SNESdev Wiki

SNES Development Wiki

Reference

General

• Memory map
• ROM header
• CPU vectors
• SNES Development Manual
• 65C816 - SNES main CPU, part of the S-CPU
• Tools
• Timing
• Errata
• Glossary

Registers

• MMIO registers
• PPU registers
• DMA registers

Pinouts

• APU pinout
• CPU pinout
• PPU pinout
• WRAM pinout
• Cartridge connector
• Controller connector

Peripherals

• Standard controller
• Mouse
• Multitap
• Super Scope
• NTT Data Keyboard
• Copier

PPU

• Backgrounds
• Tilemaps
• Tiles
• Sprites
• Palettes
• Windows
• Offset-per-tile
• Color math

Sound

• S-SMP - SNES SHVC-SOUND chip includes the S-SMP / SPC-700 CPU and S-DSP
• SPC-700 instruction set
• DSP envelopes
• BRR samples

Expansions

• DSP-1 - also includes DSP-2, DSP-3, DSP-4
• SA-1
• Super FX (GSU)
• MSU-1
• Super Game Boy
• CX4 used in Mega Man X2/X3

Formats

• ROM file formats
• Save file formats
• SPC file format - for music.

Examples and Guides

General

• Tutorials

SNES hardware

• Init code
• VBlank interrupts
• Booting the SPC700
• Controller reading
• Multiplication
• Division
• DMA examples
• Blargg SPC upload - Playing an SPC rip on SNES hardware

65c816 guides

• 65c816 for 6502 developers
• Using X as a pointer
• MVN and MVP block copy
• Register sizes in ca65
• Signature byte - supplying a parameter byte for BRK, COP, or WDM interrupts

Emulation

• Emulator tests
• Tricky-to-emulate games
• Uncommon graphics mode games

Video

• VBlank routine
• SNES PPU for NES developers
• Scrolling a large map
• Drawing window shapes
• HDMA examples
• Reading and writing PPU memory
• Mode 7 perspective effects
• Starting HDMA mid-frame
• Variable width fonts
• Extending vblank

Links

• SNESdev Forum - NESDev subforum
• Fullsnes - Nocash's SNES hardware document
• Superfamicom.org SNES Development Wiki
• Super NES Programming Wikibooks
• Superfamicom.org SNES cartridge database
• SNES Central - game database and PCB images
• Anomie's SNES documents at RHDN

MediaWiki

• User's Guide
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Deletion requests