Hoosha: Clicking play gets stuck on level reset

[zanzlanz]

Describe the bug

SWF: https://zanzlanz.com/Games/Hoosha.swf
Flash: https://zanzlanz.com/g/Hoosha
Self-hosted: https://zanzlanz.com/g/Hoosha&Ruffle

Clicking the "play" on the main menu using the code code will cause the game to remain on the level reset frame (39), locking the game. Using any other valid code (z, for example) will activate the associated level properly.

I'll take a guess that this may be because _root.level is still undefined in only this situation, so gotoAndPlay("level" + level); fails to parse to "level1" in the current implementation.

Expected behavior

In the Flash version, clicking "play" with the code code will reset and proceed to frame labelled "level1", as hoped.

Affected platform

Desktop app

Operating system

Windows 10

Browser

Chrome 114

Additional information

No response

[n0samu]

This happens because the level variable is actually a text field variable, defined by the variablename field of DefineEditText 38, 123, and 127, which are placed on frames 4 and 38. The game jumps straight from frame 3 to frame 39, but Flash Player defines the variables set by the text fields in the intermediate frames, including the level variable.

Here is a minimal reproduction of this behavior: TextVarTimeline.zip

In this example, the lv variable is defined by a text field placed on frame 5, and we jump straight from frame 1 to frame 9. Yet Flash Player still defines the variable and the value is read successfully.

[Lord-McSweeney]

#5431 should fix this- the issue is that we should instead be going from 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9, instead of 1-9. However, that approach does have some performance penalties.

[waspennator]

Still a problem as of latest nightly.