What size are ROM banks in the iNES format?

Question

According to the iNES documentation, ROM banks are 16kB.

Is this 16000 bytes (16 kB) or 16384 bytes (16 KiB) per ROM bank? I couldn’t find this anywhere in the documentation.

AFAIK, memory chips are always in ^2, so 16384 is a pretty safe guess. — Jason, Oct 12 '12 at 00:07

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 12 '12 at 00:27

16384B - the memory banks are individually adressable ROM chips, which means they need to fill in complete address space of their relevant column select lines.

Bottom line - digital hardware always uses 2^x, at least till 1990s when marketoids decided to pimp up drive sizes.

What size are ROM banks in the iNES format?

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