Atomiswave

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The Atomiswave is Sammy Corporation's 2003 custom arcade system board and cabinet, which is based on Sega's NAOMI system board (Thus it's often common to see the "Sega" logo on its boot up screen). The Atomiswave system board uses interchangeable game cartridges, and the cabinet's control panel can be easily switched out with different control sets, including dual joysticks, dual lightguns, and a steering wheel.

With the retirement of the aging NeoGeo MVS system, SNK Playmore chose the Atomiswave as its next system to develop games for. In a contract with Sammy, SNK Playmore agreed to develop five games for the Atomiswave system. Metal Slug 6 was SNK Playmore's fifth game for the Atomiswave, after which SNK moved on to a Taito Type X2 arcade board.

[edit] Technical Specifications

CPU : Hitachi SH-4 32-bit RISC CPU

Operating Speed: 200 MHz
Rated Performance: 360 MIPS / 1.4 GFLOPS

Graphic Processor : PowerVR 2

Simultaneous Number of Colors : Approx. 16,770,000 (24bits)
Polygons : 2.5 Million polys/sec
Rendering Speed : 500 M pixel/sec
Additional Features : Bump Mapping, Fog, Alpha-Bending (transparency), Mip Mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), Tri-*Linear Filtering, Anti-Aliasing, Environment Mapping, and Specular Effect.

Sound Processor : ARM7 Yamaha AICA (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM)

Operating Speed: 45 MHZ

Main Memory : 16 MB

Graphics Memory : 16 MB

Sound Memory : 8 MB

Storage Media : ROM Board

[edit] List of Atomiswave games

2003
- Demolish Fist
- Dolphin Blue
- Guilty Gear X Version 1.5
- Maximum Speed
- Premier Eleven
- Sports Shooting USA
- Sushi Bar
2004
- Chase 1929
- Dirty Pigskin Football
- Faster Than Speed
- Force Five (unreleased)
- Guilty Gear Isuka
- Kenju (unreleased)
- The King of Fighters Neowave
- Knights of Valour: The Seven Spirits
- Ranger Mission
- The Rumble Fish
- Salaried Worker Golden Taro
2005
- Extreme Hunting
- Fist of the North Star (Hokuto No Ken)
- Horse Racing
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum
- The Rumble Fish 2
- Samurai Shodown VI
- The King of Fighters XI
2006
- Metal Slug 6