Pokemon_Mini.md

Pokemon Mini Hardware Overview

The Pokemon Mini is a hand held created by Nintendo R&D3 around 1999. It is based around the Epson S1C88 Core (then Timex/Seiko), and derives most peripherals from this system.

The machine has a 4kB on-board OTP bios, 4kB of internal ram (shared with video subsystem) and a 21-bit cartridge bus. The entire system is controlled by writting to 256 hardware registers, most of which are Open-Bus.

• The Pokemon Mini CPU: S1C88
  • S1C88 Overview
  • Instruction Set
  • Interrupt Hardware
• The Memory Map
• Internal BIOS
• The Memory
• The Hardware Registers
  • RTC / Second Counter
  • General Purpose Timers
  • 256 Hz Timer
  • Interrupt Hardware
  • I/O Port (IR, EEPROM and Rumble)
  • Audio / Sound
  • PRC (Program Rendering Chip)
  • LCD Controller
• Cartridge Memory
  • Cartridge Pinouts

• Unknown PM Stuff