Hardware
Limitations
Limitations
This is the smallest number the NES’ CPU can’t reach since it wraps around from that to 0
What is 256?
64 per frame and 8 per scanline
What are the sprite limits?
Along with Super Mario Bros., this was the year the NES released in the USA and some PAL regions
What happened in 1985?
A TV Broadcasting system that runs at 60 or 30 FPS
What is the National Television Standards Committee (NTSC) system?
A bug in the original SMB1 that was given its own section
What is WARP ZONE?
This is the negative signed integer that is farthest from 0, the NES’ CPU can reach
What is -128?
True or False - 1980s NES games used DPCM samples
What is False?
A TV Broadcasting system that runs at 50 or 25 FPS. Usually European
What is the Phase Alternate Line (PAL) system?
A game that was made for the NES but was released after it discontinued
What is a homebrew?
This is the biggest a NES game can get in bytes (excluding ROM mappers, ie. MMC3)
What is 32768B
The extra 9th bit that nobody cares about that gets set when incrementing from 255 to “256”
What is the Carry flag?
スーパーマリオブラザーズ2の日本語版の名前 (The name for the Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 2)
What is Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels?
Российский клон NES (A Russian NES clone)
What is DENDY?
When the level number in the original NES Tetris wraps around from 255 to 0
What is REBIRTH?
This APU group contains the first 2 out of the 5 audio channels, both being Pulse waves
What is APU1?
A cheat code that was popularized by the NES conversion of the Konami arcade game Contra. It goes: Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right A B (Start/Select)
What is the Konami Code?
How fast NTSC NESes are compared to PAL/DENDY NESes
What is 6/5 or 1.2x?
When the PPU finishes a scanline and a frame respectively
What are Horizontal Blanking (HBlank) and Vertical Blanking (VBlank)?
This APU group contains the last 3 of the 5 audio channels: Triangle wave, White noise, and a DPCM-based sampler
What is APU2?
One of them makes the PPU freak out
What are VRAM Invalid Writes?
NESですが、日本語です (The NES, but Japanese)
What is the Famicom/Family Computer?
True or False - A console to exist in Morocco is the NES
What is True?
Where code executes when the Picture Processing Unit (PPU) finishes a frame
What is a Non-Mashable Interrupt (NMI)?