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Add Game's Hash to End Credits
WilliamFlagg proposed that change on Discord and Synack asked to submit it as an issue here.
So, yeah... adding the id of the seed in the credits would allow people to easily get a seed from a past race or from a screenshot of the end screen. It would just be nice and convenient. :)
Credits only show uppercase characters, and the hash in permalinks is case sensitive, so this will likely not be possible without a complete refactoring of the credits.
I might have an idea how to solve the uppercaseproblem. Put the seed in two lines. First line would mean uppercase and second line would mean lowercase.
That doesn't seem intuitive, we'd have to use the large font, as it has the 0-9 (the small font on the credits does not). You'd have a really weird looking pattern that would use 4 lines of text in credits (big credits is two lines tall). Credits real estate is a premium.
I'd rather just circle back to this if we ever have a mixed-case font for the credits.
Wouldn't it be able to use the Item hash from the beginning of a seed as a input on the website instead and show the item hash at the ending of the game again?
No, because the 5 symbols on the file select screen are not guaranteed to be unique, the ALTTPR Ladder has the ability to set the same 5 symbols for every seed it generates for a particular race. That's a game security measure to make it harder for someone to find out who their opponent is before the race starts.
Currently this is not on the roadmap, but we can look back at this since we have added lowercase letters to the font. Closing for now, will revisit after v32 eventually releases
