Modulator of french NES with semi-RGB output

I accidentally got into possesion of this version so I put photos + reverse-engineered schematic.


I also rev-en NES (I know there are many schematics but none of them seemed readably to me):

That is pretty awesome, I have never heard of this before. Basically it has a composite to RGB adapter built-in, interesting. I guess this was intended for use with SCART? Have you tried the RGB video / how does it look?

Edit:

Is this an SNES-style port -- are they compatible?

Yes, it was, because France was SECAM, and didn't support PAL. So they added a special ASIC from Sony, evidently, that demodulated PAL and emitted RGBS.
I've seen people say it's not very good.

No, neither geometry nor pin position. Physically it's more shaped like the FDS data cable.

I have one of these NES's and seem to recall that - to my surprise - the cable is not just similar to the FDS, but fitted perfectly. Maybe not much of a surprise that one proprietary connector gets re-used for multiple purposes...

That actually is a surprise - you want to make it hard for a user to connect the wrong thing. Reusing the connector risks someone connecting the wrong thing, and damaging either the control deck or the connected equipment.

I'm guessing Nintendo found the reuse acceptable because the Famicom Disk System wasn't sold in France, and the French NES wasn't sold in Japan. In addition, an NES power supply will damage a Famicom (though a Famicom or Mega Drive/Genesis power supply will safely power either). By the Super Famicom/Super NES era, Nintendo did change up the video output connector in the same way that it changed the Game Link connector from the Game Boy Pocket and Game Boy Color to the Game Boy Advance: from two rounded corners and two square corners to four rounded corners and a keying tooth centered on one side. (The North American Super NES's power connector was also changed.)

To quickly make a cartoon of the French NES AV socket:

c = "select" = I assume this is SCART p. 16; the number is cropped out of krzysiobal's schematic.
T = "status" = SCART p. 8, where 9-12V=AV mode
RGBS = red, green, blue, composite sync
A = mono audio

Yes indeed p.16, I fixed the schematics. So you found bug in the EAGLE PCB software that ignores text and takes only lines in account when calculating dimension of schematic's oputput image.



I can't answer - this SONY chip was probably broken because it did not ouput any signal at all. I checked video at its inputs and:
*LUMA VIDEO IN (pin 27) was not changing at all on both sides of C20 capacitor, but was present on upper side of R5 resistor.
*CHROMA IN (pin 24) was ok
so probably some kind of internal short in the chip.

I modified the console to output composite video instead, using existing cable - by forcing composite video in place of sync signal and GND for SELECT.

BTW. I did not analyze the STATUS/ASPECT but it looks like utilizing the 9VAC signal from power supply. I thought before that every NES/SNES can be powered without harm with 9V DC (with the exception of rectifier bridge being quite hot)