Macro Winners Mouse

A mouse that came with cartridges and keyboard famiclones manufactured by Macro Winners, also known as Belsonic, usually using their GameStar branding. GameStar-branded cartridges that did not come bundled with a keyboard famiclone tend to use the Subor Mouse instead.

Example games:

• Smart Genius
• Магистр Гений 2 Говорящий Картридж
• Мооспирв Обучающий Компьютер 2000 (a.k.a. Educational Computer 2000, though there are others with that title)

The Mega Book Mouse is virtually identical to the Macro Winners Mouse; the only difference is that the two bits that indicate the “byte number” are in a different bit position.

7  bit  0
---- ----
xxxx xxxS
        |
        +- Strobe

7  bit  0
---- ----
xxxx xxxD
        |
        +- Serial data (bit 7->bit 6->...->bit 0)

The mouse returns either 1-byte or 3-byte responses based on the size of the x/y axis movement since the last read. If the movement value for both the X and Y axis is between -1 and 1 (inclusively), the mouse returns a 1-byte response. Otherwise, a 3-byte response is sent. In this case, the strobe bit must be toggled 3 times in a row to read the entire response (e.g read $4017 8 times, toggle strobe bit, read 8 more times, etc.)

Macro Winners:

LRXXYY00
||||||||
||||||++- Always 0
||||++--- Y movement (0: no movement, 1 or 2 = went down 1 unit, 3 = went up 1 unit)
||++----- X movement (0: no movement, 1 or 2 = went right 1 unit, 3 = went left 1 unit)
|+------- Right mouse button (1: pressed)
+-------- Left mouse button (1: pressed)

The mouse button order is opposite that of the Super NES Mouse.

Mega Book:

LR00XXYY
||||||||
||||||||
||||||++--- Y movement (0: no movement, 1 or 2 = went down 1 unit, 3 = went up 1 unit)
||||++----- X movement (0: no movement, 1 or 2 = went right 1 unit, 3 = went left 1 unit)
||++----- Always 0
|+------- Right mouse button (1: pressed)
+-------- Left mouse button (1: pressed)

Macro Winners:

Byte 1

LRSXTY01
||||||||
||||||++- Always 01
|||||+--- Y movement (Bit 4)
||||+---- Y movement direction (1: up, 0: down)
|||+----- X movement (Bit 4)
||+------ X movement direction (1: left, 0: right)
|+------- Right mouse button (1: pressed)
+-------- Left mouse button (1: pressed)

Byte 2

--XXXX10
  ||||||
  ||||++- Always 10
  ++++--- X movement (Bits 0-3)

Byte 3

--YYYY11
  ||||||
  ||||++- Always 11
  ++++--- Y movement (Bits 0-3)

Mega Book:

Byte 1

LR01SXTY
||||||||
||||||||
|||||||+--- Y movement (Bit 4)
||||||+---- Y movement direction (1: up, 0: down)
|||||+----- X movement (Bit 4)
||||+------ X movement direction (1: left, 0: right)
||++----- Always 01
|+------- Right mouse button (1: pressed)
+-------- Left mouse button (1: pressed)

Byte 2

--10XXXX
  ||||||
  ||||||
  ||++++--- X movement (Bits 0-3)
  ++------- Always 10

Byte 3

--11YYYY
  ||||||
  ||||||
  ||++++--- Y movement (Bits 0-3)
  ++------- Always 11

• Nocash’s EveryNES documentation (incorrectly calls it the “Subor Mouse”)

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