---
title: NEC CoreGrafx II
categories:
- Consoles
origins:
- Japan
years:
- '1991'
cpus:
- 8 bit HuC6280A
params:
  name: CoreGrafx II
  image: /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_1.jpg
  company: /companies/nec
  company_name: NEC
  specs:
  - label: NAME
    value: CoreGrafx II
  - label: MANUFACTURER
    value: NEC
  - label: ORIGIN
    value: Japan
  - label: YEAR
    value: '1991'
  - label: END OF PRODUCTION
    value: Unknown
  - label: BUILT IN LANGUAGE
    value: None
  - label: KEYBOARD
    value: 8-way d-pad, 2 buttons + Run + Select
  - label: CPU
    value: 8 bit HuC6280A
  - label: SPEED
    value: 7.16 MHz (Switchable by software to 1.79 MHz)
  - label: CO-PROCESSOR
    value: 16 bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder, 16 bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller
  - label: RAM
    value: 8 KB
  - label: VRAM
    value: 64 KB
  - label: GRAPHIC MODES
    value: usually 256x240, 512x240 max.
  - label: COLORS
    value: 512 palette, 482 on screen (241 background & 241 sprite)
  - label: SOUND
    value: 6 PSG channels
  - label: SIZE / WEIGHT
    value: Unknown
  - label: I/O PORTS
    value: HuCard slot, AV out, gamepad port
  - label: BUILT IN MEDIA
    value: HuCard
  - label: OS
    value: Unknown
  - label: POWER SUPPLY
    value: Unknown
  - label: PERIPHERALS
    value: Super CD-ROM², Super System
  - label: PRICE
    value: Unknown
  tabs:
  - photos
  - hardware
  - emulators
  - links
  photos:
  - title: BOX
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_box.jpg
  hardware:
  - title: PACHINKO CONTROLLER
    subtitle: ''
    text: This is a pachinko controller for the PC Engine. The angled part which sticks out between the two main sections of the controller is a slider to adjust the angle of the pachinko balls as they come out.
    image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_pce_pachinko-controller.jpg
  - title: TURBO PAD
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/hardware/nec_turbografx_turbopad.jpg
  emulators:
  - title: Ootake
    url: http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/
    platform: Windows
    text: Frequently updated Japanese emulator
  - title: Magic Engine
    url: http://www.magicengine.com/
    platform: Multiplatform
    text: Commercial but excellent NEC PC Engine emulator. A must.
  links:
  - title: Necstasy
    url: http://www.necstasy.net/fr/
    text: PC-Engine & PC-FX TOC database
  - title: pcenginefx.com
    url: http://pcenginefx.com/
    text: The NEC console ressource.. Excellent.
  - title: The PC Engine Software Bible
    url: http://www.pcengine.co.uk/
    text: PC-Engine software archive. Very complete.
  - title: TurboGrafx.net
    url: http://www.turbografx.net/
    text: An English Turbo site with TG info and links!
  - title: TurboGrafx16
    url: http://www.atari7800.com/turbo/
    text: TurboGrafx16 dedicated website
  - title: Universo PCcengine
    url: http://pcengine.cjb.net/
    text: Nice brazilian site
  comments:
  - author: Rob m (Usa)
    date: Friday 2nd April 2021
    text: Not exactly the same as a core grafx 1 The original core grafx used a revised CPU, the HuC6280a, which supposedly fixed some minor audio issues oddly enough the core grafx ii does not use the revised CPU it was changed back to the original HuC6280 which matches the original white pc engine why nec chose to do this is beyond me 🤷��♂�
  related:
  - /museum/nec-coregrafx
  - /museum/nec-pc-engine
  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo
  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-r
  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-duo-rx
  - /museum/nec-pc-engine-super-grafx
  - /museum/nec-turboduo
  - /museum/nec-turbografx-16-turbografx
  oc_id: 1245
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230128093322/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1245
    date: '2023-01-28'
---

Exactly the same as the [CoreGrafx](/museum/nec-coregrafx/) apart from a redesigned case.

**Taneli Lukka** from Finland comments:\
Core II is the console where NEC's PCE department seems to lose their heads. There just are no explanations why it was released shortly after Core I. As a whole NEC's game console business is a horrible mess. The original PCE, Core I, Core II and two diffirent CD-Rom drives seem to have been manufactured side by side. New models never really replaced the old ones but merely supplanted them. NEC didn't even keep proper records of their console output or lost them somewhere along the way. This was noticed a few years back when the japanese console magazine Famitsu tried to make a big PCE history article and NEC couldn't provide them with any real production numbers for the consoles nor games for that matter.

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