Whats really inside a Sega MC8123?

Dead Perfect Billiards MC8123A donated itself to science.

Desoldered the aluminium cover and bottom little pcb and magically appeared a black NEC MC8123A.

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Apply some heat at the plastic ‘tub’ peels off.
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Apply some more heat and the potting mix turns to rubber and can be chipped/peeled away to expose the little ceramic pcb holding the battery and a 3771 reset chip.

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The bottom still has potting mix intact, so more heat and chipping away with a screwdriver reveals this.

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Unfortunately the solder holding the legs on melted and they came off. All thats left is a ceramic pcb with what’s probably glob tops.

Unfortunately I don’t have the chemicals to dissolve this stuff and heat doesn’t seem to do anything to it.

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I wonder why there are 6 solder points on the top of the pcb? Maybe a way to program the MC8123’s encryption ram?

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