SNESdev Wiki

SNES Development Wiki

Reference

General

• Memory map
• ROM header
• CPU vectors
• SNES Development Manual
• 65C816 Instruction Set
• Tools
• Timing
• Errata

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

PPU

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

SPC700

• SPC700

Expansions

• DSP
• SA-1
• Super FX
• MSU-1

Examples and Guides

General

• Tutorials

SNES hardware

• Init code
• VBlank interrupts
• Booting the SPC700
• Controller reading
• Multiplication
• Division
• DMA examples

65c816 guides

• 65c816 for 6502 developers
• Using X as a pointer
• MVN and MVP block copy
• Register sizes in ca65

Emulation

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

Video

• SNES PPU for NES developers
• Scrolling a large map
• Shaped windows
• HDMA examples
• 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
• Superfamicom.org SNES cartridge database
• Anomie's SNES documents at RHDN
• Obelisk 6502 introduction - good reference for 6502, applies to 65C816 as well

MediaWiki

• User's Guide
• MediaWiki FAQ
• Deletion requests