SZS Change Log
1. Current working copy (not released)
- Some KCL flags renamed.
- wkmpt draw --draw AREA: Areas of KMP are drawn as yellow arrows and as
transparent yellow cuboids.
- Support for RKC (competition) files added:
RKC files are handled like other archives. Tool wszst is able to detect,
list, extract or create a RKC file, also recursive.
- New keyword for option --kmp: MAX-LAPS: Keyword MAX-LAPS has only impact,
if one of 1LAP,...,9LAPS is set too. Then, the number of laps is only
decreased to the specified number, but never increased.
- New keyword for option --kmp: RM-EMPTY: After creating a new KMP, all empty
KMP sections are removed to make the KMP as small as possible. Use this
option only for compettitions!
- New command: YAZDUMP: Prints an info dump about the YAZ0/YAZ1 compression
details for analysis.
- New compression methods: 10 (=ULTRA) and 100-150: They need much more time
than BEST (=9) but create smaller SZS files than Nintendo did. It is
dedicated to competitions with strict size limitations.
- New keyword for option --kcl: WEAK-WALLS: Set the most significant bit
(bit 15, 0x8000) of KCL flag of all walls. It stops hard bumping at the
edges and has similar effects like lowering the walls.
- Windows only: Cygwin update to v2.8.1, 2017-07-03.
- Apple Mac is no longer supported because I no longer have access to a Mac.
2. szs v1.53a r7308 - 2016-12-09
- Bug fix: Occasional a "Segmentation fault" occured, if reading an empty file.
- Option --draw supports the new keyword DECORATION: Draw unsolid objects
without any route as a magenta cuboid.
3. szs v1.52a r7164 - 2016-06-29
- Bug fix for wkclt: Since v1.49a, the transformation was executed twice,
but only for commands DECODE and ENCODE. Command COPY works correct and
transforms only once.
- wstrt: Wiimmfi patching excludes now 3 patch positions for competitions.
It's now the job of the competition patcher to patch these 3 URLs.
- wkclt CFF: If creating a new flag file, the new function i(type,z,index)
is defined as support for fall boundaries (idea by Wexos).
- New tool: wmdlt: The tool wmdlt exists since v0.26a (2012), but was always
hidden, because it was useless. But now I started with MDL analysis and
plan to modifiy MDL data.
- wmdlt CAT/DECODE: Print a MDL file as text. It is incomplete, but can be
used for analysing.
- wmdlt STRINGS: Print all strings of a MDL.
- For slot 42 (moonview highway) the content of the 12 needed materials
is checked.
4. szs v1.51a r7107 - 2016-06-01
- wstrt is able to patch DOL files of other games and not only of MKWii.
- The CHECK for slot 4.2 will be more exact now because it looks for the
needed materials. The presence flags of objects 'car_body' and 'kart_truck'
is also tested. If option --OLD is set, the old polygon test will be used.
- Option --kmp=list supports now the keyword REVERSE as `backwards| support:
Reverse KMP sections ENPH, ENPT, ITPH, ITPT, POTI. The implementation is
not finished yet and more section (CKPH, CKTP, KTPT, JGPT) will follow.
- Different small fixes.
5. szs v1.50a r7053 - 2016-04-08
- Improved cheat code handling.
- Three new options: --gct-move & --gct-addr & --gct-space
With these 3 options it is possible to support a very large cheat code
table. Therefor a temporary section is created that runs at the very
beginning and takes space from the game heap to establish a code section
before the FST table.
- Tool wctct: Update of the internal CT-CODE (mod1). The new code allows to
select original tracks in regions. Here you can find old CT-CODE versions:
http://szs.wiimm.de/download/ctcode/
Visit https://github.com/Wiimm/wii-ct-code/ for more details.
6. szs v1.49a r6974 - 2016-03-05
- The BMG is rewritten as independent source code lib. It can be used by
other tools (e.g. mkw-ana) now.
- BMG text output contains now more comments about message ID groups.
- Option --patch-bmg supports 2 new modes:
- UNICODE: Replace Unicode-escapes ('\u{xx}') with 16-bit codes by related
unicode character.
- RM-ESCAPE: Remove all 0x1a-escapes from all strings.
- KCL script 'lower-walls.txt' updated to support different gradients.
- New option: --mipmap-size=num: Define the minimal width and minimal height
of a generated mipmap. The default is 16. Tools before v1.49 used 1 as not
alterable value. --mm-size is a short cut.
- Option --kcl RM-FACEDOWN: Remove all road with face direction >30 degree
toward bottom. Before it was >0 degree.
- New keyword for option --kcl: RM-FACEUP: Remove all walls with a face
direction >80 degree towards the sky.
- New keyword for option --kcl: CONV-FACEUP: Convert all walls with a face
direction >80 degree towards the sky into a simple road.
- New keyword for option --kcl: SCRIPT: If set, KCL scripts are executed
before cleaning and transforming the KCL.
7. szs v1.48a r6675 - 2015-12-11
- Tools wctct and wstrt support now Korean CT-CODE. Therefor external CT-CODE
files are needed. Use --ct-dir=path to declare at least one search path.
- Bug fix: wctct disables the hard coded region patch of the CT-CODE. Now
region patches in StaticR.rel are possible like before v1.45a.
- Bug fix: On CT-CODE text export wctct encloses the track names by quote
signs. This feature was accidentally lost with v1.38a.
- New option: wctct --allow-slots: Activate reserved slots for automatic
slot assigning. Example: --allow-slots ARENAS,SPECIAL
8. szs v1.47a r6650 - 2015-11-27
- Tool wctct: Update of the internal CT-CODE (mod2). The new code improves
the modes "in order" and "random" for offline versus races. Here you can
find old CT-CODE version: http://szs.wiimm.de/download/ctcode/
Visit https://github.com/Wiimm/wii-ct-code/ for more details.
9. szs v1.46a r6626 - 2015-11-08
- New option: --compatible=version: The option accpets a version number
(format '#.##' or 'v#.##') or a revision number (format 'r#') as parameter.
If set, the tools try to create BMG and KMP text files, that are compatible
to the entered version. This may override other legacy options.
- wkmpt DECODE: If creating a KMP text file, a new macro section is included.
The only yet provided macro is ITEMBOX: It help to setup a row of items
and supports automatic height correction. See the macro definition for more
details. The macro itself is very old and works also with old versions of
the tools, but they don't create it.
- wkmpt DRAW: Draw objects 'kinoko_*' and 'DKturibashiGC' as recognizable
polygons. These objects can also be used to stop fall-down on automatic
height evaluation, if the new parameter 'KCL-FALL-ADD-ROAD' is set to '1'.
- New: Post processing flags for KMP sections ENPT, ITPT and JGPT. To disable
the new flags column on text output, use option --compatible=v1.45.
- wkmpt DRAW: If drawing check point connection lines, red is used for the
left and green for the right side (like navigation lights).
- wkmpt DRAW: Option --draw supports now object filtering by presence flag.
The new keywords are: 1OFFLINE .. 3OFFLINE and 1ONLINE .. 3ONLINE.
10. szs v1.45a r6602 - 2015-10-31
- Option --patch-bmg=id: Better detection of the source file type (Race,
Event, MenuOther, ... ) especially in SZS files.
- The KMP compiler can now automatically create respawn points and/or
automatically connect check points to the nearest respawn point. Both
together make an initial respawn setup much easier.
Read http://szs.wiimm.de/info/respawn-setup.html for details.
- Tool wctct: It is now possible to define hidden tracks (don't appear in
any cup) by using control letter 'H' instead of 'T'.
- New option: wctct/wstrt --ct-dir: Define a search directory for CT-CODE
parts and use the internal copies only, if no valid file is found. Use
this option multiple times to define more than one search directory.
- wctct --ct-dir: Search files rmc?/mod1.bin, rmc?/mod2.bin, rmc?/ovr1.bin
and rmc?/bad1code.bin.
- wstrt --ct-dir: Search files rmc?/boot_code.bin and rmc?/boot_data.bin
if option --add-ctcode is used.
- Tools wctct and wstrt use now the most current CT-CODE version provided by
https://github.com/Wiimm/wii-ct-code (a fork of Chadderz code with support
of the SZS Tools). To use the old code of year 2013 download the zip file
http://szs.wiimm.de/download/ctcode/ctcode-2013-10.zip and use the base
directory as parameter for the new option --ct-dir (see above).
- wstrt --add-ctcode: The first free DOL sections are used now. Before only
sections T2 and D8 were added if not already in use.
- New option: wstrt --meno: Patch some 'MenuSingle' and 'MenuMulti' strings
of file StaticR.rel for online usage to 'MenO*' to distinguish between
offline and online.
11. szs v1.44a r6558 - 2015-10-17
- BMG: The `inline mode' for attributes is now enabled by default. It can be
disabled by option --no-bmg-inline.
- BMG message id 0 is allowed now.
- BMG: Support of 1A escapes with up to 254 bytes (before 12 bytes).
- BMG: Escape sequences \x{}, \u{} and \z{} can now handle comma separated
lists of parameters. See http://szs.wiimm.de/doc/bmg/esc for details.
- New option: --x-escapes: Use \x{} escapes instead of \z{} escapes.
- New option: --old-escapes: To be compatible with v1.43 and earlier, print
1A escape sequences with total size of >12 bytes as single words. Also
don't use \x{} and \u{} with parameter lists.
- BMG supports now attribute vectors up to 20 bytes. MKWii uses only 4 bytes
for attributes.
- New option: --bmg-inf-size (also --inf-size for tool wbmgt):
Defines the size of section 'INF0'. For MKW it is usually 8.
- New option: --force-attrib=attrib: Override all BMG attributes with the
entered value. See http://szs.wiimm.de/doc/bmg/attrib for the syntax.
- New option: --def-attrib=attrib: Define alternative default attributes for
new BMG text files. See http://szs.wiimm.de/doc/bmg/attrib for the syntax.
- New option: --no-attrib: Suppress the output of string attributes at new
BMG text files.
12. szs v1.43a r6536 - 2015-10-09
- Option --add-section supports now GCT files as input. In this case,
code-handler-only is added automatically.
