Creatures Caves

Ah, I thought it was probably the map editor but I've not really used it in years and the first line "**CAOS2PRAY" threw me off, haha.

So the error message means somewhere in your script there's a section that looks like this:

...78 2281
rtyp va00 0
{@}rmsc 9631 2229 ""
setv game "m...

except without the "{@}" of course. And all squished on one line to make it hard to decipher.

The @ symbol is the command that threw the error.

The documentation for that command is

RMSC (command) x (integer) y (integer) track_name (string)
Associates a music track with the room at the specified coordinates. This overrides any track specified for the metaroom that the room is in.

(Just a note, the way I interpret the documentation, it would make more sense to me for it so say "Failed to get room location" instead of "meta room". Perhaps it's a small bug in the engine itself, but that's a cop out on my part. Either way, I can't explain it.)

The important part of the command, as far as the error message is concerned, is the X and Y. The command specifies the room via the room's location. Which it can't find due to the corruption.

The room the RMSC command is referring to, is defined two lines above, fortunately. And the fact that that command had a 5 digit number while all the other commands had all 4 digit numbers was a hint. (I sketched out the room as defined and saw it was really warped, but that didn't actually help very much compared to what I did next.)

I took the world where I'd tried to inject the script, and used map editor's "Open from game" function. The script didn't inject properly, but fortunately everything up to the error does inject, so map editor was able to export a partially finished metaroom with one room sticking way below the rest of the metaroom.

From the map editor, I was able to figure out about where the room's boundaries were supposed to be. Some trial and error I was able to figure out the right number. (I actually found the room defined immediately above it. But I think just guessing would've been faster.)

In the past when I got weird errors like this, I think I would just redo the whole metaroom in map editor from scratch. But that was years ago and my memory isn't the best. It'd be tedious to do this a lot. Does anyone with more experience with map editor have a better way to do this?