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E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. A.U.S.T.R.A.L.I.A.
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o_____________/ \_ _______o / \ / \_________| |____________o | |
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\ __ / / |\ \ / ./ __\ \ _ \ |\ \ \ | .|
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\ \__/_/___/ ./ |/\ /\ .\/ o/ | .\ \___\) .) .|/\ /\ \ \ \| o|
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/\_______// o/ / / / o/ O/___| o|\ \ / o/ o/ / / o/ .\ \ O|
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/ /_/ O/ O/| ( (_/ O/ /_) ) O|_) )/ O/| ( (_/ O/ o|\ |
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\ ____/_________\ \___/_________/________// / |___\_______/| O| \___|
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_\ \______________\ \_____________________/ / | |______
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_________________________________________________/ Poise/RaZoR PC |__________
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Presents : The Super Wild Card & Super Magicom Programmers Handbook.
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Typed by : MicroChip/Evolution/Submission
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Call the Evolution WHQ on : Southern Cross BBS (SNES/MD/PC/AMIGA)
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--> +61-3-428-9359 (2 Nodes Ringdown)
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***************************************************************************
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HardWare Specifcations & Features
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---------------------------------
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1) DRAM - 28Mega Bits Maximum Available
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2) SRAM - 256k (Battery Backup)
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3) ROM - 128k (Firmware)
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4) Floppy Drive Interface -
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* Motorola MCS3201 Chip (NEC 765A Compatible)
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* Compatible with IBM PC/AT & XT Disk Drive System
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* Suports 3.5" & 5.25" Flopy Disk Drive.
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* DB-25 Female Connector (non-standard)
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* Supports only Non-DMA mode (polling)
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5) Parallel Port Interface -
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* 8 bits input, 4 bits output, 1 bit handshake.
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* DB-25 Female Connector
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* Use Male to Male DB-25 Connector to connect to PC's Parallel Port
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6) Core Chip -
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* Altera EP1810 Chip (First Generation)
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* Front Far East FC9203 Chip (Currently Shipping)
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* Front Far East FC9304 Chip (Not Avilable)
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7) Versions -
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Ver. Bios-Name Core Mode21 Saver Description
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'A' Magicom EP1810 No Yes External Drive
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'B' Wild Card EP1810 Yes Yes External or Bulid-in DD
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'C' Wild Card FC9203 Yes Yes External or Bulid-in DD
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'D' Wild Card FC9304 Yes Yes (Under Development)
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'E' Wild Card EP1810 Yes No Magic Drive Adapter
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'F' Wild Card FC9203 Yes No Magic Drive Adapter
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SoftWare Specifications & Features
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1) Registers -
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[Floppy Drive I/O]
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C000R : Input Register
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Bit 7 - MCS3201 IRQ Signal
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Bit 6 - Drive 'Index' Signal (Disk Insert Check)
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C002W : Digital Output Register
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C004R : Main Status Register
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C005RW: Data Register
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C007R : Digital Input Register
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C007W : Disk Control Register
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* Consult the MCS3201 Data Sheet for more detailed information.
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[Parallel I/O]
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C008R : Bit 07 : Parallel Data Input (reading this register will
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reverse the busy flag)
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C008W : Bit 03 : Parallel Data Output
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Bit 00 : 0=Mode 20, 1=Mode 21 (DRAM Mapping)
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Bit 01 : 0=Mode 1, 1=Mode 2 (SRAM Mapping)
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C009R : Busy Flag, Bit 7 (EP1810 Version)
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C000R : Busy Flag, Bit 5 (FC9203 Version)
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[Page Select]
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E000W : Memory Page 0
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E001W : Memory Page 1
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E002W : Memory Page 2
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E003W : Memory Page 3
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[Mode Select]
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E004W : System Mode 0 (Bios Mode, Power On Default)
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E004W : System Mode 0 (Play Cartridge)
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E004W : System Mode 0 (Cartridge Emulation 1)
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E004W : System Mode 0 (Cartridge Emulation 2)
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[Others]
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E008W : 44256 Dram Type (For 2,4,6,8 Mega Dram Card.
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E009W : 441000 Dram Type (For 8,16,24,32 Mega Dram Card)
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E00CW : Enable cartridge page mapping at A000FFF (Sys Mode 0)
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Disable cartridge page mapping at bank 205F,A0 (Sys Mode 2,3)
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E00DW : Enable SRAM page mapping at A000FFF (Sys Mode 0)
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Enable cartridge mapping at Bank 205F,A0 (Sys Mode 2,3)
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* The bank address of the above registers is 007D,80.
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* The above registers are available only in System Mode 0 (BIOS Mode)
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* [Mode Select] registers also available in System Mode 2.
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2) Memory Mapping -
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[System Mode 0]
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bb2000B3FFFRW : SRAM or Cartridge page mapping, bb=407D,C0
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bb8000B9FFFRW : DRAM page mapping, bb=007D,80
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bbA000bBFFFRW : SRAM or Cartridge page mapping, bb=007D,90
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bbC000W : I/O Registers, bb=007D,80 (Registers)
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bbE000bFFFFR : ROM Page mapping, bb=01 (Firmware)
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* 1 Page = 8k Bytes, 1 Bank = 4 pages
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* bb:000F = 4 Mega Bytes
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* bb:001F = 8 Mega Bytes
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* bb:002F = 12 Mega Bytes
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* bb:003F = 16 Mega Bytes
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[System Mode 1]
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bb0000b7FFFR : Cartridge Mapping, bb=407D,C0 (Mode 21)
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bb8000bFFFFR : Cartridge Mapping, bb=007d,80 (Mode 20,21)
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[System Mode 2]
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bb0000b7FFFR : DRAM Mapping, bb=407D,C00 (Mode 21)
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bb8000BFFFFR : DRAM Mapping, bb=0070,800 (Mode 20,21)
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70800070FFFFRW : SRAM Mode 1 Mapping
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306000307FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 0
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316000317FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 1
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326000327FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 2
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336000337FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 3
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* bbE004bE007W : Mode Select Registers, bb=007D,80
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[System Mode 3]
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bb0000b7FFFR : DRAM Mapping, bb=406F,C0 (Mode 21)
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bb8000BFFFFR : DRAM Mapping, bb=006F,80 (Mode 20,21)
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70800070FFFFRW : SRAM Mode 1 Mapping
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306000307FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 0
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316000317FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 1
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326000327FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 2
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336000337FFFRW : SRAM Mode 2 Mapping, Page 3
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* Mode 21 - Even DRAM is mapped to bb0000b7FFF
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Odd DRAM is mapped to bb8000bFFFF
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3) Parallel I/O Protocol -
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[Protocol used in PC]
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* Byte Output procedure:
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Wait Busy Bit = 1 Status Port Bit 7 (Hex n79,n7D)
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Write One Bytes Data Latch (Hex n78,n7C)
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Reverse Strobe bit Control Port Bit 0 (Hex n7a,n7E)
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* Byte Input procedure:
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Wait Busy Bit = 0 Status Port Bit 7 (Hex n79.n7D)
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Read Low 4 bits of byte Status Port Bit 36 (Hex n79.n7D)
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Reverse Strobe bit Control Port Bit 0 (Hex n7A.n7E)
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Wait Bust Bit = 0 Status PortBit 7 (Hex n79.n7D)
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Read High 4 Bits of byte Status Port Bit 36 (Hex n79.n7D)
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Reverse Strobe Bit Control Port Bit 0 (Hex n7A.n7E)
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* 5 Types of Commands
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* Command length = 9 bytes
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* Command Format:
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Byte 1 D5 ID Code 1
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Byte 2 AA ID Code 2
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Byte 3 96 ID Code 3
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Byte 4 00|01|04|05|06 Command Code
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Byte 5 A1 Low Byte of Address
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Byte 6 AH High Bytes of Address
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Byte 7 LL Low Byte of Data Length
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Byte 8 LH High Byte of data Length
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Byte 9 CC Checksum = 81^Byte4^Byte5^Byte6^Byte7^Byte8
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* Command [00] : Download Data
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a1,ah = Address
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11,1h = Data Length
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Output Data after Command
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* Command [01] : Upload Data
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a1,ah = Address
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11,1h = Data Length
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Input Data after Command
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* Command [04] : Force SFC Program to JMP
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a1,ah = address
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* Command [05] : Set Memory Page Number
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a1 Bit 1 = Page Number
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a1 Bit27 + ah Bit 1 = Bank Number
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* Command [06] : SUB Function
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a1 = 0 Initial Device
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a1 = 1 Play Game in DRAM
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a1 = 2 Play Cartridge
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Password Format
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---------------
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1) Description -
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Use the Data in the password to replace the data in the memory
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at the offset address (according to the game file)
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2) Format 1 -
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* Game Doctor Gold Finger Format
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* 20 bits address space assigment
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* 3 data bytes per string
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* [Gaaaaaddddddccc]
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'G' = Means Game Doctor Format
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aaaaa = Offser address of game file (Excluding 512 bytes header)
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dddddd = 3 data Bytes (If the second ot the third data is '00',
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this means that the data is uncganged in
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the second of third byte)
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ccc = Checksum (Not used in SWC and SMC)
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3) Format 2 -
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* 'FFE' Format
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* 24 bit address space assigment
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* 1 to 36 data bytes per string
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* No Checksum
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* [nnaaaaaadd....]
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nn = Data bytes length
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aaaaaa = Offset Address of Game file (excluding 512 bytes header)
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dd.... = nn Bytes data (Should be nn*2 Characters)
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File Header
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1) Created by JSI/Front Far East
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2) 512 Bytes Length
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3) Byte
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0 - Low Byte of 8k-Bytes page Counts
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1 - High Byte of 8k-Bytes page Counts
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2 - Emulation Mode Select
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Bit 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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x : 1=Run in Mode 0 (Jump $8000)
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x : 0=Last File of the Game (Multi-File)
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x : 0=Mode 1, 1=Mode 2 (SRAM Mapping)
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x : 0=Mode 20, 1=Mode 21 (DRAM Mapping)
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x : 0=Run in Mode 3, 1=Run in Mode 2 (JMP Reset)
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x : 0=Disable, 1=Enable (external cartridge
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memory image at Bank 205F,A0 System Mode 2,3)
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8 - File ID Code 1 (Should be 'AA')
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9 - File ID Code 2 (Should be 'BB')
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10 - Check this byte if ID 1 & 2 Match
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02 : Magic Griffin Game File (PC Engine)
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03 : Magic Griffin SRAM Data File
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04 : SWC & SMC Game File (SNES)
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05 : SWC & SMC Password, SRAM data, Saver Data File.
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06 : SMD Game File (Megadrive)
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07 : SMD SRAM Data File
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37 - Reserved (Should be 00)
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11511 - Reserved (Should be 00)
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****************************** The End ***********************************
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Personal Greetings go to:
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Ice/ATX - See ya at the Rave!
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Krayzi/PE - Stop pulling those pipes.
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Krimsym - See ya at Insanity!
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VIking Child/Submission - Use a condom next time!
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Ginnie/Razor - PC's RULE - NOT!
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TV & Revenger/Submission - Why an A4000?
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Poise/Razor - Where's my text screen??
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Itec/Submission - Lets get TCC going again?
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Mixer/Mel - See ya at Kentucky!
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WormEater & RAM - Call my board!
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Kirk/Anthrox - How ya going Pete? Will Call ya soon!
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Mat - Speed kills - NOT!
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Choronzon - Let me see ya trade!
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Sweet Thing - Thanx for the support!
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Woody & Sandman - Call my bbs you lazy bastards.. hehe
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Cameo - I want a pre-release...
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Rotox - Call me..
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Mr. IRQ - Dove' il mio manuale?
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Jacknife - Thanx for the Support Dude!
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And to all my friends I have forgotten about coz I am tired!
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Group Greetings go to:
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Submission, Magical, Anthrox, Paradox, Razor, Fairlight, BSL, Elitendo,
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PE, Quartex, Skid Row and to all others I missed!
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NOTE: If any Australian's wish to purchase a Super Wild Card they are
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asked to call (03) 883-0297 (24hour paging service)............
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