The operator's decision of 2026-09-23: pay the fly for engaging with what is
inside a building, and stop paying it for walking back out of one. Chosen over
a pad rule and over weighting the choice, and like v0.5.0's catch reward it is
a catalog change, not a loop-review fix.
Indoors. engage::indoor is two of the cartridge's own tables: not outside by
CheckIfInOutsideMap (tileset OVERWORLD or PLATEAU; WarpFound2 labels the other
branch .indoorMaps) and not a place BikeRidingTilesets lets the bike be ridden
(OVERWORLD, FOREST, UNDERGROUND, SHIP_PORT, CAVERN). That is every house, mart,
center, gym, gate, lab, museum, ship, tower, mansion and hideout, and not
Viridian Forest, a cave, the Underground Path or the dock.
`talk`, +0.10, 100 ms, the catalog's tenth kind. Paid when the text box closes
on a conversation that (1) opened on the sample after one where the fly had the
joypad (state::controllable) and was standing still (wWalkCounter zero, the only
state the overworld reads A in) on the same tile; (2) is with the thing in
front: DisplayTextID copies its argument into wSpriteIndex, a sprite slot up to
wNumSprites whose sprite stands on the tile the player faces (or one further
across a counter, on a tileset with counter tiles), or a text id matching the
sign on that tile; an item ball is not a person; (3) opened indoors; (4) closed
on the same map. Keyed talk:<map>:sprite:<slot> / talk:<map>:sign:<id> in the
lifetime `seen` ledger, which is checkpointed and survives a rollback -- not the
macros' session `talked` ledger.
`item`, +0.15, 120 ms, the eleventh. An item ball is a toggleable sprite of this
map (wToggleableObjectList) whose wMapSpriteExtraData is (item id, 0), the shape
LoadMapHeader writes for an ITEM object_event and nothing else; PickUpItem sets
its global bit in wToggleableObjectFlags after GiveItem succeeds. A hidden item
is a bit of wObtainedHiddenItemsFlags, set by FoundHiddenItemText after GiveItem
and by nothing else. Either pays when its bit rises between two playable
samples, once per item (item:<global> / hidden:<index>) for the ledger's life.
`boundary` still writes every key indoors, so exit_visited answers what it did
and the macros see no change, but emits nothing on an indoor map. Outdoor,
forest and cave exits pay as before.
v6 -> v7. STATE_VERSION stays 4 and no field is added: the new ledgers are keys
in `seen`. A v6 state restores with no talk: keys, and the first playable sample
that finds `items:seeded` absent writes one key per item the game already shows
as taken, pays for none, and marks the seed -- so a rollback that un-takes a v6
pickup cannot pay for it. The two item balls a script reveals (the Rocket
Hideout's Silph Scope and Lift Key, toggles $87 and $88, the only ITEM entries
toggleable_objects.asm starts OFF) are left out of the seed. MIGRATES_FROM is
["pokered-unique8-v6"]; v5 is no longer migrated.
Feed kinds: both publish on `explore`, the family of new ground and a door found,
at the same quiet scale; not `area` (maps, notable), `story` or `wildwin`. No
feed-protocol change.
The compatibility string differs from main's in exactly one segment:
pokered-unique8-v6 -> pokered-unique8-v7.
Tests: catalog values and order; indoor over all 24 tilesets; a talk pays once
per (map, object), not while the box is open, not re-talked, not outdoors/in the
forest/in a cave, not for text opened with the joypad taken, simulated, scripted,
mid-step, about someone not in front, or the start menu; not across a warp or a
rollback; counter reach only with counter tiles; item balls, people, trainers,
hidden items, the seed and the script-shown balls; boundary indoors records and
pays nothing; a v6 state and a v6 FLYSIM01 envelope migrate with the new ledgers
empty and the items seeded. rom.rs's bedroom walk now proves the stairs are
recorded and unpaid on the cartridge.
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