Manual toggle

[Kirkq]

My goal was to make an option in the script to do ZOOTR multiworld with manual toggling of switching worlds. That's how I'd personally want to race or play this. Let me know if you want me to change or fix anything.

Design Changes/Decisions:

• I changed it so that the script can only call os.execute on startup. This operation on windows makes ugly cmd prompt popups because of lua shortcomings. This has the side effect of not allowing new ROMs in while the script is running, because now the ROMs are cached in the file at script startup. If you feel that having that behavior is more important than the cmd prompt popups, I can change it back.
• I assigned the ZOOTR toggle to Player 2's L Button. Player 1's L Button unfortunately toggles the minimap. It's an arbitrary button that can be defined in the normal Bizhawk controller menus.

Still occurring:

• It seems like a lua savestate.load operation on at least N64 has 4 frames of white screen. The normal Bizhawk savestate loading does not appear to have this problem. It might be a Bizhawk issue.
• The load ROM and load savestate operations still have some sound annoyance. Maybe moving the soundOff soundOn operations around could make it a little nicer.
• Possibly: (Last time I tried to run initial setup a day or two ago, it failed on sonic-rings, so I deleted it locally. That bug might still exist unless it was fixed.)

[authorblues]

I actually had an idea like this to use a hotkey or button to force a swap in a manual mode, so I'm probably going to pull this. The changes I plan to make are to setup an option in the options menu for a fixed shuffle order, mostly just to keep references to plugin_state out of shuffler.lua.

As for preventing the popups, I need to think about that one for a moment. I think I had just gotten used to them, so it didn't bother me, but reducing that extra "noise" is really nice. I do, however, still want to support the ability to add new games to the games folder, so I want to think about how best to support that.

I will pull this with some minor changes sometime today.

[authorblues]

The only feature I reverted was the ability to totally disable automatic swapping, only because I haven't found a UX I'm happy with to expose this feature to the user yet. For now, it is sufficient to set the min/max times to some extremely large number like 99999 (which would be more than 27 hours). I want to make this more explicit without confusing the average user regarding why there is an option to disable shuffling in a shuffler. It might make more sense to have this be a thing that plugins specifically have the power to turn off, but I'm trying to avoid having shuffler.lua make any explicit references to information stored in plugin_state.