Sega Saturn

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Sega Saturn
Manufacturer:	Sega
Alternate Names:	Kazuma, Black Belt
Announced:	date the console was announced
Release date:	JP: date/month in text/year NA: date/month in text/year EU: date/month in text/year AU: date/month in text/year
Initial Price:	JP: ? NA: ? EU: £399.99 AU: ?
Discontinued:	1998

Description of Hardware

The third home console in Sega's long list of hardware (mainly arcade) creations. The Sega Saturn was considered a competitor of the Nintendo 64 and Sony PlayStation during it's normal lifespan.

The Sega Saturn has a built-in CD player.

Hardware Specifications

Firmware

• CPU: 2 x 32-Bit RISC SH2 at 28.6 MHz, 32-Bit RISC SH1 at 20 MHz. 25MIPS
• Memory: 16 Mbit Work RAM, 4 Mbit Audio RAM, 256 Kbit Backup RAM, 12 Mbit Video RAM, 4 Mbit CD Buffer RAM, 4 Mbit IPL ROM.

Display

• Graphics: 16.77 Million Colours Sprite Enlargement, Reduction, Rotation, Transformation CG
• 2D Graphical Capabilities: VDP1 processor handling sprites, polygons and geometry VDP2, processor handling backgrounds, 5 simultaneous planes with two rotation planes, 32,000 colours from 24-bit palette.
• 3D Graphical Capabilities: Polygon Specialized Hardware Texture Mapping, Flat Shading, Gouraud Shading, Wire Frame
• Scroll: 5 Screens (Scaling, rotating, enlargement, reduction)

Sound

• 16-Bit CISC 68EC000 (11.3 MHz), PCM & FM sound sources, 32 channels, 16-Bit Sampling, Sampling rate 44.1 KHz max, Audio DSP

Storage

• CD Drive: Intelligent 2x. Data Transfer Rate (DMA to RAM), 150 KB/sec. (Normal), 300 KB/sec. (Double speed), Maximum Capacity - 660 Megabytes, Audio CD play with reactive display, CD+G compatible, CD+EG compatible, CD Single compatible, Photo CD compatible, Video CD compatible and Ebook compatible

(Portions of the above courtesy of Cylist.com )

Late RevA9 Sega Saturn motherboard, the early boards had the controller ports on a seperate PCB, early revisions of the Model 2 Saturn board still have the drive access LED on the motherboard, despite the later cases having no cut-out for it.

Hardware Revisions

Games

A full list of Sega Saturn games documented on GamerWiki can be found at the Sega Saturn category. Please add any missing games to the games to be added page.

Peripherals

Emulation

Trivia

External Links

Official Sega Saturn Support

SegaSaturn.co.uk The World's Fastest Growing Sega Saturn Community and Information Point.