Mother 3/Item data

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Item data table
Game	MOTHER 3
Start Address	0xE5108
End Address	0xEBD07
# of Entries	256 (0x100)
Entry Length	108 bytes (0x6C)
Total Length	27648 bytes (0x6C00)
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Overview

The item data table contains the stats and parameters for each item in the game. It does not include the item names; for that, see the item names table.

Format

Each entry in the table uses 108 bytes.

Field listing

• 00-03 (04) = [ A ] Item number
• 04-07 (04) = [ B ] Item type
• 08-08 (01) = [ C ] Key item flag
• 09-09 (01) = Unclassified data
• 0A-0B (02) = [ D ] Sell price
• 0C-0D (02) = [ E ] Equip flags
• 0E-0F (02) = Unclassified data
• 10-13 (04) = [ F ] HP increase (signed)
• 14-15 (02) = [ G ] PP increase (signed)
• 16-17 (02) = Unclassified data
• 18-18 (01) = [ H ] Offense increase (signed)
• 19-19 (01) = [ I ] Defense increase (signed)
• 1A-1A (01) = [ J ] IQ increase (signed)
• 1B-1B (01) = [ K ] Speed increase (signed)
• 1C-1F (04) = Unclassified data
• 20-35 (16) = [ L ] Status ailment protection
• 36-3A (05) = [ M ] Elemental protection
• 3B-3F (05) = Unclassified data
• 40-43 (04) = [ N ] Item effect in-battle
• 44-47 (04) = [ O ] Item attack element
• 48-4B (04) = [ P ] Item target
• 4C-4D (02) = Unclassified data
• 4E-4F (02) = [ Q ] Lower HP/PP value
• 50-51 (02) = [ R ] Upper HP/PP value
• 52-52 (01) = [ S ] Status ailment
• 53-5B (09) = Unclassified data
• 5C-5D (02) = [ T ] Battle text number
• 5E-60 (03) = [ U ] Item animation table
• 61-69 (09) = Unclassified data
• 6A-6B (02) = [ V ] Item uses in-battle

Table view

       00   01   02   03   04   05   06   07   08   09   0A   0B   0C   0D   0E   0F
    +--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00  | [        A        ] [        B        ] [ C] [ ?] [   D   ] [   E   ] [   ?   ]
10  | [        F        ] [   G   ] [   ?   ] [ H] [ I] [ J] [ K] [        ?        ]
20  | [                                      L                                     ->
30  | <-             L            ] [           M          ] [          ?           ]
40  | [        N        ] [        O        ] [        P        ] [   ?   ] [   Q   ]
50  | [   R   ] [ S] [                     ?                    ] [   T   ] [   U  ->
60  | <-U] [                   ?                      ] [   V   ]

Item type

Not fully known. Values range from 0 to 9:

00: Weapon

01: Body armor

02: Headgear

03: Armgear

04: Food

05: Status healer

06: Nausea (Throwable item?)

07: Fleas (Unthrowable usable item?)

08: Burned

09: Solidified

Key item flag

Seems to be 01 for non-key items, 00 for key items.

Equip flags

This is a bitfield indicating who can equip this item:

• 01 = ?
• 02 = Flint
• 04 = Lucas
• 08 = Duster
• 10 = Kumatora
• 20 = Boney
• 40 = Salsa
• 80 = ?

Status ailment protection

Indicates how much to protect against certain status ailments. A more negative value means more protection. Each value is a 16-bit signed integer. There are 11 values, corresponding to the table below:

00: Poison

01: Paralysis

02: Sleep

03: Strange

04: Cry

05: Forgetful

06: Nausea

07: Fleas

08: Burned

09: Solidified

0A: Numbness?

Elemental protection

Similar to the status ailment protection, an item may also protect from elemental damage taken from PSI or Bomb items. Each value is an 8-bit signed integer. There are 5 values, corresponding to the table below:

00: Neutral (PK Love, Starstorm, Ground)

01: PK Fire

02: PK Freeze

03: PK Thunder

04: Bombs

Item effect

Based on the value of these bytes, the item will do different things in battle.
Here are the values:

• 00 - Damage
• 01 - 1 Damage
• 02 - Random Damage (Uses HP values as a base, but then randomizes even more)
• 03 - HP Healing
• 04 - HP Healing
• 05 - PP Healing
• 06 - PP Healing / Shield Removal

Item element

These bytes tell the game what elemental type of damage the item will deal.
Here are the values:

• 00 - Neutral
• 01 - Fire
• 02 - Freeze
• 03 - Thunder
• 04 - Bomb

Target

These bytes tell the game who will be targeted by using the item.
Here are the values:

• 00 - To the character who has it
• 01 - Choose to which character
• 02 - Choose to which character
• 03 - To all characters
• 04 - To all characters
• 05 - To a random character
• 06 - To two random characters
• 07 - To three random characters
• 08 - To all characters in a random order
• 09 - To a random number of slots for five times
• 0A - To a random number of slots for six times
• 0B - To a random number of slots for eight times
• 0C - Choose to which character
• 0D - Choose one enemy
• 0E - To all enemies
• 0F - To a random enemy
• 10 - Twice to random enemies
• 11 - Thrice to random enemies
• 12 - Four times to random enemies
• 13 - Five times to random enemies
• 14 - Choose one enemy
• 15 - To a random entity on the field
• 16 - To all the ones on the field
• 17 - Unselectable item
• 18 - Can only choose the first character
• 19 - Can only choose the third character
• 1A - Can only choose the second character
• 1B - Can only choose the fourth character

Lower and upper HP/PP values

The lower and upper HP/PP values indicate the range of recovery for recovery-based items and the range of damage for damage-based ones. Each value uses 16 bits.

Status ailment

This seems to control which status ailment to heal for items such as the Antidote, Fresh Mint, etc., according to the table below:

01: Poison (Antidote)

02: Numbness (Anti-Paralysis)

03: Sleep (Alarm Cicada)

04: Confusion (Paper Fan)

05: Crying (Eye Drops)

06: Forgetfulness (Recollection Bell)

07: Nausea (Fresh Mint)

08: Fleas (Flea Powder)

Item animations

These bytes manage which animations get played when using an item. Byte 5E, if different from 00, will make the background darker while the item animation plays.
Byte 5F is the battle animation number.
Byte 60 is the number of the animation that plays only if the item hits the target, otherwise it won't play. This animation also prints the damage/healing numbers.

It is not fully known how byte 5F and 60 correspond to the battle animations entry table.

Item uses

If value is 01, the item will be usable only one time, in battle, before disappearing. Otherwise, it won't disappear after the use.