

The system was designed around a new CPU from Japanese electronics company Hitachi. Its games are in CD-ROM format, and its game library contains several arcade ports as well as original games.ĭevelopment of the Saturn began in 1992, the same year Sega's groundbreaking 3D Model 1 arcade hardware debuted. The successor to the successful Sega Genesis, the Saturn has a dual-CPU architecture and eight processors. Media: GD-ROM (GigaByte Disk-ROM) Drive - Maximum speed 12X 1.The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit fifth-generation home video game console developed by Sega and released on Novemin Japan, in North America, and Jin Europe.Operating System: Customized Microsoft Windows CE and Sega operating system.Expansion Options: Modem: 33.6kb per second transfer rate (56kb in U.S.) Upgradable.Dreamcast Control Pad: Digital and analog directional controls, Dual analog triggers, Virtual Memory System data save unit.Sound: Yamaha Audio Core, 32-bit RISC CPU, DSP for real-time effects, 64 sound channels, ,Full 3D sound support, Hardware-based audio compression.Memory: 16 MB main RAM, 8 MB video RAM, 2 MB sound RAM.Hardware-based Fog, Bump mapping, 24-bit color, Hardware-based texture compression, Shadow and Light volumes, Super sampling Graphics Core: NEC PowerVRSG, 3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate, Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping, Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering, Gouraud shading 32-bit z-buffer, Colored light sourcing, Full scene anti-aliasing.


