INES Mapper 083

iNES Mapper 83 is used for games from Cony, also known as Yoko. There are three somewhat incompatible subtypes, denoted by submappers, although the proper subtype is easy to heuristically discern by looking at the CHR-ROM size:

• 256 KiB CHR-ROM => Submapper 0 (1 KiB CHR-ROM banking, no WRAM)
  • Street Fighter II Pro/Street Blaster II Pro
  • Street Fighter IV Pro 10/Street Blaster IV Pro 10
  • Street Blaster V Turbo 20
  • Street Fighter X Turbo 40
  • Fatal Fury 2/餓狼伝説 2
  • Fatal Fury 2'/餓狼伝説 2'
• 512 KiB CHR-ROM => Submapper 1 (2 KiB CHR-ROM banking, no WRAM)
  • Super Blaster VII Turbo 28
  • World Heroes 2/快打英雄榜 2
  • World Heroes 2 Pro//快打英雄榜 2 Pro
• 1024 KiB CHR-ROM => Submapper 2 (1 KiB CHR-ROM banking with outer bank, 32 KiB banked WRAM)
  • Dragon Ball Party

A fourth Yoko mapper, functionally similar but with different register addresses, has been assigned to NES 2.0 Mapper 264.

Registers

Mode Register ($8100, write)

Mask: $8300

7654 3210
---------
ED6M M.mm
|||| | ++- Select nametable mirroring type
|||| |     0: Vertical
|||| |     1: Horizontal
|||| |     2: One screen, page 0
|||| |     3: One screen, page 1
|||+-+---- Select PRG banking mode
|||        0: 16 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $8000-$BFFF, determined by PRG register 4 ($8000)
|||           16 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $C000-$FFFF, fixed to last bank
|||        1: 32 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $8000-$FFFF, determined by PRG register 4 ($8000) SHR 1
|||        2: 8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $8000-$9FFF, determined by PRG register 0 ($8300)
|||           8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $A000-$BFFF, determined by PRG register 1 ($8301)
|||           8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $C000-$DFFF, determined by PRG register 2 ($8302)
|||           8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $E000-$FFFF, fixed to last bank
|||        3: same as mode 2
||+------- Submappers 0 and 1: Enable/disable 8 KiB PRG-ROM at $6000-$7FFF
||         0: Disabled, open bus at $6000-$7FFF
||         1: 8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $6000-$7FFF, determined by PRG register 3
||         Submapper 2: no function
|+-------- IRQ counting mode
|          0: Increment
|          1: Decrement
+--------- IRQ Enable latch
           0: Disabled
           1: Enabled

In Submapper 2, PRG banking as described above applies to the inner bank within the 256 KiB outer bank selected by the Outer Bank register ($8000) bits 4-5.

PRG-ROM registers 0-3 ($8300-$8303, write)

Mask: $8313

$8300: PRG register 0 (8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $8000-$9FFF in PRG banking mode 2)
$8301: PRG register 1 (8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $A000-$BFFF in PRG banking mode 2)
$8302: PRG register 2 (8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $C000-$DFFF in PRG banking mode 2)
$8303: PRG register 3 (8 KiB PRG-ROM bank at $6000-$7FFF if Mode Register ($8100) bit 5 is set
       (Submappers 0 and 1 only)

PRG-ROM register 4/Outer Bank register ($8000, write)

Mask: $8300

7654 3210
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WWOO PPPP
|||| ++++- Select 16 KiB PRG-ROM bank at CPU $8000-$BFFF in PRG mode 0
|||| +++-- Select 32 KiB PRG-ROM bank at CPU $8000-$FFFF in PRG mode 1
||++------ Submapper 2 only: Select 256 KiB Outer PRG/CHR-ROM bank
++-------- Submapper 2 only: Select 8 KiB WRAM bank at CPU $6000-$7FFF
           

CHR-ROM registers ($8310-$8317, write)

Mask: $831F

Submapper 0 and 2:

$8310: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0000-$03FF
$8311: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0400-$07FF
$8312: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0800-$0BFF
$8313: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0C00-$0FFF
$8314: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1000-$13FF
$8315: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1400-$17FF
$8316: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1800-$1BFF
$8317: Select 1 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1C00-$1FFF
$8318-$831F: No function

In Submapper 2, these registers select the inner CHR-ROM bank, while the Outer Bank register ($8000) bits 4-5 select the 256 KiB outer CHR-ROM bank.

Submapper 1:

$8310: Select 2 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0000-$07FF
$8311: Select 2 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $0800-$0FFF
$8312-$8315: No function
$8316: Select 2 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1000-$17FF
$8317: Select 2 KiB CHR-ROM bank at PPU $1800-$1FFF
$8318-$831F: No function

DIP Switch ($5000, read)

Mask: probably $DF00

7654 3210
---------
.... ..DD
       ++- DIP switch setting

Several games display different names (Street Fighter versus Street Blaster) depending on the DIP switch setting. Some games will display a garbled title screen at some DIP switch settings, and the "good" setting is not always 0 or 3!

Scratch RAM ($5100-$5FFF, read/write)

Mask: probably $DF03

$5xx0: Scratch RAM byte #0
$5xx1: Scratch RAM byte #1
$5xx2: Scratch RAM byte #2
$5xx3: Scratch RAM byte #3

IRQ Acknowledge and Counter Low ($8200)

Mask: $8301

A write directly changes the low eight bits of the 16-bit IRQ counter and acknowledges the IRQ.

IRQ Enable and Counter High ($8201)

Mask: $8301

A write directly changes the high eight bits of the 16-bit IRQ counter, and copies bit 7 of the Mode register to the actual IRQ Enable register (which is not directly accessible).

IRQ Operation

If the IRQ counter is enabled (by writing a value to $8201 after setting bit 7 in the Mode register), and the counter is not zero, the counter is increased (Mode register bit 6 clear) or decreased (Mode register bit 6 set) on every M2 cycle. If it reaches zero, an IRQ is raised, and the IRQ counter is automatically disabled.