Shop Merchandise Table locations

0×1e09b0 — 0×1e0a95. This is the important table, the one that the game seems to use exclusively.

0×1dfc9c — 0×1dfd81. It is unclear to me why this bit-for-bit equivalent table is found in the ROM, but it does not seem to serve any purpose.

The data structure size is variable, and is driven by the shop pointer table. Again, this will be discussed later.

Shop Data

To illustrate the merchandise available in all the shops in Final Fantasy 1 DOS, I’ve decided to list the data in a table format that shows exactly where to find the data, and the data you’ll find there. I have not ascertained exactly where some of the shops are, as some of them are in Dawn of Souls dungeons. There are 51 shops in the game.

Hex	Location	Merchandise	Hex Data
0×1e09b0	Coneria	Weapons	FD 01 02 03 04 05
0×1e09b6	Coneria	Armor	FC 01 02 03
0×1e09ba	Coneria	Items	FE 01 0b 09 10
0×1e09bf	Coneria	White Magic	01 02 03 04
0×1e09c3	Coneria	Black Magic	21 22 23 24
0×1e09c7	Pravoka	Weapons	FD 05 06 07 08
0×1e09cc	Pravoka	Armor	FC 02 03 04 1c 3a
0×1e09d2	Pravoka	Items	FE 01 04 0b 0d 09
0×1e09d8	Pravoka	White Magic	05 06 07 08
0×1e09dc	Pravoka	Black Magic	25 26 27 28
0×1e09e0	Elfheim	Weapons	FD090a0b0c
0×1e09e5	Elfheim	Armor	FC040b1d2a2b
0×1e09eb	Elfheim	Items	FE010b0c0e11
0×1e09f1	Elfheim	White Magic, Lv. 3	090a0b0c
0×1e09f5	Elfheim	White Magic, Lv. 4	0d0e0f10
0×1e09f9	Elfheim	Black Magic, Lv. 3	29 2a 2b 2c
0×1e09fd	Elfheim	Black Magic, Lv. 4	2d 2e 2f 30
0×1e0a01	Melmond	Weapons	FD 0b 0c 0d 0f
0×1e0a06	Melmond	Armor	FC 05 0c 2c 3b 3c
0×1e0a0c	Melmond	White Magic	11 12 13 14
0×1e0a10	Melmond	Black Magic	31 32 33 34
0×1e0a14	Crescent Lake	Weapons	FD 10 11 12 13
0×1e0a19	Crescent Lake	Armor	FC 06 1e 23 2d 3d
0×1e0a1f	Crescent Lake	Items	FE 01 02 04 09 11
0×1e0a25	Crescent Lake	White Magic	15 16 17 18
0×1e0a29	Crescent Lake	Black Magic	35 36 37 38
0×1e0a2d	Onlac	Items	FE 02 04 0a 0c 12
0×1e0a33	Onlac	White Magic	1b 1c
0×1e0a35	Onlac	Black Magic	3b 3c
0×1e0a37	Gaia	Weapons	FD 23
0×1e0a39	Gaia	Armor	FC 0d 41
0×1e0a3c	Gaia	Items	FE 02 04 09 11 12
0×1e0a42	Gaia	White Magic, Lv. 7	19 1a
0×1e0a44	Gaia	White Magic, Lv. 8	1e 1f 20
0×1e0a47	Gaia	Black Magic, Lv. 7	39 3a
0×1e0a49	Gaia	Black Magic, Lv. 8	3e 3f 40
0×1e0a4c	Lefein	White Magic	1d
0×1e0a4d	Lefein	Black Magic	3d
0×1e0a4e	Caravan	Bottle	0f
0×1e0a4f	Caravan	Items	1f 20 21 22 23
0×1e0a54	Dawn of Souls	Items	FD 30 3f FC 1a FE 02 22
0×1e0a5c	Dawn of Souls	Items	FD 35 3e FC 17 FE 05 09
0×1e0a64	Dawn of Souls	Items	FD 3a FC 14 28 38 FE 0a
0×1e0a6c	Dawn of Souls	Items	FD 3b 37 FC 39 29 FE 1c
0×1e0a74	Dawn of Souls	White Magic	19 1a 1b 1c
0×1e0a78	Dawn of Souls	White Magic	1d 1e 1f 20
0×1e0a7c	Dawn of Souls	Black Magic	39 3a 3b 3c
0×1e0a80	Dawn of Souls	Black Magic	3d 3e 3f 40
0×1e0a84	Dawn of Souls	Weapons	FD 21 24 1e 1f 1d
0×1e0a8a	Dawn of Souls	Armor	FC 0f 10 24 41 3e
0×1e0a90	Dawn of Souls	Items	FE 17 18 19 1a 1b

Merchandise specification conventions

Merchandise can be preceded by one of three special characters, as can be deduced from the above table. FD denotes that the IDs to follow will denote weapons. FC denotes that the IDs to follow will specify armor, shields, helmets, or gauntlets. FE denotes that the IDs to follow will denote a non-equipable item. If the merchandise is not preceded by one of these special IDs, they pertain to magic spells.

It is possible to have different merchandise types in a store. It is also possible to have more than five items in a store, as the developers allowed for scrolling merchandise windows without any extra hacking!

Shop Pointer Table

0×1e070c — 0×1e08a3. This is the real pointer table, that the game uses.

0×1dfb04 — 0×1dfc8b. As above, this bit-for-bit equivalent of the table above is found in the ROM and I do not know why it is there. In my mod, I actually made this table point to the same table as the first pointer table above, without ill effects.

Data structure size: 8 bytes

Let’s take a look at the first record, at 0×1e070c:

The “Contents” byte

This byte is broken up into two 4-bit sections. The first four bits in the above example, rendered as 1, specifies the graphic to be displayed when navigating shop menus. The last four bits, rendered as 5, specify how many bytes to read for this shop. This is not necessarily the number of items sold! This count does not account for any FC’s, FD’s, and FE’s present in the data string. Therefore, a 5 could signify an shop string like this: FD 01 02 03 04 05.

Here’s a list of the Graphic IDs:

• 1— Weapon Shop

• 2— Armor Shop

• 3— Item Shop

• 4— Caravan

• 5— White Magic

• 6— Black Magic

The pointer

Remember, all pointers are stored in Little Endian style, so the above pointer would read data from 0×081e09b0.