Utility ClownMapEd - The Open Source SonMapEd Clone

I think it would be really useful to be able to save art in .asm form, like SonMapEd does. That function comes in handy every so often, esp. in Sonic 3 for making and adjusting secondary tiles, and the lack of it here is pretty much the only reason I don’t use ClownMapEd over it still.

 

Haha, don't worry, happens to all of us from time to time. Thank you so much for the update, it works like a charm now! :D

 

If anything, I'd like an option to set the label styles myself. This can be useful if you find yourself using, say, "itempat" instead of "Map_Monitor".

 

Even then, I'd like those to be modifiable as well.

 

Dang, go big or go home! libsonassmd is dope AF :-)

I saw your comment on Boost, and although the maintainers insist it's just an upstream of STL, I agree. They seem to have a lot of half-eaten sandwiches around their source tree; a lot of stuff that has zero chance of ever being promoted to the next C++ standard, from a JSON parser to a memory-mapped file API that are either incomplete or have a vastly-superior portable implementation somewhere else.

I see you're also a fan of static linking as well! I usually statically link everything except the core runtimes, and LibreSSL/OpenSSL, but Microsoft has such a nasty habit of recklessly introducing breaking changes into successive versions of their libc/libc++ (MSVC runtime) that anybody who has a Steam library and uses Windows has at least 3 versions of the Visual Studio runtime installed. Good call!

 

There's one more annoying legacy problem with the old 2005 S1 disassembly that the tool currently is a bit ill-equipped to deal with: object mapping files don't have the headers inside the maps file, but rather above the include:

Code (Text):

1. ; in sonic1.asm
2. Map_obj36:
3.         include    "_maps\obj36.asm"
4.  
5. ...
6.  
7. ; in _maps/obj36.asm
8.         dc.w byte_CFF4-Map_obj36
9.         dc.w byte_D004-Map_obj36
10.         dc.w byte_D014-Map_obj36
11.         dc.w byte_D01A-Map_obj36
12.         dc.w byte_D02A-Map_obj36
13.         dc.w byte_D049-Map_obj36
14. byte_CFF4:    dc.b 3            ; 3 spikes
15.         dc.b $F0, 3, 0,    4, $EC
16.         dc.b $F0, 3, 0,    4, $FC
17.         dc.b $F0, 3, 0,    4, $C
18. byte_D004:    dc.b 3            ; 3 spikes facing sideways
19.         dc.b $EC, $C, 0, 0, $F0
20.         dc.b $FC, $C, 0, 0, $F0
21.         dc.b $C, $C, 0,    0, $F0
22. ...
23.  

Unfortunately, ClownMapEd requires this header (Map_obj36 in this case). It gives me this error otherwise:


Not a huge problem, since simply moving the header inside the file fixes the issue. It is a bit annoying though.

 

This is somewhat by design, according to a comment by Clownacy on GitHub:

 

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