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Sega Dreamcast
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Sega Dreamcast
Manufacturer Sega
Type Video game console
Generation Sixth generation era
First Available Japan November 27, 1998
North America September 9, 1999
Europe October 14, 1999
CPU 200 Mhz Hitachi SH4 RISC
Media 1.2GB GD-ROM
Storage VMU
Online Service SegaNet
Dreamarena
Units Sold 10.6 million

The Sega Dreamcast was Sega's seventh & final video game console and the successor to the company's Sega Saturn.

Technical specifications[]

  • CPU: SH-4 RISC|RISC CPU with 128 Bit FPU functions for 3D graphics computations (operating frequency: 200 MHz, 360 MIPS, 1.4 GFLOPS)
  • Graphics Engine: PowerVR2 CLX2, 7.0 Mil polygons/second peak performance, supports Trilinear filtering. Actual maximum in game performance (with full textures, lighting, gameplay, etc...) of 3-5 Mil polygons/second. Tile rendering eliminates overdraw by only drawing visible polygons. This allows more efficient use of polygons and can make games appear to have 2-4 times their actual polygon count (depending on amount of overdraw eliminated).
  • Memory: Main RAM: 16 MB 64 Bit 100 MHz, Video RAM: 8 MB 4x16 Bit 100 Mhz, Sound RAM: 2 MB 16 Bit 66 MHz
  • Sound Engine: Yamaha AICA Sound Processor: 22.5MHz 32-Bit ARM7 RISC CPU core, 64 channel PCM/ADPCM sampler, 128 step DSP
  • GD-ROM Drive: 12x maximum speed (Constant Angular Velocity)
  • GD-ROM: Holds up to 1.2 GB of data. A normal CD-ROM holds 700 megabytes.
  • Inputs: USB-like "Maple Bus". Four ports support devices such as digital and analog controllers, steering wheels, joysticks, keyboards and mouses, and more.
  • Dimensions: 189 mm x 195 mm x 76 mm (7 7/16" x 7 11/16" x 3")
  • Weight: 1.9 kg (4.4 lb)
  • Color: Majority are white. Some late models from a sports package are black.
  • Modem: Removable; Original Asia/Japan model had a 33.6 kbit/s; models released after September 9 1999 had a 56 kbit/s modem
  • Broadband: these adapters are available separately and replace the removable modem
  • HIT-400: "Broadband Adapter", the more common model, this used a Realtek 8139 chip and supported 10 and 100 Mbit speeds.
  • HIT-300: "Lan Adapter", this version used a Fujitsu MB86967 chip and supported only 10 Mbit speed.

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