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The '''Sega Y Board''' is an arcade system board released by [[Sega]] in 1988 as a successor to the [[Sega X Board]]. Like the X Board before it, the Y Board was known for its 3D [[sprite]]/texture manipulation capabilities. It is the fourth in the Super Scaler series of arcade boards, after the [[Sega Hang-On hardware]], [[Sega OutRun hardware]] and X Board.
 
The '''Sega Y Board''' is an arcade system board released by [[Sega]] in 1988 as a successor to the [[Sega X Board]]. Like the X Board before it, the Y Board was known for its 3D [[sprite]]/texture manipulation capabilities. It is the fourth in the Super Scaler series of arcade boards, after the [[Sega Hang-On hardware]], [[Sega OutRun hardware]] and X Board.
  
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The Y Board is quite different to the X Board in terms of design, offering a third CPU and more advanced video equipment. Most notably, the Y Board allows for real-time rotation of sprites as well as scaling. Unusually, the system uses no tile layers, so graphics are rendered using only sprites (a design taken by [[SNK]] for their Neo-Geo hardware in 1990).
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The Y Board is quite different to the X Board in terms of design, offering a third CPU and more advanced video equipment. Most notably, the Y Board allows for real-time rotation of sprites as well as scaling, and has a higher fillrate for the sprites/textures. Unusually, the system uses no tile layers, so graphics are rendered using only sprites/textures (a design taken by [[SNK]] for their Neo-Geo hardware in 1990).
  
 
==Technical Specifications==
 
==Technical Specifications==

Revision as of 00:50, 31 July 2015

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Sega Y Board
Manufacturer: Sega
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The Sega Y Board is an arcade system board released by Sega in 1988 as a successor to the Sega X Board. Like the X Board before it, the Y Board was known for its 3D sprite/texture manipulation capabilities. It is the fourth in the Super Scaler series of arcade boards, after the Sega Hang-On hardware, Sega OutRun hardware and X Board.

The Y Board is quite different to the X Board in terms of design, offering a third CPU and more advanced video equipment. Most notably, the Y Board allows for real-time rotation of sprites as well as scaling, and has a higher fillrate for the sprites/textures. Unusually, the system uses no tile layers, so graphics are rendered using only sprites/textures (a design taken by SNK for their Neo-Geo hardware in 1990).

Technical Specifications

  • Board composition: CPU Board + Video Board
  • Main CPU: 3× MC68000 @ 12.5 MHz (16-bit & 32-bit instructions @ 6.563 MIPS)
    • The first 68000 ("main" in MAME) has access to the sound hardware, I/O hardware, and 64KB RAM
    • The second 68000 ("subx" in MAME) has access to the ysprites hardware, backup RAM and 16KB RAM
    • The third 68000 ("suby" in MAME) has access to the bsprites hardware, ysprites full plane rotation, bsprites palette RAM, and 64KB RAM
    • The three CPUs share 64KB of separate RAM for communication as well as the multiplier/divider hardware
  • Sound CPU: Z80 @ 4 MHz (8-bit & 16-bit instructions @ 0.58 MIPS) with 2KB RAM
  • Sound chips:
  • GPU: Sega Super Scaler chipset
    • Graphics board: Sega 837-6566 Video Board @ 50 MHz (315-5196 sprite generator, 315-5213 sprite chip, 315-5242 color encoder, 315-5305 sprite generator, 2× 315-5306 video sync & rotation, 315-5312 video mixer)
    • Math chips: 315-5248 hardware multiplier, 315-5249 hardware divider
  • RAM: 778 KB (SRAM)
    • Main RAM: 208 KB (64 KB CPU 1, 16 KB CPU 2, 64 KB CPU 3, 64 KB shared)
    • Video RAM: 566 KB (32 KB Y-sprites, 4 KB B-sprites, 2 KB rotation, 16 KB palette, 512 KB framebuffer)
    • Sound RAM: 6 KB (2 KB Z80, 4 KB SegaPCM)
  • Video resolution: 320×224 (display), 342×262 (overscan), progressive scan
  • Refresh rate: 59.6368 to 60 Hz (V-sync)
  • Frame rate: 59.6368 to 60 frames per second
  • Color palette: 2,097,152 (4096 palette banks with 512 colors each), to 16,777,216 with effects (shadow & highlight, luminosity, palette fade)
  • Colors on screen: 24,576, to 71,680 (320×224) with luminosity and palette fade
  • Video hardware:
    • Two sprite planes with fixed Z-order
    • Lower sprite plane ("ysprites" in MAME): full scaling and rotation; also the entire plane can be rotated as a whole
      • Palettes are stored alongside the sprite table; sprite table entries hold a pointer to the palette, which itself is stored as an table of palette indirection values (?)
    • Higher sprite plane ("bsprites" in MAME): standard Sega System 16B sprite plane
  • Graphical planes: Three layers
    • B-sprite (front plane) layer: Priority on top, based on System 16B (line buffer) sprite system
    • Y-sprite (back plane) layer: Plugs into a full-screen rotation, large fillrate, dual framebuffer (based on X Board) that can be fully rotated
    • Sky gradient (background) layer: Bitmap plane
  • Sprite capabilities: Linked list of sprites, shadow & highlight, palette fade, color rotations, different levels of luminosity, full sprite zooming & scaling on both sprite planes, full sprite & framebuffer rotation on Y-sprite plane, double buffering, dual line buffers on B-plane (512 sprite pixels/texels per line), dual framebuffer on Y-plane
    • Sprite size/resolution: 8×8 to 512×512 pixel
    • Colors per sprite: 16 to 512
    • Sprites per frame: 68 KB sprite RAM, up to 2176 sprites (with 8x8 size and 16 colors each)
    • Sprite pixels/texels: 50 MHz video clock cycles, 833,333 (60 Hz) to 838,408 (59.6368 Hz) pixels/texels per frame (262 scanlines), 3180 to 3200 sprite pixels/texels per scanline, 397 to 400 sprites per scanline

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