Exactly the same as the CoreGrafx apart from a redesigned case.
Taneli Lukka from Finland comments:
Core II is the console where NEC's PCE department seems to lose their heads. There just are no explanations why it was released shortly after Core I. As a whole NEC's game console business is a horrible mess. The original PCE, Core I, Core II and two diffirent CD-Rom drives seem to have been manufactured side by side. New models never really replaced the old ones but merely supplanted them. NEC didn't even keep proper records of their console output or lost them somewhere along the way. This was noticed a few years back when the japanese console magazine Famitsu tried to make a big PCE history article and NEC couldn't provide them with any real production numbers for the consoles nor games for that matter.
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Not exactly the same as a core grafx 1 The original core grafx used a revised CPU, the HuC6280a, which supposedly fixed some minor audio issues oddly enough the core grafx ii does not use the revised CPU it was changed back to the original HuC6280 which matches the original white pc engine why nec chose to do this is beyond me 🤷ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸
Friday 2nd April 2021
Rob m (Usa)
NAME
CoreGrafx II
MANUFACTURER
NEC
ORIGIN
Japan
YEAR
1991
END OF PRODUCTION
Unknown
BUILT IN SOFTWARE / GAMES
None
CONTROLLERS
8-way d-pad, 2 buttons + Run + Select
CPU
8 bit HuC6280A
SPEED
7.16 MHz (Switchable by software to 1.79 MHz)
CO-PROCESSOR
16 bit HuC6260 Video Color Encoder, 16 bit HuC6270A Video Display Controller
RAM
8 KB
VRAM
64 KB
GRAPHIC MODES
usually 256x240, 512x240 max.
COLORS
512 palette, 482 on screen (241 background & 241 sprite)
