Map Script Format

When the game loads a map it looks at a pointer table at 0x06959C and runs a some kind of script to load the map parts.

There seem to be 1314(check) entries.

For some reason offsets are not directly read but calculated via this code: (don't ask!)

i.e. when loading map id 0 the first offset is 0x83FF05 which after the code is run turns into 0xA5FF83 (0x25FF83 ROM).

u32 Background::GetAddress()
{ 
	u32 AdrLow = GetBytei(); 
	u16 AdrHigh = GetWordi();

	u8 push = AdrHigh & 0x7F;
	
	AdrHigh = push ^ AdrHigh;
	AdrHigh<<= 1;
	AdrHigh |= 0x80;
	AdrHigh |= push;
	AdrHigh += (((ROMOffset|(1<<23)) & 0xFF0000) >> 8);

	if( (AdrHigh & 0xFF00) >= 0xC000 )
		AdrHigh &= 0xFF7F;
	
	return (AdrHigh<<8)|AdrLow;
}

Commands

Opcode	Argument length (byte)	Function
0x00	2	Run map script Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 2 Map ID
0x02	5	Play SPC data Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 1 Unknown 1 1 Entry ID? 2 3 SPC data Offset
0x08	variable	run sub command Opcode Argument length (byte) Function 0x00 6 0xFF 0 End of script 0xFC 2 0xFD 4 Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 3 Offset (Unknown) 3 1 Unknown 0xFA ? 0xF9 ? 0xF8 ? default 2 ?
0x10	4	Load data Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 1 0x00 - Tiles 0x01 - Map Layer 0 0x02 - Map Layer 1 1 3 Offset of data
0x20	7	Load MapTile/Collision data Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 1 Unknown 1 1 Type 0x08 0x40 Load collision data Load MapTile data 2 1 Unknown 3 1 Layer ID 4 3 Offset
0x40	6	Set palette for map Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 1 Pal index 1 1 Unknown 2 1 Changing this value changes the colors 3 3 Offset of palette
0x80	6	Load Tile Data Offset Length (Byte) Name 0 1 Unknown 1 1 Unknown 2 1 Unknown 3 3 Offset of Tile Data 6 2 Unknown