what these are, come on. They are the little (well,
they can be up to 64x64 pixels on the SNES) graphics usually used for individual
moving objects in a game.</LI>

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Tile map (a.k.a. BG Matrix): A BG is made up of hundreds of tiles, which
are simply little graphics of a certain size (8x8, and 16x16 which is made
of 4 8x8 tiles) placed end-to-end. A tile map is a two-dimensional array
which contains a tile number and other properties for each square on the
BG. Note that, depending on the context, the wor