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Currently I've been making a mod about different choices you can make about cave story to befriend different characters and villains (excluding the doctor.) Each time you do something to help a character it boosts their trust stats with you. When their trust is high enough they'll become a...

I'm trying to change the animation when the character dies, and replace the "exploding into smoke" with something else (like King Strife and Sacrifice) There is any way to do this without ASM? Or there is any way to spawn an entity where the player died with the death script?