SMBX2 PAL Release - Feedback, Questions and Bugs here!

[Emral]

idk if I'm using them wrong or not, but npcs don't seem to interact with clear pipes at all. I'm sure you guys have already heard about it from other people.

There's a set list of NPCs that interact with clear pipes by default, including shells, powerups and various projectiles. You can manually add more NPCs to the list, but I would wait for the patch which will introduce a very easy way to do so.

[Westretroman]

A simple bug, if you touch the Mega Mushroom before it can finish it's animation, it will be added to your reserve even if your small, big, having a item in your reserve,etc.

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[Emral]

The patch fixing all bugs addressed so far is coming out soon, thank you to everyone reporting bugs over the course of the past day. You should be getting a notification on the launcher once the update is available.

[FirestarPlays]

I get a "attempt to perform arithmetic on a nil value" error with Mario Challenge
Also there is an error in Level Contest Japan where the custom graphics and lua on that episode won't load

[DrMekar]

I have another weird problem. I just finished a Custom Sprite for Fry Guy (PNG without Background), but the game doesn't register it.
Not after Reload or after Iopend the level again or after closing the Editor.

Here's the Sprite:

[Emral]

The updated build has been released, please update your versions to fix many of the bugs addressed throughout the past day.

[DrMekar]

The updated build has been released, please update your versions to fix many of the bugs addressed throughout the past day.

I hope this question isen't to stupid, but where can I find the download for the updated version? Also when was it released since
I was problably pretty late and only got to it today around 4pm.

[Emral]

The updated build has been released, please update your versions to fix many of the bugs addressed throughout the past day.

I hope this question isen't to stupid, but where can I find the download for the updated version? Also when was it released since
I was problably pretty late and only got to it today around 4pm.

The links on the website have been updated. Same location as before. It was released when I posted the announcement post you just quoted.

[ElectriKong]

Seems like the patch has introduced a new issue. It seems like you cannot change controls using the new controls option from the launcher menu, as the changes don't seem to get saved. Using the old methid of changing the controls still works however, but this issue did not exist in the first patch of this build.

[DrMekar]

The updated build has been released, please update your versions to fix many of the bugs addressed throughout the past day.

I hope this question isen't to stupid, but where can I find the download for the updated version? Also when was it released since
I was problably pretty late and only got to it today around 4pm.

The links on the website have been updated. Same location as before. It was released when I posted the announcement post you just quoted.

Okay then

[John The White Yoshi]

The links on the website have been updated. Same location as before. It was released when I posted the announcement post you just quoted.

Uh... I'm still getting the same "custom graphics not loading" bug.

[PROX]

npcs act weird when they interact with snake blocks. It might be limited to generators, but this deserves a looking into.


EDIT: the Grrols don't interact well with the snake blocks by themselves either. I think it's safe to assume that a lot of npcs don't interact well with snake blocks

[Matt_The_Slime]

A question about NPC's, but how do the Boompers work?
They aways just stay still and do nothing, an I can't interact with them. What are they supposed to do?

[Danny]

Any ETA on when we could see a full release? Really looking forward to this and the progress made so far is impressive.

[Quantumenace]

The worst type of bug is the type that appears unpredictably... Every so often when my level loads, one or more of the following happens:

1: getColliding as part of clearpipe that checks what block the player is ducking/pressing against takes far more CPU time than it should (the small bumps at the beginning of the graph)
2: The part of elementalblocks that checks for intersections between fireballs/iceballs and blocks takes far more CPU time than it should (the large spike at the end of the graph)
I think one of my own NPCs that uses colliders.collideBlock also suffers from one of those.
3: Rarely, ffi_block takes a gigantic amount of CPU time and lags horribly

The amount of lag caused by each of these can vary whenever the level loads, if it appears at all. The lua in my level is disabled. I haven't seen it show up when running the level from the editor, just by running it from the launcher. I'll try to isolate the cause, but the randomness makes that hard.

Here's more printout:

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Collected Data
100.0% __xpcall 25.0% JIT Compiled, 33.0% Interpreted, 28.9% C/C++ Code, 13.1% Garbage Collection, 0.1% JIT Overhead
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43.9% ffi_block.lua:305
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14.5% ffi_block.lua:370
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10.5% colliders.lua:getColliding 33.9% JIT Compiled, 64.9% Interpreted, 1.2% C/C++ Code
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1.2% colliders.lua:1508

10.5% clearpipe.lua:474 34.1% JIT Compiled, 65.9% Interpreted
99.4% clearpipe.lua:486
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99.0% newblocks.lua:1012
1.0% newblocks.lua:1020

Also, anyone else have popping in their spc music?

[cpeka66]

If you kill Buster Bettle when he picks up a brick, he (brick) just gets stuck in the air, and it will be impossible to interact with him (screenshot of the bug attached)

[Emral]

build updated for real now.
only on dropbox so far, google drive should be up in an hour.

[boingboingsplat]

If you kill a football the exact moment a Puntin' Chuck creates it, you get this error:



PS, are these runtime errors logged anywhere? A screenshot works but feels inelegant.

[DrMekar]

I tried the LvLx format out as soon as I heard it, so I could finally build Lord Skies's Mansion as orgininally planned, but I still got the same warning and
all BGs over the counter got deleted out by the Game.

[Murphmario]

Just a minor nitpick: The "Fluoresent" in the Tourian tileset isn't actually fluoresent, but something unique to the Metroid universe called a "Zebetite". That's pretty much all I have to say; the team all did a good job on this somewhat-update, and I hope future development goes nicely.