How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

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leviatan
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How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

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Hi all !

Im new to the forum, and new to the NES comunity. In fact, I came from the enemy of Mario :oops: . (SEGA MASTERRACE :twisted: ). Unfortualy my girlfriend hate Sonic and loves play to Mario 1 & 3.

In order to work properly for Mario 3 (US version on EU Nes), I managed to kill the CIC chip. Beacose of realy bad dessolder tools, I finaly totaly removed the 10NES and try to figure out why the NES couldn't start properly without this chip.

I finaly resolder with some wire the 10Nes with the LOCK/KEY pin 4 to ground and the NES work perfectly now.

BUT it make me fell bad to know that a chip is badly soldered on the NES and want to understand how to remove it entierely.

As I understood from my (badly screwed) modification I have some questions:

- The RESET button of the NES is ONLY linked to the 10 Nes RESET pin 7. It is LOW or HIGHT logic ? (Reset occure when LOW or when HIGHT ?) It is pulled hight/down ?
- The NES must have a Power On Reset. Where is it ? On the RESET button line a simply a Capacitor + Resistor + Shmitd Trigger ? Is it the 10NES managing this feature ?

- Simply : How we can simply remove the CIC chip ?

If the POR is managed in the aera of the RESET button, I should just link the RESET pin 7 to the /Host reset pin 9 whith inverter (If I correctly understood, RESET pin 7 is Active HIGHT, but /Host reset pin 9 is active LOW).
If the POR was managed by the CIC chip, I need to add a custom POR OR'ed whith the inverter put between pin 7 and pin 9.

This is correct ?


BTW : Realy sorry for my bad english.
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Fisher
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Re: How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

Post by Fisher »

Welcome to NesDev community!!

I've found a page on my notes that states this:

- Remove the 10NES chip and the crystal X2;
- Bridge the 10NES pin 7 to X2's pin 3;
- Bridge the 10NES pin 9 to X2's pin 1;
- Remove one of the terminals of the R1 (1MOhm), and solder on C6's terminal.

Just like this:
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About the "fanboyish" stuff, I really regret I was one when I was a kid. :(
I've lost a BIG part of the fun! And the purpose of games is just it: to have fun!!
So, let's have fun!! :D
leviatan
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Re: How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

Post by leviatan »

Thanks a lot for the tip.

I'll try it ASAP, and post result when done.

Being a Sonic Fan never stop me to make some competition on Mario 1 as a kid with my friends. (I was terribly bad at mario, but I always get fun)

I growed up in a non-"fanboyish" environment, and i need to admit, Nitendo was more fun in multiplayer than Sega in a general way.

As you say, lets have fun !
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Re: How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

Post by lidnariq »

Huh, someone else came up with the same hack I did: https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?p=98891#p98891
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Re: How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

Post by leviatan »

Hi

It reassures me, I'm not the only one who screwed up his 10Nes CHIP.

As I see, the hack is using an inverter to connect the reset button to the CPU reset.

But in the other thread I see some capacitor added. Why ?

Is this for assure the Power On Reset ?


Thank again !
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Re: How to remove the 10NES chip ? (not just pin 4)

Post by lidnariq »

Yeah. If you don't have some capacitance—the circuit that both Fisher and I shared reuses one of the ones on the board—when you first turn it on, 2A03 /RESET will be high too soon after 2A03 VDD, and the CPU will be in some invalid state as a result. You have to make sure that /RESET rises enough later in order for cold boot to work reliably.

Without some capacitor, the user needs to press the RESET button once after power is turned on in order for things to work.
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