Interactive tool

Tile ID Explorer

Find the NDS.Live packed tile ID of any place. Click on the map, search for a place, or enter coordinates or a tile ID, and choose a tile level from 0 to 15.

Tip: the grid follows the selected level.

How the tile ID is calculated

The coordinate is converted to NDS integer coordinates and a Morton code. The tile number at the selected level comes from the leading bits of the Morton code, and the level is encoded by a marker bit, which together give the 32-bit packed tile ID. Level 15 tile IDs are negative, because the marker bit is the sign bit.

The calculation runs in your browser with the open-source ndslive-math reference implementation.

Read the open specification →