Atomiswave

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The Atomiswave is Sammy Corporation's 2003 custom arcade system board and cabinet, which is based on Sega's NAOMI system board (Thus it's often common to see the "Sega" logo on its boot up screen). The Atomiswave system board uses interchangeable game cartridges, and the cabinet's control panel can be easily switched out with different control sets, including dual joysticks, dual lightguns, and a steering wheel.

With the retirement of the aging NeoGeo MVS system, SNK Playmore chose the Atomiswave as its next system to develop games for. In a contract with Sammy, SNK Playmore agreed to develop five games for the Atomiswave system. Metal Slug 6 was SNK Playmore's fifth game for the Atomiswave, after which SNK moved on to a Taito Type X2 arcade board.

[edit] Technical Specifications

  • CPU: 200 MHz Hitachi SH-4 64-bit RISC CPU
  • Graphics processor: PowerVR 2 (24 bit color)
    • Polygon performance: 3 to 5 million polygons/sec
    • Rendering speed: 500 M pixels/sec
    • Additional features: bump mapping, fog, alpha-blending (transparency), mip mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), tri-*linear filtering, anti-aliasing, environment mapping, and specular effect
  • Sound processor: 45 MHz ARM7 Yamaha AICA (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM)
  • Memory
    • System: 16 MB
    • Graphics: 16 MB
    • Sound: 8 MB
  • Storage media: ROM board

[edit] List of Atomiswave games

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