ok so i haven't started a full disassembly of no mercy
and given the fact that there are four variants to deal with...
this isn't going to be fun.

still, I want to try and locate some of the important things I've previously
found in VPW2, despite the game largely changing codebase-wise.

the "base" version is NTSC-U v1.0

================================================================================
unsorted
================================================================================

Runtime Locations
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
Function        | NTSC-U v1.0 | NTSC-U v1.1 | PAL v1.0 | PAL v1.1 |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
LoadDataDMA     |   8000062C  |
aki_malloc      |   800007D4  |
aki_free        |   8000093C  |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+

Z64 ROM Locations
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
Function        | NTSC-U v1.0 | NTSC-U v1.1 | PAL v1.0 | PAL v1.1 |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
LoadDataDMA     |    0x122C   |    0x122C   |  0x122C  |  0x122C  |
aki_malloc      |    0x13D4   |    0x13D4   |  0x13D4  |  0x13D4  |
aki_free        |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+

================================================================================
FileTable stuff
================================================================================
SetupFiletable
GetFileLoc
LoadFile
DecompressLZSS

these four functions should be relatively near each other

Runtime Locations
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
Function        | NTSC-U v1.0 | NTSC-U v1.1 | PAL v1.0 | PAL v1.1 |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
SetupFiletable  |   80003AB0  |
GetFileLoc      |   80003BD0  |
LoadFile        |   80003C94  |
DecompressLZSS  |   80003D64  |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+

Z64 ROM Locations
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
Function        | NTSC-U v1.0 | NTSC-U v1.1 | PAL v1.0 | PAL v1.1 |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+
SetupFiletable  |    0x46B0   |    0x46B0   |  0x46B0  |  0x46B0  |
GetFileLoc      |    0x47D0   |    0x47D0   |  0x47D0  |  0x47D0  |
LoadFile        |    0x4894   |    0x4894   |  0x4894  |  0x4894  |
DecompressLZSS  |    0x4964   |    0x4964   |  0x4964  |  0x4964  |
----------------+-------------+-------------+----------+----------+