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 Memory Mapping Doc | Anomie | This is a document intended to describe the SNES memory map. It will NOT include information on the MAD-1 or any other address decoder. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2008-12-21 | Int | 21 Dec 2008 |
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 SPC700 Doc | Anomie | In depth information on the SPC700 including a diassembly of the Boot ROM. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2009-07-19 | Int | 19 Jul 2009 |
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 Register Doc | Anomie | A nice in depth look at all the SNES hardware registers. This is must have reference material for anybody doing any assembly hacking or homebrew coding for the SNES. This document is the most recent and up to date we have on the SNES registers (as of…. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-07-12 | Int | 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 |
Anomie’s SNES Port Doc | Anomie | This is a document intended to describe the various hardware ports on the SNES. It will not describe how these ports are used by what may be plugged into them. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2007-04-27 | Int | 27 Apr 2007 |
Atari 2600 RIOT Map | Kroko | This is a memory map of the RIOT chip/device that reads all the console switches excluding power, including joysticks and controllers. It also contains the only RAM in the system and a general purpose timer. | Hardware Info. | 2600 | N/A | 1.0 | Int | 08 Sep 2010 |
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 |
Atari 2600 TIA Map | Kroko | This chip makes all the video displays and sounds for the 2600 VCS. It also has 6 registers which are used as A/D converters and for the trigger buttons on the joysticks. The chip also controls the RDY line of the CPU to initiate horizontal syncroni…. | Hardware Info. | 2600 | N/A | 1.0 | Int | 08 Sep 2010 |
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 |
Broadcast Satellaview-X Internal ROM Info | D | The Broadcast Satellaview-X Internal ROM info including offsets and a few other tidbits of information. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 2006/2/7 | Int | 07 Feb 2006 |
BRR Sound Encoding Scheme | Butcha | Explains the BRR encoding scheme used by the SPC700 in detail. Note: The filter formulas are not bit perfect if you are coding an emulator. | Hardware Info. | SNES | N/A | 1.0 | Int | 21 May 2007 |
Cart Information | Kevin Horton | This is a document about cart sizes and bank switching which could be very important to know when hacking some of the larger Atari 2600 games. | Hardware Info. | 2600 | N/A | 6.0 | Int | 18 Apr 1997 |
Cartridge Interface | Nat! | Detailed instructions on how the Jaguar handles cartridge data. | Hardware Info. | JAG | N/A | 1.11 | Adv | 30 Mar 1997 |
CD-ROM BIOS Functions (8) | David Woodford | This covers the paramaters and return values of 8 of the PC Engine CD’s BIOS functions:
- CD_BOOT
- CD_FADE
- AD_RESET
- AD_READ
- AD_WRITE
- AD_PLAY
- AD_STOP
- AD_STAT
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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 |