Anomie's S-DSP Doc | Anomie | Extremely in depth technical information on the S-DSP sound hardware on the SNES and how sound is generated. Mostly for experts only, but it can be used as an intermediate-level reference to the S-DSP registers. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 1212 | Adv | 28 Sep 2015 |
Anomie's SNES Timing Doc | Anomie | This is a document intended to describe various aspects of SNES timing. It will probably not be useful unless you already know a good bit about the SNES. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2008-12-21 | Adv | 21 Dec 2008 |
Anomie's SPC700 Cycle Doc | Anomie | Cycle information for the SPC700. Probably not too useful for ROMhacking, but is for emulator authors. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-04-21 | Adv | 21 Apr 2007 |
Anomie’s C4 Chip Doc | Anomie | In depth information on the SNES C4 cartridge add-on chip and it’s registers. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-07-12 | Adv | 12 Jul 2007 |
Anomie’s SNES OpenBus and Wrapping Doc | Anomie | Explains OpenBus effect on the SNES hardware, and the behavior of S-CPU accesses that cross page/bank boundaries. For experts only. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-04-21 | Adv | 21 Apr 2007 |
Atari 2600 TIA Hardware Notes | Andrew Towers | There are a great deal of notes about the Atari 2600 TIA chip by Andrew Towers. It’s a long but worthwhile read. | Hardware Info. | 2600 | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 06 Mar 2003 |
Blargg’s S-DSP Timer Glitch Explanation | Blargg | An email detailing Blargg’s discoveries regarding a glitch in the S-DSP timers when the target is written just when the internal counter is ticked. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-03-31 | Adv | 31 Mar 2007 |
BLITTER | Nat! | How the 2D engine is handled on the Jaguar. | Hardware Info. | JAG | N/A | 1.26 | Adv | 27 Sep 1998 |
Cartridge Interface | Nat! | Detailed instructions on how the Jaguar handles cartridge data. | Hardware Info. | JAG | N/A | 1.11 | Adv | 30 Mar 1997 |
Collection of Sega 32X Manuals | OEM | We’ve got the official SDK and we’ve got the official manual for this little beast. Seriously, if you’re even remotely interested in programming this puppy, you owe it to yourself (and possibly your unborn children) to download this an…. | Hardware Info. | 32X | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 29 Mar 2000 |
Collection of Sega CD Manuals | OEM | Whoa, just when you thought you’d never see anything about developing for the Sega CD, along comes this jewel. Official goodness here folks. Pretty much everything you want to know about the Genesis’s sidecar can be found in this. | Hardware Info. | SegaCD | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 29 Mar 2000 |
Collection of Sega Genesis Manuals | OEM | If you thought the official manual we had before was something, you ain’t seen nothing yet! This is THE source for the Genesis. If you’re serious about Genesis programming, download this. | Hardware Info. | GEN | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 29 Mar 2000 |
CowBite Virtual Hardware Specifications | Tom Happ | An in dept documentation of the GBA hardware. | Hardware Info. | GBA | N/A | 3.5 | Adv | 08 Feb 2001 |
Electronix Corp NES Schematic | OEM | This is a schematic of the Nintendo Entertainment System, of the chips and circuit board inside as well as the controllers. This is not an official Nintendo schematic document. It was drawn by Electronix Corp. | Hardware Info. | NES | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 12 Jul 2011 |
Famicom Disk System Technical Reference | Brad Taylor | This is a Famicom Disk System technical reference document and there is also a BIOS disassembly included. | Hardware Info. | FDS | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 23 Apr 2004 |
FDS Loader Documentation | Brad Taylor | This package has detailed information on how to create your own FDS loader modifications to your FDS and has the software included. The disk loading functions are emulated through the software.
This archive is extremely useful to make your own l…. | Hardware Info. | FDS | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 21 Nov 2002 |
Game Boy Programming Manual v1.0 | OEM | Official Game Boy/Game Boy Color hardware information source, compiled in 1999. Includes 298 pages. | Hardware Info. | GB | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 09 Nov 1999 |
GBATEK | Martin Korth | An exhaustive reference for the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo DS internal hardware. Everything from registers to joypads, it’s here.
It’s THE ultimate GBA (and DS!) hardware reference, so grab this if you try to ASM hack either of those system…. | Hardware Info. | GBA | N/A | 2.5 | Adv | 05 Dec 2007 |
GBATEK | Martin Korth | The definitive guide to all things about the both GBA and DS hardware and then some. | Hardware Info. | NDS | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 01 Jan 2007 |
Jaguar Docs by Nat! and KKP | Nat! | All of Nat! and KKP’s documents in HTML format and zipped! | Hardware Info. | JAG | N/A | 1.0 | Adv | 30 Mar 1997 |