Hikaru BIOS

Arcade System published 25 years ago:

Hikaru (c) 1999 Sega Enterprises, Ltd.

- TECHNICAL -

CPU: 2 x Hitachi SH-4 128 bit RISC CPU with graphic functions @ 200 MHz 360 MIPS / 1.4 GFLOPS.
Graphic Engine: Sega Custom 3D.
Sound Engine: 2x ARM7 Yamaha AICA @ 45 MHz with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM.
Main Memory 64 Mbytes.
Graphic Memory: 28 Mbytes.
Sound Memory: 8 Mbytes.
Media: ROM Board (max 352 MBytes).
Simultaneous Number of Colors: Approx. 16,770,000 (24bits).
Resolution: 24 KHz, 496x384 Pixels, 31 KHz 640x480 Pixels.
Polygons: 2 Million polys a sec.
Shading: Phong Shading.
Lighting: Horizontal, Spot, 1024 lights per scene, 4 lights per polygon, 8 window surfaces.
Effects: (at least) Phong Shading, Fog, Depth Queueing, Stencil, Shadow, Motion blur.
Others Capabilities: Bitmap Layer x 2, Calendar, Dual Monitor (24 kHz).
Extensions: communication, 4 channel audio, PCI, MIDI, RS-232C.
Connection: Jamma Video compliant.

- TRIVIA -

This board was totally custom and very expensive to produce, it was only really designed for one game ("Brave Fire Fighters") as it could do complex fire/water graphics. There were eventually only 6 games made for this system before it was dropped in favor of the much cheaper "NAOMI 2".