Entry 142

Dun Loireag's dogs: ccSetDog, ccDog and NorainuMenu

2026-09-26world

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A GAPS item. In the game, Dun Loireag has four stray dogs running about the town. The port's town had none, and its action button closed menu 44 at once.

The game

• Placing them. ccEntryEventMng calls ccSetDog (gcmn 0x00509f30) in town 1, after the merchants and the Chaos Gate. It makes four entries from npcTbl rows 141-144 (Johnny, Sal, Lottel, Suzie; base type 0x04000000, CDOGBOD1.CCS). Each starts at the first dummy of its route in markPosTbl (0x005ee220). The routes are lists of town02's DMY_markerNN.
• The class. ccDog (a ccGimmick, 0x240 bytes) runs to its next dummy. It turns a sixteenth of the way each frame and steps only once it faces within 4096 of the target. At a dummy, rand() & 1 picks a run (12 a frame) or a walk (1.5). A change of gait goes through 101 frames of idling (act 5). Touching another body turns its step aside for a while. When it has not moved 50 in 120 frames, it goes back to the last dummy.
• Notes. inuCheckNote plays ccSeSetParamInu for a note's param: 1 is a step, by the ground; 3 and 5 are barks. On param 1, a run also kicks up effSmoke dust behind it.
• Talking. dogAction is its affectFunc: EntryAffect 14 makes it sit facing Kite (act 1), 15 sit up (act 2), and 0 walk on (act 4).
• The menu. The action button on type 0x04000000 opens NorainuMenu (0x0054a680). Its list is Talk alone. The first frame greets (the first record of base->msg, with the dog's voice group) and picks Talk's line from ccRand(): records 1, 3 or 5. Cancel sends the dog off. Its structure is BreederMenu's, including the keys still read in the frame after a lost target's close.

The same data puts the young Grunties (rows 154-157) on InuMenu (46: Talk, Give Food) and the grown ones (145-153) on OtonainuMenu (45: Talk, Trade). That is the next piece.

The port

• The dogs. piney_world::dog holds set_dogs and Dog (with EntryObj::routine, the merchants'). World keeps them after the merchants, on the NPC list the targeting reads, so the action button finds them.
• Sounds and dust. Their notes come out as DogEvents. piney-game plays them through se3d::inu_note, which was already there, and a new town_fx::Start::Smoke.
• The menu. piney_fieldui::menus::inu::norainu_menu is menu 44, and the session now tells the menu who a dog is (talk_to).
• Checks. tools/test_fieldui_talk_rs.py's DogPages runs the game's NorainuMenu in eemu beside the port. It covers two dogs' greetings and cancel, Talk with each talkNum, the target lost under the list with each key, and no target. Every frame matches. The harness hooks the game's ccRand to the scenario's values, as it does rand().
• The session. the_dogs_walk_their_routes_and_sit_to_talk runs the town for 20 seconds, and every dog reaches its next dummy. It then puts Kite before Lottel and presses the action button. The menu opens, the dog sits, Talk shows its line, and cancel sends it walking on.