Two doubts (Simul Mode & Custom Gauges, Boss Mode)

[BOMBAZOOKA]

OK, noob questions, but here they go.

1) My character has a gauge of its own that works parallel to the Life/Power gauges. And, in Simul mode, I want it so that, when either team has 2 of this same character, each one has its own of such gauge shown onscreen. While I sort of managed to do this succesfully, it only works correctly in Simul; in Single or Team, MUGEN keeps trying to find the player's partner/P3, causing a debug flood. I can't seem to find a trigger to proper reckon the player's partner existing.

The code I'm currently using is this (it uses explods only, posted on the -2):

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[State -2, Grid (P1)]
type = Explod
triggerall = roundstate = [0,2]
trigger1 = teamside = 1
trigger1 = numexplod(26001) = 0
anim = 26001 + (100 * var(52))
ID = 26001
pos = ifelse(teammode = Simul && ID >= partner, ID, 60, 0),220
postype = left
facing = 1
bindtime = -1
removetime = -2
pausemovetime = -1
supermovetime = -1
scale = 1,1
ontop = 1
ownpal = 1
ignorehitpause = 1
persistent = 0

2) I'm trying to implement a Boss Mode to this same character, changing a few Specials/Supers and a few tweaks. While I can (and will for now) use just one var on -2 to select from Normal Mode (0) to Boss Mode (1), my real plan is to make something like: Normal (0)/Player = Boss, CPU = Normal (1)/Player = Normal, CPU = Boss (2)/Boss (3). But I can't imagine triggers to detect if the character is being played by the CPU or not. Any tip on this?

Thanks in advance for the answers.

[Cyanide]

For your first one, you'll want more than one explod and to make use of

trigger1 = numpartner = 1

or

trigger1 = numpartner = 0

To work out if you have a partner or not.

For the second one. PLEASE tell me you are using mugen 1.0 or 1.1. If you are it's as simple as

trigger1 = ailevel > 0

Where ailevel actually looks at the mugen difficulty set. The above is a global on/off switch. You can be more granular and have the horrible modes come in at harder difficulties like ailevel = 6

[BOMBAZOOKA]

For the 1st one, unhappily, it didn't solve the debug flood. I tried to make a var (var(53)) that turns 1 when numpartner = 1...

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[State -2, var(53)]; (do you have a partner?)
type                = Varset
trigger1            = numpartner = 1
var(53)             = 1
ignorehitpause      = 1

...and then give the explods the following pos:

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pos = ifelse(teammode = Simul && var(53) = 1 && ID >= partner, ID, 60, 0),var(56)+220

[Cyanide]

I would have liked to have seen the debug flood.

At a guess though, it's this
ID >= partner, ID

You're using a redirect without the numpartner trigger. Include this in the varset itself and remove it from the ifelse line.

[BOMBAZOOKA]

Your guess thought worked, the debug flood disappeared. Thank you.