More points per item
To give Willy more than 100 points for collecting an item:
POKE
36739,43 - 1,000 points
POKE 36739,42 - 10,000 points
POKE 36739,41 - 100,000 points
Note that giving Willy 10,000 points or more per item means he won't be able to
gain extra lives (normally granted every 10,000 points) by collecting items:
Willy gains an extra life only when the
thousands digit rolls over
from 9 to 0 (see
90EA).
More lives
To start the game with N lives remaining (0<=N<=255; normally N=2):
Note that the routine at
870E tries to draw all remaining lives at the
bottom of the screen, which means that for large N, there is screen corruption
and the game slows down considerably; to avoid this, disable the drawing of
more than one remaining life: