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Does anyone have information with how some of the "multi cart" games worked, like Mario/Duck Hunt/Track Meet? Surely, all 3 games didn't fit in 32k right?... ri
by tibbon 11y ago
Does anyone have information with how some of the "multi cart" games worked, like Mario/Duck Hunt/Track Meet? Surely, all 3 games didn't fit in 32k right?... right?
http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/3-in-1_Super_Mario_Bros._/_Duck_Hunt_/_World_Class_Track_Meet http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/3-in-1_Super_Mario_Bros._/_Du...
- jimsmart 11y agoAn educated guess (having coded the NES) is that it's simply a bigger ROM, and the cart contained some kind of MMC chip [0] which allows different sections from the ROM to be paged-in - the menu screen contains the code to page-in the applicable bank from the ROM, and then the game runs per normal, not being aware of any of this. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_controller https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management_controller