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The Infamous Bit-Of-Confusion

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The Infamous Bit-Of-Confusion is scene slang for the unused most significant bit of a 16-bit memory location which is storing a 15-bit value. The term appears to have been introduced by Y0shi circa 1994.[1] In CGRAM, reading the bit-of-confusion returns PPU2 open bus.

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References

  1. Y0shi, SNES.2
  2. https://problemkaputt.de/fullsnes.htm#snesppucolorpalettememorycgramanddirectcolors