diff --git a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/Core.cs b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/Core.cs
index c566479896..fbddc1e881 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/Core.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/NES/Core.cs
@@ -188,6 +188,8 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Nintendo.NES
 				case "Famicom":
 					apu = new APU(this, apu, false);
 					ppu.region = PPU.Region.NTSC;
+					CoreComm.VsyncNum = 39375000;
+					CoreComm.VsyncDen = 655171;
 					cpuclockrate = 1789773;
 					cpu_sequence = cpu_sequence_NTSC;
 					break;
diff --git a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/LibQuickNES.cs b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/LibQuickNES.cs
index 79d83b72b1..6449bdb124 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/LibQuickNES.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/LibQuickNES.cs
@@ -208,6 +208,14 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Consoles.Nintendo.QuickNES
 		/// <param name="val"></param>
 		[DllImport(dllname, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
 		public static extern void qn_poke_prgbus(IntPtr e, int addr, byte val);
+		/// <summary>
+		/// get the mapper that's loaded
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="e">Context</param>
+		/// <param name="number">recieves mapper number</param>
+		/// <returns>mapper name</returns>
+		[DllImport(dllname, CallingConvention = CallingConvention.Cdecl)]
+		public static extern IntPtr qn_get_mapper(IntPtr e, ref int number);
 
 		/// <summary>
 		/// handle "string error" as returned by some quicknes functions
diff --git a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/QuickNES.cs b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/QuickNES.cs
index 623e9ce698..cdfd1d5fe9 100644
--- a/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/QuickNES.cs
+++ b/BizHawk.Emulation.Cores/Consoles/Nintendo/QuickNES/QuickNES.cs
@@ -64,6 +64,13 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Consoles.Nintendo.QuickNES
 					InitVideo();
 					InitAudio();
 					InitMemoryDomains();
+
+					int mapper = 0;
+					string mappername = Marshal.PtrToStringAnsi(LibQuickNES.qn_get_mapper(Context, ref mapper));
+					Console.WriteLine("QuickNES: Booted with Mapper #{0} \"{1}\"", mapper, mappername);
+					BoardName = mappername;
+					CoreComm.VsyncNum = 39375000;
+					CoreComm.VsyncDen = 655171;
 				}
 				catch
 				{
@@ -153,7 +160,7 @@ namespace BizHawk.Emulation.Cores.Consoles.Nintendo.QuickNES
 
 		public string SystemId { get { return "NES"; } }
 		public bool DeterministicEmulation { get { return true; } }
-		public string BoardName { get { return null; } } // TODO
+		public string BoardName { get; private set; }
 
 		#region saveram
 
diff --git a/output/dll/libquicknes.dll b/output/dll/libquicknes.dll
index fa768bfa87..5b8ef0eb80 100644
Binary files a/output/dll/libquicknes.dll and b/output/dll/libquicknes.dll differ
diff --git a/quicknes/bizinterface.cpp b/quicknes/bizinterface.cpp
index a8a29374d8..7a18b16f24 100644
--- a/quicknes/bizinterface.cpp
+++ b/quicknes/bizinterface.cpp
@@ -226,6 +226,18 @@ EXPORT int qn_get_memory_area(Nes_Emu *e, int which, const void **data, int *siz
 		*writable = 0;
 		*name = "CIRAM (nametables)";
 		return 1;
+	case 4:
+		*data = e->cart()->prg();
+		*size = e->cart()->prg_size();
+		*writable = 0;
+		*name = "PRG ROM";
+		return 1;
+	case 5:
+		*data = e->cart()->chr();
+		*size = e->cart()->chr_size();
+		*writable = 0;
+		*name = "CHR VROM";
+		return 1;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -238,3 +250,30 @@ EXPORT void qn_poke_prgbus(Nes_Emu *e, int addr, unsigned char val)
 {
 	e->poke_prg(addr & 0xffff, val);
 }
+
+EXPORT const char *qn_get_mapper(Nes_Emu *e, int *number)
+{
+	int m = e->cart()->mapper_code();
+	if (number)
+		*number = m;
+	switch (m)
+	{
+	default: return "unknown";
+	case 0: return "nrom";
+	case 1: return "mmc1";
+	case 2: return "unrom";
+	case 3: return "cnrom";
+	case 4: return "mmc3";
+	case 7: return "aorom";
+	case 69: return "fme7";
+	case 5: return "mmc5";
+	case 19: return "namco106";
+	case 24: return "vrc6a";
+	case 26: return "vrc6b";
+	case 11: return "color_dreams";
+	case 34: return "nina1";
+	case 66: return "gnrom";
+	case 87: return "mapper_87";
+	case 232: return "quattro";
+	}
+}