The Infamous Bit-Of-Confusion

The Infamous Bit-Of-Confusion is scene slang for the 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. In CGRAM, reading the bit-of-confusion returns PPU2 open bus.

See Also

• List of Y0shi's Docs
• MDR

Reference

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