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Another WIP, just noting my progress here while editing my own save.

There are two files for the USA version, since it has Puzzle and Dragons Z + SMB edition. I'm only focusing on the SMB edition, which is MagnumV01.dat (via SDF)

Fruit: Offset 7BF8
Rare Fruit: Offset 7C08
Star Gem: Offset 7C78
Boo Coin: Offset 7CE0
Cheep-Cheep Coin: Offset 7CC8
Goomba Coin: Offset 7CC0
Lakitu Coin: Offset 7CD8
Super Star: Offset 7BE8
Grand Super Star: Offset 7BB0
Star Coin: Offset 7BD0
Grand Star Coin: Offset 7B98
Green Star Coin: Offset 7BD8
Grand Green Star Coin: Offset 7BA0
Fire Flower: Offset 7B40
Ice Flower: Offset 7B50
Boo Mushroom: Offset 7B58
Flame Chomp Coin: Offset 7CD0
P-Wing: Offset 7B90
Super Leaf: Offset 7B48
Super Mushroom: Offset 7B38
Poison Mushroom: Offset 7B88
Gold Mushroom: Offset 7BE0
Grand Gold Mushroom: Offset 7BA8
Comet Medal: Offset 7BF0
Grand Comet Medal: Offset 7BB8
Spiky Shell: Offset 7C00
Grand Spiky Shell: Offset 7C10

Edit: I discovered something through tinkering - while these offsets store the quantity of the given items, it seems there's another byte that tells the game whether or not you've unlocked the item. I had a save backup from before I got any Grand Green Star Coins, and tried setting 99 of them - what happened was that I DID get 99 of them, but it took the place of the regular Green Star Coin, which I also should have had 99 of.

I don't really have a way of finding the additional bytes, as too much has changed between my old backup and my new one, unless somebody else wants to look into it.

But my recommendation is that you wait until you get at least one of an item "legally" (you can get the Grand items before beating Bowser, you just have to get some really large chains - I got a Grand Comet Medal by getting a chain of 15 or so I believe) and THEN modify your quantities to have more of them.
 
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