Booty: Routine at 53386

When a new game starts, the player lives have already been set to 4 in DisplayIntroductionScreen.

*GameState will be set to 2 after the player has collected the golden key and the game restarts. This is how the game ensures that the lives and booty count are not reset.

Game modes 1 and 2 appear to be mostly identical, however as the booty count is retained in the new game - this means the animals will continue to appear more frequently as the count checks if the number of items of booty is higher than 100. See the check at AnimalsEventTiming.

Used by the routines at TitleScreen and GoldfishGame.
When a new game starts, the player lives have already been set to 4 in DisplayIntroductionScreen. *GameState will be set to 2 after the player has collected the golden key and the game restarts. This is how the game ensures that the lives and booty count are not reset. Game modes 1 and 2 appear to be mostly identical, however as the booty count is retained in the new game - this means the animals will continue to appear more frequently as the count checks if the number of items of booty is higher than 100. See the check at AnimalsEventTiming.
StartGame	53386	LD A,(23537)	Jump to SetNormalGame if *PlayerLives is equal to 4.
	53389	CP 4
	53391	JR Z,SetNormalGame
Else the game has been looped already so set *GameState accordingly.
	53393	LD A,2	Write "Game Looped Mode" (2) to *GameState.
	53395	LD (23536),A	Write "Game Looped Mode" (2) to *GameState.
	53398	JP NewGame	Jump to NewGame.
This is a normal "new" game.
SetNormalGame	53401	LD A,1	Write "Normal Game" (1) to *GameState.
	53403	LD (23536),A	Write "Normal Game" (1) to *GameState.
Initialise...
NewGame	53406	CALL InitialiseGame	Call InitialiseGame.
This looks as though the game might start the Goldfish Game if you reach here without losing all your lives?
	53409	LD A,(23537)	Jump to DisplayIntroductionScreen if *PlayerLives is equal to 255.
	53412	CP 255
	53414	JP Z,DisplayIntroductionScreen
	53417	JP GoldfishGame_InitialiseGame	Jump to GoldfishGame_InitialiseGame.