Super Mario World Memory Map

Re:Super Mario World Memory Map by TapamN on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:35PM (#21895806)

One thing that's interesting about this memory map is how much is crammed into the first 8KB of the SNES's 128 KB main RAM, while the rest is mainly used to store large blocks of uncompressed data. This is probably a remnant of how the SNES was originally designed have just 8KB of RAM. (http://www.chrismcovell.com/secret/SFC_1988Q4.html)

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Re:Super Mario World Memory Map by CountHackulus on Friday December 27, 2019 @06:43PM (#21895870)

It's likely due to being easier to deal with across various memory mapping modes. There's a Retro Game Mechanics Explained video about it that I can't seem to find right now.

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Re:Super Mario World Memory Map by RetroSpark on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:30PM (#21896875)

This. The Super NES memory map is divided into 256 banks of 64KB each. The bottom 8KB of RAM is visible in 128 of these banks, but the remaining 120KB only appears once. The bottom 8KB of RAM is therefore faster to access (at any time, it's more likely to be visible in the "current" bank).

Of course, game developers tried to put as much data as possible into the part of RAM that is faster to access.

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Re:Super Mario World Memory Map by matheusmoreira on Saturday December 28, 2019 @02:25AM (#21897653)

Here you go:

https://youtu.be/-U76YvWdnZM

Highly recommended channel. The video about blanking is a particularly awesome entry in this series and it even features Super Mario World:

https://youtu.be/Q8ph2OVqZeM

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