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Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 10:33 pm
by B00daW
Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio

I've been trying to figure out the M50805 chip and how it works. So far I don't believe there are any documents online that describe its functions. I've attempted to search for patents, contact Mitsubishi, and get a hold of the warehouse that they referred me to without any luck of finding datasheets. So, I've debugged the ROM and found out a few things:

$6000
xSxx xPPP
P = Play sample number.
S = Stop sample.

I believe there are a maximum of 8 samples. I've made it through all of the modes and realize that the max sample value before it is DEY'd is $08 (which is #$07). Also at init #$FF is written to $6000. I'm not sure of its function.

Does anyone have this cart and a CopyNES to verify? Is M50805 a mask ROM?

Also I believe since there is additional audio hardware that CNROM does not entirely suffice for Family Trainer 3's mapper. It should be assigned another and hopefully the M50805 can be dumped or decapped if necessary.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 12:20 am
by lidnariq
Some cursory digging around and looking closely at the board: I think it's a microcontroller of some sort.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 3:54 am
by mic_
There's this topic which discusses the same chip.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2012 5:06 am
by B00daW
Exactly. It's neither concise nor goes into detail about the cart or the chip. We don't have the full story yet.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 7:36 pm
by B00daW
So, I ended up paying a little too much than I wanted for a Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio cart. I'll do what I can with the debugger on the CopyNES. After that I may send it somewhere to get destroyed for science.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 9:11 am
by BootGod
The only thing I was ever able to find out about the chip was this short spec sheet: http://www.datasheetarchive.com/shortfo ... 5XXXP.html which was the only reason I knew, for instance, that it has 960 bytes of ROM

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2012 7:48 pm
by B00daW
I think I finally found a way to obtain the document. I'll attach it if I am successful.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 7:53 am
by B00daW
Got a hold of the document. I'm analyzing it now, but wanted to make sure I have it mirrored for other people as well.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2012 12:00 pm
by lidnariq
Well done! That's neat, it's Mitsubishi's analog (using PARCOR) of TI's TMC0281(which used LPC) but using playback from an internal ROM.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 8:04 pm
by BootGod
Cool, may I ask how you managed to get that? Did Mitsubishi hook you up?

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:15 pm
by B00daW
Fell off the back of a truck.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 8:15 pm
by B00daW
Here's also a neat toolkit to figure out how PARCOR works:

http://sp-tk.sourceforge.net/

Anybody still in school have access to the Wiley library?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 2/abstract

This document would be good to have to figure out tone generation in PARCOR.

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 9:29 pm
by lidnariq
The datasheet actually mentions that: "46 bit capacity for [...] one frame of [...] amplitude, pitch, and K-parameters".

They start with a frequency for an impulse train and then specify a set of coefficients for the "8 stage lattice digital filter" that starting waveform goes through. The ability to get monophonic musical control out of it would be the same as what was done in Speak'n'Music, and what makes it tone generation instead of speech is the 1/4 as fast frame rate.

In any case, the M50805 doesn't look like it supports playback from anything but ROM...

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 8:40 am
by B00daW
Yeah. It supports playback from internal mask ROM. But it also says that when Mode Select is on External Memory mode that EPROM and RAM can be used through D2 (DTIN).

Re: Family Trainer 3: Aerobics Studio - Mitsubishi M50805

Posted: Tue May 10, 2016 5:39 pm
by Myask
B00daW wrote:Here's also a neat toolkit to figure out how PARCOR works:

http://sp-tk.sourceforge.net/

Anybody still in school have access to the Wiley library?

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1 ... 2/abstract

This document would be good to have to figure out tone generation in PARCOR.
I did, but I printed it out rather than save. Whoops?