Masuzoe Youichi - Asa Made Famicom (Japan) Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (USA) (Unl) Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu (Asia) (PAL) (Unl) Para pesquisar no Celular, siga o seguinte passo: Para buscar os jogos mais facilmente, no PC clique em e digite o nome do jogo. Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku - Part II (Japan) Matsumoto Tooru no Kabushiki Hisshou Gaku - Vol.NES and Famicom emulation has been around for over twenty-five years. In that time, the internal hardware has become very well documented. NES and Famicom cartridges, on the other hand, have had a parallel journey of discovery during this time, but emulators and flash carts and FPGA devices have not always been up to date with current developments. The core games which people enjoy with NES emulation, namely those licensed and approved by Nintendo and unlicensed games released during the NES' lifespan, sometimes suffer in emulation due not to bad dumps but a wrong information in their file header. The header indicates what kind of hardware the game uses, but if the information in the header is wrong, out of date or missing, the game will not play or play correctly. Then I will describe and link to my database which contains the most accurate and up to date information for the NES and Famicom ROMs most people care about.Ī Brief Overview of NES Cartridge Hardware In this blog article I will explain how headers work, why they are necessary, the need for accurate information in them and how they have evolved over time.
The NES and Famicom w designed to handle cartridges which contained two ROM chips. The first, called the Program ROM (PRG-ROM) contained all the code, data and music for the game. The PRG-ROM was connected to the CPU bus and the CPU could normally address 32KiB of PRG-ROM at a time. The second, called the Character ROM (CHR-ROM) contained the graphical tiles used by the game to display its graphics. CHR-ROM is connected to the PPU bus and the PPU can normally address 8KiB of CHR-ROM at a time. (1KiB = 1024 bytes) That was considered "the limit" and the Famicom Disk System was introduced to help overcome those memory limits.Ĭartridges had many advantages over the disks, and cartridge development continued to overcome the memory limitations.Īt the time the Famicom was released, the memory system could support up to 32KiB of PRG-ROM and 8KiB of CHR-ROM. The NES never received the disk system, so by 1985 the 32KiB/8KiB limit was a straitjacket for larger games and greater innovation. Memory mapping schemes were introduced to allow the NES to transfer or bankswitch portions of ROM to its CPU and PPU.
At first the schemes tended to rely on off-the-shelf logic chips to allow for simple PRG-ROM or CHR-ROM bankswitching (or both).
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Some of these methods allowed a game to use only a larger PRG-ROM chip whose code would instruct the CPU to copy graphics data from it into an 8KiB Character RAM chip (CHR-RAM) connected to the PPU bus.īy 1987, the NES and Famicom were sufficiently profitable for companies to develop specialized ASIC chips, like the Nintendo MMC and Konami VRC series of chips, to address far more memory than ever thought possible in 1983. With these advanced memory mapper chips came the ability to add extra RAM, called PRG-RAM, for the CPU to use. The NES only has 2KiB of RAM for its CPU to store data, variables and its stack, so some games needed an extra 8KiB for their data.
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