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Beginners > What is OAM

#27991 - QuantumDoja - Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:38 pm

Hi, please forgive my lack of knowledge, but I have read some source that set OAM, what is OAM???
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#27992 - sajiimori - Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:41 pm

The tutorials go over all that. In short, OAM is a memory area in the hardware that describes the sprites to be drawn.

#27993 - ScottLininger - Mon Oct 25, 2004 8:51 pm

Stands for Object Attribute Memory. As it suggests, it stores meta data about youe Sprites (aka objects). The sprite graphics are stored elsewhere.

-Scott