Lua Hotkey - Fightcade

For the competitive fighting game community, Fightcade is the undisputed king of online retro arcade gaming. It breathes new life into classics like Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike , The King of Fighters '98 , and Garou: Mark of the Wolves . While most players focus on netcode and matchmaking, a hidden layer of power lies in the emulator’s scripting engine: Lua .

emu.registerhotkey(59, save_state) -- F1 = save emu.registerhotkey(60, load_state) -- F2 = load For SFIII: 3rd Strike (arcade), you can toggle debug draw: fightcade lua hotkey

local last_check = os.clock() function check_controller_hotkey() local now = os.clock() if now - last_check < 0.1 then return end -- 10hz check last_check = now For the competitive fighting game community, Fightcade is

-- For SF3 (example addresses) local p1_x_addr = 0x3A1F0C local p1_y_addr = 0x3A1F10 local p2_x_addr = 0x3A2F0C local p2_y_addr = 0x3A2F10 local start_x_p1, start_y_p1 = 0x80, 0xA0 local start_x_p2, start_y_p2 = 0xF0, 0xA0 local function reset_positions() emu.writeword(p1_x_addr, start_x_p1) emu.writeword(p1_y_addr, start_y_p1) emu.writeword(p2_x_addr, start_x_p2) emu.writeword(p2_y_addr, start_y_p2) end save_state) -- F1 = save emu.registerhotkey(60

emu.registerhotkey(61, toggle_hitboxes) -- F3 toggle This reads player coordinates and writes them back to round start values:

local function save_state() emu.savestate(0) console.print("State saved to slot 0") end local function load_state() emu.loadstate(0) console.print("State loaded from slot 0") end

local hitboxes_on = false local addr = 0x2D3F0C -- example address for debug flag (game-dependent) local function toggle_hitboxes() hitboxes_on = not hitboxes_on local val = emu.readbyte(addr) if hitboxes_on then emu.writebyte(addr, val | 0x01) else emu.writebyte(addr, val & ~0x01) end end