About the Jira Battle theme, which was only used in the DS game, it is still possible to hear it with cheats: If you use the XXL Inspector and load to level 8 immediately at the start of the game without creating or loading a save, then you go to the area with the romans, the Jira theme starts to play for some reason.
Huh... with it being only two soldiers and the track being paused by the tutorial video, I understand why they didn't leave it in.
herrepsilon
But it got me thinking, this track would work nicely with the time challenge battle right before the Doctormabus chariot race.
So many possibilities to polish the game 🤩
herrepsilon
I just checked the battle in question, which is playing Grekko in the release version. Jira has a lot more urgency than Grekko, so it would fit the time challenge.
I like this idea more and more, but my mind is going in a thousand directions right now 😆
adrientd
I kinda liked the Grekko one in that battle, but true that there might be other tunes that might fit more for the time limit
adrientd
I wonder if it would be possible to add new combats in the game, even though I think there isn't any remaining space to put one, especially when the game world is already small.
adrientd
But maybe we could add challenges similar to the XXL2 remaster, that you activate by pressing a button.
herrepsilon
Yessss!
herrepsilon
There's currently no way to add flags for music to start where there was none formerly, is there?
Doctormabus' lair and the underground level both have two-three unused ambient tracks...
adrientd
Maybe it's something that the XXL Editor can't do right now, but it can be always researched.
adrientd
Some musics are triggered using "music detectors" that play a theme when you enter its bounding box.
adrientd
and stops when you leave it
herrepsilon
Oh my goodness, the ideas start flowing with all the underused assets in the game. Like, what about about one boar-hunting challenge (collect x boars in 60 secs), or one where you have to eliminate realistic romans specifically.
Or even better yet, challenges with magic potion. There are only, like, three bottles of potion in the entire game and none of them are used in an actual battle.
herrepsilon
Climbing challenge (complete this climbing route in x seconds)
adrientd
Yes these ideas sound good. Some could even be implemented as olympic events (like a 2player game where the one who smashed the most boars win, ...)
herrepsilon
That would be incredible, and a good excuse to reuse the Gaul map 😍
herrepsilon
And then we bulk-buy some random Asterix figurine from Plastoy, print a few postcards and sell the whole package for 100€
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