH0836>208_T:0xH0175=0

New Logic:

N:0xH065f=27_0xH0175=120.1._R:0xH080d!=16_R:0xH065f=32_R:0xH065f=25_R:0xH065f=6_R:0xH065f=12_R:0xH065f=3_R:0xH0836>208_O:0xH0802=19_N:0xH0803=8_A:1_A:b0xH0836*7_R:0xH081a=1_T:0xH0175=0

Most folks enter the battle with Golvellius fully loaded. When you don't, however...well, once you run out of resources, you die. And that check was forgotten about. It's in now.

I should mention at this point that almost all of the cheevos received updates as a part of RATools, but they either deal with Add Source/Sub Source ordering or otherwise just doing an add to both sides when working with either gold or health. The logic is equivalent, so there should be no issues, but just in case, there's the notice.