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Revision as of 23:47, 16 July 2023
Decimal mode is one of the SNES CPU's processor flags. Toggling it on/off will only affect the instructions ADC and SBC. To toggle decimal mode on/off, use SED (Set decimal mode) and CLD (clear decimal mode)
Processes
Let's just assume A is 8-bit and holds the value #$00. When one is doing ADC #$0C for example, the following steps will take place.
- Take the parameter after ADC
- Convert it to Decimal
- Add the conversion to A (execute ADC)
- If A turns out to have a hexadecimal number after the addition, convert it it to a decimal number again.
In this case, #$0C gets converted to 12. Since $0C equals to 12, doing ADC #$12 would give you the same result.
Same story with SBC, except SBC subtracts of course.
Example usage of ADC:
LDA #$09 ;A = $09 CLC ;Clear carry flag ADC #$02 ;A = $11
The decimal mode has been documented more thoroughly in Ersanio's ASM tutorial V2.1.