INES Mapper 017

iNES Mapper 017 denotes ROM images that have been extracted from disk images for the Front Fareast Super Magic Card RAM cartridge. They represent games whose Doctor Header file denotes a Super Magic Card disk (byte $0 bit 7 set, byte $7=$AA). Refer to the Super Magic Card article for details on bankswitching. The Super Magic Card's registers are initialized to:

; Play mode, WRAM bank 0, 1 KiB CHR mode enabled
$4500 = $47 

; PRG memory write-protected, two-screen mirroring
$42FF = $20 | (verticalMirroring? 0x00: 0x10)

; 4M banking mode enabled
$43FC = $00

; Initial PRG register content
$4504 = Number of 8 KiB PRG banks -4
$4505 = Number of 8 KiB PRG banks -3
$4506 = Number of 8 KiB PRG banks -2
$4507 = Number of 8 KiB PRG banks -1

The iNES header may specify a 512-byte trainer (corresponding to Doctor Header file's byte $0 bit 6 being set). The trainer must be loaded to an address originally denoted by the Doctor Header file's byte $2, and is here denoted by the NES 2.0 submapper. In its presence, instead of jumping to the game's reset vector, trainer offset +$000 must be JMPed to.

Submapper    Trainer load address
 0           $7000
 1           $5D00
 2           $5E00
 3           $5F00

Battery-saving of WRAM content is not supported by any Magic Card model. Hard-resetting a game while restoring previously-saved WRAM content in emulators interferes with the correct operation of the trainer's program.