Lttp Co-op Not splitting items across players

singularity125 commented 5 years ago

Hey there, a friend and I were recently trying out this script for the first time but we noticed that items were not split between us but were present in both files. When we first have the second player connect to the host, we both see a long list of errors in the Lua Console: "CARTROM domain is not writable". This is repeatable 100% of the time.

The other features we tried - Ammo & Rupee sharing, and the general sharing of items and hearts seems to work perfectly. But we worried picking up too many hearts or other item dupes could make things... interesting.

TestRunnerSRL commented 5 years ago

So it seems that Bizhawk 2.0+ no longer allows modifying the loaded rom for some reason. You'll need to use the 1.12.0 release instead.

singularity125 commented 5 years ago

Hey, sorry for the late reply on this. Indeed, using the 1.12.0 release resolved this problem. We ended up playing a game through to the end successfully. However, there were some smaller issues that we noticed.

We initially ran a game with Shared HP & Ammo and Raid Bosses turned On. The other settings were set to Off. When we tried this, it seemed as if it was splitting keys between us without sharing them on pickup, so we got stuck. We ended up resolving this by turning the Small Key Sharing on and starting again. Not sure if one of the other options we picked expects that to be on.
When we used a fairy to revive with shared HP, the effects of the death animation didn't seem to properly reset for one of us. One of us would be stuck with the background blacked out and no background music, although we could move and interact as normal. This got fixed by mirroring or using Save and Quit.

TestRunnerSRL commented 5 years ago

I'm not sure about the ammo sharing problem, but the reviving with fairies has known bugginess. I'm pretty sure it's mentioned in the readme?

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