Proto:The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past/Mid-1991 Overdump/Entities

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Entity List

- It should be noted that some Sprites may not have the correct palette, this is currently a ongoing effort to correct these errors.

#	Name	Translation	Image	Identification	Notes
00	-				Dummied out. Used to be TTN01. Entity 00's movement code pointer leads to the data table following where TTN01's movement code once was in the source code's zel_enmy.lst, labeled ENCAXL. TTN01 is already commented out in the earliest existing entities-by-area list, zel_endt3.asm.
01	SKL01	Skeleton 01			Not present in the final game's entity list.
02	SKHED	Skeleton Head		Stalfos Head
03	ESW01	[?] Switch 01		Correct Switch	Not present in the final game's entity list.
04	ESW02	[?] Switch 02		Correct Pull Switch (Down)
05	ESW03	[?] Switch 03		Correct Pull Switch (Up) 1	Unused in the final game.
06	ESW12	[?] Switch 12		Incorrect Pull Switch (Down)
07	ESW04	[?] Switch 04		Correct Pull Switch (Up) 2	Unused in the final game.
08	OCTA1	Octorok 1		Octorok [?]	Graphics for Slarok do not exist here.
09	OCTA2	Octorok 2			Not present in the final game's entity list.
0A	OCTA3	Octorok 3		Octorok [?]
0B	NIWAT	Chicken		Cucco	Graphics for the skeletal Dark World Cucco do not exist here.
0C	OCTAM	Octorok Orb		Octorok Projectile
0D	NYORO	Wriggle		Buzz Blob	Eye and mouth graphics for Cukeman, who shares this entity ID with Buzz Blob in the final, do not exist here.
0E	BATTA	Grasshopper			Not present in the final game's entity list.
0F	OCTBL	Octo Balloon		Octoballoon
10	OCTSS	Octorok (Super Small)		Mini Octorok
11	IWAOO	Rock King			Not present in the final game's entity list.
12	-				Dummied out. Used to be SEKZ1.
13	-				Dummied out. Used to be FOOD1.
14	-				Dummied out. Used to be FOOD2.
15	-				Dummied out. Used to be FOOD3.
16	-				Dummied out. Used to be FOOD4.
17	MOTS1	Motos 1		Helmasaur
18	-				Dummied out.
19	BABUL	Bubble		Bubble	Has a different appearance here.
1A	JITON	Old Man on Overworld		Sahasrahla?
1B	SHIGE	Shige		Hoarder (Grass)
1C	-				Dummied out. Used to be SARU3. Entity 1C's movement code pointer leads to the data table following where SARU3's movement code once was in zel_enmy.lst, labeled TTGBDCD. A single instance of SARU3 is not commented-out in the earliest entities-by-area list, zel_endt3.asm (which predates the overdump), but all other instances are commented out in all lists.
1D	TOTUG	Charge			Not present in the final game's entity list.
1E	-				Dummied out. Used to be SARU1. Entity 1E's movement code pointer leads to data immediately precedes YATAM's, which is also the case for SARU1's movement code in zel_enmy.lst. A single instance of SARU1 is not commented-out in the earliest entities-by-area list, zel_endt3.asm (which predates the overdump), but all other instances are commented out in all lists.
1F	YATAM	Arrow Orb		Arrow Projectile
20	SEKZ4	Statue 4		Stone Statue
21	-				Dummied out.
22	PONPK	[?]			Not present in the final game's entity list.
23	TAAM1	Crystal 1			Not present in the final game's entity list.
24	JAKIO	Impo			Not present in the final game's entity list.
25	REBA1	Lever 1		Water Level Lever
26	KOKE1	Moss 1			Not present in the final game's entity list.
27	ZOOL1	Zol 1		Red Bari	Has a different design here which resembles a Metroid.
28	ZOOL2	Zol 2		Blue Bari	See the note above.
29	DRGN1	Dragon 1			Not present in the final game's entity list.
2A	MOTS0	Motos 0		Hardhat Beetle
2B	OHYES?/MANY2 [?]				Not present in the final game's entity list.
2C	-				Dummied out.
2D	JIJII	Old Guy		Flute Boy's Father [?]
2E	BABAA	Old Lady		Sweeping Lady
2F	SLEEP [?]
30	NOKOG	Saw		Lumberjacks	Uses a placeholder message ID for dialogue.
31	PENKI	Paint		Painter	Formerly an NPC, this entity's content was replaced by a Telepathic Tile in the final game.
32	KUTUU	Suffering		Flute Boy	Graphics for the transformed Dark World form do not exist here.
33	MEIR0	Maze 0			Lacks code which checks if the player entered the maze from the incorrect side.
34	MEIR1	Maze 1			Appears as a blue-dressed, brown-haired woman (a palette swap of the younger Informant Woman) in this version instead of the blue-haired, blue-clothed man.
35	ULANI [?]
36	NOPPO	Lanky		Feuding Twins	Has sprites for walking/facing in multiple directions.
37	JIJI1	Old Man 1			Not present in the final game's entity list. This entity's graphics routine is dummied, meaning it would be invisible.
38	ONNAA	Woman		Informant Woman
39	HIGEE	Beard		Innkeeper	Behaves identically to ONNAA and BABA1.
3A	MAJOO	Witch		Witch
3B	JIJI2	Old Man 2		Mayor [?]	Not present in the final game's entity list.
3C	KIANA	Keyhole
3D	-				Dummied out. Used to be BUBUU. Entity 3D's movement code pointer leads to a lone RTL instruction between the movement code for KIANA and and initialization code for BABA1. This corresponds to BUBUU's commented-out code in zel_enmy2s.asm, in which only an RTL instruction is left intact.
3E	-				Dummied out.
3F	-				Dummied out.
40	-				Dummied out.
41	BABA1	Granny 1		Old Woman
42	ISHI0	Rock 0		Hoarder (Rock)
43	BARI0	Barricade Knight 0		Barricade Soldier
44	BARI1	Barricade Knight 1		Agahnim's Tower Lightning Barrier
45	HEIS0	Soldier 0		Sword Soldier (Blue, Closed Helmet)
46	HEI00	Soldier 00		Sword Soldier (Green, Shield in Left Hand)
47	HEIS1	Soldier 1		Spear Soldier (Red, Open Helmet) [?]
48	HEIS2 [?]
49	HEIS3 [?]
4A	HEYA0 [?]
4B	HEYA1 [?]
4C	HEYA2 [?]
4D	HEYA3 [?]
4E	HEBO0 [?]
4F	MIHA0	Watchman 0			Not present in the final game's entity list.
50	ZAKO0 [?]
51	[?]
52	[?]
53	[?]
54	[?]
55	[?]
56	[?]
57	ZORAB	Zora Big		King Zora
58	NOMOS	Nomos		Armos Knights
59	RANEM	Lanmola		Lanmola
5A	[?]
5B	[?]
5C	[?]
5D	[?]
5E	[?]
5F	[?]
60	[?]
61	[?]
62	[?]
63	CHAN0
64	CHAN1
65	CHAN2
66	CHAN3
67	MEDUS/NL777	Medusa		Beamos
68	ATARS	Success Sword		Master Sword
69	ARI00	Ant 00		Devalant (Blue)
6A	ARI01	Ant 01		Devalant (Red)
6B	YASAN	Arrow Proprietor		Shooting Gallery Keeper
6C	HODIR	Battery Right		Cannon (Right)
6D	HODIL	Battery Left		Cannon (Left)
6E	HODID	Battery Down		Cannon (Down)
6F	HODIU	Battery Up		Cannon (Up)
70	[?]
71	[?]
72	HYUUU	Fyuuu
73	NEZU0	Mouse 0		Rat	Buzz is not present as a Dark World reskin of this entity.
74	HEBI0	Snake 0		Rope	Skullrope is not present as a Dark World reskin of this entity.
75	HEBI1	Snake 1			Not present in the final game's entity list.
76	KOMO0	Bat 0		Keese	Chasupa is not present as a Dark World reskin of this entity.
77	MOTAM	Motos Orb
78	[?]
79	BWAKO	Lake		Venus the Queen of Fairies, Cursed Fairy	Lacks checks in code for being present in the Lake Hylia fairy pond or the alternate behaviors associated with it. This means the version that changes your luck and increases your Bomb or Arrow capacity in exchange for Rupees does not exist, only the item upgrade version. Code for drawing the Dark World's Cursed Fairy is also absent, even though she has early graphics.
7A	[?]
7B	BOUSI	Hat		Running Man
7C	SYOBY	Commerce Y		Street Merchant
7D	HELP0	Help 0		Princess Zelda
7E	BIGBL	Big Bubble
7F	JOHBB	Information Granny		Sahasrahla's Wife
80	HACHI	Bee		Bee
81	SHSAI	Priest		Agahnim
82	SHTAM	Priest Ball		Agahnim Projectile
83	[?]
84	[?]
85	BAAR0	Bar 0		Guruguru Bar (Rotates Clockwise)
86	BAAR1	Bar 1		Guruguru Bar (Rotates Counterclockwise)
87	HBTAM	Snake Ball		Winder
88	AMENB	Water Strider		Water Tektite
89	BABU2 [?]
8A	MEDAM	Eyeball		Eyegore (Green)	Goriya (Green) is not present as an alternate Dark World entity for this ID.
8B	MEDA2	Eyeball 2		Eyegore (Red)	Goriya (Red) is not present as an alternate Dark World entity for this ID.
8C	SKELT	Skeleton		Stalfos (Yellow)
8D	CHIBI	Mini		Kodongo
8E	CHFIR	Mini Fire		Kodongo Fire
8F	BIGKO	Big Moth		Mothula	Has a different, batlike appearance.
90	BKFIR	Big Moth Fire		Mothula Fireball
91	HARI0	Needle 0		Stationary Spike Block
92	MIIRA	Mummy		Gibdo
93	PATAR	Patra		Arrghus
94	PATAM	Patra Mini		Arrghi
95	KAM01	Turtle 01		Terrorpin
96	SLIME	Slime		Slime
97	HANDS	Hands		Wallmaster
98	SKELB	Skeleton (Big)		Stalfos Knight
99	MOTSB	Motos (Big)		Helmasaur King	The code indicates that the old version of the boss didn't have a breakable mask, and Link likely targeted its tail to take it down. This may be connected to the Helmasaur King exploding from its tail upward when it is defeated in the final game.
9A	BYOYN	Boyoing		Bumper
9B	[?]
9C	[?]
9D	[?]
9E	[?]
9F	[?]
A0	[?]
A1	[?]
A2	[?]
A3	[?]
A4	[?]
A5	[?]
A6	[?]
A7	[?]
A8	ICMAN [?]
A9	ICBOS	Ice Boss		Kholdstare
AA	ICEBG [?]
AB	ICTAM [?]
AC	POLIW	Polygon Woman		Maiden
AD	RINGO [?]			Apple
AE	HELP1	Help 1		Lost Old Man
AF	[?]
B0	[?]
B1	[?]
B2	[?]
B3	[?]
B4	[?]
B5	[?]
B6	[?]
B7	[?]
B8	[?]
B9	[?]
BA	[?]
BB	[?]
BC	[?]
BD	[?]
BE	[?]
BF	[?]
C0	[?]
C1	[?]
C2	[?]
C3	[?]
C4	[?]
C5	[?]
C6	[?]
C7	[?]
C8	KINOK	Mushroom		Mushroom
C9	SUKAS	Let-Down Sword		Illusory Master Sword
CA	MJSY1	Witch Shop 1		Apprentice
CB	UTUWA	Container		Heart Container
CC	[?]
CD	LINE0 [?]
CE	OOISU	King Chair		Castle Mantle
CF	LINE1 [?]
D0	LINE2 [?]
D1	LINE3 [?]
D2	MONOR	Monolith

Unknown Entities

HAGE0 (Vulture) Entities

These entities are possibly related to the final version's HAGE0 (vulture), further investigation is needed.

First Entity
Second Entity
Third Entity
Fourth Entity
Fifth Entity

Mole Man

Appears to be a mole man of some sort. It seems to throw rocks at Link, and has a defeated Sprite. Strangely this sprite was found only facing in one direction.

Opening/closing mouth
Arms at side
Hit by a rock

Tomato Monster

A monster that looks like a giant tomato. There are two frames of an animation and a single frame facing a different direction. An attempt was made to reconstruct the sprite on what it could have possibly looked like based on its body and surviving eye position.

Two-frame animation
Third frame
Reconstruction of third frame

Early Chain Chomp

Unused appearance of Chain Chomp, the associated entity code seems to be missing from SD compared to the final. The sprite has all of its directional pointers, as demonstrated below.

Saber tooth Cat

Some kind of saber tooth cat.

Running
Facing diagonal
facing down

General Info

Some fragmentary data shows enemies that were seen in developer workspace data. Notably, the graphical data does not include the Bug Catching Net, possibly indicating it was implemented late.

Comparing removed entities from the source code to those in the overdump, it appears that multiple older entities were already being removed, but weren't yet replaced with newer ones. For these, the movement code pointer is set to $0000, which points to an RTS instruction (RTS stands for "Return to Subroutine", which means the original subroutine was stubbed), or to a data table following the end of an existing routine (meaning that a label was left behind in the assembly and the code itself was commented out).

Entities that fit one of these descriptions include but are not limited to the following:

• TTN01 (Darknut)
• TARUV (Barrel - Vertical)
  • TARUH, the horizonal version, was already replaced at this point with something else at this point.
• SARU1 and SARU3 (Monkey 1 and 3)
• FOOD1 to FOOD4 (Edible Food)
• SEKZ1 (Stone Statue)

However, many scrapped entities are still present and have indices in the pointer tables, including:

• DRGN1 (Dragon 1)
• SKL01 (Skeleton; a scrapped version of Stalfos; SKHED, SKELT, SKEL2, and SKELB are the ones used in the final)
• OCTA2 (an Octorok variant; OCTA1 and 3 are the ones used in the final)
• PONPK (?)
• TOTUG (Charger)
• MANY2 (the second variant of whatever Keronpa is; MANY1 was replaced already)
• TAAM1 (an earlier Crystal Switch; TAAMA exists in the final)
• BATTA (Grasshopper)
• IWAOO (Jumping Rock)
• JAKIO (Scythe Ghost)

Bosses

Unassembled Prototype Helmasaur King

Unassembled Prototype Dragon

Unassembled Prototype Darknut

(Source: Source for Graphic and Palette Data: Dark_Linkaël)

NPCs

Assorted

The final game contains a sprite sheet that's titled 4a-4h.CGX in the source code. It features graphics for various NPCs. There are three different versions of the sheet, arranged below from earliest to latest.

Source Files	Overdump	Final

Differences in these sprites made between the Overdump and the final version include the following:

• Ganon is missing.
  • Ganon's Tower doesn't exist in the Overdump's underworld map, and it's the last dungeon in the internal dungeon list, suggesting that it was a late addition. Perhaps the developers hadn't yet gotten around to implementing Ganon himself by this time, either.
• The Soldier doesn't have a helmet.
• Sahasrahla's Friend is missing.
• The Witch's Assistant has a different appearance.
• The Street Merchant has a completely different head, which sort of resembles the Middle-Aged Man's. He also lacks any alternate animation frames.
  • An early .SCR that fits well with the Overdump's Kakariko Village graphics, and thus probably dates from a similar era, has a grassy field where this NPC usually sits.

JIJI2 - Mayor

Entity $3B. Its name translates to "OLD GUY 2".

This entity is absent from the final game, but there are two unused messages associated with it in an early script file that predates the overdump. Assuming the entity hadn't changed its identity in the interim, the messages suggest that this was the sprite for the Town Mayor.

PENKI - Painter

Entity $31. Its name translates to "PAINT", likely short for "PAINTER".

In the final game (where it exists as entity $2D), this entity is a Telepathic Tile. However, there's some unused code surrounding this entity in which the painter's OAM data is still used by it in certain contexts. When the final's NPC graphics are applied to it, the result is an NPC with the head of Sahasrahla's Friend floating several pixels above his body, wearing the arm and glass of the drunkard from the bar as a hat.

Overdump	Final (Unused)

There are two unused dialogue messages associated with this entity: msg0190 and MS_0190.

Running Man

This version of the Running Man entity is very similar, if not identical, to the one seen in an April, 1991 prerelease screenshot.

Sweeping Granny

Similarly, this version of the Sweeping Granny entity is very similar, if not identical, to the one seen in an April, 1991 prerelease screenshot.