Entry 45

Levels 14 and 15, the hub's gates, docs/levels

2026-10-151h 28mplay

Two more delegated maps, and the level pages moved to their own folder.

docs/levels (asked by the user): levels 2-15 and golf moved out of docs/engine. Links both ways and the code's doc paths followed. rugrats-re's index has a "Levels" section.

Level 14 (docs/levels/level-14.md): The Return of Mr. Friend is cut. Nothing reaches it in retail:

• no hub door has 14;
• the Activities list is 13, 17, -2, 18;
• the bonus chain is 20, 15, 21, 17;
• the debug menu (0x8003bea0) is never enabled.

Nothing wins it either: no ending cine, no 0x80076d6c(14, ..) caller, no puzzle piece; its 2-bar case is dead. The port runs it as it is, through level 9's code with a level 14 flag:

• Mr. Friend follows and bites for 15;
• the kick (50) and throws stagger him every time;
• there are no sounds, and his death ends nothing.

Level 15, Mirrorland (rugrats::level15):

• Six ? boxes (207-212) in rooms 25, 19, 21, 5, 2, 45. Triangle beside one starts its colour:
  • the room picks the group and slot (0x8007d02c);
  • the colour's balloons go to the group's spots;
  • 90 s on the clock.
• Balloons taken count up (sound 113). The last stops the clock and fills the icon.
• Checkpoints come after the first and third colour; six play cine 72, won.
• The clock out is a cry. It returns Tommy to the respawn and undoes every colour opened since the last checkpoint. Tries are 0: never out.
• HUD: six icons (311 empty, 305-310 full by group) and the counter's balloon with the number left.

Framework:

• Placement +0x4a is kept apart from +0x48. Collectibles with many copies not placed at load wait for the level (the balloons).
• Sprites::billboard: a sprite as a camera-facing quad in the world, wound for the culled world pass. The balloons are sprites 299-304, 240 x 300. Game keeps the last view and a frame count.
• The hub's gates on +0x30 bit 16, set at cine 73's start:
  • doors to 3, 4 and 6 show card 712 until then;
  • the mirror (templates 836, 881) becomes the door to 15.

Checked: box 210 opened beside it starts blue, 25 balloons over the bedroom floor, 90 on the clock; the balloons show where they float and hide behind walls.