Description
B-Sides is a mod for QOL in team management. It adds team building and saving options, fast team swap and team-setup backup / sharing.
It is based on the idea of recording a team setup (Mixtape set) on the B-sides of the tapes on your party, and use them for battles. Just prepare a team on your party, choose a name and save that setup as a Mixtape set for later use: it is that simple.
Feature List
- Save and reload any team setup you can create within your game
- Use the same tapes on multiple teams with different setups
- Limited editing options for teams, such as
-- Team and tapes renaming,
-- Team erasing,
-- Tapes and stickers rearrangement - Contextualized menus for A- and B-side tapes
- Export your teams for backup or sharing purposes
- Import teams from your backups or shared by other people
- Unlimited battle teams, shared between all savefiles on the same PC
-- Each savefile can have a different loaded Mixtape set, btw - No savefile changes: everything this mod uses is stored separately from your save
- Update available icon, if mod_utils is installed (added on version 1.0.2)
- Team validation checker*
* Team validator is important for teams created with mods that could change the vanilla game, such as adding new monsters or changing sticker / attribute limits. So the save file using any team need to have the compatible mod that changed the game if said team uses any resources from that mod. In case of importing teams, B-Sides will reject adding them to the list of teams if any tapes or stickers are incompatible with the current game + mods, and loading already saved teams to a game that lacks any needed mod will result on the team being shown without tapes and not being able to be apply it when going through the teams menu.
A more detailed description can be seen on the github page, linked below.
Compatibility
Tested on daily+69309e87 (multiplayer beta testing version)
Also compatible with version 1.5, except for multiplayer features (only available on multiplayer beta + version 1.6)
WARNING!
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As of version 1.0.2, cantrip's mod can have some undesired interaction with this mod if a cantrip is saved on the party when this mod is installed. I'm currently looking for a way to prevent that, but cantrip mod changes the save file, and I would rather not risk overwriting the original save. In order to avoid the issue, it is recommended to move any cantrip on your party to the tape storage, saving, then adding this mod to your game. After that, you should be good to go and use cantrip in your teams.
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As of version 1.0.2, the current version of False Wirral should not be compatible with this mod. I'll be removing support for B-Sides when entering false wirral areas later on, but if you start any quests on new wirral with a team loaded from this mod, the loaded team can be turned invalid, and will need to be erased after leaving false wirral's areas.
Safe to Remove: Yes
Save Tag: None
Net Tag: No
Source code
Just got to trying out the mod, and may have encountered a small bug; I deleted a save that had a Mixtape set, and when I started a save in the same slot, picking my new monster kinda fudged up my party, and made it so I started the first encounter with Sirenade, and Kayleigh started with Candevil (after I picked Bansheep)
When I looked at my party afterward, it only showed Sirenade in the party, and I had to Cycle back to the Mixtape set that was created from my old save, and THAT set made it so it had Candevil, Sirenade, and Bansheep in it, instead of just Sirenade. I played around with it a little bit more and took a screenshot, but after turning off the Mixtape set so I had a normal party to save, and creating another new save, everything was back to normal. I received the Monster I selected I didn't have to worry.
Oh, this is interesting: I don't remove records from the save file for this mod when you delete / recreate a save file, so what must be happening is that if you delete a savefile from your game that had a team assigned to it, the mod tries to reapply that team at the beginning of the game, so when you receive your first monster it must have some undesired side-effects. I just need to reset the team to the default party for any save files when loading a new one on the mod's save, and this should be fixed. I'll get to it when I get home later today, and post an update: thanks for letting me know.
EDIT: it should now be fixed on version 1.0.2. Thanks again for the help in making this mod more robust ;)