Party Dojo Custom Fights

Please be warned that because this mod includes (almost) every fightable enemy, the description and screenshots will have spoilers for late-game encounters.

This mod adds a second available battle to the Love Dojo (formerly known as the Party Dojo), which the player can thoroughly customize using a simple UI. Set up whatever wild battles you want!

Complete feature list:

• When in the Love Dojo, a UI is shown that allows the player to select up to three enemies, a player party composition, and a music track.

• The mod scans the entire list of all possible enemy encounters to get information about each enemy so that they can be added to the list. So every enemy that exists in Chapter 4's code is available here. Except Jackenstein for some reason??

• The UI for setting up the battle is hideous and occupies the entire screen. Sorry.

• You can still select the Elnina&Lanino rematch if you really want to.

• A yellow flame is added at the final save point before the final boss. This flame warps you straight to the Party Dojo.

• There's a brand new red flame in the Party Dojo to warp you back to the Fountain. I guess you can use this to sequence-break if you want??

• Because the fights take place in the Party Dojo, recruits cannot be lost, health is restored after every battle, and running out of HP just ends the fight instead of sending you back to your last save.

• The mod should be safe for your save files. Really, there's not actually much reason to save at all while you're using this mod, since it doesn't have any progression.

Known limitations / issues:

• The player's first turn is always skipped when the battle starts, so the battle begins with the enemy attacking.

• The mod fails to register Jackenstein. I guess he causes some sort of error when the mod tries to read his data, so it assumes he's a broken encounter. (Chapter 4 has like a trillion broken encounters, so my mod has to check for them and throw them out automatically.)

• There are a lot of enemies who are just barely present enough in Chapter 4's code that my mod can scan them successfully so they get added to the list, but trying to fight them causes a crash.

• Some enemy combinations cause crashes for unclear reasons.

• When the Sound of Justice should transition to its second phase, it instead just immediately ends the battle.

• Lanino and Elnina don't like being apart and will instantly end any battle if they're present without the other.

• If a Titan Spawn is present in a battle, the party composition will be forced to be Kris+Susie+Ralsei regardless of the party selection.

• Very few enemies from earlier chapters are present. It would be really cool but they're just not present in the game's files.

• Mike is not available. Sorry, I guess he was busy.

If anyone wants to further build off of this, such as to port in battles from prior Chapters, please be my guest, you'd have my full approval and gratitude! Here are some implementation details in case it helps anyone:

• The code to scan through all encounters is in obj_npc_dojo's Create script. It runs scr_encountersetup using every number between 0 and 200. Then for each unique enemy present in the encounter, it runs scr_monstersetup, to get the names of the enemies. It then saves the enemy's name, object ID, and enemy type. All of this occurs in a try-catch block, since for many values scr_encountersetup or scr_monstersetup will throw an error that would otherwise crash the game. So as long as an enemy is present in any non-broken encounter with an encounter ID of 200 or less, that enemy will be selectable.

• The user interface for customizing a fight is rendered and processes inputs in obj_npc_dojo's Draw GUI script.

• The second entry in the Love Dojo's battle selection uses encounter number 398398. This is deliberately outside the bounds of the 1-200 encounter scan.

• Encounter number 398398 in scr_encountersetup reads and applies the selections stored in the obj_npc_dojo object. It assigns party compositions by modifying values in the global.char[] array.