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!!! RAM addresses

http://www.romdetectives.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Arkanoid_(NES)_-_RAM

!!! Score tally algorithm

When you score points, the points don't immediately go into the player's score
(which is an array of 6 decimal digits starting at 0x0370).
Instead they go into a "score increment" array (6 decimal digits starting at 0x037c).
The points are moved from the score increment to the player's score
a little each frame.
10 points are transferred per frame while the tens digits of the score increment is nonzero;
otherwise 100 points are transferred.
You cannot advance to the next level until all points have been transferred out of the score increment.

See also [6347S#ImprovementsOverThePreviousTas] "Why time the score tally?…"

The score tally algorithm starts at 0x8dcb in the ROM.
In pseudocode, it works like this:

%%SRC_EMBED
const DELTA_10  = [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0];
const DELTA_100 = [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0];

if (score_increment == [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]) {    // 0x037c
    // Early exit if the increment is zero.
    return;
}

if (score_increment[4] != 0) { // Tens digit
    delta = DELTA_10;   // 0x8e59
} else {
    delta = DELTA_100;  // 0x8e5f
}

// Subtract delta from score_increment, store result in score_increment.
decimal_subtract(score_increment, delta, score_increment);

if (current_player == 0) {  // 0x0019
    player_score = p1_score;    // 0x0370
} else {
    player_score = p2_score;    // 0x0376
}
// Add delta to player_score, store result in player_score.
decimal_add(player_score, delta, player_score);
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