diff --git a/.github/workflows/build.yml b/.github/workflows/build.yml
index 582fad703..4e0f34ea0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build.yml
@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ jobs:
       - name: Update and Install Software
         run: |
           sudo apt update
-          sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt -y --fix-missing upgrade
-          sudo apt -y install g++-8-multilib linux-libc-dev binutils-arm-none-eabi
+          sudo ACCEPT_EULA=Y apt -y --fix-missing --allow-downgrades upgrade
+          sudo apt -y --allow-downgrades install g++-8-multilib linux-libc-dev binutils-arm-none-eabi
           sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
           wget -qO - https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/winehq.key | sudo apt-key add -
           sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cybermax-dexter/sdl2-backport
           sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) main"
-          sudo apt install --install-recommends winehq-stable
+          sudo apt -y --allow-downgrades install --install-recommends winehq-stable
       - name: Checkout Repo
         uses: actions/checkout@v2
       - name: Setup Repo
diff --git a/arm9/asm/nonmatchings/GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable.s b/arm9/asm/nonmatchings/GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable.s
index 2d51a2aef..a083bf2e9 100644
--- a/arm9/asm/nonmatchings/GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable.s
+++ b/arm9/asm/nonmatchings/GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable.s
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-	.include "asm/macros.inc"
-	.include "global.inc"
 
-	.extern UNK_021C570C
-	.extern UNK_021C5734
+.section .text
+
+glabel GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable
+
+.extern UNK_021C570C
+.extern UNK_021C5734
 
-	thumb_func_start GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable
-GenerateFontHalfRowLookupTable: ; 0x0201C05C
 	push {r3-r7, lr}
 	sub sp, #0x30
 	ldr r3, _0201C0F8 ; =UNK_021C570C
diff --git a/arm9/asm/unk_0204AEA8.s b/arm9/asm/unk_0204AEA8.s
deleted file mode 100644
index 018a64e20..000000000
--- a/arm9/asm/unk_0204AEA8.s
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
-    .include "asm/macros.inc"
-    .include "global.inc"
-
-	.text
-
-	thumb_func_start FUN_0204AEA8
-FUN_0204AEA8: ; 0x0204AEA8
-	push {r3-r5, lr}
-	add r4, r0, #0x0
-	bl FUN_02046528
-	add r5, r0, #0x0
-	add r0, r4, #0x0
-	bl FUN_0204652C
-	add r4, r0, #0x0
-	ldr r1, [r4, #0x0]
-	cmp r1, #0x0
-	beq _0204AEC6
-	cmp r1, #0x1
-	beq _0204AEE6
-	b _0204AEF4
-_0204AEC6:
-	ldr r0, [r4, #0x8]
-	add r1, r5, #0x0
-	add r2, r4, #0x4
-	bl MOD05_021E3444
-	ldr r1, [r4, #0xc]
-	mov r0, #0x5
-	lsl r1, r1, #0x10
-	lsr r1, r1, #0x10
-	mov r2, #0x1
-	bl FUN_0200433C
-	ldr r0, [r4, #0x0]
-	add r0, r0, #0x1
-	str r0, [r4, #0x0]
-	b _0204AEF4
-_0204AEE6:
-	ldr r1, [r4, #0x4]
-	cmp r1, #0x1
-	bne _0204AEF4
-	bl FreeToHeap
-	mov r0, #0x1
-	pop {r3-r5, pc}
-_0204AEF4:
-	mov r0, #0x0
-	pop {r3-r5, pc}
-
-	thumb_func_start FUN_0204AEF8
-FUN_0204AEF8: ; 0x0204AEF8
-	push {r4-r6, lr}
-	add r6, r0, #0x0
-	add r5, r1, #0x0
-	mov r0, #0xb
-	mov r1, #0x10
-	add r4, r2, #0x0
-	bl AllocFromHeapAtEnd
-	add r2, r0, #0x0
-	mov r0, #0x0
-	str r0, [r2, #0x0]
-	str r0, [r2, #0x4]
-	str r5, [r2, #0x8]
-	ldr r1, _0204AF20 ; =FUN_0204AEA8
-	add r0, r6, #0x0
-	str r4, [r2, #0xc]
-	bl FUN_0204640C
-	pop {r4-r6, pc}
-	nop
-_0204AF20: .word FUN_0204AEA8
diff --git a/arm9/src/unk_0204AEA8.c b/arm9/src/unk_0204AEA8.c
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9c572a8e4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arm9/src/unk_0204AEA8.c
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#include "global.h"
+#include "heap.h"
+#include "unk_0204639C.h"
+#include "unk_0204AEA8.h"
+
+extern void MOD05_021E3444(u32, struct UnkStruct_0204639C *, u32);
+extern void FUN_0200433C(u32, u16, u32);
+
+THUMB_FUNC BOOL FUN_0204AEA8(struct UnkStruct_0204639C *a0)
+{
+    struct UnkStruct_0204639C *v0 = FUN_02046528(a0);
+    u32 *v1 = FUN_0204652C(a0);
+
+    switch (v1[0])
+    {
+        case 0:
+            MOD05_021E3444(v1[2], v0, (u32)v1 + 4);
+            FUN_0200433C(5, (u16)v1[3], 1);
+            v1[0]++;
+            break;
+        case 1:
+            if (v1[1] == 1)
+            {
+                FreeToHeap(v1);
+                return TRUE;
+            }
+            break;
+    }
+    
+    return FALSE;
+}
+
+THUMB_FUNC void FUN_0204AEF8(struct UnkStruct_0204639C *a0, u32 a1, u32 a2)
+{
+    u32 *v0 = AllocFromHeapAtEnd(11, 4 * sizeof(u32));
+    
+    v0[0] = 0;
+    v0[1] = 0;
+    v0[2] = a1;
+    v0[3] = a2;
+    
+    FUN_0204640C(a0, FUN_0204AEA8, v0);
+}
diff --git a/arm9/temp.c b/arm9/temp.c
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29bb..000000000
diff --git a/include/unk_0204AEA8.h b/include/unk_0204AEA8.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..90e13cc28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unk_0204AEA8.h
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+#ifndef POKEDIAMOND_UNK_0204AEA8_H
+#define POKEDIAMOND_UNK_0204AEA8_H
+
+BOOL FUN_0204AEA8(struct UnkStruct_0204639C *a0);
+void FUN_0204AEF8(struct UnkStruct_0204639C *a0, u32 a1, u32 a2);
+
+#endif
diff --git a/tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py b/tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py
index e3226cb23..e1540c0cb 100644
--- a/tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py
+++ b/tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py
@@ -575,7 +575,7 @@ class GlobalAsmBlock:
             self.add_sized(int(line.split()[1], 0), real_line)
         elif line.startswith('.balign') or line.startswith('.align'):
             align = int(line.split()[1])
-            if align != 2:
+            if align != 4: 
                 self.fail("only .balign 4 is supported", real_line)
             self.align4()
         elif line.startswith('.asci'):
@@ -586,9 +586,6 @@ class GlobalAsmBlock:
         # Branches are 4 bytes long
         elif line.startswith('bl'):
             self.add_sized(4, real_line)
-        elif line.startswith('.'):
-            # .macro, ...
-            self.fail("asm directive not supported", real_line)
         else:
             # Unfortunately, macros are hard to support for .rodata --
             # we don't know how how space they will expand to before
@@ -1027,8 +1024,11 @@ def fixup_objfile(objfile_name, functions, asm_prelude, assembler, output_enc):
                 loc1 = asm_objfile.symtab.find_symbol_in_section(temp_name + '_asm_start', source)
                 loc2 = asm_objfile.symtab.find_symbol_in_section(temp_name + '_asm_end', source)
                 assert loc1 == pos, "assembly and C files don't line up for section " + sectype + ", " + fn_desc
-                if loc2 - loc1 != count:
-                    raise Failure("incorrectly computed size for section " + sectype + ", " + fn_desc + ". If using .double, make sure to provide explicit alignment padding.")
+                # Since we are nonmatching whole functions, we don't need to insert the correct
+                # amount of padding into the src file. We don't actually need to insert padding  
+                # at all. We can just plop the asm's text section into the objfile.   
+                # if loc2 - loc1 != count:
+                #     raise Failure("incorrectly computed size for section " + sectype + ", " + fn_desc + ". If using .double, make sure to provide explicit alignment padding.")
             if sectype == '.bss' or sectype == '.sbss2':
                 continue
             target = objfile.find_section(sectype, n_text if sectype == '.text' else 0)
diff --git a/tools/asm_processor/compile.sh b/tools/asm_processor/compile.sh
index 786da404c..8c367b3e3 100644
--- a/tools/asm_processor/compile.sh
+++ b/tools/asm_processor/compile.sh
@@ -1,19 +1,27 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
 CC="$1"
-shift
-AS="$1"
-shift
+AS="$2"
+OBJ="$3"
+SRC="$4"
 
-temp="$(mktemp)"
-../tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py "$2" --assembler "$AS" > "$temp.c" &&
-$CC -c "$temp.c" -o "$1"
+PADDED_SRC="$(mktemp --suffix=.c padded-XXXXXX)"
+PADDED_OBJ="$(mktemp --suffix=.o padded-XXXXXX)"
 
-prelude=$(mktemp prelude.XXXXXX)
-cat ../include/macros.inc >> "$prelude"
-cat global.inc >> "$prelude"
+# Create a .c file replacing the nonmatching function with volatile int writes, 
+# and compile. 
+../tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py "$SRC" --assembler "$AS" > "$PADDED_SRC"
+$CC -c "$PADDED_SRC" -o "$PADDED_OBJ"
 
-../tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py "$2" --post-process "$1" --assembler "$AS" --asm-prelude "$prelude"
-arm-none-eabi-objcopy --remove-section .comment "$1" "$1"
-rm "$prelude"
-rm "$temp"
+PRELUDE=$(mktemp)
+cat ../include/macros.inc >> "$PRELUDE"
+cat global.inc >> "$PRELUDE"
+
+# Inject the matching assembly into the padded obj file.
+../tools/asm_processor/asm_processor.py "$SRC" --post-process "$PADDED_OBJ" --assembler "$AS" --asm-prelude "$PRELUDE"
+
+$DEVKITARM/bin/arm-none-eabi-objcopy --remove-section .comment "$PADDED_OBJ" "$OBJ"
+
+rm "$PADDED_SRC"
+rm "$PADDED_OBJ"
+rm "$PRELUDE"