The Namco System 12 is an arcade system board released by Namco in late 1996. In hardware, it is an upgrade from Sony's PlayStation-based System 11, the MIPS R3000A microprocessor is 50% faster, and the C76 sound processor is replaced by the H8/3002. Like the System 11, the System 12 used surface-mounted ROM chips, meaning the boards were unique to each game.[1]
System 12 specifications[ | ]
- Main CPU: MIPS R3000A 32-bit RISC processor, Clock- 48MHz, Operating performance - 30 MIPS, Instruction Cache - 4 KiB
- BUS: 132 MB/s.
- OS ROM: 512 kibibytes
- Sound CPU: Hitachi H8/3002 @ 14.7456 MHz
- Additional Sound Chip: Namco C352 sample playback
- Main RAM: 2 megabytes
- Video VRAM: 2 megabytes
- Sound RAM: 512 kilobytes
- Graphical Processor: 360,000 polygons/s, sprite/BG drawing, Adjustable framebuffer, No line restriction, 4,000 8x8 pixel sprites with individual scaling and rotation, Simultaneous backgrounds (parallax scrolling)
- Sprite Effects: Rotation, Scaling up/down, Warping, Transparency, Fading, Priority, Vertical and horizontal line scroll
- Resolution: 256x224 - 640x480
- Colours: 16.7 million colors, Unlimited CLUTs (Color Look-Up Tables)
- Other Features: custom geometry engine, custom polygon engine, MJPEG decoder
List of System 12 games[ | ]
- Aerosmith: Quest For Fame (1999)
- Aqua Rush (1999)
- Derby Quiz My Dream Horse (1998)
- Ehrgeiz (1997)
- Fighting Layer (1998)
- Golgo 13 (1999)
- Golgo 13 - Juusei no Chinkonka (2001)
- Golgo 13 - Kiseki no Dandou (2000)
- Kaiun Quiz (1999)
- Kart Duel (2000)
- Libero Grande (1997)
- Mr Driller (1999)
- Oh! Bakyuuun / Ghoul Panic (1999)
- Paca Paca Passion (1998)
- Paca Paca Passion Special (1999)
- Paca Paca Passion 2 (1999)
- Point Blank 2 (1999)
- Point Blank 3 (2000)
- Shin Nihon Pro Wrestling Toukon Retsuden 3 (1997)
- Soul Calibur (1998)
- Super World Stadium '98 (1998)
- Super World Stadium '99 (1999)
- Super World Stadium 2000 (2000)
- Super World Stadium 2001 (2001)
- Techno Drive (1998)
- Tekken 3 (1996)
- Tekken Tag Tournament (1999)
- TeknoWerk (1999)
- Tenkomori Shooting (1998)
- Truck Kyosokyoku (2000)
- Um Jammer Lammy (1999)
References[ | ]
- ↑ System 12 Hardware (Namco), HARDWARE DESCRIPTION, System 16
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