NESASN.exe bank ?

hd380000 · Post by **hd380000** » Thu May 14, 2009 5:37 am

Why the nesasm.exe the Biggest Bank 127？
And how can translate is bigger ？

Post by **tepples** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:15 am

NESASM uses 8 KiB banks, much like the PC Engine/TG16 and like MMC3-class NES mappers. A PRG ROM with 128 such banks (0-127) is 1024 KiB. No NES game carrying the Official Nintendo Seal was bigger than that, to my knowledge; even Kirby's Adventure was only 512+256 KiB. Common mappers (MMC1, MMC3) tend not to even have enough address lines to go past 512 KiB.

hd380000 · Post by **hd380000** » Thu May 14, 2009 6:24 am

PCM music is very big with the nes said.
I has made PCM 2.5MB，only used WINHEX.exe to did.
Manual trouble ！
Has any quick means ？

Post by **tepples** » Thu May 14, 2009 9:10 am

Two workarounds:

Keep the NES and don't use the PCM. Make music with the tone generators.
Keep the PCM and don't use the NES. Develop for a platform that's designed for PCM music: enough storage and a beefy enough CPU to run an audio decoder. Suitable platforms include Nintendo 64, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, PDAs, subnotebook PCs, and anything with an optical drive.

hd380000 · Post by **hd380000** » Fri May 15, 2009 4:34 am

Thank you tepples.
Therefore the nes platform does not suit the pcm music 。