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Some pre-port games rely on sprite values not being cleared between game loads. Several games are verified to not work because they rely on putting sprites before width and height are set. This could be fixed by initializing these values to something like -1 when loading a pre-port world (although, they can also be worked around with a world that uses SWAP WORLD to initialize them as well).

Games that rely on width/height values persisting and/or placing sprites with only one dimension initialized:

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Pre-port sprite games known to work without needing this fix (these could be double checked anyway though):

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Preliminary list of all other pre-port games using sprites, compiled by Terryn:

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Mainly before this fix goes in it'd be good to go through all these worlds and check to see if any others rely on putting before setting the dimensions or if this fix would actually negatively affect anything (I doubt it, though). Also, it's unclear if any games rely on the other sprite values not being cleared.

Updating status to: Fixed
Issue fixed in: 2.92

Fixed in GIT ba3afe0f by just making sprite placement unconditional for pre-port games. Also, added "Serum" from the 2003 DoZ to the list of affected games. "Depravity" from the same DoZ also had a different bug that was fixed.

Moving to: Archived MegaZeux Bugs