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KONAMI M2 HARDWARE
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HARDWARE DESCRIPTION
Main CPU : 2 x IBM PowerPC 602 EMPPC602FB66
Custom ASICs
BDA:
Memory control, system control, and video/graphic control
Full triangle renderer including setup engine, MPEG-1 decoder hardware, DSP for audio and various kinds of DMA control and port access
Random access of frame buffer and z-buffer (actually w-buffer) possible at the same time
CDE: Power bus connected to BDA and the two CPUs, "bio-bus" used as a low-speed bus for peripheral hardware
Renderer capabilities:
1 million un-textured triangles/s geometry rate
100 million pixels/s fill rate
reportedly 700,000 textured polygons/s *without* gouraud shading or additional effects
reportedly 300,000 to 500,000 textured polygons/s *with* gouraud shading, lighting and effects
Shading: flat shading and gouraud shading, texture mapping, decal, modulation blending, tiling (16K/128K texture buffer built-in)
Hardware z-buffer (16-bit) (actually a block floating point with multiple (4) range w-buffer), object-based full-scene anti-aliasing, alpha channel (4-bit or 7-bit)
Resolution : 320x240 to 640x480 resolution at 24-bit color
Sound hardware - 16-bit 32-channel DSP at 66 MHz (within BDA chip)
Media - Quad-speed CD-ROM drive (600 KB/s)
RAM - Unified memory subsystem with 8 MB/s, 64-bit bus resulting in peak 533 MB/s bandwidth, Average access 400 MB/s.
Full Motion Video - MPEG-1
Writable Storage - Memory cards from 128 KiB to 32 MiB
Expansion Capabilities - 1 PCMCIA port (potentially used for Modems, Ethernet NICs, etc.)
Roms : 8x CD Rom LW and Rom Bios

Notes : This system was fairly short lived due to the almost crippling load times, taking up to 30 seconds to a minute to load some stages
System Pictures : M2 Crate - Top Board - Bottom Board - Sub Board

This hardware is based on 3DO


KNOWN KONAMI M2 GAME LIST
Battle Tryst
Evil Night / Hell Night
Heat Of Eleven '98
Polystars
Total Vice


Battle Tryst
1998
Battle Tryst Battle Tryst
Battle Tryst Battle Tryst
Battle Tryst Battle Tryst
Flyers : Normal Flyer
Pictures : CD
 

Evil Night / Hell Night
1998
Evil Night / Hell Night
Evil Night / Hell Night Evil Night / Hell Night Evil Night / Hell Night
Cabinets : Deluxe
Flyers : Normal
PCB : CD
 

Heat Of Eleven '98
1998
Heat Of Eleven '98 Heat Of Eleven '98
 

Polystars
1997
Other Chips : 003461 058232 056879
Polystars Polystars
Polystars Polystars
Flyers : Normal Flyer
 

Total Vice
1997
Total Vice
Total Vice Total Vice
Total Vice Total Vice
Flyers : Normal Flyer
Cabinets : Deluxe
 

 

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