Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3/RAM map

The following article is a RAM map for Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3.

RAM	Purpose
A100-A1FF	related to active actors on screen like A200-A2FF
A200-A2FF	active actors on the screen (enemies, bonuses, throwed coins, ...). each actor take 32 bytes. there is a maximum of 8 actors. enemies with throwable items (eg : boomerang) need a second actor to manage the item. actors slots that are not used anymore (status = 00) are reused when need of a new actor. only actors that have status = 02 are drawn. +00 : status 00 : inactive 01 : out of screen (not visible) but still active 02 : visible +01-02 : x position +03-04 : y position +0A : y position (relative to screen) +0B : x position (relative to screen) +0E : orientation (01 : right - 02 : left) +0F : animation counter
A375	writing something here terminate level (player is teleported to bonus screen)
A376	indicate if level exit (skull) is open (00 : closed, 01 : rising up, 02 : open)
A600-A6??	trigger sound effects and music
A79C	current world map 02 : kitchen island 04 : rice beach 06 : mt. teapot 0A : stove canyon 0E : parsely woods 0C : syrup castle 10 : ss tea cup 12 : sherbet land
A79E	wario position on current map. value is unique for each course.
A79F	wario position on kitchen island (when A79C = 02)
A7D9	wario X position on map
A7DE	wario Y position on map
A805-A807	total player money
A808	hearts
A809	lives
A80A	wario status (00 : small, 01 : normal, 02 : bull, 03 : eagle, 04 : dragon)
A80B	rice beach completion. each bit indicate if a specific level of the map have been completed total number of bits used can be different for each world. last bit generally indicate if world have been completed (a flag is then show on map)
A80C	mt. teapot completion
A80D	numbers of levels completed (shown on pipe at file selection screen)
A80E-A80F	treasures collected (1 bit per treasure, since there is 15 treasures one bit is unused)
A810	stove canyon completion
A811	ss tea cup completion
A812	parsely woods completion
A813	sherbet land completion
A814	syrup castle completion
A815	indicate if level check point (skull) has been activated (00 : inactive, 01 : active). to use with A816.
A816	this value is overwritten everytime a level check point is activated. value seems to be unique and different for each level.
A817	indicate if game have been completed at least once (pipe at file selection screen will blink)
A8C4	control level transition 01 : show level title 02 : warp player to start of level 03 : normal gameplay 0A : warp to last door used (if no door entered, crashes)
A900-A901	level scroll y
A902-A903	level scroll x
A905	game internal timer
A90F	wario animation frame (when walking, swimming, ...)
A911-A912	player position y
A913-A914	player position x
A915	player animation frame (walking, swimming etc...)
A916	player horizontal or vertical flip, invert palette or half visible (bit 4-7)
A917	player blinking eyes timer (reset to zero if player make any move)
A93A	screen shaking countdown timer
A94B	wario invicibility countdown timer
A964-A965	remaining level time
A97A-A97B	level coins collected
A998	wario flying countdown timer
AA0A	flame thrower countdown timer
AC88	level animation counter (moving platform, water, ...)
AD00-AEFF	this array maps level 16x16 blocks to hardware 8x8 tiles. there is 128 blocks in total, each defined by the 4 indexes of 8x8 tiles.
AF00-AFFF	8x8 visible sprites for actors (4 bytes for each). wario seems to be always the first. +00 : x position +01 : y position +02 : sprite index +03 : h/v flip / palette
C000-DFFF	all indexes of 16x16 blocks (for current level) are decompressed here. level is 256 x 32 blocks.