SCUMM/Technical Reference/Room resources

SCUMM Technical Reference → Room resources

SCUMM V1

A room resource is located as the first chunk in a LFL File.

Header

The room resource starts with a 28 bytes header containing the following information:

Location	Format	Data
0x00	UInt16LE	Size of the room resource chunk
0x02	???	Unknown
0x04	UInt16LE	Room width in tiles
0x06	UInt16LE	Room height in tiles
0x08	???	Unknown (Always 0 in NES)
0x0a	UInt16LE	Offset to gfx nametable location (NES)
0x0c	UInt16LE	Offset to gfx attrtable location (NES)
0x0e	UInt16LE	Offset to mask flag value location
0x10	???	Unknown (On NES both these values are equal)
0x12	???	Unknown
0x14	UInt8	Number of objects in room
0x15	UInt8	Offset to number of boxes location
0x16	UInt8	Number of sounds in room (Always 0 in NES)
0x17	UInt8	Number of scripts in room
0x18	UInt16LE	Offset to exit script location
0x1a	UInt16LE	Offset to entry script location

All offsets are relative to the start of the chunk.

Note: Because of the following constraints:

• Offset to box number location is an UInt8, thus must be in the first 255 bytes of the chunk
• The header takes 28 bytes
• The size of object images and object content offsets are 4 bytes per object

The total number of objects per room must be less than 57:

(256 - 28) / 4 = 57

Data

Object images

From byte 0x1c starts the offsets to object images:

Location	Format	Data
0x1c	UInt16LE	Offset to object 1 image location
0x1e	UInt16LE	Offset to object 2 image location
...	UInt16LE	Repeated as many times as there are objects in room

Object content

From there, there is the list of offsets to each object content:

Location	Format	Data
0x1c + objNum * 2	UInt16LE	Offset to object 1 content location
0x1e + objNum * 2	UInt16LE	Offset to object 2 content location
...	UInt16LE	Repeated as many times as there are objects in room

Number of boxes

The boxes number in the room is located at the boxes number offset specified in the header.

Location	Format	Data
Offset to number of boxes	UInt8	Number of boxes in room

Note: Some LFL files have unknown data between the last object content offset and the boxes number offset location. For most file however, both data are contiguous.

Boxes

2 bytes after the offset to number of boxes starts the payload for the boxes. Each box takes 8 bytes described as follow:

Relative location	Format	Data
0x00	Int8	uy
0x01	Int8	ly
0x02	Int8	ulx
0x03	Int8	urx
0x04	Int8	llx
0x05	Int8	llx
0x06	Int8	mask
0x07	Int8	flags