A complete guess but your possibly getting changed into the enemy death sprites by accident (which come right after status effect sprites in the listing). Those sprites despawn themselves after their animation is complete.
...After the banished boy scammed the fair merchant, he continued his way towards the Water Palace. Before he arrived there, he met some soldiers on duty. After short talk, the boy decided, that the fate of the world was safe within those experienced soldiers hands, and decided to find a place for shelter. Having played too much Metal Gear Solid, the boy tried to sneak on board the cannon by using a barrel, to get a free ride towards Pandora. But as one would expect, the cannon travel guy catches him and requests an explanation for the boys behavior. After a few mumbled words about having no home and looking for a place to stay in Pandora, the soft-hearted cannon travel merchant decides to give the boy a home and a future within his own family of cannon travel merchants. The End
So, a few questions: - Would this also work on another place where the gold shows up when talking immediately? Like a shop in Pandora? - Which kinds of windows/textboxes influence what's happening? Every single one? -- Or I guess the more accurate question is: What other effects would it have to open various menus (stats, button config, behavior)? - Can we in theory call every single script/cutscene in the game by using your setup (simply by selecting the correct order of options to reach the correct number?) Further, apparently Rabites and Lullabuds can drop gold in chests, wouldn't that be faster than using the canon travel guy? Oh... i finally understand the part about number of options o.o.. You want to have 0 to select any option you want
I have a question about what you think whether it should be allowed or not: I recently discovered a use for deactivating the 3rd controller from the SNES in Secret of Mana. The way it works is - if you want to plug in a 3rd controller in your SNES, you need use an additional adapter. Those adapters have a switch to 'activate' the 3rd controller, whether an additional controller is physically plugged in or not. So the only thing to do to deactivate the 3rd controller is flipping that switch. Secret of Mana allows for 3 players simultaneously. It has a - what I assume is a safety/fallback - mechanic that will automatically deactivate and redirect control to the AI if the controller is unplugged, and the other active controller(s) gain control over the event(s) the 3rd character started. The interesting part here is, you can talk to people with the 3rd controller, then deactivate it and freely walk around while the textbox is still open. While a textbox is still open you can not trigger new events anymore. Now, it has no practical use as of now for an actual speedrun/route, but I think it has a lot of potential. Combining open textboxes with the invisibility glitch for example let's you walk through walls. Up to now we were limited to needing to talk to an NPC every time we want to go through walls, with this the textbox can simply be kept open and make a straight line from A to B.