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I have "the dracula" here. unfortunately it seems to have a TMS chip in it

the dracula does indeed have a TMS chip. it's marked MP6354, TI logo, and an 8231 date code. it's a 40 pin shrink dip and pins 36 and 37 are connected together and run to the RC, so it's a definitely a TMS part, most likely something such as a TMS1670. It's in pretty poor shape so I can probably send it off for decap. the plastic's all beat up and worn.

Here is Parker Brothers Electronic Master Mind, dumped by Sean Riddle

Okay, cool, eliminates that one... Mine is pretty trashed too, so if we need a second, it's available.

PM me your address again, and I'll send the others your way...

Nice to see Space Invader properly dumped, now if we could get our hands on a Basketball cart while kevtris is around this would be one more completely preserved system!

OK I went through my stash of microcontrollers and handhelds and such with "open" issues. here is the list:

* The Dracula - uses a TMS1xxx chip in 40 pin shrink dip, mask code MP6354. I can send it for decap, the game is in bad shape.
* Firefox F-7 - it uses a UPD7528C-011. A decap that is high resolution might help dump these; I know there are other games with this and similar series chips. It also has a UPD1771 but this is dumped.
* Bandai Nazono Pyramid (LCD game, solar powered) has a hitachi "43381" which might be an HD43381 or similar type device (no google luck on HD43381). It's a small QFP so they could've left the prefix off. I can send that in for decapping/LCD scanning. I think this game is relatively rare but this one is trashed.
* Radio Shack Highway (LCD game) not sure what CPU, has a gloptop. probably one of the standard ones though. I can send this to be decapped. Similar to a game and watch.
* Radio Shack Volcano (LCD game) similar to the above, I am not sure where it went but I still have it somewhere. same form factor, etc
* Amidar - CPU should be dumpable, it's a mitsubishi M58103. A datasheet would help greatly to identify the IOs. given that I could most likely dump it if I know what pin is what IO port. (this is Rik's)
* Mego Breakfree - LCD game, large and early LCD. this uses an 8048, but it's protected- I tried to dump it and it won't dump. I could probably send that for a decap too.
* Mattel World Champ. Football - VFD, I dumped both microcontrollers and did the VFD and stuff for this. was it ever emulated?

that's all the handhelds themselves. I have the following loose chips:

* HD38842A23 - got in the ebay lot. not sure what's on it, has not been dumped. I can't find a datasheet I don't think. (42 pin DIP)
* HD44801A75 - I was informed this has been dumped. it's analogous to the HD38800. (someone sent this to be dumped, from an arcade board AFAIR)
* HD44820A48 - QFP with large pitch (1mm) with the same number of pins and form factor as the HD38820. (got in an ebay auction of repair parts. new in a bag, I have a few)
* UPD7537C024 - found at a surplus place. maybe similar to the 7528 in the firefox f-7 game, but has more ROM or something? not sure how to dump.
* UPD553C-167 - found at surplus place. It is marked "sony" and is new in a bag. I dumped it and it's under random dumps on my handheld dir
* TI micro, custom marked. 40 pin shrink dip, marked 77673074 / C10020N2 DCU8423 / (C)1981 TI (C)1984 TI / 13491 (whew lots of text) I believe it's a TMS1xxx micro, got a few, I can send for decap if sean wants to look. Got this at a surplus place.

so that is the stuff I have kicking around. I would be fine sending anything pretty much of mine for decap if someone wants to have a go.

The Dracula MP6354: TMS1670? or possibly TMS0270.
MP60xx is TMS0970
MP61xx is TMS0980
TMS0260/0270 is from the same mcu family. TMS1670 is not, and known TMS1670 are MP75xx.

Mattel World Champ. Football: two MM78.
Rockwell MM75/6/7/8 is in several handhelds, it's PPS-4/1. PPS-4 is emulated but the single-chip MCU versions are not. And this game is the only romdump we have for MM7x.

HD44801A75 is dumped indeed, Alpha-8201 MCU.
The only one that's missing from those is HD44801B43 for Alpha-8304. Right now the games that have this specific MCU are emulated with an Alpha-8505(HD44801C57 instead and luckily they're working fine in MAME.

The only reference to the HD43380/HD43381 is this databook (which is not sourced from BitSavers):

https://archive.org/details/Hitachi...tsAndDiscreteSemiconductorDevices1984OCR

Based on the data here, this is a 4-bit MCU. The only difference between the HD43380 and the HD43381 is that the former has a "Built-in Time-piece".

The ROM is specified as 480 x 26 bit, and the RAM as 48 x 6 bit. I am not aware of any known Hitachi 4-bit MCUs that have a 26-bit instruction word length.

Is the hd38882 speech chip on SNK's Vanguard and Fantasy PCBs similar to one of this chips / dumpable?

hmm neat. yeah that does indeed line up, it's a 60 pin QFP package like the databook says. so that confirms it is an HD43381. The FP-60A package it references is exactly what it looks like.