Editing Warp station

A '''warp station''' is typically the final level of a [[custom level set]] which, upon completion, will warp the player back to the first level via means of [[data resetting]]. It is used to avoid the [[Termination Glitch]] and is used as an alternative to a [[dummy level]].

== How it works ==

When the current level is less than 256, resetting the data stored in coordinate [0, 32] will set the level number back to zero. Since levels 0 and -1 do not exist, if [[Chip]] dies, restarts, or tries to go to the previous level, the Termination Glitch still results. Chip's Challenge does not check this data until it tries to begin another session, so the game does not crash the instant the [[red button]] is hit.

Since the internally stored level number is zero, when the [[exit]] is reached, no level bonus is scored. Usually, a warp station is also untimed so that it adds no points to the score, and is also made extremely simple (sometimes simply walking a straight path into the exit) to avoid the possibility of Chip being killed or running out of time or the level becoming [[cook]]ed.

== Usage ==
Presently, warp stations are rarely used. There are only two known warp stations in the library of custom level sets, neither of which functions currently.

[[User:William S.|Starfire]]'s levelset once ended with a warp station, but it has been replaced with a dummy level containing only the [[hint]] ''Warp station down currently...'' A former version of [[pi^2.dat]] also contained a warp station, but it also has been removed from the set. On [[David Stolp]]'s scoreboard, he suggests not using warp stations in sets uploaded there.

Warp stations and dummy levels are unnecessary nowadays with programs such as [[CCLM]] and [[ChipEnd]], which allow the player to set the final level, and [[Tile World]] which avoids the Termination Glitch entirely.
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