Introduction Usefull Links Specifications   Introduction:The Sega Dreamcast was the very first 128 bits console. Sega has always been used to bring consumers the very next generation technology first. Sega Master system, Genesis, Saturn ... Unfortunately, both Saturn and Dreamcast had limited success compared to the Sony playstation and the Nintendo 64 consoles. As a matter of a fact, in front of a huge money loss, Sega decided to give up producing consoles. Many gamers still consider the Dreamcast to better than the Sony Playstation 2. However, this is an excellent home console. After a couple years, several emulators appeared on the Dreamcast allowing you to
emulate several other systems. At this point, there are still no PC program (nor any other
known system) emulating Dreamcast commercial games. |
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| DC Emulation - One of the best Dreamcast emulation sources online Boob! - Dreamcast emulators/files and news Emulation64 - Best Next Generation Emulation news site around IGN / Dreamcast - Commercial news site, lots of screens and movies Dreamcast Technical Pages - Technical details on SEGA's Dreamcast console DC Developer - DC emulation developers dedicated site |
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| CPU: |
200 MHz Hitachi SH-4 RISC CPU 128-bit graphics engine 360 MIPS/1.4 GFLOPS |
| Memory: |
128-megabit SD-RAM where: 16 MB is used as main system RAM 8 MB is used as video RAM 2 MB is used as audio RAM |
| OS: |
SEGA / Microsoft Windows CE |
| Graphics
Chip: |
PowerVR S2 100MHz (NEC/VideoLogic) Renders 6-7 million polygons per second 200 MegaPixels per second |
| Hardware
Effects: |
Trianglar/(Quad - through Strips) Engine, real-time
lighting, 256 different fog effects, super sampling anti-aliasing, specular highlighting,
texture filtering, bump mapping, perspective correction, alpha blending (256 levels of
transparency), ARGB gouraud shading, MIP mapping: point, bilinear, trilinear, and
anistropic also includes General Modifier Volumes (GMV) |
| Media: |
GD-ROM (1 GigaByte Disk-ROM) 12X approx Maximum speed |
| Sound: |
45 MHz Yamaha ASIC ARM7 CPU supports 64 channels of 48 KHz 16-bit sound (64 channel ADPCM) |
| Modem: |
V34(33.6Kbps) V42 and MNP5 full support |
| Controller
& VMS: |
Analog and Digital directional controls 7 buttons(4 digital, 2 analog, 1 start button) VMS(Visual Memory System/Unit) Energy saving 8-bit CPU 128K byte memory 48 x 32 resolution LCD screen PWM 1 sound chip auto-off function battery x 2 |
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