Here's the item list, subdivided by type.

Warning: May contain spoilers

Item Types

General Items

Weapons

Armors

Key Items

Technical Information

Basic item data is found starting at offset 0x070210 in the English ROM, and offset 0x070010 in the Japanese ROM. Extended data such as use effects and special equipment abilities (partial immunity, for example) are not found here and are presumably scripted elsewhere. The data is organized as follows:

Name (bytes 0 to 7)

The item's displayed name, using the same character encoding as the rest of the game. The main text may reference these names using the special code 0x0Ann (from the nameless item at 00 to the Plate at FF). This is a rather clever scheme that both helps with text compression and prevents name mismatches between the inventory and the game text (provided, of course, that the reference is used instead of hardcoding it, and that the code used is the correct one).

Cost (byte 8 and 9)

The standard store price of the item, stored in little-endian format (least significant byte first). The sell value is half of this amount.

Description (byte 10)

Acts as a pointer to the description that appears in the menu.

Unknown (byte 11)

This is always either 0x0A or 0x8A. Items with offensive spell effects use 0x0A, while the rest use 0x8A.

Flags (byte 12)

The bits in this byte have the following effects when set.

• Bit 7: Cannot be sold
• Bit 6: Targets allies when used
• Bit 5: Multiple targets when used
• Bit 4: Can be used in combat. Note that this includes all equipment, even though most do nothing useful.

For weapons and armors:

• Bit 3: Ice damage or resistance
• Bit 2: Thunder damage or resistance
• Bit 1: Fire damage or resistance
• Bit 0: Holy damage or resistance

For all other items:

• Bit 3: Can be used out of combat
• Bit 2: Currently unknown (set only for the Old Man's Mirror)
• Bit 1: Currently unknown (no obvious pattern)
• Bit 0: Disables stacking in inventory

Who Can Wear (byte 13)

For equipment, the individual bits in this byte specify who can equip the item (a 1 means it's allowed for the corresponding character, and a 0 means it's not). Most weapons can only be equipped by a single character (only Ryu, for example, is 0x80), while most accessories can be used by anyone (0xFF).

• Bit 7: Ryu
• Bit 6: Bosch (Bow)
• Bit 5: Rand
• Bit 4: Lin Pu (Katt)
• Bit 3: Nina (and also the secret character)
• Bit 2: Tapeta (Jean)
• Bit 1: Sten
• Bit 0: Aspara (Spar)

Power or Unknown (byte 14)

For weapons, this is attack power.

For armors, this is defense power.

For other items, it's always either 0x40 or 0x00, with no obvious pattern. Further analysis may follow.

Type, Weight, or Flags (byte 15)

For armors, 0x80 indicates headgear, 0x40 indicates shields, and other values indicate body armor with weight equal to the value. Weight detracts from Mobility.

For weapons and other items, this appears to be a flag field. Preliminary conjectures are below, with more analysis to follow.

Weapons:

• Bit 7: Attacks all enemies (Auto Bow only)
• Bit 6: Makes two attacks (Twin Bow only)
• Bit 5: (always 0)
• Bit 4: wind item effect? (Brass Knuckles, Buster Bow)
• Bit 3: ice item effect? (none)
• Bit 2: thunder item effect? (Emperor's Sword, Rider Tonfa, Storm Ring)
• Bit 1: fire item effect? (Fire Ring, Dragon Blade)
• Bit 0: holy item effect? (Jet-Black Ring, Kagenui, Nothung)

Interestingly, bits 7 and 6 work together perfectly if you edit a weapon to have both, causing the attacker to strike all enemies twice. Neither flag has any effect when counterattacking, though, which doesn't normally matter since only Bosch can use the bows and he can't counterattack anyway.

All other items:

• Bit 7: Undetermined, but it does seem to be set only for fishing bait (Coin, Earthworm, Prawn, Horned Turban Shell, All-Purpose Bait) and the edible results of hunting (Poultry, Meat, Gristle, Sinew, Liver, Roast, Egg, Sirloin). Thanks to Jamie J for pointing out a pattern.
• Bit 6: Allow as cooking ingredient?
• Bit 5: (always 0)
• Bit 4: wind item effect? (Kamikaze Ball only)
• Bit 3: ice item effect? (Glacier Shard, Shaved Ice)
• Bit 2: thunder item effect? (Thundercall only)
• Bit 1: fire item effect? (Fire Spice, Deadly Flame)
• Bit 0: holy item effect? (Okonomiyaki only)

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Key Items

These appear in their own separate section in the inventory and have no additional properties beyond their name and description.

Technical Information

Key item names are found starting at offset 0x056948 in the English ROM, and offset 0x056752 in the Japanese ROM. Descriptions are stored in the same text area as normal item descriptions, with nothing obvious to link them to the items, so it may just grab them in order from a starting offset.

Each key item's name is preceded by two bytes, with the second one always 0x0A and the first running from 0x6A for Doodoo's Axe through 0x7D for the Harking Hood, except for Suzi, which has 0xA0 and comes before Doodoo's Axe. The names themselves, not including the two lead bytes, are eight bytes long. Several more item-like entries, consisting of a single entry of 0x7E0A plus eight 0x00 bytes followed by several entries of 0x070A plus eight 0x00 bytes each, appear after the apparent end of the list, and may be unused placeholders. Perhaps the blank 0x7E0A entry acts as an "end of list" marker?

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