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Another PCB revision came in, more testing and more hair pulling

A project log for Save RAM hack for NEC handheld consoles

Adding same RAM support to TurboExpress and PC Engine GT

killuakillua 05/02/2021 at 04:210 Comments

I got the new board installed and checked, it did not work.  I double checked that the solder is making connection to the board from the cart connector.  (vias will be covered in final version)

When I used BRAM tool, it reported no BRAM.  When I used TurboGrafx-16 CD System 2.0 card to access memory backup, I got corrupted display instead.  When I used PC Engine CD 2.0 card for the same thing, I was able to enter BRAM area to delete and format but the text is corrupted.

I need to find my microscope to verify all the pins on HuC6201 is soldered and not accidentally floating.  The game I selected at random played fine with the board installed so there's no interference.  If those microscope check didn't find any error, I'd need to try a second HuC6201 chip I have to rule out defective chip.


I really wish there were more documentation on HuC6201 beside the pinout, it'd be so much easier to troubleshoot this or clone the chip with FPGA or something similar.

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