Sonic 3 & Knuckles "Score" Question

I use S3K disassembly, I can't change "E" font. Please help me ~

 

For the record, this is the image he tried to post:

 

The 'E' is an uncompressed file located elsewhere to the 'SCOR', which is compressed. In the older games, the 'E' is found with the HUD numbers, whereas the HUD art had it's own Nemesis-compressed file, so I suggest you look there.

 

For the sake of discussion, and to tell once again a problem can have several solutions, I think it's possible to reorganize the art in the vram to save the extra E (and therefore you don't need the uncompressed one). I never tried it myself because it only saves 2 tiles where I don't need them, but anyway...

In the vram, there are the "TIME" text graphics, and right after that the E for SCORE followed by the empty tiles for the score, resulting in something like "T I M E E _ _ _ _ _ _ _" (with each character requiring two tiles), so it should be easy to remove the second E and make the score's tiles begin two tiles earlier.

You'd need to make sure the part loading the E in the first cells doesn't overwrite it (or clear it) and change the vram addresses for the score numbers, but it should work.

 

I'm not sure if using the same VRAM for the second E would be a good idea, remember that the debug mode overwrites that E along with the rest of the score, so that's one more thing that should be taken care of.

 

That's right, but in my opinion debug mode is not the game. 

Also, if the debug vram address isn't modified, the E will still be visible, but the last two numbers will be missing.

And it already makes the hud ugly, so if you change it, it'll just make it a little uglier. 

One could also add one more piece at the end to add one digit to the score, increasing the max score to 9999999.

 

Thank you ! It's works !