NES 2.0 Mapper 452

NES 2.0 Mapper 452 denotes the DS-9-27 multicart circuit board, used for the RCM 1992 蓋世 190-in-1 劃面選關 and 1992 幸運星 350-in-1 金礸玉 劃面選關 multicarts with 1-2 MiB PRG ROM, 8 KiB PRG RAM and 8 KiB unbanked CHR RAM. The 8 KiB of PRG RAM can be mapped anywhere between $8000-$FFFF and are used to run NROM games from partially-decompressed data, creating some rather bizarre memory layouts.

Address/Data Latch ($8000-$DFFF), write

A~[1..B BBBB BBb.] D~[.UWW QLNM]
      | |||| |||       ||| |||+- Mirroring, 1=Horizontal
      | |||| |||       ||| ||+-- 1=NROM-128-like mode
      | |||| |||       ||| |+--- $E000-$FFFF bank bit 4s in NROM-256-like mode
      | |||| |||       ||| +---- 1=NROM-256-like mode
      | |||| |||       |++------ 8 KiB PRG RAM CPU address
      | |||| |||       +-------- $E000-$FFFF bank bit 8s in NROM-256-like mode
      +-++++-+++- PRG A20..A13

The latch seems to purposefully not respond in the $E000-$FFFF range to allow writing to PRG RAM mapped to that range without changing the mapper configuration. The following effective memory arrangements are possible:

Bit 3  Bit 1  PRG ROM banking
$08s   $02s
  0      0    UNROM-like with fixed bank 0:
              16 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBB at CPU $8000-$BFFF
              16 KiB PRG ROM bank 0 at CPU $C000-$FFFF
  0      1    NROM-128-like:
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBBb at CPU $8000-$9FFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBBb at CPU $A000-$BFFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBBb at CPU $C000-$DFFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBBb at CPU $E000-$FFFF
  1      ?    NROM-256-like:
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBB0 OR 0 at CPU $8000-$9FFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBB0 OR 1 at CPU $A000-$BFFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBB0 OR 2 at CPU $C000-$DFFF
              8 KiB PRG ROM bank BBBBBB0 OR 3 OR L*4 OR L*U*8 at CPU $E000-$FFFF

8 KiB of PRG RAM overlay PRG ROM in the address range specified by the WW bits:

WW   Address range
00   $8000-$9FFF, also $C000-$DFFF in NROM-128-like mode only
01   $A000-$BFFF, also $E000-$FFFF in NROM-128-like mode only
10   $C000-$DFFF, also $8000-$9FFF in NROM-128-like mode only
11   $E000-$FFFF, also $A000-$BFFF in NROM-128-like mode only

The "NROM-128-like" mode becomes such because two of the four 8 KiB banks are overlaid with PRG RAM.