Lol sounds good.  Because even with your dynamic storage, it is possible for the player to view the entire map, at which you will need that amount of memory.  Personally i dont think 8000 bytes is too much for a save file of a game of this magnitude, especially if it winds up being an App (which might be a good idea)

Ya i agree. Good luck on getting everything worked out though

Id say take out the earthquake all together, its so annoying when you have this huge mine dug, and then all of a sudden whoop deo doo you have to dig the whole thing over again

Yeah, 8 KB isn't too bad for such a big game, especially if you set that as the size from the beginning.

I'm still pretty sure I'm just going to use a spare RAM page.

I didn't know Axe could do that...hmm

Well, asm programs can access them, but outside of a program, the calculator will crash if they are used.  You have to be careful, but there is more RAM for programs to use.

You know, what I do in the PC version for earthquakes is instead of digging a one width tunnel, I'll dig it two wide. During earthquakes it's just shifting it to the right or left, and two wide makes it easier to find, so I can reclaim the lost distance.

That's not my problem as much as having to lower myself little by little (needing to redig) rather than falling to previous location in under 15 seconds

I forgot about that.
I'll try to think of something.