Treasure Mountain Save File

Treasure Mountain Save File

Format type	Saved game
Save locations	Returned to level start
Elements saved	Player and saved game level data
Games	Treasure Mountain

The DAT Format is used to store player data and currently saved level if there is any.

This file is 3,242 bytes in total. It functions as a repository for player-specific data, encompassing individual player profiles and their respective saved game level.

File format

Each player is saved in 360 bytes sections, with a maximum of 9 players. 360 x 8 = 3240 and the remaining 2 bytes are just the end of the file 0x0000

The file begins with the following structure:

Decimal	Hex	Data Type	Description
0	0x00	BYTE	Start of file
1	0x01	UINT16LE	! Unknown
3	0x03	ASCIIZ	Player Name(9-char null-padded fixed length strings)
12	0x0C	BYTE	Saved game(Boolean)
13	0x0D	UINT16LE	Player Score
105	0x69	UINT16LE[9]	9 Quizzes for the elves
123	0x7B	BYTE[9]	Elf answers state
132	0x82	BYTE|[9]	Words for the current game
141	0x89	BYTE[48]	Treasures collected
190	0xBE	BYTE[10]	Level Chunks level 3
203	0xCB	BYTE[15]	Level Chunks level 2
219	0xDB	BYTE[19]	Level Chunks level 1
238	0xEE	BYTE	Secret Cave Chunk (0x4B coins, 0x49 no coins)
239	0xEF	BYTE	Level 3 Exit Chunk (0x26 Closed, 0x3C Open)
240	0xF0	BYTE	Level 3 Bridge Chunk (0x2F Stable , 0x30 Broken)
241	0xF1	BYTE	Level 3 Exit Chunk (0x26 Closed, x03C Open)
242	0xF2	BYTE	Level 2 Exit Chunk (0x38 closed, 0x35 Open)
243	0xF3	BYTE	Level 2 Bridge Chunk (0x2F Stable , 0x30 Broken)
244	0xF4	BYTE	Level 2 Net Rock Chunk
245	0xF5	BYTE	Level 1 Net Rock Chunk
246	0xF6	BYTE	Level 1 Exit Chunk (0x40 closed, 0x4C Open)
247	0xF7	BYTE[11]	Level 3 Treasures in each chunk
260	0x104	BYTE[13]	Level 2 Treasures in each chunk
276	0x114	BYTE[20]	Level 1 Treasures in each chunk
307	0x133	BYTE[3]	Amount of treasure collected each level
310	0x136	BYTE[6]	Treasure duplication
323	0x143	BYTE	Game Difficulty
225	0x145	BYTE	Current Tileset
327	0x147	UINT16LE	Player Coin count in current saved game
329	0x149	UINT16LE	Player Net count in current saved game
335	0x14D	BYTE	Current level key state (Collected or not)
337	0x14F	BYTE	Net Spawned
338	0x151	UINT16LE[8]	Player and Camera Saved Position
347	0x15B	BYTE	Amount of coins left required to open net rock
348	0x15C	UINT16LE	Net count amount for player for new game
350	0x15E	UINT16LE	Coin count amount for player for new game
353	0x161	BYTE	Music on or off (Boolean)
355	0x163	BYTE	Sound on or off (Boolean)
359	0x167	BYTE	Currently selected treasure in clubhouse

File Information

Player Name

Player name is a string with null terminator at the end, this string can only be maximum 8 characters so 9 BYTES in total if including null terminator

Player Score

Player score has a rank system based on it's value

Score Range	Rank
0 - 4	Trainee
5 - 24	One Star
25 - 69	Two Star
70 - 114	Three Star
115 - 169	Four Star
170 - 229	Five Star
230 - 299	Six Star
>= 300	Champion

Elf

Quiz

Elf quizzes are indexed based from 0 to the last quiz there is. The quiz is made up of 2 bytes, the first byte is the index of quiz from the Treasure Mountain Puzzles file. The next byte is if the quiz has been solved or note, 0x00 if it has not been solved otherwise 0x80 if it has been solved.

Position/Status

This is the status of the quiz at it's current answered state, now the position of both the quizzes and the elf change in the save file. ! Unsure exactly what controls which position they take or how it tracks it There are different codes 0x07 to 0x00, 0x07 means nothing has been chosen and 0x00 means all choices have been made. ! The other codes in between unsure exactly what they are for, 1 answered, 2 answered maybe which answer top/bottom etc?

Level Code Words

There are 9 code words and they are stored and indexed from the SST.EXE file, it starts at position 100416/0x18840 and increments by one separated by a null terminator until position 100734/0x1897E. It is saved in it's index value + 123 and when the word is found you minus 123 again to save that the word has been found.

Treasure Collection

This is the treasure collected in game there are 48 treasures to collect in total, it is arrayed based where by default all slots start with no treasure 0x80. The first treasure starts at 0x06 and is incremented by 2 until each treasure until the final of 0x64.

Hex	Treasure
0x06	Handkerchief
0x08	Sail Boat
0x0A	Ice-cream
0x0C	Map
0x0E	Watering Can
0x10	Xylophone
0x12	Flute
0x14	Telescope
0x16	Fruit Bottle
0x18	Pie
0x1A	Clam
0x1C	Honey Vase

Hex	Treasure
0x1E	Balloon
0x20	Vase
0x22	Teddy Bear
0x24	Candy Cane
0x26	Award First Place
0x28	Four Leaf Clover
0x2A	Mirror
0x2C	Flower Pot
0x2E	Cake
0x30	Ice Skates
0x32	Drum
0x34	Shoes

Hex	Treasure
0x36	Windmill
0x38	Jack-In-The-Box
0x3A	Lantern
0x3C	High Heels
0x3E	Necklace
0x40	Skate Board
0x42	Candle
0x44	Top Thing
0x46	Lamp
0x48	Fish Bowl
0x4A	Train
0x4C	Carriage

Hex	Treasure
0x4E	Cabuse
0x50	Rocket
0x52	Dog
0x54	Cat
0x56	Ring
0x58	Pig
0x5A	GenieLamp
0x5C	Pong Board
0x5E	Plane
0x60	Funky Glasses
0x62	Twirly Hat
0x64	Swan

Level Chunks

The main game level in Treasure Mountain is just one big room made up of chunks it is 18 by 18 chunks, every chunk is 128x128 pixels.

Treasure Collected Amount

This is one byte for each level saying how many treasures you have collected, this is just for the sprite at the bottom right of the screen.

Hexadecimal	Number
0x00	None
0x01	One
0x03	Two
0x07	Three
0x0F	Four
0x1F	All Treasures

Net Spawner

The chunk when closed is 0x47 and 0x46 when opened, this is when the coins left which is also stored in a byte reaches 0. Then the actual item is spawned the net spawned byte when saving is 0x00 otherwise by default it's 0x04 for nothing. Now there are sprites for numbers 1-6 so if you change the value to 6 it will show it but the game always resets it to 4. Also if you keep putting up the value it will just go through the sprite sheet and start showing all the other images in it.

Treasure Duplication

This uses bitwise operator to check which items are duplicated in your treasure collected array, the binary value of 10001101 means the first, third, fourth and eighth treasures are duplicated. Increments for each byte by 8 until you get 48 bits in total from right to left each byte for each treasure room.

Player and Camera Position

As mentioned before the game level is just one big room so there is the player and camera positions saved in the file. It goes like this player x, player y, camera x and camera y. How to read the data is it comes in 2 bytes, lets start with the second byte. This byte is the level chunk x 2, now this works with the first byte which is the distance right of the chunk specified. So 0x8003 would be 128 pixels right of the 6th chunk.

Current Treasure

By default it starts as 0xFFFF since there are no treasures collected when you make a new player, but when you collect one it will change to the treasure value. It replaces the treasure in your treasure collected array with 0x80 when saving, you can then work out the index when loading the game from that as the first 0x80 will be the current treasure index.

Credits

This file format was reverse engineered by Trogdor. If you find this information helpful in a project you're working on, please give credit where credit is due. (A link back to this wiki would be nice too!)