AV Famicom [Model HVC-101]

33 Years old Console Nintendo Co., Ltd. [Japan]

AV Famicom © 1993 Nintendo Co., Ltd.

The final major variant of the Famicom hardware.

TECHNICAL

MODEL HVC-101

TRIVIA

Released in December 1993 in Japan.

Its design is largely based on the NES-101, but has a flat cartridge area in order to accommodate the Famicom Disk System RAM Adapter.

Nintendo continued to sell the AV Famicom well into the 21st century, though production ultimately ended during 2003, 20 years after the Famicom's original debut.

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UPDATES

HVCN-CPU-02 (1995-2003)
A very minor revision which relocates capacitor C14 from under the 7805 heat sink to a new position near the work RAM chip. No other significant changes were made and this board revision was produced all the way until 2003.

HVCN-CPU-01 (1993-1995)
The first revision of the AV Famicom. It appears similar to the NESN-CPU-01, but both the 74LS139 demultiplexer and controller buffer chips have been combined into a single I/O chip, the "JIO" chip, in order to reduce production costs.

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