Alien (BUGFIX 1.7): Data at 41444

64-byte starting state (eight 8-byte records) copied by LongGameInit into $737E-$73BD: slot 0 ($737E) is the alien, then one 8-byte record per crew slot ($7386 Dallas ... $73B6 Brett — the per-line comments below name them).

Per-record field layout: see ActorRecords. In particular +1 is the STARTING ROOM (6 = CommdCentr, 27 = Mess) and +4 is the crew member's strength. The Long Game opens with Dallas, Kane and Ripley on the bridge and Ash, Lambert and Parker in the Mess — the film's dinner scene, ready for message #33 "Alien has hatched from {actor}". LongGameInit stamps $FF into +1/+7 of the host slot chosen via LongGameHostSlotTable (the HostMarker).

All seven crew slots start with non-zero +4/+5/+6, so every crew member is alive and placed when a Long Game begins. LongGameInit's script-driven step at 42313-42334 then marks one slot as the chestburster host — the only crew whose +1 and +7 will hold $FF after init.

64-byte starting state (eight 8-byte records) copied by LongGameInit into $737E-$73BD: slot 0 ($737E) is the alien, then one 8-byte record per crew slot ($7386 Dallas ... $73B6 Brett — the per-line comments below name them). Per-record field layout: see ActorRecords. In particular +1 is the STARTING ROOM (6 = CommdCentr, 27 = Mess) and +4 is the crew member's strength. The Long Game opens with Dallas, Kane and Ripley on the bridge and Ash, Lambert and Parker in the Mess — the film's dinner scene, ready for message #33 "Alien has hatched from {actor}". LongGameInit stamps $FF into +1/+7 of the host slot chosen via LongGameHostSlotTable (the HostMarker). All seven crew slots start with non-zero +4/+5/+6, so every crew member is alive and placed when a Long Game begins. LongGameInit's script-driven step at 42313-42334 then marks one slot as the chestburster host — the only crew whose +1 and +7 will hold $FF after init.
41444	DEFB 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0	slot 0 ALIEN (room written by CommonGameInit)
41452	DEFB 0,6,0,0,6,4,4,0	slot 1 Dallas — CommdCentr, strength 6
41460	DEFB 0,6,0,0,5,4,4,0	slot 2 Kane — CommdCentr, strength 5
41468	DEFB 0,6,0,0,4,3,3,0	slot 3 Ripley — CommdCentr, strength 4
41476	DEFB 0,27,0,0,5,4,4,0	slot 4 Ash — Mess, strength 5
41484	DEFB 0,27,0,0,6,4,4,0	slot 5 Lambert — Mess, strength 6
41492	DEFB 0,27,0,0,6,4,4,0	slot 6 Parker — Mess, strength 6
41500	DEFB 0,0,0,0,5,3,3,0	slot 7 Brett — placed separately by init