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Pc engine.pcb repro?

Started by NichlasEk, 05/04/2017, 07:05 AM

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NichlasEk

So i was just thinking. I have three pc engines with severe trace damage.
2 will never work again and the third will but with lots of work and ugly wires.
The fully working ones i have, has dry soldermask that almost peels of with the scraping of a nail.

Has anyone gone about designing a repro pcb for the little engine?
That way you could transplante key components and adz more modern one (rgb amp)

The PCB seems small enough.

Anyone up for the challange?
I probobly could, but it would take 10 years :)

crazydean

That sounds like an expensive undertaking. Assuming someone wanted to take the time to do it. There are still a lot of PCE for sale out there.

On the other hand, we got some cool stuff going on in the NES hardware world.

Fidde_se

GW/GB/GBP/GBL/GBC/GBA/GBASP/GBASP2/GBM/DS/DSL/DSiXL/3DS/PM/VB/FC/NES/SNES/N64/GC/Wii/PS/PSONE/PS2/PS2S/
SMS/SMS2/GG/NOM/MD/MD2/MD3/MD1CD/SS/DC/XB/XB360/NGP/NGPC/NGPC2/WS/WSC/CSW/PCEGT/PCE/PCECG1/PCECG2/
PCECD/TG16TE/NGAGE/GIZ/GP32/GP2XF1/GP2XF2/GP2XWIZ/GP2XCAN/DA320/ST520/ST1040/LNX/LNX2/JAG/PORT/CD32/A500/
C64/CDi/VMU/POCKSTN/PSP/PSPCFW/FDS/VSM

NichlasEk

Cool! I guess it would be expensive to make.
Now to figure out how to make gerber files from this.
And maybe replace the Rf with an RGB-amp and mini DIN

If I or someone else where succesfull, i bet it would be cheaper to do a group buy of PCBs.

There are several quality clones/inproved boards of the NES already.
This should defenetly be possible i think. If interest is high enough.