Disassembly Notes (NES)
Demo
If you sit idle on the title screen for a while, a demo plays. It's triggered by the frame counter rolling over to 00
8 times in a row. The frame counter cycles through from 00
-FF
. So this means it takes anywhere from ~29-34 seconds to start ((256 frames * 7 + [1,256] frames) / 60 frames per second). It can be disabled a number of ways, but the simplest way is editing the jump offset (to 0
) when it decides to load the demo code (at $9905
), accomplishable through the Game Genie code AAAPSP
. Next, while the demo board is a generatable one (seed 03BE
), it's stored directly in the ROM ($CF00
-$CF7F
) and loaded into memory. The capsules generated do not match this seed, but they're stored right after the board ($CF80
-$CFFF
). The controls are stored in pairs of bytes, the first byte being the buttons pressed (bitmask - A, B, Select, Start, Up, Down, Left, Right) and the second being the number of frames to hold down those buttons. These are stored right after the board/capsules at $D000
-$D1FF
.