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Maniac Mansion (DOS)

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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)