Ask Slashdot: Understanding the SNES?

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."

Comments

It's a great design

[Quiet_Desperation]

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?

[meta-monkey]

Dear Ask Slashdot,

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

[jalefkowit]

Nintendo had improved the input protection on the Super NES version of the CIC, making it harder to defeat by reversing the polarity

That'll show everyone who laughed at Nintendo when they hired Geordi LaForge to work on the SNES...