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Peripherals
CPU
CD-ROM Drive
Graphical Capabilities
2d Graphical Capability
Geometry Engine
Data Decompression Engine
Hardware Rendered Polygons
I/O System Overview
Memory Configuration
Sound Processor
Sprite and Background Graphics
Sprite Special Effects

PERIPHERALS

CPU

CD-ROM DRIVE

GRAPHICAL CAPABILITY

NTSC Display Resolution

MODE RESOLUTION


0
1
2
3
4
(H x V)
(non-interlaced)
256x480
320x480
384x480
512x480
640x480

5
6
7
8
9
(interlaced)
256x480
320x480
384x480
512x480
640x480

Color Depth

MODE COLORS
4
8
15
24
16
256
32,768
16,777,216

All calculations are performed to 24 bit accuracy
Texture mapping color mode

2D GRAPHICAL CAPABILITY

Sprite display capability
Size:1X1 pixels to 256X256 pixels

SPRITE SIZE BIT DEPTH
4 bit 8 bit 16 bit
8X8
16X16
40K
160K
70K
280K
110K
280K

Rectangles per second

GEOMETRY ENGINE(GTE)

Type Per second
Flat shaded 1.5 M
Gouraud, textured and light sourced 500 K

GTE performs high speed matrix multiplies

DATA DECOMPRESSION ENGINE(MDEC)

HARDWARE RENDERED POLYGONS(GPU)

I/O SYSTEM OVERVIEW

MEMORY CONFIGURATION

SOUND PROCESSOR

SPRITE AND BACKGROUND GRAPHICS

Virtually Unlimited:

SPRITE SPECIAL EFFECTS