Introducing the TRH9000 Yamaha V9990 video card for MSX – the ultimate upgrade for stunning visuals and graphics on your MSX computer. Designed by The Retro Hacker, the TRH9000 is an open-source implementation of Sunrise's GFX9000. With this cartridge, you can experience the best graphical capabilities of the MSX, with support for software that utilizes Yamaha's V9990 chip.

Enhanced version, now with connectors supporting S-VIDEO, Composite (both in NTSC), and RGB (15 Khz).

Experience smooth scrolling, seamless animations, and detailed graphics like never before. The TRH9000 Yamaha V9990 offers an impressive resolution and supports a wide range of display modes, giving you the flexibility to enjoy V9990 enabled MSX games, applications, and multimedia content in their full glory.

With its expanded video memory, the TRH9000 Yamaha V9990 ensures ample space for complex graphical data, allowing for more detailed backgrounds, sprites, and special effects. Whether you're a retro gaming enthusiast, a graphic designer, or a programmer, this video card will take your MSX experience to new heights.

The cartridge is compatible with various games that use Yamaha's V9990 chip, such as "Ghosts and Goblins," "Battle Bomb," "Life on Earth," and others. Additionally, the cartridge is compatible with various MSX development applications and tools, allowing users to create their own games and software to make the most of the MSX's graphical capabilities.

Attention

This version of the cartridge generates Composite, S-VIDEO and RGB signals (in the scale of quality from worse to best). Composite and S-VIDEO are generated in NTSC codification (color subcarrier frequency is 3.579545 MHz), so if you are using one of those connectors, your TV set or monitor needs to support NTSC.

The DH15 connector (in blue) outputs RGB signal at 15.7Khz of horizontal frequency. That was the standard used by the time of the V9990 chip release. If you are going to connect the cartridge directly to your monitor using a VGA cable (best quality), make sure it syncs at 15.7Khz.

Technical Specifications

  • High quality PCB with gold contacts (ENIG)
  • Graphics chip: Yamaha V9990
  • Video memory: 512KB VRAM
  • Video modes: Supports various resolutions, including 256x212, 512x212, 256x424, 512x424, and others
  • Color palette: 32768 colors (15-bit)
  • Sprites: Supports up to 128 hardware sprites
  • Scroll: Smooth hardware scrolling in both horizontal and vertical directions
  • DMA: Supports Direct Memory Access for efficient data transfer
  • Compatibility: Compatible with MSX1, MSX2, MSX2+ and MSX TurboR systems
  • Composite, SVIDEO and RGB video output

Package contains 

1x TRH9000 MSX Cartridge