Naomi II Revealed

This article comes from Highwaygames.com

Sega unveiled the new NAOMI 2 arcade board at the recent JAMMA Show in Tokyo. It has 4 times the image processing power of the present Naomi board Show in Japan. The new CG arcade board is capable of displaying up to 10,000,000 polygons per second and supports network and dual monitor functions (display of two separate game screens on two monitors).

The new system can store games on both GD-ROM and ROM. New games under development for NAOMI 2 include Virtua Fighter X, Virtua Striker 3, Club Wagon, and Wild Riders, a motorbike game. New games based on the NAOMI 2 system are due to arrive in arcades by end 2001. It appears that existing Naomi games will also be able to run on the new system.

Given the specifications of NAOMI 2 are so advanced, there has been speculation about what the new system means for the future of Dreamcast. It will be a major job scaling back NAOMI 2 games to fit onto the Dreamcast platform.

For the record, the specifications of the NAOMI 2 are as follows:

CPU: 128-bit Hitachi SH4 RISC Processor, at 200 MHz, 360 MIPS, 1.4G FLOPS

Graphics engine: Power VR2

Sound engine: Super Intelligent Sound, 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM

Main memory: 32MB

Graphic memory: 32MB

Model data memory: 32MB

Media: ROM board or GD-ROM

Geometric Performance: 10,000,000 polygons / second

Rendering Performance: 2,000M Pixel / second

Image Display Processing Functions: Bump Mapping, Fog, Half Transparency Effect (Alpha Blending), Mip Mapping, Bi-linear / Tri-linear Filtering,Burr Anti-Aliasing, Parallel Processing of Texture, Environmental Mapping, Specular Effect (Reflection Light Effect), 16 sources of light.

Game Port: JAMMA Video Standard

Optional Extended Function: GD-ROM, Network

Others: Dual Monitor Function, RS232C (serial port)

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