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So the software for the dumper needs to be hacked to work with HD388xx?

Better yet: get the source code of this tool. I tried contacting Tatsuyuki Satoh but his last known email address isn't valid anymore.

At the moment, the next thing on Sean's TODO regarding HD388xx dumping is trying to dump known HD44801 chips(he didn't have any in his possession so we got a couple of them from ebay). Then by probing the pins while the tool is dumping it, dumping method can be reverse engineered.

That's definitely a better long-term solution, Sean could then make a new dumper that uses more modern hardware.

Anyone actually talking to Kevtris? Maybe he'd be willing to give/loan his dumper to Sean so he could take over... I have a few VFD games sitting around that I don't want to sell until they get dumped, so it would help with more than one game...

sorry I haven't been around. I have been really busy with the analogue FPGA stuff. I checked my boxes and it looks like I still have two of rik's games- I have amidar, select a game machine, and two carts for the SAG.

I have football 4 and space invader 2 carts for the SAG.

I can still run my cart dumper doodads. the following should be easy for me to dump still:

HD38800
HD38820
PIC1655
PIC1650
SPO256
SPO264
SPR016
SPR032
SPR128
COP411
UPD553
UPD552
M58846 - I managed to dump frogger, but only one version. dumping these is kinda flaky. amidar uses a 52 pin version of this chip (the M58846 is only 42 pins)


I have a few other games here that I never dumped that are mine:

* bandai nazono pyramid - this is a solar powered LCD game. I snagged the solar cell from it but the game should still work. it might need decapping. I just opened it up. it has a hitachi 43381 A02LR? that's what is marked on it. a very strange reverse QFP with a "bump" in the middle where the die would live.
* game and watch DK Jr. I think this one's dumped/emulated now

I believe sean sent these to me at some point:

* a small PCB containing a UPD774C chip which is some kind of TV game thing
* mattel computer gin, LCD display. I am not sure what the story is on this now, the CPU is missing. I took it out but will have to find it
* A small PCB that was for some kind of LCD game. epoch, 95252-E. no LCD, just the board with a D75316GF QFP on it.

in the interim I picked up the long lost game PCB I have been looking for for 20 years! It was sold at radio shack as a "special purchase" item. just a bare PCB in a bag with some instructions for how to blow it up. The instructions claim it runs on 9V, and I quickly killed the one I had as a kid because I followed these instructions. It has a PIC1655 which definitely runs on 5V. The reason I could never find it is because RS called it a "sound effects chassis". but it's some kind of game. there's 8 buttons and 8 LEDs and two 7 segment displays, and a speaker. I RE'd the board and dumped the PIC awhile back.

they packaged up some pcbs from a hand held game that never got released and sold 'em cheap. I am curious what game it was supposed to be.

oh yeah, I forgot. I have a radio shack "highway" game, too. it's LCD handheld. 1986-87 vintage. I opened it up just now and it's got a gloptop on it, so I don't know what CPU it uses. I can send that too for decap or whatever if need be, too.

Here's the info on the "sound chassis" which is really a lost handheld game.

http://blog.kevtris.org/blogfiles/H...s/RS%20Sound%20Effects%20Chassis%20Game/

the asm file has the port description for the PIC and all that.

Hey, welcome back! Yeah, figured you had your hands full with other stuff...
The Football 4 cartridge got dumped finally by someone (that was the only one with a different CPU).
I think the MAME source code says Space Invader needs a redump?
I have a Pac Man cart here for Select-a-Game I can send you... Sounds like we also need the Basketball cart to complete this system? I should have that in storage somewhere, but if anyone has it handy feel free to offer it!

Are you at a point that you want more stuff sent to you? I don't want to bombard you with stuff if you are still working on other things... I figure the SAG carts are easy since you don't really have to do all the work on the VFD... But I do have a couple of games still that I can send if you want. (They can wait too if you are just saying 'Hi' more than asking for stuff... )

-Rik

The "sound chassis" is interesting. I remember Radio Shack in that era carrying all kinds of things that were obviously part of something else with weird descriptions, like TI-994A keyboard assemblies (the PCB, keys, and ribbon cable).

Kevtris is going to take photos of the Sound Effects Chassis pcb, these are from online. Does it look familiar to anyone? It's either a canceled US-made product, or a canceled Hong Kong import. Tandy Radio Shack often redistributed Hong Kong electronic toys, with same pcb but adjustment to the outer plastic shell.