Sega Hang-On hardware
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Sega Hang-On Hardware is an arcade system produced by Sega in 1985. It has no official name, but debuted with Hang-On (from which the name comes from) and went on to power several bike racing games of the mid-to-late 1980s.
The system specifications are similar to those of the Sega System 16, but has a stronger focus on graphics, adding a second of a second 68000 processor and a separate video board. Sega Hang-On Hardware acts primarily as an advancement over the VCO Object board - it was designed to scale a large number of sprites in real-time, allowing for the creation of "pseudo-3D" graphics, in which a game can simulate a player moving towards the screen. At the time of release, this technology was considered groundbreaking, and would go on to fuel the Sega OutRun Hardware specification as well as X Board and Y Board systems.
As this board was designed to serve one purpose, only five games were produced to make use of this system, all of which opt for the third-person perspective.
Technical Specifications
- Main CPU: 2 x MC68000 @ 10 MHz
- Sound CPU: Z80 @ 4 MHz
- Sound (1st configuration): YM2151 @ 4 MHz & SegaPCM @ 15.625 kHz
- Sound (2nd configuration): YM2203 @ 4 MHz & SegaPCM @ 31.250 kHz
- Video resoution: 320 x 224
- Board composition: CPU board and Video board
- Hardware features: 128 sprites on screen at one time, 2 tile layers, 1 text layer, 1 sprite layer with hardware sprite zooming, 1 road layer, translucent shadows
Gallery
Motherboard
Sound Board
List of Games
- Enduro Racer (1986)
- Hang-On (1985)
- Space Harrier (1985)
- Super Hang-On (1987)
- Limited Edition Hang-On (1991)
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