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Mode 4 is the only background mode that supports both Offset Change Mode and Direct Color. The horizontal resolution is 256 dots.

Mode 4 is the only background mode where the most significant bit of the offset change mode register is effective.^[3]

Tiles may be 8 by 8 pixels or 16 by 16 pixels in Mode 4.^[2]

Bust-A-Move uses Mode 4 for gameplay.^[1]

Mosaic, interlacing and windowing are supported.

References

https://nesdoug.com/2022/05/30/other-modes
Appendix A-5 for Book I of the official Super Nintendo development manual
Appendix A-13 of Book I, lbid.

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+'''Mode 4''' is the only background mode that supports both [[Offset Change Mode]] and [[Direct Color]].  The horizontal resolution is 256 dots.
+Mode 4 is the only background mode where the most significant bit of the offset change mode register is effective.<sup>[3]</sup>
+Tiles may be 8 by 8 pixels or 16 by 16 pixels in Mode 4.<sup>[2]</sup>
+''Bust-A-Move'' uses Mode 4 for gameplay.<sup>[1]
+[[Mosaic]], [[interlacing]] and [[windowing]] are supported.
-=== See Also ===
 === See Also ===
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-|            || [[Mode 5]] || [[Mode 6]] || [[Mode 7]]
+| [[Mode 4]] || [[Mode 5]] || [[Mode 6]] || [[Mode 7]]
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-=== Reference ===
+=== References ===
-* https://nesdoug.com/2022/05/30/other-modes
+# https://nesdoug.com/2022/05/30/other-modes
+# [https://archive.org/details/SNESDevManual/book1/page/n199 Appendix A-5 for Book I] of the official Super Nintendo development manual
+# [https://archive.org/details/SNESDevManual/book1/page/n207 Appendix A-13 of Book I], lbid.
 [[Category:Video]]
+[[Category:Tiled Background Modes]]
+[[Category:Offset Change Modes]]
+[[Category:Horizontal Pseudo 512 Mode]]
+[[Category:Direct Color Modes]]
+[[Category:Double-background Modes]]

Other Background Modes
Mode 0	Mode 1	Mode 2	Mode 3
Mode 4	Mode 5	Mode 6	Mode 7