No death damage

No death damage is the maximum damage that Link can take without dying even when he would normally not survive^[1]. This is used to implement one-hit kill protection.

In Master Mode, no death damage is disabled (when aoc2 flag 0x8 is set)^[2].

Calculation

The no death damage value is calculated as follows^[3]:

NoDeathDamageBase + floor(PlayerMaxLife × NoDeathDamageAdd) / 4

where NoDeathDamageBase and NoDeathDamageAdd are parameters in Link's bgparamlist. In 1.5.0, those values are 20 (= 5 hearts) and 4 (= 1 heart) respectively.

References

↑ 0x7100851A24 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}
↑ 0x7100851A24 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}
↑ 0x7100886B08 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}

[1] 0x7100851A24 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}

[2] 0x7100851A24 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}

[3] 0x7100886B08 ^{[nx-1.5.0 executable]}

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