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Technical Specs

Processor:  

 NEC V810 (uPD70732) 32bit RISC20mHz Clock speed / 18MIPS
1Kbyte instruction cache
Vdd = 2.2 - 5.5V DC
1Mbyte DRAM
512Kbyte P-SRAM

Display:  

 RTI (Reflection Technology Inc) SLA (P4)
384x224 resolution (4 color with 32 levels of Intensity) 50.2Hz h-scan

Sound:  

 16bit Stereo (with built in stereo speakers)

Power:  

 6AA Batteries (9V) or AC adapter (10V)

Controller:  

 6 Buttons plus double control pads

Cartridges:  

 256k x 16 -1024k x 16 ROM (512k - 2048k), 0 - 8KByte Battery Backed Ram.
Cartridge ROM uses Toshiba 'TC538200AFT' and 'TC5316200AFT' ROM chips in 16 bit mode.

System Notes/History

Designed by the late Gunpei Yokoi, who also designed the Game Boy.

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Photo contributed by Aaron Mims.