UNROM and NESASM

[sav]

Hey,

I've been working on this game for a while, and the time has come to change the mapper. I've been using NROM so far, but I really need more PRG ROM and I kind of need CHR RAM. After reading the wiki, I've decided to go with UNROM (it seems pretty straightforward to use).

I'm using NESASM (really considering switching to ASM6 though) and one thing I'm not sure how to do though is how do I set up the additional banks. NESASM using 8kB banks makes it even more confusing.

So right now I have something like

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  .bank 0
  .org $8000
  
  .bank 1
  .org $A000
  
  .bank 2
  .org $C000
  
  .bank 3
  .org $E000

How do I declare the new banks, and how do I 'map' from the 8kB to 16kB?
Do I just declare 16 banks? I've tried this very briefly but it didn't work (maybe I did something wrong though)

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  ; selected by writing $00 to $8000-$FFFF
  .bank 0
  .org $8000 
  .bank 1
  .org $A000

  ; selected by writing $01 to $8000-$FFFF
  .bank 2
  .org $8000 
  .bank 3
  .org $A000
  
  […]

  ; selected by writing $06 to $8000-$FFFF
  .bank 12
  .org $8000 
  .bank 13
  .org $A000
  
  ; always selected
  .bank 14
  .org $C000  
  .bank 15
  .org $E000

Any help appreciated!

[sdm]

I mainly use UNROM/UOROM and NESASM3. Each UNROM bank is 16kb, so it is divided into two "parts" in NESASM3, 8KB each. So we switch in pairs, not 8kb individually (At least I've never heard of such a method).

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  .bank 0		;00 (1/2 first bank/swappable)
  .org $8000 

  .bank 1		;00 (2/2 first bank/swappable)
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 2		;01 (1/2)
  .org $8000

  .bank 3		;01 (2/2)
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 4		;02
  .org $8000

  .bank 5		;02
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 6		;03
  .org $8000

  .bank 7		;03
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 8		;04
  .org $8000

  .bank 9		;04
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 10		;05
  .org $8000

  .bank 11		;05
  .org $A000

;-----------

  .bank 12		;06
  .org $8000

  .bank 13		;06
  .org $A000

;-----------
  
  .bank 14		;07 (1/2 last bank/fixed)
  .org $C000

  .bank 15		;07 (2/2 last bank/fixed)
  .org $E000

;-------------------UOROM-256:

(...)

  .bank 28		;14/$0E
  .org $8000

  .bank 29		;14/$0E
  .org $A000

;--------

  .bank 30		;15/$0F (1/2 last bank/fixed)
  .org $C000

  .bank 31		;15/$0F (2/2 last bank/fixed)
  .org $E000

[Memblers]

I don't see anything wrong there. How about where you write to the mapper register? UNROM has bus conflicts, so normally mapper writes would be done like this:

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banktable: .byte 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7
bankswitch: ; bank # loaded in A
	tax
	sta banktable,x
	rts

[sav]

Thanks for the replies!
I'll give this another try, at least now I know this is the way to go.