INES Mapper 036
iNES Mapper 036 is assigned to TXC's PCB 01-22000-400, featuring a 74138, a 74175, and usually a 24-pin ASIC labeled 05-00002-010. Two games are currently known to use it, mostly published by Gluk Video:
- Strike Wolf
- Policeman
Even though these games can evidently be emulated as a weird kind of GNROM, the hardware does something quite different:
The CHR banking is definitely implemented using the two 7400-series ICs:
Mask: $E200 write $4200: [.... CCCC] - Select 8 KiB CHR bank
The PRG banking is part of the ASIC:
Mask: $E103 write $4102 or $8000-$FFFF: [..PP ....] - Request 32 KiB PRG bank write $4100: activate bankswitch to bitwise NOT of requested bank then write $8000-$FFFF: correct bankswitch without extra inversion read $4100: [..PP ....] - Return current 32 KiB PRG bank read or write others: ? There are bus conflicts on writes to $8000-$FFFF.
This PRG reverse-engineering is confusing but mostly complete
Three additional games published by Gluk use the same PCB, with no ASIC. They were also released in other regions on different hardware, and only Gluk's editions are compatible with the above-mentioned CHR banking.
- F-15 City War
- Volley ball
- Puzzle
Compatibility code left in means that all editions of these three games are emulatable as NINA-06.
See also:
- http://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?p=167180#p167180 Thread about dumping Policeman starts here
