Just an update, I s'ppose, for the sake up updating, as no one seems particularly experienced in LA hacking (or interested; dunno).

I've found quite a few things by trial, error, and modification.  I now know how to expand room size and have generated lists (though not full) of enemies, events and items.  I've been breaking down the game (as seen on my site) into its addresses and such in the hopes of finding a lot of the info I want.  As of now, I can modify almost every aspect of the underworld and the foes, warp data, and general screens on the overworld.  However, there are some issues:

The programmers made the overworld pretty odd.  Not only is the 16x16 screen world stored in 2 halves in different sections of the game, but that coding is only for the physical aspects of the screens.  There's another layer that has all the sprites pasted over it that I've yet to find.  Is this a standard practice in most games?  Seems a little inefficient to me....

Another oddity is the way they stored some data.  I expected things like Store items and payable goods to be located easily by searching for the amount of rupees they are (as they must deduct that amount from the player).  Unfortunately, it is not so.  This also applies to things like name recognition (ZELDA on the main area allowing that rockin' music; a player's name changing to THIEF when items are stolen; etc).  While I found from the savestate that names are apparently stored by 1 letter before the true letter (so ZELDA would be YDKCA), that didn't help in the search either.  I'd really like to mod things like the store of Trandy Game, but it seems all up to guesswork and random correuption at this point.

A final riddle to me is some of the event data.  There's a single flag, for instance, that translates to each of the photographs somehow on every screen where one is available.  I don't quite know what tells the game what photo cutscene to trigger besides just programming the screen in.  I hope to gain some insight on this (and other things of this nature).

Sorry to bog you all down with LA stuff that's probably not terribly useful, but I figured I'd get it all out there in the hopes of someone else with an interest in the game helping or a veteran hacker providing some tips or patterns to keep an eye out for so I can better understand this stuff.  Thanks for your time!

From the initial post, it looks like he didn't thoroghly explore the program and was looking for someone to give him a walkthrough of all the editors features. For future reference, you should fully explore the editor, and only ask questions if you are completely sure that an editor can't do something.

I didn't say he didn't. I'm saying it sounded like he didn't. But so far I'm the only one who responded to him, other than the previous bump post, even tho the topic is over two weeks old. So I made my assessment why noone had.

I looked through acmlm's board's archive and dug you out the link which is still working:

http://www.geocities.com/matrixz15/NephiU0210.zip

Copy and paste that into your browser address bar if it doesn't work.

Hmm...when I try to run the program you linked to, Dan, it says some component is missing: 'COMCT232.OCX' or that one of its dependencies is not correctly registered.    Am I doing something wrong/missing something?

Oh, but the dat file that came with it is most helpful!  It agrees with everything I've found thus far and adds to it!  <3  This should help quite a bit; thanks a ton!