Pokemon Mini Hardware Overview

Pokemon mini handheld device

The Pokemon Mini is a hand held created by Nintendo R&D3 around 1999. It is based around the Epson S1C88 Core (then Timex/Seiko), and derives most peripherals from this system.

The machine has a 4kB on-board OTP bios, 4kB of internal ram (shared with video subsystem) and a 21-bit cartridge bus. The entire system is controlled by writting to 256 hardware registers, most of which are Open-Bus.



