Hardcoded zero in Dig Dug score

[NostAlgae37]

Hi, where do I find the location of the last digit of the Dig Dug score? I was using Hack-O-Matic to change the score font to match the arcade version of the game, but I noticed after doing so that the final digit of the score remains the same (see screenshot below), so it must be stored some other way than as graphics. And if so, is it even possible to alter it? Thanks.

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

The '0' graphics are not stored as data. Instead the code loads the immediate values, pushes them onto the stack and pulls them for drawing.

L9194
    ldx     #$cd                    ;2  stack pointer, do NOT touch this value!
    txs                             ;2        
    lda     #$6c                    ;2  2nd line
    pha                             ;3        
    lda     #$c6                    ;2  middle line, repeated 3x      
    pha                             ;3        
    pha                             ;3        
    pha                             ;3        
    lda     #$6c                    ;2  last but one line      
    pha                             ;3        
    lda     #$38                    ;2  first AND and last line!      
    pha                             ;3  first line at bottom of stack (pulled first)      
    sta     ram_CE                  ;3  last line at top of stack (pulled last)

[NostAlgae37]

OK, but after I altered all of the graphics for the score digits (including the zero), why does the last digit (which is always a zero) continue to look like the old font instead of the new font (the first 2 zeros in the screenshot above)? Is there another zero graphic located somewhere else in the rom that I missed (I thought that all of the score numerals were stored in a row in one place)?

Edited March 21, 2019 by NostAlgae37

[Thomas Jentzsch]

You got me wrong. The last zero exists only as code, not as data/graphic. So you have to change the code to change the last zero.

[Nukey Shay]

Change the 2 #$6C values shown in the code snippet to be #$4C and #$64.

 

You'll see them at $0198 and $01A0 when using a bithacker.

Edited March 21, 2019 by Nukey Shay

[NostAlgae37]

Thanks Nukey, that fixed it.

Edited March 27, 2019 by NostAlgae37