EarthBound/Enemy Configuration Table

Enemy Configuration Table
Game	[[EarthBound]]
Start Address	0x159789
End Address	0x15EC5A
# of Entries	231
Entry Length	94 bytes (0x5E)
Total Length	21714 bytes (0x54D2)
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The Enemy Configuration Table stores most of the data for enemies which is used inside battles. The first enemy is named "null" and has an index of 0. Information about where enemies spawn is in the enemy placement data and spans a few tables.

Format

"The" flag

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

If the "The" flag is 1, then the word "the" is put in front of the enemy's name whenever it is mentioned in combat.

Name

• Length: 25 bytes (0x18)
• Offset within entry: 0x01-0x19
• Range of values: String of plain EarthBound text

Name of the enemy in plain EarthBound text.

Gender

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x1A
• Range of values: 1-3

The gender of the enemy indicates which pronoun should be used when referring to it: male (1), female (2), or neutral (3).

Type

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x1B
• Range of values: 0-2

The elemental type of the enemy. Enemies can be normal (1), insect (2), or metal (3). This changes the affects of certain items.

Battle sprite

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x1C-1D
• Range of values: 0x0000-0xFFFF (must be a valid battle sprite index)

The sprite to be used in battle to represent this enemy. Note that byte 0x35 determines the palette used.

Out of battle sprite

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x1E-1F
• Range of values: 0x0000-0xFFFF (must be a valid out of battle sprite index)

Run flag

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x20
• Range of values: 0-1

If true (1), then the enemy will run away from the player if the player's level is greater than the enemy's level.

HP

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x21-0x22
• Range of values: 0-65535 (0x0000-0xFFFF)

The number of hit points the enemy has. That is, the amount of damage which must be dealt to the enemy before it dies (unless the enemy heals itself).

PP

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x23-0x24
• Range of values: 0-65535 (0x0000-0xFFFF)

The number of physic points the enemy has. Physic points (mana points) are used when casting PSI (spells). If the enemy runs out of physic points, they cannot cast any more PSI.

Experience

• Length: 4 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x25-0x28
• Range of values: 0x00000000-0xFFFFFFFF

The amount of experience granted to the player's party upon defeating the enemy. This is spilt among however many playable characters there are in the player's party (1-4).

Money

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x29-0x2A
• Range of values: 0-65535 (0x0000-0xFFFF)

The amount of money added to the player's ATM account upon defeating the enemy.

Movement

• Length: 2 bytes
• Offset within entry: 0x2B-0x2C
• Range of values: 0-65535 (0x0000-0xFFFF)

This chooses the enemy's out of battle movement pattern. Exactly how this works is not well understood.

Start text pointer

• Length: 4 bytes (0x4)
• Offset within entry: 0x2D-0x30
• Range of values: 0x00000000-0x00FFFFFF, but it must point to valid text; may or may not require a pointer to the ROM as opposed to RAM

Pointer to the text shown when you start a battle with this enemy.

Death text pointer

• Length: 4 bytes (0x4)
• Offset within entry: 0x31-0x34
• Range of values: 0x00000000-0x00FFFFFF, but it must point to valid text; may or may not require a pointer to the ROM as opposed to RAM

Pointer to the text shown when you defeat this enemy.

Battle sprite palette

• Length: 1 byte
• Offset within entry: 0x35
• Range of values: 0-255 (0x00-0xFF0), but above 31 (0x1F) is garbage

The palette used for the battle sprite. Only values 0-31 (0x00-0x1F) are meant to be used; higher values go into other non-palette data, but still work and therefore may be useful.

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