RAM: Bank 0x7E: Page 0x00

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Note that these addresses are only one byte and you can assume that they are $7E00XX where XX are the byte addresses you see below.

• $00[0x10] = Mainly used as work registers. Storage of addresses and values.
• $10[0x01] = Main Module index
• $11[0x01] = Submodule Index (See $B0)
• $12[0x01] = NMI Boolean.
  • If set to zero, the game will wait at a certain loop until NMI executes. The NMI interrupt generally sets

it to one after it's done so that the game can continue doing things other than updating the screen.

• $13[0x01] = Screen settings
• $14[{{0x|01] = Graphics Flag
  • Value based flag, that if nonzero, causes the tile map to update
• $15[{{0x|01] = Graphics Flag
  • update CGRAM (0x200 bytes)
• $16[{{0x|01] = Graphics Flag
  • update HUD portion of BG3 tile map from $7EC700 (0x14A bytes)
• $17[{{0x|01] = Graphics Flag
• $18[0x{{{1}}}[0x01] = set to 0x80 during preoverworld
• $45[0x01] = "
• $46[0x01] = A countdown timer that incapacitates Link when damaged or in recoil state.

If nonzero, no movement input is recorded for Link.

• $47[0x01] = Set when damaging enemies, unsure of exact usage yet.
• $48[0x01] = If set, when you push A Link will grab at the air.
• $49[0x01] = This address is written to make Link move in any given direction. Indoors it is cleared every frame.

Outdoors it is not cleared every frame so watch out.

• $4B[0x01] = Link's visibility status. If set to 0xC, Link will disappear.
• $4C[0x01] = Counter that decreases every frame when the Cape is in used. Starts at 4 and counts down to 0.

When it reaches 0, your magic meter is decremented based on whether you have full or 1/2 magic. There's a table in Bank 07 that determines this

• $4D[0x01] = An Auxiliary Link handler.

As far as I know:

• • 0x00 - ground state (normal)
  • 0x01 - the recoil status
  • 0x02 - jumping in and out of water?
  • 0x04 - swimming state.
• $4E[0x01] = ????
• $4F[0x01] = Index for creating the dashing sound effect. If frozen to a single value, no sound occurs.
• $50[0x01] = A flag indicating whether a change of the direction Link is facing is possible.For example, when the B button is held down with a sword.
  • 0 - can change,
  • on zero - can't change.
• $51[0x01] = ????
• $53[0x01] = ????
• $55[0x01] = Cape flag, when set, makes you invisible and invincible. You can also go through objects such as bungies.
• $56[0x01] = Link's graphic status:
  • 1 = bunny link,
  • 0 = real link.
• $57[0x01] = Modifier for Link's movement speed.
  • 0x00 to 0x-- = normal
  • 0x01 to 0x0F = slow
  • 0x10 to 0xFF = fast

Negative values actually reverse your direction!

• $58[0x01] = Bitfield describing interactions with stairs tiles. uuuussss
  • s - Stair tiles
  • u - free ram

If this masked with 0x07 equals 0x07, Link moves slowly, like he's on a small staircase

• ${{{1}}}[{{0x|01] would have.
• $6E[0x01] = (archiving but not sure if this is correct) Related to certain tile behaviours (see tile type 2 I think) nearby
  • moving against a \ wall from below: 0
  • moving against a \ wall from above: 2
  • moving against a / wall from below: 4
  • moving against a / wall from above: 6
• $6F[0x03] = As of now, I consider this to be free ram
• $72[0x01] = ????
• $73[0x01] = has value 0x02 when master sword beam is active...
• $74[0x02] = ??? Related to moving water?
• $76[0x02] = When link interacts with certain tile types, the index of that tile gets stored here.
• $78[0x01] = possibly used in the context of chests.
• $79[0x01] = Controls whether to do a spin attack or not (Found by PARCCC from gshi)
• ${{{1}}}[0x01] = free ram?
• $A0[0x02] = The index used for loading a dungeon room. There are 296 rooms all in all. (mirrored in other variables).
• $A2[0x02] = Points to the previous dungeon room.
• $A4[0x02] = Indicates the current floor Link is on in a dungeon.
• $A6[0x01] = Set to 0 or 2, but it depends upon the dungeon room's layout and the quadrant it was entered from.
• $A7[0x01] = ""
• $A8[0x01] = Composite of dungeon room layout info and quadrant info that gets updated periodically 000cccba
  • ccc - layout that the room uses (0 to 7 obviously)
  • b - ORed in value of $AA
  • a - ORed in value of $A9
• $A9[0x01] = 0 if you are on the left half of the room.
  • 1 if you are on the right half.
• $AA[0x01] = 2 if you are the lower half of the room.
  • 0 if you are on the upper half.
• $AB[0x02] = free ram?
• $AD[0x01] = ??? collision?
• $AE[0x01] = In dungeons, holds the Tag1 Value. (see Hyrule Magic)
• $AF[0x01] = In dungeons, holds the Tag2 Value. (see Hyrule Magic)
• $B0[0x01] = Sub-submodule index. (Submodules of the $11 submodule index.)
• $B1[0x01] = free ram?
• $B2[0x02] = Width indicator for drawing dungeon objects
• $B4[0x02] = Height indicator for drawing dungeon objects
• $B7[0x03] = Used as storage during dungeon loading for a 3-bit pointer to be indirectly accessed.
• $BA[0x02] = Often used as a position into a buffer of data during dungeon loading.
• $BD[0x0?] = ??? height for initializing sprites?

Address recorded during tile interactions? (Bank 07)

• $BF[0x??] = Used during the dungeon
• $C8[0x01] = (in menus) keeps track of what part of a menu you are in.

For example, 0 - 4 on the select game screen, 0 - 2 for each save game, 3 & 4 are copy and erase game. 541(in ending module) 16 bit timer used for stepping through each ending sequence.

• $E0[0x02] = BG1 horizontal scroll register ($210F)
• $E2[0x02] = BG2 horizontal scroll register ($210D)
• $E4[0x02] = BG3 Horizontal Scroll Register ($2111)
• $E6[0x02] = BG1 Vertical scroll register ($2110)
• $E8[0x02] = BG2 Vertical scroll register ($210E)
• $EA[0x02] = BG3 Vertical Scroll Register ($2112)
• $EC[0x02] = Tilemap location calculation mask. Is only ever set to 0xFFF8 or 0x01F8
• $EE[0x01] = In dungeons, 0 Means you’re on the upper level.

1 Means you’re on a lower level. Important for interaction with different tile types.

• $EF[0x01] = Room Transitioning Value (bitwise)

bit 0 - Toggles between BG0 and BG1. One example: Sanctuary and Hyrule Castle. (see door type up-11) bit 1 - Transition between Sewer and Hyrule Castle. Xors the dungeon index by 0x02.

• $F0[0x01] = Unfiltered Joypad 1 Register: Same as $F4, except it preserves buttons that were being

pressed in the previous frame.

• $F1[0x01] = Unfiltered Joypad 2 Register: Same as $F5, except it preserves buttons that were being

pressed in the previous frame. Note: Input from joypad 2 is not read unless you do some ASM hacking.

• $F2[0x01] = Unfiltered Joypad 1 Register: Same as $F6, except it preserves buttons that were being

pressed in the previous frame.

• $F3[0x01] = Unfiltered Joypad 2 Register: Same as $F7, except it preserves buttons that were being

pressed in the previous frame. Note: Input from joypad 2 is not read unless you do some asm hacking

• $F4[0x01] = Filtered Joypad 1 Register: [BYST | udlr].

Lower case represents the cardinal directions, T = start. S = select.

• $F5[0x01] = Filtered Joypad 2 Register: [BYST | udlr].

Lower case represents the cardinal directions, T = start. S = select. Note: Input from joypad 2 is not read unless you do some asm hacking

• $F6[0x01] = Filtered Joypad Register [AXLR | ????]

LR: The shoulder buttons. ? = unknown inputs

• $F7[0x01] = Filtered Joypad Register [AXLR | ????]

LR: The shoulder buttons. ? = unknown inputs. Note: input from joypad 2 is not read unless you do some asm hacking.

• $F8[0x01] = ???
• $FC[0x02] = .... Overrides for dungeon room transitions? (Seen used with big bombable walls)
• $FF[0x01] = Vertical IRQ Trigger (this is the vertical scanline that will trigger the IRQ)