Back to Skool Graphic glitches
EINSTEIN's head
The line just above EINSTEIN's head contains a transparent pixel (shown in green) that should be blank:
Animatory state 49 Animatory state 51
To make the pixel blank:
Animatory state 49 Animatory state 51
POKE 47249,252
Also, when EINSTEIN is lying down, the line above his head is entirely blank:
Animatory state 54
To make the line transparent:
Animatory state 54
POKE 47254,255
BOY WANDER's head
When BOY WANDER is sitting on the floor, there is a blank line above his head:
Animatory state 21
To make the line transparent:
Animatory state 21
POKE 47265,255
MR CREAK's ear
MR CREAK's ear is transparent when he's midstride, which means it will appear filled in or blank depending on the background:
Animatory state 105
To make the ear always blank:
Animatory state 105
POKE 53356,171
MR CREAK's hand
There is a blank pixel in MR CREAK's walking stick hand when he has his other arm raised (below, right), but the corresponding pixel is filled in when he is standing or walking (below, left). This difference is most noticeable when MR CREAK is wiping or writing on a blackboard.
Animatory state 104 Animatory state 111
To fill in the blank pixel:
Animatory state 111
POKE 52089,30
POKE 52345,222
MR WACKER's trousers
There are two transparent pixels in the crutch of MR WACKER's trousers:
Animatory state 80 Animatory state 82 Animatory state 87
To make these pixels blank:
Animatory state 80 Animatory state 82 Animatory state 87
POKE 53896,228
MR WITHIT's and ALBERT's shoes
There are blank pixels near MR WITHIT's and ALBERT's shoes that should be transparent:
Animatory state 89 Animatory state 121 Animatory state 91 Animatory state 123
To make these pixels transparent:
Animatory state 89 Animatory state 121 Animatory state 91 Animatory state 123
POKE 53461,95
POKE 53973,95
POKE 54485,223
POKE 54487,250
MR WITHIT's and MISS TAKE's hand
There are two blank pixels poking out of MR WITHIT's and MISS TAKE's hand:
Animatory state 95 Animatory state 119
To make these pixels transparent:
Animatory state 95 Animatory state 119
POKE 51417,235
MR ROCKITT's coat
There are slight differences between MR ROCKITT's coat when he is standing or walking (below, left) and when his arm is raised (below, right). The differences are most noticeable when he is wiping or writing on a blackboard.
Animatory state 96 Animatory state 103
To remove these differences:
Animatory state 103
POKE 51644,232
POKE 51900,232
POKE 52668,36
POKE 52924,164
POKE 53180,44
POKE 53436,172
POKE 53692,46
POKE 53948,174
POKE 54204,54
POKE 54460,182
POKE 54716,53
POKE 54972,181
ALBERT's waist
There is an extraneous blank pixel near ALBERT's waist:
Animatory state 120 Animatory state 122 Animatory state 127
To make the pixel transparent:
Animatory state 120 Animatory state 122 Animatory state 127
POKE 53853,223
ALBERT's head
There are two extraneous blank pixels at the back of ALBERT's head, one at the top and one at the bottom:
Animatory state 120 Animatory state 122 Animatory state 127
To make these pixels transparent:
Animatory state 120 Animatory state 122 Animatory state 127
POKE 52316,191
POKE 54876,191
ALBERT's armpit
There is a transparent pixel that should be blank near ALBERT's armpit when his arm is raised:
Animatory state 127
To make the pixel blank:
Animatory state 127
POKE 54865,127
Boys' hands
The mask around the boys' hands in phase 2 of their walking animation (the right hands in the images below) contains an extraneous blank pixel that looks amiss in the little boy's sprite (rightmost image):
Animatory state 1 Animatory state 17 Animatory state 33 Animatory state 49 Animatory state 65
The corresponding pixel is transparent in phases 1 (shown below), 3 and 4:
Animatory state 0 Animatory state 16 Animatory state 32 Animatory state 48 Animatory state 64
To make the extraneous blank pixel transparent:
Animatory state 1 Animatory state 17 Animatory state 33 Animatory state 49 Animatory state 65
POKE 47209,231
Girls' shoes
In phase 1 of HAYLEY's and the little girls' walking animations, and also in HAYLEY's hitting sprite, the tip of the shoe is filled in, as shown in these unmasked graphics:
Animatory state 56 Animatory state 72 Animatory state 63
But the mask erases the tip of the shoe, and does not blank out the pixel behind the shoe:
Animatory state 56 Animatory state 72 Animatory state 63
To fix the mask:
Animatory state 56 Animatory state 72 Animatory state 63
POKE 50877,238
Also, in phase 4 of HAYLEY's and the little girls' walking animations, there is an extraneous blank pixel near the back foot that should be transparent:
Animatory state 59 Animatory state 75
To make this blank pixel transparent:
Animatory state 59 Animatory state 75
POKE 49864,239
Boys' shoes
In phase 2 of the boys' walking animations, the shoes are filled in, as shown in these unmasked graphics:
Animatory state 1 Animatory state 17 Animatory state 33 Animatory state 49 Animatory state 65
But the mask erases the body of the shoe:
Animatory state 1 Animatory state 17 Animatory state 33 Animatory state 49 Animatory state 65
To fix the masks:
Animatory state 1 Animatory state 17 Animatory state 33 Animatory state 49 Animatory state 65
POKE 50281,222
Score box
The base of the 'o' in the word 'Score' in the score box is shifted one pixel to the left:
BOX58920
To shift it one pixel to the right:
BOX58920
POKE 59001,204