Star Fox/ROM map

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Chip tiny.png The following article is a ROM map for Star Fox.

Star Fox (USA) (Rev 2)
CRC32: 8FC4E6D0
Start End Description
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001090 001340 bitmap font, 2bpp planer (unused)
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0075C0 007FDF SNES Header (reference)
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00D996 00E6B5 bitmap font (used for dialog), 2bpp linear
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00F7DB 00FBD8 dialog text
00FBD9 00FCF4 dialog text pointer table
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090000 0A031F tileset, 8bpp linear
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0A3EDA 0A48DA bitmap font (Nintendo presents, credits?), 2bpp planer
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0BB7A4 0BE523 talking characters, 4bpp linear 4x5 blocks
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Notes

Dialog text has prefix of two bytes and 0E, and is null-terminated. The first byte is the text position and character that speaks. The second byte is the color index for the text. For example:

82 02 0E 72   6F 6C 6C 2C   20 66 6F 78  ....  6E 20 72 6F   6C 6C 2C 00
^^ \/    ^                                                            ^
||  |    |                                                            |
||  |    start of text                                   null terminator
||  color
|character
|
text position

The text position nibble can be either 0 or 8. 0 vertically aligns the text with the middle of the character picture, and 8 aligns the text to its top.

Effect of position nibble
0 8
 +-------+
 | FALCO | ROLL, FOX!!
 +-------+ ROCK'N ROLL!!
 +-------+ ROLL, FOX!!
 | FALCO | ROCK'N ROLL!!
 +-------+
Characters
Nibble Character
0 Fox
1 Peppy
2 Falco
3 Slippy
4 Pepper
5 Andross

Color obviously depends on the palette.

Text is mostly ASCII. # is used as a period.