Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES? 157
An anonymous reader writes "As a product of the 90s I grew up loving the classics that kids today know about from Wikipedia and pop-culture references. Games like Super Bomberman, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country I and III (II was a sellout, come on) are the foundations of my childhood memories. Now, though, as a fourth-year electrical engineering major, I find myself increasingly impressed by the level of technical difficulty embedded in that 16-bit console. I am trying, now, to find a resource that will take me through the technical design of the SNES (memory layout, processor information, cartridge pin layouts/documentation) to get a better understanding of what I naively enjoyed 15 some years ago. I am reaching out to the vast resources available from the minds of the Slashdot community. Any guide/blog series that you know of that walks through some of the technical aspects of the, preferably, SNES (alternatively, NES/Nintendo 64) console would be much appreciated."
It's a great design (Score:5, Funny)
Especially interesting is the special circuitry that eliminated the need to blow air into the cartridges that plagued the original NES.
Re:take one apart? (Score:1, Funny)
I need a senior project for EE but don't want to be bothered doing it myself, or even googling for it. Do it for me?
TY,
OP
P.S. I like vidya games, so something like that maybe?
Re:How Color Dreams reversed the polarity (Score:4, Funny)
That'll show everyone who laughed at Nintendo when they hired Geordi LaForge to work on the SNES...