NOAC (NES-on-a-chip)

[FAMICOM_87]

Hi I am interested when was produced the first NOAC (NES-on-a-chip) and where?
I found that  the first revisions of Terminator 2 (Super Design Ending-Man BS-500 AS) was produced around 1992, and as I know all of them are NOAC's
Is that true, because in my opinion 1992 is too early for an NOAC technology.
What do you thing guys ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminator_2_%28console%29

[chowder]

From the wiki:

"CPU: 8-bit MOS 6502 1.79 MHz"

So it sounds like that clone actually used discrete CPU/PPU chips.  1992 is too early for NOAC clones, >1996 Famiclones mainly used the single chip designs.

I have no idea what the first NOAC based Famiclone was, something Chinese?

[jpx72]

I think 96 - 98 is more likely.
I have plenty pre 96 clones and all are full hardware clones.
Info on the wiki simply says it had a cloned CPU, NOAC means that Everything is on one chip, not just CPU. Although I have not seen a Terminator without NOAC before, there were many versions of it.

[FAMICOM_87]

ok I found this in our forum, so 1995 is may be the year




but look NOAC in SMD  

[chowder]

That's the UMC6561 - according to the translated version on this site, it was released around 1992-1993:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES-on-a-chip

I guess there was an overlap, I've seen Famiclones that use discrete chips made around 1994-1995, that's the earliest NOAC based system that I've seen though 

[FAMICOM_87]

wow surprising ! so when official Nintendo made AV famicom and NES 2 top loader , UMC already invented IC that integrate everything in it 

[number47]

I know that my Zhiliton from 1994 has a globtop version of UMC6561 in it.

[FAMICOM_87]

I found the first version of  "terminator 2" !