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Hudson Soft HuC6270 VDC

HuC6270 is a video display controller (VDC) developed by Hudson Soft and manufactured for Hudson Soft by Seiko Epson. This VDC was used in the PC Engine game console series produced by NEC Corporation, and the upgraded PC Engine SuperGrafx.

Technical specification

The HuC6270 generates a display signal composed a 9-bit stream pixel data with a color and palette indexes, and indication of whether the pixel corresponds to background (with x y scrolling) or sprites. This data can be used by a colour encoder to output graphics.

It uses external VRAM via a 16-bit address bus. It can display up to 64 sprites on screen, with a maximum of 16 sprites per horizontal scan line.

The minimum resolution is 256 × 224 pixels, with resolutions up to 512 × 240 being possible.

Uses

The HuC6270 was used in consoles of the PC Engine, SuperGrafx and TurboGrafx-16 ranges.

Additionally, the VDC was used in arcade games:

The arcade version of Bloody Wolf ran on a custom version of the PC Engine. The arcade hardware is missing the second 16-bit graphic chip, the HuC6260 (鉄観音 - "TETSU") video color encoder, that is in the PC Engine. This means the VDC directly accesses palette RAM and builds out the display signals/timing. A rare Capcom quiz-type arcade game also ran on a modified version of the SuperGrafx hardware, which used two VDCs.

References

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  4. ^ History of Video Games - Four Decades of Video Entertainment (PDF). p. 14.
  5. Pol, Wilbert. "NEC HuC6270 Video Display Controller". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
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  8. "HuC6260 CMOS MANUAL" (PDF).
  9. "HuC6260". Archaic Pixels. 2018-09-07. Archived from the original on 2018-09-07. Retrieved 2024-11-04.
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