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 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, if you consider the MIM to be one big image, just multiply this value by 128 and add it to the source X coordinate<br />
 unknown bit, always 1 (except in ending.map)<br />
-unknown bits, may be related to blending/effects<br />
+bits, related to image deph. If < 4 there is two color indexes per byte (4-bit indexed), else there is one color index per byte (8-bit indexed)<br />
 Unknown byte, always 0 (except in ending.map)<br />
 unknown bits, always 0<br />
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 bit, always 0<br />
 bits, layer id<br />
-byte specifying which blend mode to use for this tile, 1 is additive blending, 4 seems to be the default (no blending)<br />
+byte specifying which blend mode to use for this tile, 1 is additive blending, 2 is subtractive blending, 3 seems to be +25%, 4 seems to be the default (no blending) and 0 is unknown (elview1)<br />
 byte, background animation id<br />
 byte, animation state<br />
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 Possible Z coordinate<br />
 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, same as above<br />
-unknown bits<br />
+unknown bits (maybe same as above)<br />
-Unknown byte, always 0<br />
+unknown byte, always 0<br />
 unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />

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 Another 16-bit value, probably a fixed-point representation of the Z coordinate (divide by 4096 to get a floating point value)<br />
 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, if you consider the MIM to be one big image, just multiply this value by 128 and add it to the source X coordinate<br />
-unknown bits, may be related to blending/effects<br />
+unknown bit, always 1 (except in ending.map)<br />
-Unknown byte, rarely 1 (ending.map), often 0<br />
+unknown bits, may be related to blending/effects<br />
 unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
 unknown bits, always 15<br />
-Two bytes, source X and Y coordinates to sample the tile from<br />
+bytes, source X and Y coordinates to sample the tile from<br />
-byte may be a layer id<br />
+bit, always 0<br />
 byte specifying which blend mode to use for this tile, 1 is additive blending, 4 seems to be the default (no blending)<br />
-unknown bytes, the last one may be related to background animation<br />
+byte, background animation id<br />
 === Type 2 ===
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 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
 unknown bits, always 15<br />
-unknown bytes<br />
+byte, background animation id<br />

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 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, if you consider the MIM to be one big image, just multiply this value by 128 and add it to the source X coordinate<br />
 unknown bits, may be related to blending/effects<br />
-Unknown byte, rarely 1, often 0<br />
+Unknown byte, rarely 1 (ending.map), often 0<br />
 unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
 unknown bits, always 15<br />
 Two bytes, source X and Y coordinates to sample the tile from<br />
-Unknown byte<br />
+byte may be a layer id<br />
 byte specifying which blend mode to use for this tile, 1 is additive blending, 4 seems to be the default (no blending)<br />
 unknown bytes, the last one may be related to background animation<br />
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 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, same as above<br />
 unknown bits<br />
-Unknown byte, rarely 1, often 0<br />
+Unknown byte, always 0<br />
 unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
 unknown bits, always 15<br />
 unknown bytes<br />

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 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, if you consider the MIM to be one big image, just multiply this value by 128 and add it to the source X coordinate<br />
 unknown bits, may be related to blending/effects<br />
-Unknown byte, always 0 (?)<br />
+Unknown byte, rarely 1, often 0<br />
-unknown bits<br />
+unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
-unknown bits<br />
+unknown bits, always 15<br />
 Two bytes, source X and Y coordinates to sample the tile from<br />
 Unknown byte<br />
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 bits, which 128x256 texture to use, same as above<br />
 unknown bits<br />
-Unknown byte, always 0 (?)<br />
+Unknown byte, rarely 1, often 0<br />
-unknown bits<br />
+unknown bits, always 0<br />
 bits specifying which palette to use, add 8 to this number to get the right palette from the MIM<br />
-unknown bits<br />
+unknown bits, always 15<br />
 unknown bytes<br />

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 = MAP Files =
-MAP files contain data about the tiles used to draw the field background. Every 16 bytes of the file is one 16x16 tile, ending with the special signature 0x7FFF followed by 12 zero bytes.
+MAP files contain data about the tiles used to draw the field background. There is no header, every 16 bytes of the file is one 16x16 tile from the MIM data, ending with the special signature 0x7FFF followed by 12 zero bytes.
 == Tile format ==
-=== Type 1 (Paletted images?) ===
+=== Type 1 ===
 Two signed 16-bit integers, X and Y relative to center (0, 0)<br />
 Another 16-bit value, probably a fixed-point representation of the Z coordinate (divide by 4096 to get a floating point value)<br />
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 unknown bytes, the last one may be related to background animation.<br />
-=== Type 2 (Non-paletted images?) ===
+=== Type 2 ===
 X and Y, same as above<br />
 Source coordinates, both 16-bit this time<br />