[h.sie]

@ALL (who are interested) : Good news:

1) I finally managed to get write access to EnvSim.act. That means, I can work with a counter and store some stuff, which could be important when measuring the length of a bad-weather period. Patched sh3.exe is not required.

2) Also, I found a way to force windspeed AND fog to good conditions. The trick is not to change windspeed variable itself directly, that didn't change fog. Instead, I found out that the random numbers generated influence not the absolute weather but the weather tendency. If the random number is +1, weather gets worse. storm, fog are the result in 2 of 3 cases (@Stiebler: the other missing case of these 3 cases is caused by a scrambler related to the counter at 0xDD02BC). When the random number is -1, weather gets better in most cases (not always, maybe also because of a scrambler, but not absolutely sure in this point).

So I can now realise a fix that:

1) Measures the length of the bad weather period, which could be identified

a) either only by the amount of fog, or,
b) by the amount of fog AND windspeed.

2) If the bad weather period is longer than a certain value (could be a constant or a randomly chosen value), I bypass the random generator and load some -1 instead (or allow only negative random values), and wait, until weather gets better. I am slightly optimistic now, that we can fix the weather bug (which I have never seen, bru-har-har!)


@Yoriyin I think, your patch will be done in the next 0-2 days.

h.sie