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Today I’ve gave a look at the Sony SMC-777 HW again. The system uses a “timed” bankswitch, presumably involving instruction pre-fetching.

For example (this is BIOS ROM code, located at 0×0000-0x3fff):

3BF3: 3E 10 ld a,$10
3BF5: D3 1C out ($1C),a ;enables RAM bankswitch
3BF7: C7 rst $00 ;executes this, then switches to RAM mode

Enabling this and adding the unimplemented features makes all of the available programs / games to boot properly with sketchy keyboard and some games with imperfect colors (presumably missing clut):






















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