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NES plugin - a proposal
LambdaCalculus:
--- Quote from: Multimedia Mike on August 05, 2007, 02:32:50 PM ---Dracula's Curse's mapper (MMC5, iNES mapper #5) has its registers mapped down in the 0x5xxx range somewhere.
That's the problem. Dracula's Curse is the only known American NES game to use this mapper, so it's not a huge problem, even though it is a very cool game.
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Actually, I think the NES port of Romance of the Three Kingdoms II also uses the MMC5, if I remember correctly. The MMC5 didn't gain too much widespread useage, as you said. But I think there's a tiny handful of later NES games that made use of it.
Actually, on that subject: wasn't there some emulator out there that printed the mapper information onscreen when you load a ROM? Or am I crazy?
Multimedia Mike:
--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on August 06, 2007, 09:46:08 AM ---Actually, on that subject: wasn't there some emulator out there that printed the mapper information onscreen when you load a ROM? Or am I crazy?
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There are probably emulators that print the data on screen. Looking over the options for TuxNES, -H or --show-header show the header bytes for diagnostics, and it's easy to find the mappers in there. It occurred to me that someone has probably compiled a collection of games and the mapper they used. I google for "nes mapper list" and what appears, but a forgotten document I put up on tuxnes.sf.net: http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/nesmapper.txt
This list shows 11 games that use MMC5.
LambdaCalculus:
Ooh, perfect! If it's okay, I'm going to post this onto the wiki later on!
Multimedia Mike:
--- Quote from: LambdaCalculus379 on August 06, 2007, 01:23:26 PM ---Ooh, perfect! If it's okay, I'm going to post this onto the wiki later on!
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I hope you're not waiting for my permission; that data isn't exactly mine to begin with. I posted that document in 1999. More searching reveals that no one ever endeavored to update that list. So it might be the most authoritative compilation out there.
LambdaCalculus:
I was about to until I saw your reply. I at least downloaded the list and I'm going over it with a fine-tooth comb for the moment.
I actually have noticed that some of the mapper info/data is a bit outdated. For example, the game Fire Emblem is said to be using a mapper known as MMC4, and from what I have gleamed from my research, is about the only known game to use this mapper. It's listed as MMC2 on this list.
Also, there's one other game that'll be a major pain in the keister: Konami's Lagrange Point, since it contains Konami's VRC7 chip, as well as a Yamaha YM2413 FM chip onboard for enhanced music. A problem, to be sure.
Other than that, it's a very good starting point for mapper information, but we'll all need to keep hunting down those last few games that aren't listed on here.
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