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SEGA LASER DISK HARDWARE
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HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
Hardware : PCB plus Laserdisc Player
Emulators : Daphne


KNOWN SEGA LASER DISK GAME LIST
Albegas / Cybernaut
Astron Belt
Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer
GP World
Time Traveller


Albegas / Cybernaut
Sega / Bally Midway - 1983 (Prototype)
Albegas / Cybernaut Albegas / Cybernaut
Albegas / Cybernaut Albegas / Cybernaut
Notes : Conversion kit for Galaxy Ranger.
The most common prototype laserdisk game made, many discs exists for this game but as far as I know there were no ROM images made as it was cancelled before that was done.
Game Notes : Japanese anime in style, it was different from a lot of other games by allowing the choice of different paths to take throughout the game which made it less repetitious and more challenging to the player.
 

Astron Belt
Sega / Bally Midway - 1983
Laserdisc Player : Hitachi-Sega VIP9500SG
Graphic Overlay : Yes (score, credits, and game-play graphics)
Controls : Joystick, 1 Button (shoot)
Disc Press : Both Sides
CPU : Z80
Astron Belt Astron Belt
Astron Belt Astron Belt
Flyers : Normal Flyer
Cabinets : Upright - Japan Upright - Sitdown - Alt Sitdown
PCB's : PCB - Video Disc
Marquee's : Marquee (Sega) - Marquee (Bally/Midway)
Technical : Dip Switch Settings - Main Diagrams(pdf) - Sound Diagrams(pdf)
Other Images : Manual Cover
Notes : Graphics by Toeik, the famous Japanese animation house. I am told that the canyon sequence was made by taking a styrofoam disk, burning a channel into it with a blowotrch then running the camera through it.
Magazine reviews : C+VG Dec '83 - C+VG Aug '83
 

Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer
Sega / Bally Midway - 1983
Laserdisc Player : Hitachi-Sega VIP9500SG
Graphic Overlay : Yes (score, credits, and game-play graphics)
Controls : Joystick, 1 Button (shoot)
Disc Press : Both Sides
CPU : Z80
This used the same hardware as Astron belt, you just had to change the disc and roms.
Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer
Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer Galaxy Ranger / Star Blazer
Notes : There was no continue in Galaxy Ranger, The Japenese name for Galaxy Ranger was Star Blazer.
Flyers : Midway Normal Flyer - Midway Other Flyer
Cabinets : Upright - Marquee
PCB's : Video Disc
Movie Rips : 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
Technical : Dip Switchs - Sound(pdf) - Main(pdf)
Magazine reviews : C+VG Feb '84 - YS Nov '87
 

GP World
Sega / Bally Midway - 1984
Laserdisc Player : Pioneer LD-v1000
Graphic Overlay : Yes (score, credits, and game-play graphics)
Controls : Steering Wheel, Hi/Lo Gearstick
Disc Press : Both Sides
CPU : Z80
GP World GP World
Notes : The cabinet used 2 monitors, and the whole cabinet was MASSIVE
Screenshots : Track Select - Screenshot 3 - Screenshot 4
Magazine reviews : C+VG Mar '85
 

Time Traveller
1991
Laserdisc Player : Sony LDP-1450
Graphic Overlay : No
Controls : Joystick, 2 Buttons (Shoot and Time Reversal Cube)
Disc Press : Double Sided
Motherboard : One very small board (only about 4"x7"), with a large eprom on it (Intel 27C0202 / 256k x 8).
CPU : Unknown, but under a LARGE heatsink
Time Traveller Time Traveller Time Traveller
Flyers : Normal Flyer - Japan Flyer
Cabinets : Cabinet - Alt
Movie Rips - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
Technical : Dip Switchs - Sound - Main
Notes : This game uses hologram display, it's the first Sega game to uses this type of display, which used a TV and a special reflective mirror to give the effect of the characters appearing as holograms, appeared in only one other game called Holloseum before being canned as being basically rubbish.
This did not however stop it from making money, Time Traveller took over 18 Million dollars...
 

 

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