Game gets out of response at Nazca-ship scene and other issues

[satmonk]

After a break, I'm back on the translation project!
I encountered a big issue:

The game is stuck after Zynk said: "We've sustained damage at the engine! We might crash."
The ship is shaking and the clouds are moving, but nothing more happens. I cannot get past this :-( I've tried the Gens and Kega emulator, both with the same result.

The following issues are not really important, but worth to mention:

Caravan bug:
In the caravan, if you take an item from the depot, the name of whom the item receive is wrong (i.e. "Sarah got the item" instead of "Kiwi got the item", but the name change if you take an other item, i.e. if you take the herb, then the name is Bowie instead Kiwi and so on)

Healing seed name issue:
On battlefield (in-battle), if you open the command menu and go to 'item' and 'use', you see the 4 items, but if you have the healing seed, the name 'Healing Seed' is not there (only "Nothing" can be read)

[satmonk]

I have solved the issue with the stuck Nazca scene:
delete the "wait" word in s6_initfunction.asm (map59) after "we might crash" at "entityActionWait 128"

[satmonk]

In the final battle, the game stops responding as soon as Elis portrait appear. The close eyes function does not work. I had to cut off the section in the corresponding ASM file to overcome this issue. See pictures of the output.log and the asm file.

[satmonk]

The scrolling intro is not working, I could not solve that so far.
I got an build assembly error.

[satmonk]

The word aligned warning in Portraitfunctions.asm in the output.log looks like an adress-alignment failure, thats why the Elis closeeyes function is not working... Did anybody else encountered my described issues?

[xenometal]

After a break, I'm back to fixing bugs 😛

Game stuck on the Nazca Ship cutscene
Fixed in commit 486ca81.
The issue stemmed from an inadequate loop counter when initializing Force members on tactical base-type maps with EXPANDED_FORCE_MEMBERS enabled. This caused more entities to be declared than the engine supports, leaving the cutscene interpreter waiting on a non-existent entity. The fix caps Force member entities at 30 to reserve space for Astral and the Caravan, which means allies 30–31 won’t appear on those maps.

Healing Seed name issue
Fixed in commit bd5ed4c.
This was caused by referencing ICON_UNARMED instead of ITEM_UNARMED in the item menu routine. Those symbols equate the same value in vanilla, but not in standard when EXPANDED_ITEMS_AND_SPELLS is active.

Scrolling-text introduction not working
Fixed in commit e7f62f6.
I'm assuming you followed the manual installation guide at https://forums.shiningforcecentral.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=42176. This feature wasn’t yet part of the standard patch set and required updating references to work with current builds. It’s now implemented as a patch and will remain supported going forward.

“Close eyes” function
If you edited the s_Yes / s_No strings in code\common\menus\yesnoprompt.asm, the following code may have become misaligned. Adding an align directive after the strings should correct it:

s_Yes:  dc.b 'Yes'
s_No:   dc.b 'No '

        align

Caravan bug
I wasn’t able to reproduce this. If you’re using an older build, it may already be fixed upstream. To investigate further, I’ll need the relevant files from your setup. Feel free to join the sf2hack Discord so we can sort it out more easily.