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DxROM

The generic designation DxROM refers to cartridge boards made by Nintendo that use the seemingly-identical Namco 108, 109, 118 or 119 mappers. Nintendo did not manufacture the Famicom counterparts. The iNES format assigns Mapper 206 to DxROM.

The following DxROM boards are known to exist:

BoardPRG ROMCHR ROMComments
DEROM64 KiB32,64 KiB ROMNintendo’s clone of Tengen’s 800002 and Namco’s 3413 and 3414
DE1ROM128 KiB64 KiBNintendo’s clone of Tengen’s 800030 and Namco’s 3406
DRROM128 KiB64 KiBNintendo’s clone of Tengen’s 800004, with four-screen mirroring.

Tengen initially tried to get around Nintendo’s publication restrictions by manufacturing all parts of the games themselves. They were eventually prohibited from continuing, but Nintendo only re-released a subset of all the games that Tengen brought to the US.

Namco published a wide number of differently-numbered Famicom counterparts. Some of them have significantly different behavior and have had their own mappers allocated.

BoardPRG ROMCHR ROMComments
340132 KiB32 KiB
3405, 3415128 KiB32 KiB
3406, 3416128 KiB64 KiB
3407, 3417, 345132 KiB16,32 KiBPRG A13, A14 connected directly to CPU, no PRG banking available
341364 KiB32 KiB
341464 KiB64 KiB
3425128 KiB32 KiBCHR A15 controls CIRAM A10
3433, 3443128 KiB128 KiBPA12 controls CHR A16
3446128 KiB128 KiB2K banks using regs 2-5
3453128 KiB128 KiBBit 6 of written value controls CIRAM A10; PA12 controls CHR A16

Otherwise, the Namco 108 family is just a subset of MMC3

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