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NEC CoreGrafx II	Consoles	Japan	1991	8 bit HuC6280A	name image company company_name specs tabs photos hardware emulators links comments related oc_id source CoreGrafx II /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_1.jpg /companies/nec NEC label value NAME CoreGrafx II label value MANUFACTURER NEC label value ORIGIN Japan label value YEAR 1991 label value END OF PRODUCTION Unknown label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE None label value KEYBOARD 8-way d-pad, 2 buttons + Run + Select label value CPU 8 bit HuC6280A label value SPEED 7.16 MHz (Switchable by software to 1.79 MHz) label value CO-PROCESSOR 16 bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder, 16 bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller label value RAM 8 KB label value VRAM 64 KB label value GRAPHIC MODES usually 256x240, 512x240 max. label value COLORS 512 palette, 482 on screen (241 background & 241 sprite) label value SOUND 6 PSG channels label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS HuCard slot, AV out, gamepad port label value BUILT IN MEDIA HuCard label value OS Unknown label value POWER SUPPLY Unknown label value PERIPHERALS Super CD-ROM², Super System label value PRICE Unknown photos hardware emulators links title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/nec_coregrafx2_box.jpg title subtitle text image PACHINKO CONTROLLER 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. /media/museum/hardware/nec_pce_pachinko-controller.jpg title subtitle text image TURBO PAD /media/museum/hardware/nec_turbografx_turbopad.jpg title url platform text Ootake http://www.ouma.jp/ootake/ Windows Frequently updated Japanese emulator title url platform text Magic Engine http://www.magicengine.com/ Multiplatform Commercial but excellent NEC PC Engine emulator. A must. title url text Necstasy http://www.necstasy.net/fr/ PC-Engine & PC-FX TOC database title url text pcenginefx.com http://pcenginefx.com/ The NEC console ressource.. Excellent. title url text The PC Engine Software Bible http://www.pcengine.co.uk/ PC-Engine software archive. Very complete. title url text TurboGrafx.net http://www.turbografx.net/ An English Turbo site with TG info and links! title url text TurboGrafx16 http://www.atari7800.com/turbo/ TurboGrafx16 dedicated website title url text Universo PCcengine http://pcengine.cjb.net/ Nice brazilian site author date text Rob m (Usa) Friday 2nd April 2021 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 🤷ðŸ�»â€�♂ï¸� /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 1245 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230128093322/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1245 2023-01-28

Exactly the same as the 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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