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01/24/2014 12:07 PM ·Spoilers

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If I can only carry 256 hearts, why are there four digits?!

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  • HIGHscores

    01/24/2014 3:39 PM ·Spoilers

    The great mysteries of life :)

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  • SamusA2G

    01/31/2014 5:13 AM ·Spoilers

    It's because of technical limitations. That said, I wonder why and how it was able to go past 255 (trivia: 255 is [usually] the highest number allowed in the 8-bit computer world)...

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  • DudeSean

    01/31/2014 10:28 AM ·Spoilers

    @SamusA2G I'm well aware of how NES games work. Each byte is a hexadecimal unit ranging from 00 to FF, or 255. My question is, why did they make it a four digit number if the maximum is only three?

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  • DudeSean

    01/31/2014 10:30 AM ·Spoilers

    As for how to go beyond 255, you would use a second byte to go along with it. Which, it almost seems that's they did here since the maximum is over 255, but only one higher.

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  • HIGHscores

    01/31/2014 10:32 AM ·Spoilers

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  • DudeSean

    01/31/2014 10:33 AM ·Spoilers

    Most bytes in NES games are either 1 or 0, anyway (on or off), so they probably have one byte that determines if you have any hearts (0 or 1) and another that determines how many you have (0O-FF).

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