(max 256 KiB ROM and 512x4 bits RAM)
Contains the first 16 KiB of the ROM.
Same as for MBC1, but only a total of 16 ROM banks is supported.
The MBC2 doesn't support external RAM, instead it includes 512x4 bits of built-in RAM (in the MBC2 chip itself). It still requires an external battery to save data during power-off though. As the data consists of 4bit values, only the lower 4 bits of the bit octets in this memory area are used. The upper 4 bits of each byte are undefined and should not be relied upon.
Only the bottom 9 bits of the address are used to index into the internal RAM, so RAM access repeats. As with the A000-A1FF region, only the lower 4 bits of the "bytes" are used, and the upper 4 bits of each byte are undefined and should not be relied upon.
This address range is responsible for both enabling/disabling the RAM and for controlling the ROM bank number. Bit 8 of the address (the least significant bit of the upper address byte) determines whether to control the RAM enable flag or the ROM bank number.
When the least significant bit of the upper address byte is zero, the
value that is written controls whether the RAM is enabled. When the
value written to this address range is equal to 0Ah, RAM is enabled.
If any other value is written, RAM is disabled.
Examples of address that can control RAM: 0000-00FF, 0200-02FF, 0400-04FF, ..., 3E00-3EFF.
RAM is disabled by default.
When the least significant bit of the upper address byte is one, the value that is written controls the selected ROM bank at 4000-7FFF.
Specifically, the lower 4 bits of the value written to this address range specify the ROM bank number. If bank 0 is written, the resulting bank will be bank 1 instead.
Examples of address that can control ROM: 0100-01FF, 0300-03FF, 0500-05FF, ..., 3F00-3FFF.
The ROM bank is set to 1 by default.