Looking for a Polyface microcontroller for the Nuon

[Brutal-Turok]

Hi everyone.

I recently became a proud owner of an amazing Nuon Machine, the Samsung N505 model (I live in Spain, it is the only model I can get here) and started my odyssey to get a controller for it ... and it is almost impossible or ridiculously expensive.

So I'll try something different, my idea is to try to get a wingman logitech pc controller and avoid the proprietary nuon ports (my system doesn't have game ports anyway) and make a homemade solution out of it. The only problem is the proprietary Polyface microcontroller chip. I know there are large batches of this Polyface microcontroller somewhere and some members of this forum had some of these. And here is the question.

Where can I buy one (or maybe two if possible) to make my dream nuon controller? I don't care about the price. Can I buy one of them from some member of this forum ??? If possible, contact me, I will always be grateful.

Any help you can give will be enormous

Thank you very much to everyone in this forum who keeps Nuon alive !!

 

[midnight8]

i have emailed all the places that show to have them, and got zero reponse. There is a guy that has new controller project in the works, but appears to be delayed and he is not in this group as far as I know, at least not actively. i finally broke down and paid dearly for a couple extra controllers not long ago.

 

[midnight8]

rumor is that th guy building the yak boards or whatever they are called bought up all the chips, i have no idea if that is true

 

[midnight8]

Hi everyone.

I recently became a proud owner of an amazing Nuon Machine, the Samsung N505 model (I live in Spain, it is the only model I can get here) and started my odyssey to get a controller for it ... and it is almost impossible or ridiculously expensive.

So I'll try something different, my idea is to try to get a wingman logitech pc controller and avoid the proprietary nuon ports (my system doesn't have game ports anyway) and make a homemade solution out of it. The only problem is the proprietary Polyface microcontroller chip. I know there are large batches of this Polyface microcontroller somewhere and some members of this forum had some of these. And here is the question.

Where can I buy one (or maybe two if possible) to make my dream nuon controller? I don't care about the price. Can I buy one of them from some member of this forum ??? If possible, contact me, I will always be grateful.

Any help you can give will be enormous

Thank you very much to everyone in this forum who keeps Nuon alive !!

would you be willing to trade your 505 for one of my 501 units? i would throw in a game for you and send you a disc full of homebrew games I downloaded from this forum, you would have to burn them to your own cd-rs. it would involve you shipping to the states and me shipping to europe. will show a video of mine working before shipping.

 

[Brutal-Turok]

Thanks for the reply

Ok, I'll try to contact him (the Yak controller creator) and if possible get a replacement unit.

have you tried this ?:

AVSpares.com - Search Results for Part Number POLYFACE1 NUON TQFP-48

5 aviation suppliers for POLYFACE1 NUON TQFP-48: Excellent Integrated System Limited, FANTASTIC TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED, BLUE PENINSULA TECHNOLOGY CO.,LIMITED, HONESTWIN TECHNOLOGY CO.,LIMITED, VIASSION TECHNOLOGY CO.,LIMITED

www.avspares.com

maybe we can join the order, I don't know what the minimum order they would accept is. 100? 1000? if the cost is less than a regular controller its ok by me

For now I'll Keep with my N505 because it has a scart RGB video output and for me it's a must. But, I will try to search for more N505 (here people think it is a regular DVD and if you are lucky to find one it is very cheap). If I find one, you'll be the first to know

 

[midnight8]

thank you

 

[Stephen]

Nice score on the 505. I still have my Samsung DVD-N501. I always wanted to look into a 504 or 505, because it has the faster Aries 3 processor (108MHz). I have the Aries 2, running at 54MHz. I always wanted to see if it improved the VLM, or if my homebrew software would run faster.

 

[midnight8]

i have 501, 2300 and dvdn2000, i just want some of the other nuon machines to add to the collection

 

[Brutal-Turok]

Hi everybody!

I just checked logitech's wingman controller and ... it was totally different internally, I can share pictures here, but the pcb is very different, so if you want to build a new controller, you can take any one, because you are going to start from scratch.

Another problem was the lens, my N505 was not working at all. so I took the lens for the Samsung M-105 model and ..... It works perfectly with the original disc (I bought ballistics, the only title that is not very expensive and that can be played with the normal remote control). Jeff Minter's Visualizer works well with the original CD. Buuuuut no CDR is played.

I confirm that the lens for the nuon uses a 2LD but the M-101 to M-105 models use the 1LD lens which does not work with CDR .... so there is no homebrew at all. So I bought ANOTHER Samsung DVD M-205 to replace the lens and I hope with this one I can read the CDR

Summary: If you are looking for a replacement lens for a Samsung Nuon, look for M-20X (201,202,203,204,205) models, which are cheap enough and read CDR

 

[midnight8]

hmmm, i thought my m1010 replacement played the cdr games. Gonna have to go back and try again and see

 

[The Helper]

Do a google search on the NUON polyface chip and see what is out there. They will not even talk to you unless you want some quantity. As far as I know there are no single chips solutions available unless you want to rape an existing controller.

 

[midnight8]

i emailed a bunch of places asking what min orders and cost were and not 1 of them every responded.

 

[The Helper]

Please continue all discussion about the NUON Polyface chip issue in the following thread

Discussion - The NUON Controller Polyface chip thread

I sent in Request for Quotes on the NUON Polyface chip references I found but I noticed that one of the sources had reduced stock of at least 150. I am removing all links on this site to the sources except for this thread. I just want to watch what the interest is on these specific links here...

www.thehelper.net

Thanks