meerkov/kartia

Kartia Randomizer

kartia's Issues

Running the randomizer midway through a game will re-randomize, even for the same seed

1. Start with seed=1
2. Play until you collect some chest.
3. Save on memory card.
4. Collect 1 more chest and note what it is.
5. Close your emulator
6. Load the emulator and load your game from memory card (don't load a save state)
7. Run the script again, with seed=1
8. Collect the chest from (4)

Result:
the chest is different, but it should be the same

What's actually going on:
Because there are fewer chests, the RNG is moving the remaining chests randomly. The order of the random numbers is the same, but there are fewer chests than the first time it ran, so the shuffle is different.

Work arounds: If you don't want the chests to shuffle in step (6)...

1. Don't use memory card saving, use savestates instead.

2. Submit a patch for the project to fix it.
   The patch needs to call the RNG function the exact same number of times no matter how many chests have been obtained. This probably means something like calling it 10x per level, even if there isn't 10 chests to shuffle. I think that would fix it.