I had thought the 2A03 didn't have BCD to save silicon-- but apparently they just crudely disabled it by removing 5 transistors[1]! Would Ricoh's second-source

I had thought the 2A03 didn't have BCD to save silicon-- but apparently they just crudely disabled it by removing 5 transistors[1]! Would Ricoh's second-source 6502 license have been more expensive if they included BCD? [1] http://www.visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6502DecimalMode#Decimal_mode_and_the_NES.27_RP2A03G http://www.visual6502.org/wiki/index.php?title=6502DecimalMo...