NES 2.0: Revision history

6 February 2020

• curprev 16:5616:56, 6 February 2020‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,525 bytes +53‎ Added "UMC UM6578 enhanced famiclone" console type and "City Patrolman Lightgun" expansion device.

7 November 2019

• curprev 17:5817:58, 7 November 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,472 bytes +68‎ Add note about self-flashable PRG-ROM

17 March 2019

• curprev 16:3916:39, 17 March 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ m 20,404 bytes −1‎ →‎File Structure: replacing "SHL" with <<, think we should avoid a dependency on x86 mnemonics

5 February 2019

• curprev 21:1321:13, 5 February 2019‎ Lidnariq talk contribs‎ m 20,405 bytes 0‎ →‎Header: typo
• curprev 21:1221:12, 5 February 2019‎ Lidnariq talk contribs‎ m 20,405 bytes +7‎ →‎Header: typo

25 January 2019

• curprev 21:1021:10, 25 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,398 bytes +21‎ →‎Hard-Wired Mirroring
• curprev 21:0821:08, 25 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,377 bytes +312‎ →‎Hard-Wired Mirroring

19 January 2019

• curprev 20:2020:20, 19 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,065 bytes +25‎ Add Stack-up per discussion on http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=17213&start=180#p232154

16 January 2019

• curprev 09:2809:28, 16 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,040 bytes +28‎ I had totally forgotten about Mapper 262.

15 January 2019

• curprev 21:3721:37, 15 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,012 bytes −3‎ Not "preferred". "preferred" is subjective, "default" is objective.
• curprev 21:2121:21, 15 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 20,015 bytes −230‎ →‎Default Expansion Device: Why does 2 zappers have a special fallback? Emulators won't be able to provide various peripherals, how they fall back can only be decided by the emulator author by their specific circumstance.
• curprev 21:1721:17, 15 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 20,245 bytes −10‎ →‎Default Expansion Device: don't like the prescription of "should" here, maybe obviate this wording by focusing on what ability this information provides?
• curprev 13:5813:58, 15 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ m 20,255 bytes +1‎ →‎CHR-(NV)RAM
• curprev 13:4913:49, 15 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 20,254 bytes +476‎ Clarify MMC5 EXRAM and that hard-wired 4-screen VRAM is not CHR-RAM; slightly paraphrase expansion device 0

14 January 2019

• curprev 23:5123:51, 14 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ m 19,778 bytes 0‎ →‎PRG-ROM Area
• curprev 23:3323:33, 14 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,778 bytes +19‎ →‎Default Expansion Device: clarify port for Zapper and SNES Mouse
• curprev 22:5222:52, 14 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,759 bytes −181‎ →‎Default Expansion Device: NewRisingSun requested that I remove the "tentative" qualification now

13 January 2019

• curprev 05:4805:48, 13 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,940 bytes +59‎ slight revision of lead: add mention of avoiding checksums, new mappers. (avoiding CRCs was very prominent in Kevtris' original stated goals, and was very often repeated by others, deserves mention here)

12 January 2019

• curprev 23:4523:45, 12 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,881 bytes −17‎ this article and iNES need to refer to each other, header numbering and field names should use the same convention in both
• curprev 21:2921:29, 12 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,898 bytes +4,118‎ restoring tentative compromise for byte 15 ($00 now backward compatible, $01 now standard controllers, mic removed)

11 January 2019

• curprev 21:1421:14, 11 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 15,780 bytes −3,803‎ rm expansion device field
• curprev 21:0721:07, 11 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ m 19,583 bytes −60‎ →‎Default Expansion Device
• curprev 21:0621:06, 11 January 2019‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 19,643 bytes −42‎ →‎Default Expansion Device: reverting this to backward compatible "No information", currently in dispute

10 January 2019

• curprev 21:1021:10, 10 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 19,685 bytes −16‎ Okay, but then it's not mirrored once, either.
• curprev 21:0221:02, 10 January 2019‎ Lidnariq talk contribs‎ 19,701 bytes −15‎ →‎Hard-Wired Mirroring: Don't directly contradict what we wrote in the first point with what we write in the second bullet. Mapper 77 doesn't map anything at all to PPU addresses $3000-$3FFF.
• curprev 20:5620:56, 10 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 19,716 bytes +174‎ There are multiple-region games that do not (need to) adjust themselves.
• curprev 20:1820:18, 10 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ m 19,542 bytes +3‎ →‎Hard-Wired Mirroring
• curprev 20:0220:02, 10 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 19,539 bytes +540‎ Update mirroring information based on [http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14725 discussion]

4 January 2019

• curprev 03:3503:35, 4 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 18,999 bytes +16‎ Added U-Force

2 January 2019

• curprev 17:5817:58, 2 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ m 18,983 bytes +5‎ →‎Default Expansion Device
• curprev 17:5617:56, 2 January 2019‎ NewRisingSun talk contribs‎ 18,978 bytes +2,277‎ rewrite and additions

20 November 2018

• curprev 05:5105:51, 20 November 2018‎ Koitsu talk contribs‎ 16,701 bytes +34‎ No edit summary

8 August 2018

• curprev 06:2406:24, 8 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 16,667 bytes −69‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): I had described the internal RAM cases sort of as if they were optional, not sure if that was appropriate
• curprev 06:0606:06, 8 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 16,736 bytes +63‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): 157 is different, not sure exactly what to say about it here
• curprev 06:0406:04, 8 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 16,673 bytes +204‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): maybe note that this isn't ''quite'' a save file size field.
• curprev 05:4405:44, 8 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 16,469 bytes +1,371‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): trying to separate the majority case to make it clear that this field only unambiguously applies to $6000 and everything else is special. Not sure if I've listed all the relevant mappers, but I think this gets most or all cases?
• curprev 04:2404:24, 8 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,098 bytes −74‎ →‎Overview: the lead already credits KH and links to his original proposal, but he is not really the writer of this living document at this point? (special thanks are also relegated to that original document)

7 August 2018

• curprev 20:1020:10, 7 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,172 bytes −522‎ removing more stories about Kevin that don't really help the spec
• curprev 20:0720:07, 7 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,694 bytes −152‎ →‎Byte 11 (Video RAM Size): this anecdote doesn't really help understand the spec
• curprev 20:0220:02, 7 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,846 bytes −149‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): N163: rereading this guideline it is underspecified and confusing, rewriting with tentative guideline from: [http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?p=222948#p222948]
• curprev 19:4419:44, 7 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,995 bytes +89‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): grouping the weird stuff into a list of special cases
• curprev 19:2919:29, 7 August 2018‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,906 bytes +30‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): making the table horizontal instead so that the clarifying notes can appear together (remove redundant self flashing note)

5 November 2017

• curprev 22:5822:58, 5 November 2017‎ Tepples talk contribs‎ 15,876 bytes +169‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): Kev clarified what to do for self-flash mappers
• curprev 22:4422:44, 5 November 2017‎ Tepples talk contribs‎ 15,707 bytes +257‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): Kev clarified what to do for the 8320 bytes you get when you add 8K of RAM to an N163

6 September 2017

• curprev 22:1122:11, 6 September 2017‎ B00daW talk contribs‎ 15,450 bytes +10‎ →‎Byte 14 (Misc. ROMs)
• curprev 22:1022:10, 6 September 2017‎ B00daW talk contribs‎ 15,440 bytes +7‎ No edit summary
• curprev 22:1022:10, 6 September 2017‎ B00daW talk contribs‎ 15,433 bytes +302‎ Added information regarding Byte 14.

30 August 2017

• curprev 23:4823:48, 30 August 2017‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ m 15,131 bytes −18‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): removing "serial" qualification
• curprev 23:2623:26, 30 August 2017‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,149 bytes −675‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): trying to reorganize the information here, most important stuff first, trying to prune unnecessary "clutter" info.

29 August 2017

• curprev 09:3409:34, 29 August 2017‎ Rainwarrior talk contribs‎ 15,824 bytes 0‎ →‎Byte 10 (RAM size): trying to reword the $6000-7FFF common case paragraph