Forty minutes after the Boulder Badge the overworld pad had shrunk to `GO ROUTE` alone and it was
completing every 420 ms at a net of zero tiles. The trap hunt from that checkpoint on main is row
54 verbatim, one town further on: 14 distinct tiles in six brain minutes, 17 of 17 windows flagged,
`GO FRONTIER` 122 / `GO HEAL` 129 / `GO ROUTE` 126, every one done at a mean net of 0.0.
The run claims the fly leaves Pewter City for Route 3, that no chain of walks completes at a net of
zero tiles more than three times in a row, and that neither errand is offered in a town the run has
already shopped and healed in.
Section 12.2's rule as a number on the cartridge: the longest chain of `GO ...` macros that
completed at a net of zero tiles. One is ordinary -- a walk that arrives by turning, a walk cut
short by a battle, a walk that finds its goal underfoot -- and a chain of them is the loop the
v0.4.5 after arm spent brain minutes 1.0 to 8.5 in. Three is the bound.
From the live rung-10 checkpoint with the stub rotation: map 0x34 to map 0x36 on frame 2423, on
15 macros, against never in five and a half live hours. TALK is on the pad inside the gym -- the
fly standing in front of one of the people rung 11's place names -- and it presses it 15 times
there. BACK on a dialog or unknown frame is 0 against the 189 the hunt measured on Pewter City
alone, no frame deals a pad on an unknown with nothing drawn on it, and GO FRONTIER starts 0
times on the museum's two floors.
The unit test beside it is the other half of "the objective reaches the leader": on the gym's
own map the rung's place resolves to the person standing in it, the walk aims at the four tiles
around them, the door is not a candidate while they are there, and talking to them empties the
list. It also pins what the ROM run showed: the town's errands come first for every map in the
area, the gym included, so both have to be paid before the objective is the leader.
The first run of the new ROM test failed on YES 134, and every one past
the sixth was in Pewter City or the gym the fly had walked to -- which is
the fly playing the game, not the ring. Row 41 is about the presses spent
in the room, so the harness records starts by name while the fly is still
on the map it resumed on: 6 macros there, YES 2.
Unit: HEAL is off a full party's pad, including the rung-10 party's own
numbers, which is the assertion that the loop was never the heal's; TALK
is off a rested nurse's pad and on a hurt one's, and an ordinary
villager is unaffected; her prompt deals one answer and a plain box still
deals three; a readable prompt that is not hers deals both answers and no
NEXT; an answer whose prompt reopens is excluded and one that settled the
box is not; a completed heal and a declined prompt both retire her.
ROM-gated from the live checkpoint (FLY_CENTER_CHECKPOINT): the fly
leaves map 0x3a on a bounded number of macros, YES starts stay under
five, NEXT is on no pad while a prompt is readable, and TALK is on no pad
at a rested nurse. The run also counts dialog and prompt frames, which is
what makes the forty-six-to-one ratio visible.
A new test from the rung-10 Pewter checkpoint: the fly is on map 0x35, the
museum's upper floor, the objective is the gym where the badge is, and over
thirty-three brain minutes MENU is on no overworld pad, no overworld pad is
empty, MENU and BACK never alternate, and the fly leaves the building on frame
182. On v0.4.3 the same test fails at the first of those: MENU is on the pad of
maps 2, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57 and 58 with 147 starts.
The harness records where a macro reported blocked, which is what identified the
battle menu's swapped entries, and the forest test now asserts THROW BALL never
blocks: 15 starts and 0 blocked from the rung-9 checkpoint, against 6 of 6.
Its bound on a battle's macros goes from 400 to 700 against a re-measured worst
of 450, because a fly whose SWITCH and ITEM reach their own lists fights longer
than one that can only attack. Every battle still ends: 3 of 3.
Unit: no battle pad holds both NEXT and BACK, over every sub-state with and
without a potion and a ball, and NEXT is on none with a cursor accepting input
(the assertion the top-level menu failed before this branch). A battle frame
with a cursor accepting input is the fly's turn, against real WRAM, for all
four menus plus the two frames that correctly are not one. The bag deals
ITEM / THROW BALL / BACK, and BACK alone when the bag is empty.
ROM-gated, from the live rung-9 forest checkpoint: no pad with both buttons, no
NEXT while a menu accepts input, the longest NEXT/BACK alternation under four,
and every battle entered also left, each on a bounded number of macros. The
battle rules ask the scene the pad was dealt for rather than wIsInBattle, so
the $ff frame a lost battle passes through -- which reads Unknown, whose pad is
NEXT and BACK by contract -- is not accused of a battle rule.
The test fails on v0.4.2 from the same checkpoint with "NEXT was on the pad
while a battle menu was accepting input", NEXT dealt on battle/main, and a run
that never leaves map 51.
A ROM-gated run from the checkpoint the stream stalled on, gated on its
own variable because the two checkpoint tests beside it assert the map
their envelope is on and one envelope cannot be both.
What it holds: the objective is Pewter City, the road there is on the pad,
BACK is never on a battle pad with no list open, no ball is thrown at a
species the party holds, the fly gets turns, a move or a ball is chosen,
and a battle ends. Which move and which way it walks are the fly's, so
they are reported rather than asserted -- including the forest's north
gate, which this run does not reach.
