This page contains notes for the game Maniac Mansion (DOS).
[todo: everything under the sun]
Rooms#
- 1 - House exterior
- 2 - Pool bottom
- 3 - Living room
- 4 - Dungeon
- 5 - Library
- 6 - Swimming pool
- 7 - Kitchen
- 8 - Basement
- 9 - Safe attic
- 10 - Foyer
- 11 - Foyer upstairs
- 12 - 3rd floor (Green Tentacle blocking)
- 13 - Statue hall
- 14 - Art room
- 15 - Wire attic
- 16 - Garage
- 17 - Music room
- 18 - Arcade
- 19 - Edna's room
- 20 - Green Tentacle's room
- 21 - Dr. Fred's room
- 22 - Dr. Fred's office
- 23 - Dark room
- 24 - Bathroom
- 25 - Ted's room
- 26 - Weird Ed's room
- 27 - Den
- 28 - Observatory
- 29 - Under porch
- 30 - Inner lab
- 31 - Outer lab
- 32 - Outer space (Meteor Police)
- 33 - Intro
- 34 - Safe closeup
- 35 - Alien easter egg
- 36 - Pantry
- 37 - Dining room
- 38 - 4th floor hallway (Ed's, gym)
- 39 - Meteor Mess high score
- 40 - Publisher commercial
- 41 - Publisher's office
- 42 - Talk show studio
- 43 - Keypad
- 44 - Driveway
- 45 - Character select
- 46 - Roof
- 47 - Mansion at distance
- 48 - Edsel in space
- 49 - Scrolling title
- 51 - Meteor's room
Verbs / Events#
- 1 - Open
- 2 - Close
- 3 - Give
- 4 - Turn on
- 5 - Turn off
- 6 - Fix
- 7 - New kid
- 8 - Unlock
- 9 - Push
- A (10) - Pull
- B (11) - Use
- C (12) - Read
- D (13) - Walk to
- E (14) - Pick up
- F (15) - What is
- FF - Any verb
Objects#
- 11 - Weird Ed
- 13 - Purple Tentacle
- 60 - Contract
- 84 - Flashlight
- 104 - Card key
- 152 - Tools
- 157 - Circuit breakers
- 163 - Dungeon-to-lab security door with keypad
- 214 - Badge
- 225 - Wire (left)
- getState08(<object#>) - door open, thing on
Variables / Flags#
Starts at 47. No 107
- VAR_EGO - current character
- 47
- 48 - Current character? (1: Syd, 2: Michael, 3: Wendy, 4: Bernard, 5: Razor, 6: Jeff)
- 49 - Also related to characters?
- 50 - Flashlight battery status (0: empty?, 1: old batteries, 2: new batteries)
- 51-54 - Related to phone
- 52-58 - Related to safe
- 59-62 - Related to lab keypad
- 67 - Keypad input check for lab inner door and safe. If =0, door opens. If =1, door stays closed.
- 75 - Times called Meteor Police
- 81 - Envelope state (0: closed, 1: steamed, 2: ripped)
- 82 - Envelope contents (0: empty, 1: manuscript, 2: cassette tape)
- 83 - Envelope stamped
- 84 - Envelope open
- 85 - Related to microwave???
- 86 - Checks if Syd or Razor got recording contract
- 87 - Ed heard doorbell first time
- 88-91 - Related to Ed stuff??
- 92 - Gave package to Ed
- 93 - Gave developed prints to Ed
- 94 - Victrola record (25: tentacle mating calls, 44: old record)
- 95 - Method of kid death
- 96, 97 - Related to deaths
- 98 - Amount of food given to Green Tentacle. 7 required to pass, or wax fruit
- 99 - Green Tentacle is thirsty?
- 100 - Got uncancelled stamps
- 101 - Contract status (???)
- 102 - Heard Green Tentacle talk about being depressed
- 103 - Went upstairs from 3rd floor (Green Tentacle guard). Starts package arriving script 111
- 104 - Typed address on envelope
- 105 - Green blocking kid. Prevents another character from going up stairs
- 106 - Ed told you he wants plans
- 108 - Related to Dr. Fred encounter???
- 109, 110, 111 - Not sure, but seems important????
- 143 - Reason Ed leaving room (1: doorbell, 2: hungry)
- 151 - Purple Tentacle dealt with (Green or Ed handled, gave publishing contract, or showed badge)
- 156 - Flashlight on
- 160 - Manuscript state (0: original meteor manuscript, 1: rewritten badly, 2: rewritten by Wendy)
- 166 - Jar status (0: empty, 1:? 2: water?, 3: developer fluid)