Hello! Some time ago someone gave me this thing, and i thought it was a generic Famiclone. The other day I opened her up to clean it and thought it was strange: can anyone help me identify this? Thanks in advance! ~Jack
That is just a generic Famicom clone of the 90s. A time when clones were interesting unlike now with all this 1 chip crap.
Thanks for confirming my suspects! How can I find out which processor is it using? They are SMDs dipped in black plastic like calculator chips...
Glob Tops is another name for that kind of cost cutting, where the silicon sits on the pcb and is connected directly via bond wires Maybe lookup what was used at the time, as far as processors for clones
My guess is that it's using the UMC UA6527 / UA6538 chips, but just bare die / glob top types rather than DIP. This is also assuming it's a PAL unit, which seems likely since you're in Italy. There should be 4 blobs - one for the PPU, one for the CPU and the other 2 for RAM.
Hey all! Thanks for the info, I actually thought that there was an SMD underneath the blodb, oh well! There are just three blobs, and the chips are mostly buffers, they all differ as part number. Yes the system is PAL and the capacitors are fairly late, I'm wildly guessing it could be from the '90s or late '80s The unit should be PAL, yes. It's also called "PAL". There is an engraving on both of the shell's plastic that says "RINCO". There is also a switch holder with a little cut in the top half, leading me to think that there should have been a flipswitch there (maybe for multiregion purposes?). In case this works, could I get it to play JAP games on a PAL tv?
I think it is a very popular famiclone Rinco Thompsonic: http://forum.pegasus-gry.com/index.php/topic,2364.msg28009.html#msg28009 or something similar.
