Spooked badguys movement area too big

[FolkertVanVerseveld]

In spooked, multiple badguys have a movement area that is much bigger than in the original. Some move as much as the screen is wide. In the original, Bonzo can just stand by at the left or right side of the screen and the badguys won't touch him there.

[ErikaRedmark]

Spooked was the first level I ported; it and In The Swing were the only two that I ported by hand. The other three were auto-ported via a reader for the old file format. I may have made some manual mistakes. This should be fixable from the Level Editor directly without code changes if you would like to update the bounding boxes correctly.

[HolographicDoll]

Is it possible to make this reader available? I have a stash of about 20 world files I could throw at it.

[ErikaRedmark]

@JeremyAvalon Thank you for posting; it sent an alert to my email and reminded me that this exists and I actually wrote it once upon a time.

I still have other commitments that will prevent me from really getting back into finally trying to polish off this game, but for the time being, check the wiki page here: the reader is available via command line. However, it will only work with Macintosh levels. I noticed the Windows .msh levels shared a very similar file structure save for the very beginning and the very end, but given I used a third party resource-fork library I had not the time to investigate exactly how that format worked.

Note that the reader only works with level data... graphics will have to be ripped manually. This wasn't an issue for me because I was using graphics from Mark that were not 256 colour optimised, hence I didn't want to use the stock graphics from the resource fork anyway, but it probably will be for the other worlds.