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SEGA SYSTEM 32 HARDWARE
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| HARDWARE DESCRIPTION |
Main CPU : NEC V60 @ 16.107950 MHz (32 bits RISC CPU)
Sound CPU : Z80 @ 8.053975 MHz
Sound chip : 2 x YM3438 @ 8.053975 MHz + Ricoh RF5c68 @ 12.5 MHz (8 Channel PCM chip remarked as Sega custom 315-*)
Max Colour's : 16384 (8bpp - 16 colour's per sprite)
Goes through a 16->512 indirection table, then selects which 512 color bank to take from 4096. This is used to do colour rotations (the red-yellow rotation of the lava sprites from Galaxy force for instance) without changing the color palette, also allows it to have sprites that rotate colors and sprites that don't on the same screen, and to get different levels of luminosity as well
Sprite Structure : Sprites follow each other in memory except when you stumble on a "go to "
Video resolution : 320 x 224
Board composition : Main board + Rom board
Board Features : 4 BG planes and technically infinite sprites of arbitrary size, BG planes can all be scaled and linescrolled, alpha blending, global RGB brightness control
System Pictures : Main Board - Comm Board
High Quality Pictures (very large) : Main board - Main board 2 - Rom Board
Component Codes:
315-5385 = system controller, timers, general "chipset" if you're into PC hardware
315-5386 = tilemap generator (backgrounds)
315-5387 = sprite generator
315-5388 = video mixer / color blender
315-5242 = video DAC
Emulators : Mame - Modeler
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Alien 3 The Gun
1993 |
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Notes : One of the first decent movie licensed games from Sega.
Unfortunately the first game from Sega to feature the arm numbing-pins and needles inducing-really annoying after 1 minute-huge vibrating guns.
| | Flyers : Normal Flyer |
Arabian Fight
1992 |
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| Notes : The only thing that makes this very average beat-em-up stand out is the way it abuses the hardware's zooming function, the characters get larger the closer they get to you and even fly at the screen sometimes.
| | Flyers : Normal Flyer
| | Magazine reviews : SU Jul '92 |
Burning Rival
1992 |
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| Notes : A terrible Vs. fighter, really.
| | Cabinets : Marquee |
Dark Edge
1993 |
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| Notes : Sega's first attempt at a "3D" fighting game, although in 2D the characters could move in and out of the screen in an attempt to provide more freedom of movement. Of course, this style of game was ditched by Sega as soon as Virtua Fighter came out a month later and proved to be both hugely successful and popular.
| | Flyers : Normal Flyer - Other Flyer |
Dragon Ball Z V.R.V.S.
Sega / Banpresto - 1994 |
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Notes : Licensed from the incredibly popular Japanese Dragonball cartoons, this strange into the screen fighting game was never released outside of Japan.
The deluxe cabinet was one of the first ever games to feature motion sensors, so you could use your arms and legs to play the game.
| | Other Images : Instructions (jp) - Full Instructions (large) - Motion Sensor Cabinet |
F1 Exhaust Note
1991 |
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Notes : Unlicensed Formula 1 racing game featuring incredibly sensitive steering and blatant copies of all the current F1 cars. Only available in a twin cabinet which used paddles behind the steering wheel to change gears and had speakers in the headrest to provide loud pseudo surround sound (this was fine as the sound and music were great)
It used 2 System32 boards with a network card to link them together, the master board had a red car and the slave board had a blue car.
This was the first ever game to use both monitors of a twin cabinet to display an extra wide screen attract mode. If one of the boards didn't work then it would not play the attract/intro but would carry on working on one side.
| | Flyers : Normal Flyer
| | Cabinets : Twin (Other)
| | Magazine reviews : SU Mar '92 |
| Prequels :
Monaco GP (1979)
- Pro Monaco GP (1980)
- Super Monaco GP (1989)
- Super Monaco Grand Prix (1990)
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| Sequel :
F1 Super Lap (1993)
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Holosseum
1992 |
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Notes : This game attempted to simulate a holographic display by bouncing the image off of a specially curved mirror that made the graphics seem like they were standing in the middle of a flat plate.
This game was a hastily produced conversion kit for the only other game to use this cabinet, the laserdisk Time Traveler, as the laserdisk player in that turned out to be very unreliable.
| | Cabinets : Control Panel - Marquee
| | Magazine reviews : C+VG Oct '91 |
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