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● Map size

The size of the map (the number of planes in the map) depends on whether the screen is a normal scroll screen or a rotary scroll screen. The normal scroll screen has a map of 2 horizontal planes x 2 vertical planes for each screen.
The rotation scroll screen has a map of 4 horizontal planes x 4 vertical planes for each of rotation parameter A and rotation parameter B. Figure 4.15 shows the placement of planes by map size.

Figure 4.15 Map size
● Normal scroll screen ┌─────┬─────┐
│ │ │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ │ │
│ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │
└─────┴─────┘

● Rotating scroll screen ┌─────┬─────┬─────┬─────┐
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │ │ │ │
├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ Plain E │ Plain F │ Plain G │ Plain H │
│ │ │ │ │ │
├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ Plain I │ Plain J │ Plain K │ Plain L │
│ │ │ │ │ │
├─────┼─────┼─────┼─────┤
│ │ │ │ │ │
│ Plain M │ Plain N │ Plain O │ Plain P │
│ │ │ │ │ │
└─────┴─────┴─────┴─────┘

When NBG0 and NBG1 are set to 1/4 reduction enable bit (N0ZMQT, N1ZMQT) so that they can be reduced to 1/4, the map size of NBG0 and NBG1 will be different from the normal size. In this case, do not set the plane size of the screen that can be reduced to 1/4 to 2 horizontal pages x 2 vertical pages. Figure 4.16 shows the size of the map with the reduction settings.

Figure 4.16 Plain map placement with reduced settings
● When NBG0 is set to be reduced to 1/4 ┌─────┬─────┐
│ For NBG0 │ For NBG0 │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG0 │ For NBG0 │
│ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG2 │ For NBG2 │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG2 │ For NBG2 │
│ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │
└─────┴─────┘


● When NBG0 is set to be reduced to 1/4 ┌─────┬─────┐
│ For NBG1 │ For NBG1 │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG1 │ For NBG1 │
│ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG3 │ For NBG3 │
│ Plain A │ Plain B │
│ │ │
├─────┼─────┤
│ For NBG3 │ For NBG3 │
│ Plain C │ Plain D │
│ │ │
└─────┴─────┘

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