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Background attribute registers
From SnesLab
The SNES has four background attribute registers, presumably one for each of the four backgrounds. Each of them is connected to a delay circuit that remembers its previous two values.
When a nametable is read, the four attribute bits (three for palette, one for priority) are stored in the corresponding background attribute register.