This also gave me a nifty April Fool's idea too late: just have a movie enable Sound Test and play around with some jams. (I know that, for instance, you can do this with Kirby's Dream Land.)
while true do
gui.text(10,10, "Boss health: " ..memory.readbyte(0xA123))
-- will display the value of address 0xA123 at the coordinates (10/10) on the emulator screen
emu.frameadvance
-- can also be vba.frameadvance or snes9x.frameadvance, depending on the emulator
end
while true do
a = memory.readbyte(0xA123)
if a < 0 then z = 1000 else z = 10 end
gui.text(10,z, "Boss health: " ..a)
-- Will display the message only when 0xA123 contains a value greater than 0.
emu.frameadvance
end
This is pretty much what skid_au recommended to me.
SSBM and Mario Party 5 seem to sync fine, but Tony Hawk's Underground desyncs sometimes. But I'm still using r7251, I should update my revision sometime.
taking damage to kill yourself, then canceling out the barrier with the Wind Waker at the same time as you Wind Waker dive, all at once before you die. This currently isn't possible, because in order to cancel out the barrier's knockback, you have to pull out the Wind Waker right as your invincibility frames end, and you die long before then.[/code]