EarthBound/Battle Actions Table

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Battle Actions Table
Game	EarthBound
Start Address	0x157D68
End Address	0x158C4F
# of Entries	318 (?)
Entry Length	12 bytes (0x0C)
Total Length	3816 bytes (0xee8)
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The Battle Actions Table stores information about how to execute enemy and item actions.

Format

Direction

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x00
• Range of values: 0-1

Direction of the attack.

Value	Direction
0	party
1	enemy

Target

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x01
• Range of values: 0-4

Target of the attack.

Value	Target
0	none
1	one
2	random one
3	row
4	all

Action type

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x02
• Range of values: 0-5 (0x00-0x05)

Type of action.

Value	Action type
0	nothing
1	physical (damage halved by defending and shields)
2	physical (damage unaffected by defending and shields)
3	PSI
4	item
5	other

PP cost

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x03
• Range of values: 0-255 (0x00-0xFF)

Psychic Points cost to use this action.

Text address

• Length: 4 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x04-0x07
• Range of values: 0x00000000-0x00FFFFFF, but must be a valid text address

SNES address of the text displayed when this action is executed or 0x00000000 for no text displayed. Note that this text may include control codes which execute the action.

ASM address

• Length: 4 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x08-0x0B
• Range of values: 0x00000000-0x00FFFFFF, but must be a valid machine code address

SNES address of the machine code called to execute this action or 0x00000000 for no code called.

See Also

• Item Properties Table
• Enemy Configuration Table