As you can see, it gets long and impractical very quickly.Įverything in game ROMs - be it programming, graphics, sound, text, assets, and anything else - is written in bits (zero or one), with each group of eight bits called a byte. If this sounds too complicated, you can load Calculator in programmer mode to do conversions between decimal and hexadecimal. Typically, hexadecimal numbers are written with the prefixes 0x or h so that they are not confused with decimal equivalents (e.g., 0x10, decimal 16). On the other hand, the hexadecimal base is base 16 and goes in the following sequence: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A (a single 'digit' meaning ten in decimal), B (eleven), C (twelve), D (thirteen), E (fourteen), F (fifteen), then finally 10 (sixteen, (1 * 16) + 0 or (1 * 16^1) + (0 * 16^0)), 11 (seventeen, (1 * 16) + (1 * 1)), 12 (eighteen, (1 * 16) + 2), and so on. The number ten can be mathematically represented in decimal as (1 * 10) + (0 * 1) or (1 * 10^1) + (0 * 10^0). Our normal counting system uses the decimal base, or base 10, and goes in the following sequence: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and so on. 5.11 Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island.5.5 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.4.1 General purpose 2D graphics/tile editor.

Hex fiend load table