Entry 31

Pause menu, collectibles, progress and saving

2026-10-156mplaysaveui

The level is now something to play and come back to.

Pause (0x8003e05c, 0x800398bc mode 0, laid out by 0x80035fec):

• "Game Paused" in font 1, over Continue?, Save Game?, Quit Game?, Load Game? and Quit Level? in font 0 at the original's positions. The strings are 1-6 of the table at 0x800bb4e8.
• Left/Right move by 2 and Up/Down switch rows, with sounds 124 and 125. Cross picks (126), Triangle or Start continues.
• Quit Game and Quit Level ask again with "Yes?"/"No?" (0x800c48f0, 0x800c48ec), No first.
• Quit Game goes to the title. Quit Level goes to the hub, or to the title from the hub and training.
• Save Game writes the card (below). Load Game in play is not ported.
• The fonts are now in every level's VRAM at (960, 256), where boot leaves them for good.

Collectibles. Template class 12 (0x80049af4) makes them through 0x80048a44 (object class 11), the kind from template +0x26.

• Touching one within its model radius plus the player's takes it, with its kind's sound from 0x800514b0's cases.
• Each level has seven Reptar bars (kind 3), numbered in the order they are made (0x800c4ba8), plus a cookie or two (kind 4).
• A bar shows the count at (-150, -80) for 1500 dt.

Back in the hub after a level, the player stands at 0x800b8718[level] (Grandpa's Teeth: (37002, 779, 9866)), as level 1's EpisodeStart callback places it.

Progress (rugrats::progress, the 328-byte state at 0x800c5678): the level and the one before, character, volumes, played, completed, pieces, and bars found and spent per level. A found bar sets its bit (0x80094a58) and stays taken on later visits.

Saving goes through the 1:1 card file in work/memcard/slot1.

• Save::put_record writes record k: "GAME k", the state at +0x20, the used bit in word 1, last-saved in word 3, then the sums (0x8007062c).
• Pause's Save Game writes the record last used, else 1.
• The title's Load Game reads it back and starts in the hub.
• A test round-trips a state through the record and the file's bytes, with the sums checking.