Casio CZ-1 Cartridges (and their rom dumps!)

No one seems to have dumped any Casio CZ cartridges, so I just had to.

I did actually get these carts from a local music instrument shop, boxed and new! (Thank you SoundFactory.lv!)

Rom size: up to 32kbytes, however CZ-1 don't have the upper address connected, so it can address only lower 16kbytes
Contents: Patch settings (no waves, of course)


I'll put some more stuff here and higher res pictures eventually, as well as scan the cartridge manuals and boxes.
Dumped data and made these pics a bunch of years ago, so it might take some considerable time to dig more/better stuff up from some random backups.

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Casio CZ-1 cartridge dumps: (more to come as soon as I get my dirty paws on other ones) RC-10 "ORCHESTRA" zip RC-30 "ORGAN / SYNTH. SOUND / SOUND EFFECT" zip

Schematic/pinout will be there eventually... when I will find where I have backuped those old pics. However, there' s not much to it: Rom has all the pins connected - even Vpp has its own pin, so these carts could be burned with contents after complete assembly. For synths that have up to three upper addresses unconnected, there are pulldown resistors on those lines so synths allways access the lowermost part - as per their addessing capabilites. There's also a NAND gate used as an inverter for cs. For RAM carts, plastic shell has a space for CR20xx battery.

Cartrige instrument lists (generated from rom contents): 

Casio CZ-1 ROM Cartridge RC-10 "ORCHESTRA"	A0: BRASS 7 A1: BRASS 8 A2: BRASS 9 A3: BRASS 10 A4: BRASS 11 A5: BRASS 12 A6: BRASS 13 A7: BRASS 14 B0: BRASS 15 B1: 5TH BRASS B2: STRINGS 6 B3: STRINGS 7 B4: STRINGS 8 B5: STRINGS 9 B6: STRINGS 10 B7: SLOW STRINGS C0: OCTAVE STRINGS C1: 5TH STRINGS C2: ORCHESTRA 2 C3: ORCHESTRA 3 C4: ORCHESTRA 4 C5: ORCHESTRA 5 C6: ORCHESTRA 6 C7: ORCHESTRA 7 D0: TRUMPET 2 D1: TRUMPET 3 D2: TRUMPET 4 D3: TRUMPET 5 D4: DRUNK TRUMPET D5: CLASSIC TRUMPET D6: TROMBONE 1 D7: TROMBONE 2	E0: HORN 1 E1: HORN 2 E2: TUBA 1 E3: TUBA 2 E4: FLUTE 3 E5: FLUTE 4 E6: PAN FLUTE 2 E7: PICCOLO F0: OBOE F1: ENGLISH HORN F2: BASSOON F3: SAXOPHONE 4 F4: BARITONE SAX F5: CLARINET 1 F6: CLARINET 2 F7: BASS CLARINET G0: VIOLIN 1 G1: VIOLIN 2 G2: VIOLIN 3 G3: VIOLIN PIZZ. G4: VIOLA G5: CELLO 2 G6: CELLO 3 G7: CONTRABASS H0: VOICE 5 H1: VOICE 6 H2: VOICE 7 H3: ACCORDION 2 H4: HARMONICA 2 H5: HARMONICA 3 H6: RECORDER 2 H7: CALLIOPE
Casio CZ-1 ROM Cartridge RC-30 "ORGAN / SYNTH. SOUND / SOUND EFFECT"	A0: PIPE ORGAN 4 A1: PIPE ORGAN 5 A2: PIPE ORGAN 6 A3: ELEC.ORGAN 1 A4: ELEC.ORGAN 2 A5: ELEC.ORGAN 3 A6: ELEC.ORGAN 4 A7: ELEC.ORGAN 5 B0: SYNTH.ENSEMBLE B1: SYNTH.BRASS B2: TWO OSCILLATORS B3: DREAM SOUND B4: MORNING HAZE B5: JUMP B6: POPCORN B7: MELLOW C0: SLOW SWELL TRPT. C1: SLAP BACK 4TH C2: LONG DELAY C3: SWEEP SOUND 4 C4: SHADOW C5: NOON C6: SYNTH.BASS 4 C7: SYNTH.BASS 5 D0: DIST.LEAD D1: TRASH CAN LEAD D2: SYNTH.LEAD 9 D3: SYNTH.LEAD 10 D4: SYNTH.LEAD 11 D5: SYNTH.LEAD 12 D6: SYNTH.LEAD 13 D7: SYNTH.LEAD 14	E0: SPACE PITCH MOD. E1: FALLING ALIEN E2: DROP OF WATER E3: RIFLE E4: LASER GUN 2 E5: FIRE ENGINE E6: AMBULANCE E7: CAR HORN F0: SPACE JET F1: TAKE OFF F2: HELICOPTER F3: FROZEN FREQUENCY F4: INDUSTRY F5: TANK F6: SF DOOR F7: TELEPHONE CALL G0: EXPLOSION 1 G1: EXPLOSION 2 G2: FIREWORKS 1 G3: FIREWORKS 2 G4: SEA GULL G5: OCEAN SOUND G6: TAP DANCE G7: INSECT H0: REVERSE H1: WEIRD SCIENCE H2: MUSIC BOX 2 H3: OCT.TENSION H4: BIG WINDER H5: GALAXY TRAIN H6: SPACE LIFT H7: SAMBA WHISTLE

If you want to use those lists in some automated way (say for an .ins instrument definition file) I've added text files with bare lists to the files section.

Cartridge internal stuff

Not much here yet, but will eventually put there some high-res pics, and more dumps, when I've got some other carts.

Cartridge insides:

Cartridge ROM dumps

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