MechaCon/UART commands/SPC970

Overview

See MechaCon and MechaCon/UART commands for basic information.

Command list

Note: This is subject to ongoing research and partially inaccurate
All communication uses ASCII-encoded Hex-values.

Not all of these commands are available on every MechaCon version

Command	Description	Parameters	Return values	Usage/Remarks
0xc00	MECHA_CMD_INIT_SHIMUKE
0xc01	MECHA_CMD_INIT_MECHACON
0xc10	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_CD_8
0xc11	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_CD_12
0xc12	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_DVDSL_8
0xc13	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_DVDDL_8
0xc14	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_DVDSL_12
0xc15	MECHA_CMD_DISC_MODE_DVDDL_12
0xc16	MECHA_CMD_DISC_DETECT
0xc20	MECHA_CMD_LASER_DIODE
0xc22	MECHA_CMD_FOCUS_UPDOWN
0xc23	MECHA_CMD_FOCUS_AUTO_START
0xc24	MECHA_CMD_FOCUS_AUTO_STOP
0xc25	MECHA_CMD_FCS_SEARCH_CHECK
0xc30	MECHA_CMD_TRACKING
0xc41	MECHA_CMD_SLED_CTL_MICRO
0xc42	MECHA_CMD_SLED_CTL_BIPHS
0xc43	MECHA_CMD_SLED_CTL_POS
0xc44	MECHA_CMD_SLED_POS_HOME
0xc45	MECHA_CMD_SLED_IN_SW
0xc50	MECHA_CMD_SP_CTL
0xc51	MECHA_CMD_SP_CLV_S
0xc52	MECHA_CMD_SP_CLV_A
0xc60	MECHA_CMD_TRAY
0xc61	MECHA_CMD_TRAY_SW
0xc8d	MECHA_CMD_CLEAR_CONF
0xc8e	MECHA_CMD_UPLOAD_NEW			00
0xc93	MECHA_CMD_UPLOAD_TO_RAM
0xc97	MECHA_CMD_DETECT_ADJ
0xc99	MECHA_CMD_WRITE_CHECKSUM
0xc9a	MECHA_CMD_READ_CHECKSUM
0xc9b	MECHA_CMD_SETUP_OSD			00 = NTSC, 01 = PAL, presumed to be supported by DEX B and later
0xc9e	MECHA_CMD_SETUP_SANYO
0xca1	MECHA_CMD_AUTO_ADJ_ST_1
0xca2	MECHA_CMD_AUTO_ADJ_ST_2
0xca3	MECHA_CMD_AUTO_ADJ_ST_12
0xca4	MECHA_CMD_AUTO_ADJ_ST_2MD			Performed during skew adjustment initialization
0xca5	MECHA_CMD_AUTO_ADJ_FIX_GAIN
0xca7	MECHA_CMD_RFDC_LEVEL
0xca8	MECHA_CMD_TPP
0xcaa	MECHA_CMD_MIRR_CHECK
0xcab	MECHA_CMD_FE_OFFSET
0xcb0	MECHA_CMD_CD_PLAY_1			1x CLV
0xcb1	MECHA_CMD_CD_PLAY_2			2x CLV
0xcb2	MECHA_CMD_CD_PLAY_3			4x CLV
0xcb3	MECHA_CMD_CD_PLAY_4			5-12x CAV
0xcb4	MECHA_CMD_CD_STOP
0xcb5	MECHA_CMD_CD_PAUSE
0xcb6	MECHA_CMD_CD_TRACK_CTL
0xcb8	MECHA_CMD_CD_TRACK_LONG_CTL
0xcb9	MECHA_CMD_CD_PLAY_5			10-24x CAV
0xcc0	MECHA_CMD_DVD_PLAY_1			1x CLV
0xcc1	MECHA_CMD_DVD_PLAY_2			1.6x CLV
0xcc2	MECHA_CMD_DVD_PLAY_3			1.6-4x CAV
0xcc3	MECHA_CMD_DVD_STOP
0xcc4	MECHA_CMD_DVD_PAUSE
0xcc5	MECHA_CMD_DVD_TRACK_CTL
0xcc7	MECHA_CMD_DVD_TRACK_LONG_CTL
0xcc8	MECHA_CMD_FOCUS_JUMP
0xcca	MECHA_CMD_ADJ_AUTO_TILT
0xccb	MECHA_CMD_INIT_AUTO_TILT
0xccd	MECHA_CMD_MOV_AUTO_TILT
0xcd1	MECHA_CMD_SET_DSP
0xcd3	MECHA_CMD_GAIN
0xcde	MECHA_CMD_DSP_ERROR_RATE_CTL
0xcdf	MECHA_CMD_DSP_ERROR_RATE
0xce0	MECHA_CMD_EEPROM_WRITE	aaaadddd	0aaaadddd (returns written data, not previous data)	ce0aaaadddd (a = address, d = data)
0xce1	MECHA_CMD_EEPROM_READ	aaaa	0aaaadddd	ce1aaaa (a = address)
0xce4	MECHA_CMD_RTC_READ
0xce5	MECHA_CMD_RTC_WRITE
0xce6	MECHA_CMD_ECR_READ
0xce7	MECHA_CMD_ECR_WRITE
0xce8	MECHA_CMD_CD_ERROR
0xce9	MECHA_CMD_JITTER
0xcf2	MECHA_CMD_FOCUS_JUMP_NEW
0xcfc	MECHA_CMD_READ_MODEL_2
0xcfd	MECHA_CMD_READ_MODEL		vvvvrr (v = version, r = region)
0xcfe	MECHA_CMD_EEPROM_ERASE

Command documentation

To do: document more complex commands here

Error codes

Code	Description
0x2A0	Rx-command error
0x2A1	Rx-command argument count error
0x2A2	Rx-command argument range error