Namco System 246

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The Namco System 246 is a development of the Sony PlayStation 2 technology as a basis for an arcade system board. It was released in 2001 on its first game Ridge Racer V. Like the Sega NAOMI, is widely licensed for use by other manufacturers. Games such as Battle Gear 3 and Capcom Fighting Evolution are examples of System 246-based arcade games that are not Namco products.

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[edit] Specifications

CPU : 128 Bit "Emotion Engine"

- System Clock: 300 MHz

- System Memory: 32 MB Direct Rambus

- Memory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per second

- Co-Processor: FPU (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1, Floating Point Divider x 1)

- Vector Units: VU0 and VU1 (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9, Floating Point Divider x 1)

- Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS

- 3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 million Polygons Per Second

- Compressed Image Decoder: MPEG2

Graphics : "Graphics Synthesizer"

- Clock Frequency: 150MHz

- DRAM Bus bandwidth: 48 GB Per Second

- DRAM Bus width: 2560 bits

- Pixel Configuration: RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32)

- Maximum Polygon Rate: 75 Million Polygons Per Second

Sound : "SPU2+CPU"

- Number of voices: ADPCM: 48 channel on SPU2 plus definable by software

- Sampling Frequency: 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz (selectable)

I/O Processor

- CPU Core: Current PlayStation CPU

- Clock Frequency: 33.8 MHz or 37.5 MHz (selectable)

- Sub Bus: 32 Bit

Media: DVD-ROM

[edit] List of System 246 games

[edit] Unreleased

[edit] List of System 256 games

[edit] List of System Super 256 games