Part 2 is done. Now RIGHT arrow will move the menu forward (between General–>Item–>Equip). Now you can use the LEFT and RIGHT arrows to freely navigate forwards and backwards between those 3 menus. I also fixed the timing as the previous LEFT was a bit jumpy. I have a cooldown timer of 02 which acts similar to the existing in game menus. 1 was too jumpy and 3 was too slow. There’s a balance between speed and jumpiness. Now it is acting more like a real DOAE menu.
Updated the same section of the wiki:
http://doaerhguide.wikidot.com/destiny-of-an-emperor-rom-hacking-guide-page-2#toc46
Of course I thought this would take about an hour to do since the game already supported going forward in the menus with the A button (the RIGHT arrow mimics the A button). But of course there are always unforseen complications, stack problems, etc… so this took a good chunk of one day.
The next “quality of life” enhancement I’d like to do is update the general menus in the weapon shop, merchant shop, and “general” menu I just updated to list the number of items in each officer’s “pack” after their name like “Liu Bei (5)”. That way if you are buying an item or passing an item you know exactly who has room in their pack for it. This was also an annoying part of the original game where you’d often get “so and so can’t carry anymore” when trying to buy an item or something. With this change that won’t happen. I expect this to be harder than the RIGHT arrow functionality but not as hard as the LEFT arrow functionality (I hope).
All 3 of these enhancements will go into Yuan Shao’s Revenge 3.08 whenever that happens. I’ve also offered up these changes to Boneduke for “King Wu of Wei” in case he wants to get his hands dirty with DOAE modding again.
