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The Famicom, the Japanese version of the NES, has a 60-pin cartridge design. [2] This yields smaller cartridges than the NES, which has a 72-pin design. [3] Four pins are used for the 10NES lockout chip. [4] Ten pins were added that connect a cartridge directly to the expansion port on the bottom of the unit.
The cartridge connector pinout was changed between the Famicom and NES. [84] In late 1993, Nintendo introduced a redesigned version of the Famicom and NES (officially named the New Famicom in Japan [85] and the New-Style NES in the US [86]) to complement the Super Famicom and SNES, to prolong interest in the console, and to reduce costs.
Its main feature is the card reading slot on the front. The cartridges resemble half-size Famicom cartridges. One side of the cartridge is flat with title sticker, while the other side is sloped inward with notches on the left and right, which correspond to the spring pins on the main Datach unit.
The Famicom Disk System's ASIC is an extended audio chip, which supports one channel of single-cycle (6-bit × 64 step) wavetable-lookup synthesis with a built in phase modulator (PM) for sound generation similar to that of frequency modulation synthesis. Some cartridge conversions of Disk System games have MMCs to replace the audio channel.
This chip was made by MegaChips exclusively for Nintendo Power cartridges for the Super Famicom. The cartridges have flash ROMs instead of mask ROMs, to hold games downloaded for a fee at retail kiosks in Japan. The chip manages communication with the kiosks to download ROM images, and provides game selection menu.
Namco-produced Famicom games [52] Nintendo: VSU-VUE 1995 6 Virtual Boy portable console Silicon-gate CMOS chip Ricoh: Ricoh 2C33 1986 1 Famicom Disk System: Sharp Corporation: Sharp LR35902: 1989 1 Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance: In Game Boy Advance, it's used for Game Boy/Game Boy Color mode and supports software-mixed PCM as a ...
The CIC chip from a Tetris cartridge The Checking Integrated Circuit ( CIC ) is a lockout chip designed by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console in 1985; the chip is part of a system known as 10NES, in which a key (which is stored in the game) is used by the lock (stored in the console) to both check if the ...
The basic parts of the Twin Famicom include a slot for Famicom cartridges, a slot for the Disk System's floppy disks (called "Disk Cards"), [68] a switch located right below the cartridge slot to switch between the two formats, a power button, a reset button, and an eject button, while the back of the console has slots for controller storage. [69]