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Willow (U)

Status

Pass 0 skeleton. The project builds and verifies byte-identical to the original ROM, but no disassembly exists yet: prg.s is a single .incbin "prg.bin" of the PRG image.

make assembles header.s, prg.s, chr.s, links them with ld65 and compares the result against rom.nes:

Byte-identical ROM verified.

ROM

Property Value
Format iNES
Mapper 65
Board MAPPER65
Mirroring Horizontal
Four-screen VRAM no
Battery yes
PRG 128 KB (8 x 16 KB), at file offset $0010
CHR 128 KB (16 x 8 KB)
Trainer none
Footer none
NMI vector $C080
RESET vector $FFE8
IRQ vector $FFE8
ROM file Willow (U).nes
SHA-256 ca440c7f643a2c8388b1236e867ee62b6c3603fa3136a302b109f108b9a4b54a

Header notes

  • header byte 7 is $44; its upper nybble selects mapper bits 4-7

Open work

  • Pass 1 - run nesdis.py over prg.bin to produce the code/data split. The tracer reads the vectors from the last six bytes of the PRG image, so the split seeds correctly.
  • Pass 1 must emit the canonical audit comment ; CPU:$C123 PRG:0123 AD 21 03 at column 35 for every instruction.
  • Pass 2 - replace the address-derived Label_XXXX names and the raw $XXXX call operands.
  • Pass 3 - semantic zero-page aliases (applied only at the sites where their role is proven) and named data tables.
  • Promotion to NROM/<name>/ once Pass 3 is done, as git mv.

Files

File Purpose
prg.s Pass 0 PRG include (replaced by the Pass 1 disassembly)
header.s iNES header include
chr.s CHR include
prg.bin 131072 bytes (128 KB) PRG image
chr.bin 131072 bytes (128 KB) CHR image
rom.nes byte-identical copy of the original ROM
linker.cfg HEADER / PRG / CHR memory areas
symbols.inc NES hardware register names
locals.inc zero-page aliases (empty at Pass 0)
Makefile build and byte-identity check