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[sandsmaster]

Hello to everyone!

In this thread, I'm trying to find a way to the team flag for "8-bit Armies".
I noticed this in "Realpolitiks 2" and "Age of Empires" also, however
here's how I typically go about finding this flag:

- I find the health of a building
- I find out what acceses this address and the instruction for damage
- I find out what addresses are accessed by this instruction
- I take a few values and find out which is mine and which isn't in-game
- A quick check of the registers for diffs
- find commonalities / dissect structure or both
- check of the stack for differences
- and testing / repeat

Unfortunately it works for some games, but rarely for strategic ones. I think that since all the teams go through the same function, the same way, (e.g. the takeDamage() function takes just current health and damage) they don't have the team flag overall, because it's not needed to apply the damage to the building.
Weird thing is, that I couldn't find it in the stack either though. These functions will need to know something to know where to apply, but I think that's the player # in the list of players on the map, but not the team flag

But that's just a theory. I read a guy had some problem with that same thing in "Realpolitiks 2" and he found a function called IsFriendlyPlayer() (might not be exactl name) and that's how he distinguished allies and enemies. Unfortunately I'm not sure how to go about that. I'd be happy to get help and return the favour, if I can.

P.S.: I did my best with formatting, so it's easy to read
Cheers!