I am resuming work on Salmon Run, I had to calculate 255 possible random combinations for playfield state, I did it all inside a text file, separated into columns in which I first drew the binary patterns, and then calculated the PF1, PF2, PF3, and PF4 data accordingly....

A snippet of the graphic notepad file:

RIVER1	 RIVER2	  RIVER3   RIVER4
PF1	 PF2	  PF2	   PF1	 
Normal	 Reversed Normal   Reversed 
---------------------------------------------
00	11000000 00000000 00000000 00000011	192	0	0	192
01	11110000 00000000 00000000 00001111	240	0	0	240
02	11111100 00000000 00000000 00111111	252	0	0	252
03	11111111 00000000 00000000 11111111	255	0	0	255
04	11111111 11000000 00000011 11111111	255	3	3	255
05	  11111111 11110000 00001111 11111111	255	15	15	255
06	11111111 11111100 00111111 11111111	255	63	63	255
07	  11000000 00000000 00000011 11111111	192	0	3	255
08	11110000 00000000 00001111 11111111	240	0	15	255

I have attached the code here:

pesco_pacman_v8a.zip

I also developed a quick tool to output the necessary .byte statements using Ruby:

# salmon run graphic dump dev tool
# t.cherryhomes 2007-04-05


pf1data = Array.new
pf2data = Array.new
pf3data = Array.new
pf4data = Array.new

pf1binary = Array.new
pf2binary = Array.new
pf3binary = Array.new
pf4binary = Array.new

l = 0 

File.open("riverdata.txt") do |f|
	while line = f.gets

			if (l < 4) then 

					# do nothing.

			else
					currentLine = line.split(/\t/);
					currentBinary = currentLine[1].split

					pf1data.push(currentLine[2]);
					pf2data.push(currentLine[3]);
					pf3data.push(currentLine[4]);
					pf4data.push(currentLine[5]);

					pf1binary.push(currentBinary[0]);
					pf2binary.push(currentBinary[1]);
					pf3binary.push(currentBinary[2]);
					pf4binary.push(currentBinary[3]);
			end

	l+=1;

	end
end

File.open("riverdata.asm","w") do |f|

	f.puts "PF1Data"
	pf1data.each do |i|
			f.puts "\t.byte " << i
	end

	f.puts "PF2Data"
	pf2data.each do |i|
			f.puts "\t.byte " << i 
	end

	f.puts "PF3Data"
	pf3data.each do |i|
			f.puts "\t.byte " << i 
	end

	f.puts "PF4Data"
	pf3data.each do |i|
			f.puts "\t.byte " << i 
	end

end

puts "Done.\n"

and it works just fine. :-)

Now, I am going to hammer out the asym kernel, will keep you guys posted :-)