Castlevania (NES, Famicom Disk System)/RAM map

The following article is a RAM map for Castlevania (NES, Famicom Disk System).

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RAM	Function	Details
0x0004	RNG	Changes seemingly randomly.
0x0007	Title Bat Current sprite	May be used by something else.
0x001A	Timer	Increments by 1 each frame. Resets each time you "change stage?"
0x001E	Title Screen timer (time until demo mode)	Counts slowly (each 8 frames) up to $11 (until castle bat becomes close), then (each frame) down from $FF to $00.
0x0022	Paused	$01 = yes, $00 = no
0x0028	Current Stage
0x002A	Number of Lives
0x002E	Camera's X position
0x003E	Is Simon on stairs	$00 = yes, $01 = no
0x003F	Simon's Y position (in level)
0x0040	Simon's X position (in level)
0x0042	1's and 10's place of Time in BCD
0x0043	100's and 1000's place of Time in BCD
0x0044	Life Meter (Graphic)	2 bars = +$08, Max = $40(64)
0x0045	Life Meter (Actual)	2 bars = +$08, Max = $40(64)
0x0070	Whip length	Set to $00, $01, or $02.
0x0071	Number of Hearts	$00 to $63 (99 in decimal).
0x008x	Pulse 1 channel	Values determining how the sound plays.
0x009x	Pulse 2 channel	Ditto.
0x00Ax	Triangle channel	'
0x00Bx	Noise channel	'
0x00F7	Player 1 Controller	Similar to Metroid's 0x0014.
0x0159	Simon's current image (unknown use : dosen't seem to affect gameplay)	$00=standing, $01-03 = walk, $04 = jump and crouch, $05-07 = whip/sub-weapon, $0D-0E = walk up stairs, $0F-10 = walk down stairs, $12 = hurt $1C = dead $1D = collapsing
0x0160	Simon's screen position (in room)
0x0162	Simon's screen position (in room)	not 0x0160.
0x038C	Simon's X position (in screen)
0x0390	Enemy 1's X position (in screen)
0x0391	Enemy 2's X position (in screen)
0x0392	Enemy 3's X position (in screen)
0x0393	Boss 1?'s X position (in screen)
0x0395	Bat/Medusa Head 1's X position (in screen)
0x0396	Bat/Medusa Head 2's X position (in screen)
0x0397	Bat/Medusa Head 3/Drac's Top Fireball's X position (in screen)
0x0398	Bat/Medusa Head 4/Drac's Middle Fireball's X position (in screen)
0x0399	Bat/Medusa Head 5/Drac's Bottom Fireball's X position (in screen)
0x03A0	Sub-weapon 1's X position (in screen)
0x03A1	Sub-weapon 2's X position (in screen)
0x03A3	Platform 1's X position (in screen)
0x03A4	Platform 2's X position (in screen)
0x0450	Direction Simon looks	$00 = right, $01 = left
0x0491-0494?	Projectile Animation Timers?	In a similar area than Candle Animation Timers. Appears to activate around projectile-firing enemies.
0x0496-049B	Candle Animation Timers	Count down from $08 to $00. When Item is out, from $0F to $00 except when item is static, in which case it stays $80. Freezes when item is picked up.
0x04B2	Candle 1's current image	Oscillates from $01 to $02.
0x04B3	Candle 2's current image	Ditto
0x04B4	Candle 3's current image	'
0x04B5	Candle 4's current image	'
0x04B6	Candle 5's current image	'
0x04B7	Candle 6's current image	'
0x0584	Simon's state	$00 = standing, $01 = going right, $02 = going left, etc.
0x07FC	Ones/Tenths of points	In pseudo Decimal (Ex.: $08, $09, $10...)
0x07FD	Hundreds/Thousands of points	Ditto.
0x07FE	Ten Thousands/Hundred Thousands of points	'
0x6000-7FFF	RNG 2	Strangely, these 8192 values are all equal to the same thing.