This page contains the RAM Map of the BS-X.
$7E00AC - BS-X Token Interpreter Current Address (24-bit)
$7E0725 - Text Settings
$7E13C5 - Error Number
$7E1427 - Copy Type
$7E1430 - Current Month
$7E1431 - Current Day
$7E1432 - Data Type
$7E1433 - Seconds before timeout
$7E1437 - Ticks before timeout
$7E1C00:$7E1E20 - ...
Properties & Technical capabilities of each of the 8 background modes
The SNES has 8 background modes, two of which have major variations. The modes are selected by bits 0-2 of register $2105.
Mode # Colors for BG
1 2 3 4
======---=---=---=---=
0 4 4 4 4
1 16 16 4 -
2 16 16 - -
3 256 16 - -
4 256 4 - -
5 16 4 - -
6 16 -
Final Fantasy - Mystic Quest
Also known as Hoshi no Kirby Super Deluxe and Kirby's Fun Pak.
Aceman2000's Tic-Tac-Toe tutorial
Mode 7 is a BG mode that allows a background to be rotated, scaled, and skewed. There are more possibilities when HDMA gets involved...
$11/F995-$11/FAE8 Lower word of each portrait pointer (2 bytes per player; ordered by player value).
$11/FAE9-$11/FC3C Upper word (bank byte) of each portrait pointer (2 bytes per player; A bank byte in RAM ($7F) means the portrait is compressed).
Notes: Each player portrait is 0x6D0 bytes long. The first 0x690 bytes are the graphics data, which are in a unusual *5BPP p ...
Ogre Battle - The March of the Black Queen
Old BBS Messages related to SNES or Programming
The Super Nintendo / Super Famicom stores its palette in 512 bytes in a 15-bit BGR format.
SNES Memory Mapped I/O Registers
Rendering the Screen: Mosaic, Color Math
Sprites are important to every game.
Introduction to SNES Reverse Engineering
Seiken Densetsu 2 / Secret of Mana
Seiken Densetsu 3 / Secret of Mana 2 / Trials of Mana
The SNES has 128 independent sprites. The sprite definitions are stored in Object Attribute Memory, or OAM.
03451 - 0346E
21D4A - 21D67
21D68 - 21D85
4F4E2 - 4F4FF
Palette for Arthur (gray armor, boxer shorts and skeleton after death), lance weapon he starts the game with, and part of the color rotation for most ite ...
Translucency
How transparency works on the SNES.
Umihara Kawase
bazz's NMI-VBLANK tutorial
The windows can be used to mask off a portion of any BG on the scanline.
Part 1 of bazz's VRAM tutorial
Part 2 of bazz's tutorial
Now it is time to get your hands dirty. You will be making your first SNES ASM program today. It's about time, huh. So let's get on with it!
What this program will do:
Well it will basically fill then entire screen with one color. MAN is that EXciting OR WHAT! Now, before we begin, I want you to know what you are writing. So some very Quick (actuall ...