NES 2.0 Mapper 293 is used for the NewStar 12-in-1 and 76-in-1 multicarts. Both use 8 KiB of unbanked CHR-RAM rather than CHR-ROM.
Registers
First Banking Register ($8000-$9FFF, $C000-$DFFF)
Mask: $A000
7654 3210
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.... PIII
|+++- Select inner 16 KiB PRG-ROM bank
+---- Bit 1 of the PRG banking mode number
Second Banking Register ($8000-$BFFF)
Mask: $C000
7654 3210
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MP10 ...2
||++----+- Select outer 128 KiB PRG-ROM bank (note the bit distribution)
|+-------- Bit 0 of the PRG banking mode number
+--------- Select nametable mirroring type
0: Vertical
1: Horizontal
PRG banking modes
- $8000-$BFFF: Switchable 16 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank
- $C000-$FFFF: Fixed 16 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank #7
- $8000-$BFFF: Switchable 16 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank AND $FE
- $C000-$FFFF: Fixed 16 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank #7
- $8000-$BFFF: Switchable 16 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank
- $C000-$FFFF: Mirror of $8000-$BFFF
- $8000-$FFFF: Switchable 32 KiB Inner PRG-ROM bank (bit 0 of inner bank number ignored)
Notes
- The address ranges of the two banking registers do indeed partially overlap.
- Nestopia Plus! assigns this board to Mapper 281 instead.
Categories: Multicart mappers