Somarian Super Bounce

Pinkus - Today at 9:57 AM
Ok, so the somarian super bounce..

When you dash into a somarian block, it will set $03C5 (ancilla array indexed by slot) to 1 to indicate it's airborn now. Every frame, as long as it's non-zero, the "airborn somarian block" logic is run.

The memory address is also used to indicate how many times it has hit the ground so far, so it'll go up in the air & increment as it lands. Unless it's 4, it will continue to bounce. Once it's 4, it will stop bouncing and it's reset back to 0 (maximum of 4 bounces, including the initial dash into the block.)

The torch (and powder btw) messes with this variable too. In this case, upon initialization of the fire charge/powder dust, it will load up the direction Link is facing, and use that to index some animation group offset (not 100% sure how it's used but it doesn't matter), which is then stored to $03C2 (ancilla array indexed by slot).

So for example, you can put down a somarian block while 4 sparks are on the screen, so that the somarian block gets slot 0 (thus the airborn variable is $03C5[0] aka $03C5), and then apply two torches so that the first one gets slot 4 and the next one slot 3. Since slot 3 would set $03C2[3] aka $03C5 to that animation group value, the somarian block suddenly thinks it's been airborn and runs that logic the next frame (or probably the same actually).

Since the number is not between 0 and 4, you get some weird effects/bouncing patterns, since the code expects lower numbers. At least I imagine this is the reason. The values you can get are Left=10, Up=0D, Right=07, Down=0A. They will all give different bouncing patterns.(edited)

Pinkus - Today at 10:34 AM
Got the swamp thing to work here too. I guess it works because the block still has some velocity when it stops, but it stops due to the 4 bounce rule. By torching upwards it will keep bouncing and move for a slightly longer time, just enough that you're below the switch..