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=== External Links ===
=== External Links ===
* Official Nintendo documentation on MOVW: https://archive.org/details/SNESDevManual/book1/page/n233
* Official Super Nintendo development manual on MOVW: [https://archive.org/details/SNESDevManual/book1/page/n233 Appendix C-8 of Book I]


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Revision as of 02:12, 8 July 2023

MOVW (Move Word) is an SPC700 instruction that moves a 16-bit ARAM value to or from the YA register. There are no variations of MOVW that do not operate on YA.

Example

From the IPL ROM,

MOVW YA, $F6	; load the byte at ARAM location $F6 into A and the byte at $F7 into Y
MOVW $00, YA	; store the value in Y to ARAM location $01 and the value in A to $00
Basic Info (to YA)
Addressing Mode Opcode Length Speed
BA 2 bytes 5 cycles
Flags Clobbered (to YA)
N V P B H I Z C
. . . . .
Basic Info (from YA)
Addressing Mode Opcode Length Speed
DA 2 bytes 4 cycles
Flags Clobbered (from YA)
N V P B H I Z C
. . . . . . . .

See Also

External Links