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The alien medal randomization update seems to have screwed up a thing, and doing a little stuff myself, actually found out why, and it looks like an easy fix. It appears the when the player is given the random item, it ends the whole scene, leaves you on a black screen, and doesn't transport the player. (<END at the end of the item just ends the whole thing, removing that would solve it.) (edit: also removing the <NOD so that the player doesn't have to mash through... invisible text. Because of black screen hiding everything.)

And here's an image. Trapped on a black screen, but still in the main artery. It did also reward the item it was supposed to give (which was the arms barrier).

Thinking back on this topic, it occurs to me that EXP data is not kept in the data folders, and instead is stored in the actual EXE of the game itself. So, that would require some additional additions of some kind. Upgradable weapons sound kind of cool, though with randomized EXP it would be either more of a blessing or a curse type of scenario, where you have no idea whether you can level up the weapon quickly, or if it will take forever, making life a lot harder.

Also: randomized booster v0.8 and v2.0 locations would be cool, except that would mean you'd have to remove all of the flags that connect to things like: the bad ending, whether or not you get into the v2.0 version of the last cave, or so Booster doesn't die meaning that Booster appears in the teleporter possibly giving another randomized item, and so on and so forth. Basically any point in the game where it checks for either one of the boosters, or a flag that was activated upon collecting the booster v0.8.

I played through the whole game with this randomizer, and it's relatively well done.
Of course, there were some things I thought of whilst playing it that could add to the gameplay and randomness of the experience, such as:

  1. Well, randomized EXP per weapon. (preferably like a random number of 1-100, don't want to make a level 1 polar star require like 999 EXP.) (also the highest EXP of a normal weapon is ~60 EXP anyway, wouldn't want it too unbalanced with vanilla.
  2. Make all text just go fast, or skip cutscenes. (Basically setting all text boxes to have an instant text display command on them, although, some additional tinkering of the text boxes may be required because in my experience, doing that seemed to break how the text is displayed.)
  3. Randomized text for each individual NPC, just because because that could end up being extremely silly. (although, that's a lot of text.)
  4. Logic for randomized story items, so that you can still find story items in their respective areas or otherwise, just in obtainable places if you are able to get there with the equipment given beforehand.  (e.g. : Santa's key could be in the "Execution Chamber", the tiny room with the presses and life capsule, if and only if you have a machine gun.)