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imamelia
Posted on 02-11-10 10:00 PM Link | Quote | ID: 126982

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Is there any good documentation on the SNES enhancement chips (DSP-1, SuperFX, SA-1, CX4, etc.)? I have searched and searched, but I have turned up next to no information about them. Although I may not be advanced enough to actually use them, I would nevertheless like to learn about a couple of them, just out of curiosity. Who knows, maybe I could actually utilize one or two of them eventually. I'm probably most interested in SA-1. The SNES Development Manual, I guess, says that the SA-1 uses some RAM from $3000-$37FF and $6000-$7FFF...or do I have that all wrong? Does anyone have any suggestions? I have looked on Google, around Zophar's Domain, just about everything I can think of that might turn up a document or something about them.

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Here's some things I found on romhacking.net.

C4 info
Something about DSP-1 emulation that might have some good info


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My advice if you really want to learn more about them is to read emulator source code (Snes9x / BSNES / ZSNES). They might not even 100% accurately emulate the expansion chips but emulator source and emulator authors are going to have way more about this stuff than just about any other source of information. That type of knowledge isn't common, even among SNES rom hackers, unless they happen to hack a game that uses a special chip. Even then, unless they're programmer type rom hackers they aren't going to know squat about the chip (e.g. Super Mario RPG.)

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Posted on 02-12-10 12:53 AM (rev. 2 of 02-12-10 12:55 AM) Link | Quote | ID: 126988


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Especially for Snes9x/ZSNES' source code, I really wouldn't recommend looking at the SuperFX code at all. It's a horrible hack that has little to do with how the chip actually works.

There are comprehensive official documents on the SuperFX chip floating around. I'd upload you my copy, but it's on my desktop machine which currently isn't even in the same country as me.

edit: I'm pretty sure the same kind of official documents also is floating around for the SA-1.

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