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(→‎iNES 1.0 mapper grid: Konami (573) and Namco (765) and now we're up to 12% mfr icon coverage)
(→‎iNES 1.0 mapper grid: 573, 765, and 10 more pirates = 18%)
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| [[INES Mapper 036|036]] || [[File:Mfr icon Nintendo.png]] [[INES Mapper 037|037]] || [[INES Mapper 038|038]] || [[INES Mapper 039|039]]
| [[INES Mapper 040|040]] || [[INES Mapper 041|041]] || [[INES Mapper 042|042]] || [[INES Mapper 043|043]]
| [[INES Mapper 040|040]] || [[INES Mapper 041|041]] || [[INES Mapper 042|042]] || [[INES Mapper 043|043]]
| [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 044|044]] || [[INES Mapper 045|045]] || [[INES Mapper 046|046]] || [[File:Mfr icon Nintendo.png]] [[INES Mapper 047|047]]
| [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 044|044]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 045|045]] || [[INES Mapper 046|046]] || [[File:Mfr icon Nintendo.png]] [[INES Mapper 047|047]]
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| [[INES Mapper 048|048]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 049|049]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 050|050]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 051|051]]
| [[INES Mapper 052|052]] || [[INES Mapper 053|053]] || [[INES Mapper 054|054]] || [[INES Mapper 055|055]]
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| [[INES Mapper 056|056]] || [[INES Mapper 057|057]] || [[INES Mapper 058|058]] || [[INES Mapper 059|059]]
| [[INES Mapper 056|056]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 057|057]] || [[INES Mapper 058|058]] || [[INES Mapper 059|059]]
| [[INES Mapper 060|060]] || [[INES Mapper 061|061]] || [[INES Mapper 062|062]] || [[INES Mapper 063|063]]
| [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 060|060]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 061|061]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 062|062]] || [[INES Mapper 063|063]]
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| [[INES Mapper 064|064]] || [[INES Mapper 065|065]] || [[File:Mfr icon Nintendo.png]] [[INES Mapper 066|066]] || [[INES Mapper 067|067]]
| [[INES Mapper 064|064]] || [[INES Mapper 065|065]] || [[File:Mfr icon Nintendo.png]] [[INES Mapper 066|066]] || [[INES Mapper 067|067]]
| [[INES Mapper 068|068]] || [[INES Mapper 069|069]] || [[INES Mapper 070|070]] || [[INES Mapper 071|071]]
| [[INES Mapper 068|068]] || [[INES Mapper 069|069]] || [[INES Mapper 070|070]] || [[INES Mapper 071|071]]
| [[INES Mapper 072|072]] || [[INES Mapper 073|073]] || [[INES Mapper 074|074]] || [[INES Mapper 075|075]]
| [[INES Mapper 072|072]] || [[INES Mapper 073|073]] || [[INES Mapper 074|074]] || [[INES Mapper 075|075]]
| [[INES Mapper 076|076]] || [[INES Mapper 077|077]] || [[INES Mapper 078|078]] || [[INES Mapper 079|079]]
| [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 076|076]] || [[INES Mapper 077|077]] || [[INES Mapper 078|078]] || [[INES Mapper 079|079]]
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| [[INES Mapper 080|080]] || [[INES Mapper 081|081]] || [[INES Mapper 082|082]] || [[INES Mapper 083|083]]
| [[INES Mapper 080|080]] || [[INES Mapper 081|081]] || [[INES Mapper 082|082]] || [[INES Mapper 083|083]]
| [[INES Mapper 084|084]] || [[INES Mapper 085|085]] || [[INES Mapper 086|086]] || [[INES Mapper 087|087]]
| [[INES Mapper 084|084]] || [[File:Mfr icon Konami.png]] [[INES Mapper 085|085]] || [[INES Mapper 086|086]] || [[INES Mapper 087|087]]
| [[INES Mapper 088|088]] || [[INES Mapper 089|089]] || [[INES Mapper 090|090]] || [[INES Mapper 091|091]]
| [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 088|088]] || [[INES Mapper 089|089]] || [[INES Mapper 090|090]] || [[INES Mapper 091|091]]
| [[INES Mapper 092|092]] || [[INES Mapper 093|093]] || [[INES Mapper 094|094]] || [[INES Mapper 095|095]]
| [[INES Mapper 092|092]] || [[INES Mapper 093|093]] || [[INES Mapper 094|094]] || [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 095|095]]
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| [[INES Mapper 096|096]] || [[INES Mapper 097|097]] || [[INES Mapper 098|098]] || [[INES Mapper 099|099]]
| [[INES Mapper 096|096]] || [[INES Mapper 097|097]] || [[INES Mapper 098|098]] || [[INES Mapper 099|099]]
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| [[INES Mapper 148|148]] || [[INES Mapper 149|149]] || [[INES Mapper 150|150]] || [[INES Mapper 151|151]]
| [[INES Mapper 148|148]] || [[INES Mapper 149|149]] || [[INES Mapper 150|150]] || [[INES Mapper 151|151]]
| [[INES Mapper 152|152]] || [[File:Mfr icon Bandai.png]] [[INES Mapper 153|153]] || [[INES Mapper 154|154]] || [[INES Mapper 155|155]]
| [[INES Mapper 152|152]] || [[File:Mfr icon Bandai.png]] [[INES Mapper 153|153]] || [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 154|154]] || [[INES Mapper 155|155]]
| [[INES Mapper 156|156]] || [[INES Mapper 157|157]] || [[INES Mapper 158|158]] || [[File:Mfr icon Bandai.png]] [[INES Mapper 159|159]]
| [[INES Mapper 156|156]] || [[INES Mapper 157|157]] || [[INES Mapper 158|158]] || [[File:Mfr icon Bandai.png]] [[INES Mapper 159|159]]
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| [[INES Mapper 160|160]] || [[INES Mapper 161|161]] || [[INES Mapper 162|162]] || [[INES Mapper 163|163]]
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| [[INES Mapper 164|164]] || [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 165|165]] || [[INES Mapper 166|166]] || [[INES Mapper 167|167]]
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| [[INES Mapper 172|172]] || [[INES Mapper 173|173]] || [[INES Mapper 174|174]] || [[INES Mapper 175|175]]
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| [[INES Mapper 196|196]] || [[INES Mapper 197|197]] || [[INES Mapper 198|198]] || [[INES Mapper 199|199]]
| [[INES Mapper 196|196]] || [[INES Mapper 197|197]] || [[INES Mapper 198|198]] || [[INES Mapper 199|199]]
| [[INES Mapper 200|200]] || [[INES Mapper 201|201]] || [[INES Mapper 202|202]] || [[INES Mapper 203|203]]
| [[File:Mfr icon pirate.png]] [[INES Mapper 200|200]] || [[INES Mapper 201|201]] || [[INES Mapper 202|202]] || [[INES Mapper 203|203]]
| [[INES Mapper 204|204]] || [[INES Mapper 205|205]] || [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 206|206]] || [[INES Mapper 207|207]]
| [[INES Mapper 204|204]] || [[INES Mapper 205|205]] || [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 206|206]] || [[INES Mapper 207|207]]
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| [[INES Mapper 208|208]] || [[INES Mapper 209|209]] || [[INES Mapper 210|210]] || [[INES Mapper 211|211]]
| [[INES Mapper 208|208]] || [[INES Mapper 209|209]] || [[File:Mfr icon Namco.png]] [[INES Mapper 210|210]] || [[INES Mapper 211|211]]
| [[INES Mapper 212|212]] || [[INES Mapper 213|213]] || [[INES Mapper 214|214]] || [[INES Mapper 215|215]]
| [[INES Mapper 212|212]] || [[INES Mapper 213|213]] || [[INES Mapper 214|214]] || [[INES Mapper 215|215]]
| [[INES Mapper 216|216]] || [[INES Mapper 217|217]] || [[INES Mapper 218|218]] || [[INES Mapper 219|219]]
| [[INES Mapper 216|216]] || [[INES Mapper 217|217]] || [[INES Mapper 218|218]] || [[INES Mapper 219|219]]

Revision as of 16:08, 4 October 2012

A mapper is a piece of hardware soldered to a cartridge's printed circuit board that performs address decoding, bank switching, and possibly other tasks. Some mappers can generate interrupts for timing; some Famicom games' mappers even have extra audio channels.

NES cartridges can include extra hardware which allows the use of large program and graphics ROMs and extra features. This extra hardware is usually referred to as a "mapper", as it is used primarily to map the relatively small CPU and PPU address spaces to a portion of the larger address space of the ROM(s) on the cartridge.

Mappers vary in how they translate addresses. The various CPU memory mapping schemes expand the maximum program size above the standard 32 KiB to larger powers of 2, while PPU memory mapping schemes can add new graphic features.

Most mappers fall into one of two categories: discrete logic, and ASIC based. Some discrete logic mappers are susceptible to bus conflicts. Nintendo uses the term Memory Management Controller (or MMC for short) for its ASIC mappers ("Why Game Paks Never Forget" article in Nintendo Power).

Discrete logic mappers are often referred to by the name of a board that they are commonly used in (e.g. "UNROM"). ASIC mappers are named after the ASIC (e.g. "MMC1" or "FME-7"), except in boards that use an ASIC in an unusual way (such as "TQROM", "TLSROM", or "NES-EVENT"). The emulation community generally refers to mappers by a numbering scheme that originated with the iNES emulator (e.g. "mapper 002").

iNES 1.0 mapper grid

Mfr icon Nintendo.png 000 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 001 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 002 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 003 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 004 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 005 Mfr icon pirate.png 006 Mfr icon Rare.png 007 Mfr icon pirate.png 008 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 009 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 010 011 012 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 013 Mfr icon pirate.png 014 Mfr icon pirate.png 015
Mfr icon Bandai.png 016 Mfr icon pirate.png 017 Mfr icon Jaleco.png 018 Mfr icon Namco.png 019 020 Mfr icon Konami.png 021 Mfr icon Konami.png 022 Mfr icon Konami.png 023 Mfr icon Konami.png 024 Mfr icon Konami.png 025 Mfr icon Konami.png 026 027 028 029 030 031
032 033 034 035 036 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 037 038 039 040 041 042 043 Mfr icon pirate.png 044 Mfr icon pirate.png 045 046 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 047
048 Mfr icon pirate.png 049 Mfr icon pirate.png 050 Mfr icon pirate.png 051 052 053 054 055 056 Mfr icon pirate.png 057 058 059 Mfr icon pirate.png 060 Mfr icon pirate.png 061 Mfr icon pirate.png 062 063
064 065 Mfr icon Nintendo.png 066 067 068 069 070 071 072 073 074 075 Mfr icon Namco.png 076 077 078 079
080 081 082 083 084 Mfr icon Konami.png 085 086 087 Mfr icon Namco.png 088 089 090 091 092 093 094 Mfr icon Namco.png 095
096 097 098 099 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111
112 113 114 115 116 117 118 Mfr icon Rare.png 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127
128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143
144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 Mfr icon Bandai.png 153 Mfr icon Namco.png 154 155 156 157 158 Mfr icon Bandai.png 159
160 161 162 163 164 Mfr icon pirate.png 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175
176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191
192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 Mfr icon pirate.png 200 201 202 203 204 205 Mfr icon Namco.png 206 207
208 209 Mfr icon Namco.png 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223
224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239
240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255

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