Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3/RAM map

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

RAM	Purpose
A000-A017	save game slot 1. The first 4 bytes (header) always equals to 0x19643957. When player enters the pipe, bytes in A004-A017 are copied to A804-A817.
A020-A037	save game slot 1 (copy)
A040-A057	save game slot 2
A060-A077	save game slot 2 (copy)
A080-A097	save game slot 3
A0A0-A0B7	save game slot 3 (copy)
A0C0	save game 1 checksum
A0C1	save game 2 checksum
A0C2	save game 3 checksum
A0C3	last pipe entered by wario at save game selection screen
A0C4	demo mode record index (00 - 06)
A100-DFFF	this range is cleared (set to 00) every time the game is started.
A100-A11F	current active actor, copied from 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) +0C-0D : sprite data pointer +0E : orientation (01 : right - 02 : left) +0F : animation counter +10 : tile index in VRAM +12-13 : enemy function pointer
A375	trigger event 01: level completion (player is teleported to bonus screen) 02: world map event (huge [!] block at end of level) 03: last boss fight XX: freeze player
A376	indicate if level exit (skull) is open (00 : closed, 01 : rising up, 02 : open)
A377	indicate if treasure door (skull) is open
A382	set during a warp (eg: room with a treasure key or chest). indicate treasure ID (between 00 - 0F). Used with A377.
A3B6	indicate which item huge block will give (00 : coin, 01 : heart)
A5E0-A5E1	rice beach levels that contains a treasure (after game is completed). Ends with FF.
A5E2-A5E4	mt. teapot levels with treasure
A5E5-A5E8	sherbet land levels with treasure
A5E9-A5EB	stove canyon levels with treasure
A5EC-A5EF	ss tea cup levels with treasure
A5F0-A5F2	parsely woods levels with treasure
A5F3-A5F5	syrup castle levels with treasure
A600-A6??	sound effects and music
A600	trigger sound effect
A615	trigger sound effect
A61C	trigger music (01-30 range)
A61D	current music played (used with A61C)
A795	rice beach completed. once world is beaten (a flag is put on map and player is moved to next world), value in A80B is copied here.
A796	mt. teapot completed
A797	stove canyon completed
A798	ss tea cup completed
A799	parsely woods completed
A79A	sherbet land completed
A79C	current world 01 : kitchen island (fade in) 02 : kitchen island 03 : rice beach (fade in) 04 : rice beach 05 : mt. teapot (fade in) 06 : mt. teapot 07 : during fade in 08 : trigger map load (used with A79E + A7EE) 09 : stove canyon (fade in) 0A : stove canyon 0B : syrup castle (fade in) 0C : syrup castle 0D : parsely woods (fade in) 0E : parsely woods 0F : ss tea cup (fade in) 10 : ss tea cup 11 : sherbet land (fade in) 12 : sherbet land
A79E	wario position on current world map. this is same as internal level ID.
A79F	wario position on kitchen island 00 : rice beach 01 : mt. teapot 02 : stove canyon 03 : parsely woods 04 : ss tea cup 05 : sherbet land 06 : syrup castle 07 : bridge to sherbet land
A7A4	world map timer (player, flags, water)
A7D1	map scroll X
A7D2	map scroll Y
A7D9	wario X position on map
A7DE	wario Y position on map
A7E2	joypad direction on map (similar to A7F1)
A7E5	wario animation status on map 00 : idle 01 : right 02 : left 03 : up 04 : down 0C : water down 0D : water up 0E : hidden
A7E6	wario animation direction on map E0 : up EE : down FE : left F0 : right FF : no move
A7E7	wario animation timer countdown on map
A7E8	world map timer (navigation arrows)
A7EE	world to be loaded (see A79C)
A7F1	joypad direction on map (similar to A7E2)
A804	current course id
A805-A807	total player money
A808	hearts
A809	lives
A80A	wario status. To be used with A956. 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 with current course id (A804) when a check point is activated. to use with A815.
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). to use with A98E-A98F.
A8C6	indicate if demo mode is enabled
A8C7	indicate if debug mode is enabled
A900-A901	level scroll y
A902-A903	level scroll x
A905	game internal timer
A908	if non zero, freeze wario and time. set to 1 by the game while pause is enabled.
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
A93E	set to 1 if wario is crouched
A93F	current block interacting with wario. there is a table located at 1C69 that indicate which routine to call depending collided block. only blocks bigger or equal to 0x28 can interact with wario.
A94B	wario invincibility countdown timer
A956	wario status (00 : big, 01 : small). To be used with A80A.
A957	01 : move player to the right 02 : move player to the left 04 : scroll up 08 : scroll down
A964-A965	remaining level time
A97A-A97B	level coins collected
A984	countdown timer (level intro, after dying)
A98E-A98F	last door/warp used.
A998	wario flying countdown timer
A9A7	set to 1 before save. it prevent restarting the game by pressing A + B + Start + Select.
A9A8	if non zero, freeze all actors. set to 1 by the game while pause is enabled.
A9AB	level animation mask. Internal timer (A905) is ANDed with that mask. If it's equal to zero, level animation counter (AC88) is incremented. This allow to control level animation speed (eg : lava).
A9E3	indicate the type of (!) block to process after a door has been used. To be used with A9FE. 01 : (!) block 0x39 10 : (!) block 0x32 Once a door is used, the flag is reset to zero.
A9ED	similar to A9E3, but for (!) block 0x38. This type of block is not used in any level and does not seems to have any effect.
A9FE	indicate if any (!) block has been set 00 : disabled (white) 01 : enabled (black)
AA0A	flame thrower countdown timer
AB00-ABFF	animated tile data constantly copied to VRAM (to 9200-9230). For each of the 4 tiles, there is 4 frames. Used for animated stuff like water, fire, piranha flowers, ...
AC87	previous wario status, before being hit (see AC87).
AC88	level animation counter (sliding platform, lava, water, ...). Always between 0-3.
ACE0-ACFF	indicate scrolling bounds for each 32 16x16 sections of a level. 0 = no bounds, 1 = right, 2 = left, 3 = left and right.
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
B17D	flags indicating which directions can be used on world map, depending completion 01 : rice beach 02 : teapot 04 : stove canyon 08 : ss tea cup 10 : parsely woods 20 : sherbet land 40 : syrup castle
B000-BFFF	array of actor indexes for each of the 256 x 32 level blocks. each actor index is 4 bits.
C000-DFFF	all indexes of 16x16 blocks (for current level) are decompressed here. level is 256 x 32 blocks. bits 0-6 is the block index (between 0 and 127). bit 7 (msb) indicate if there is an actor at that block (see B000-BFFF).
C03A	(coin mini game only) indicate which round is active 00 : 1st 01 : 2nd 02 : 3rd
C0F3-C0F4	(coin mini game only) indicate what is in the left/right buckets. 00 : money bag 01 : 10 ton weight
FF80	joypad input 01 : A 02 : B 04 : select 08 : start 10 : right 20 : left 40 : up 80 : down
FF81	joypad input (delta)
FF82	indicate if vblank interrupt handler has just ended