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Corsair + Kari presents the first doc of Fami hardware register
locations and brief explanation of them..
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Memory Map
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Bank Address
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00- 0000-1fff Lo RAM (same as at $7e0000-$7e1fff)
7d 2100-2142(?) Videochip Registers
4300-437f DMA Registers
8000-ffff ROM:This contains 32k block of game ROM.
So, the games are divided to 32k chunks
which locate always at address $8000-$ffff,
but in different banks. This means that the first
32k of game is at $008000-$00ffff and next 32k
is at $018000-$01ffff etc.
7e 0000-1fff Lo RAM (same as always at $0000-$1fff) \
2000-ffff RAM \ I'm not sure about } 128k RAM??
7f 0000-ffff RAM / this RAM /
7f-ff all Not used???
$ffec($fffc) contains reset vector and $ffea($fffa) is NMI vector. The NMI is
actually vertical blank interrupt.
Video Chip
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size loc.
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B 2100 Screen fade x000bbbb x=screen on/off b=brightness(0-f)
B 2106 Screen Pixelation xxxxbbbb x=pixel size b=planes to expand
B 2107 Plane 0 location in vram xxxxxxab x=address ab=32/64 width xy
B 2108 Plane 1 location in vram xxxxxxab as above
B 2109 Plane 2 location in vram xxxxxxab as above
B 210a Plane 3 location in vram xxxxxxab as above
B 210b Tile VRAM address aaaabbbb a=Playfield 0 b=Playfield 1
B 210c Tile VRAM address ccccdddd c=Playfield 2 d=Playfield 3
2B 210d Plane 0 scroll x 8+3 bits (0-7ff) put first 8 bits and then
2B 210e Plane 0 scroll y 8+3 bits (0-7ff) 3 highest bits
2B 210f Plane 1 scroll x as above
2B 2110 Plane 1 scroll y as above
2B 2111 Plane 2 scroll x as above
2B 2112 Plane 2 scroll y as above
2B 2113 Plane 3 scroll x as above
2B 2114 Plane 3 scroll y as above
B 2115 Video port control
W 2116 Video port address (lo-hi)
W 2118 Video port data (lo-hi) (address is incremented by 2)
B 2121 Palette color nr
B 2122 Palette color data
B 212C Playfield Enable xxxxabcd a-d = playfield number..
B 2133 Screen mode 0000ab0c a=Interlace Y b=Overscan c=Interlace X??
2140-2142 Audio Registers????
I/O
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W B 420b Start dma (enable bits) bits: 76543210 = dma nr (8 DMA's)
R B 4212 Pad ready to be read
R W 4218 Pad 0 data 76543210 = A-B-Select-Start-U-D-L-R
4219 76543210 = X-Y-Top Left-Top Right-0000
R W 421a Pad 1 data as above
R W 421c Pad 2 data as above
R W 421e Pad 3 data as above
DMA registers ($4300-$437f)
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B 43X0 DMA control reg??(not sure!)
B 43X1 DMA destination (Access only to some of the video chip
registers ($2100-$21ff)
$18=video port $22=color palette
W 43X2 Source address lo-hi 16 lowest bits
B 43X4 Source Bank addr. 8 highest bits
W 43X5 Transfer size lo-hi
X=dma number (0-7) DMA #0= 4300-4305
DMA #1= 4310-4315 ...
DMA #7= 4370-4375
Symbols: size: B=byte long 2B=put 2 bytes W=word long
R=read only W=write only
Screen Details
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Famicom Tile format is simple. Each Tile is 4 planes and 8x8 bits.
32 bytes are used per Tile .
PLANES 1 & 2 PLANES 3 & 4
byte0 byte1 byte 16 byte 17
byte2 byte3 byte 18 byte 19
byte4 byte5 byte 20 byte 21
..... .......
byte14 byte15 byte 30 byte 31
Screen Map
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Famicom can use only Tiles $0-$3ff, max 1024 chars.
16 bits: YX?c ccNN NNNN NNNN
fedc ba98 7654 3210
Y = mirror y X = mirror x ?=unknown
ccc = palette nr (8 palettes) NN.. = character number
Screen Resolution is normally 32x30 - 64 bytes / line
Screen VRAM Location
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Screen Width 32x32 offset for x,y 0,0 = 0
Screen Width 64x32 offset for x,y 0,0 = 0
33,0 = $400
Screen Width 32x60 offset for x,y 0,0 = 0
0,31 = $400
Screen Width 64x60 offset for x,y 0,0 = 0
33,0 = $400
0,31 = $800
33,31 = $c00
As can be seen if a wider mode is selected the extra height/width follow
after the main screen in memory.
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