I finally got around to taking some boardscans of the Tristar 64. The last picture shows the famicom slot which has a NOAC (Nes on a chip) built into the slot.
hmmm I can see an FPGA, and then I can see a NOAC on it too. But let us hear it from calpis. before I go into the depth of no return. Since calpis is the guru around when it comes to such things, heck him and all the other gurus should sit down and make a wikipedia entry on many of those things actually .
Which one? The BIOS is in the 29LE010 FlashROMs. The only custom chip is the Altera CPLD which interfaces the BIOS to the N64 and contains registers to control the audio/video switches and emulate the NES/SNES controllers. This thing is quite a crazy piece of engineering! Now if only Nintendo hadn't been so cheap and used true SRAM instead of PSRAM, they could have matched the PCE's speed *sigh*
Nice one, seems to have quite some hand work done to it. I do wonder why all those Chinese companies seem to have a fetish for hot glue :110:
Because it's an cheap, easy way to get a connection to become very tight. At least that's been my experience with it.
