Sega NAOMI 2

Sega NAOMI 2
Manufacturer: Sega
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The Sega NAOMI 2 is an arcade board developed by Sega and is a successor to Sega NAOMI hardware. It was originally released in 2000, and stands as a beefed up version of the NAOMI specification. It is also fully backwards compatible with its predecessor.

The NAOMI 2 is by and large a more powerful successor of the NAOMI, adding a secondary CPU and GPU at higher clock rates, adding a new T&L GPU, and increasing the main graphics memory. This leads to games with much more polygons than a NAOMI game, rendered at much faster speeds, while the new T&L GPU adds advanced lighting and particle effects. It was more affordable than the Sega Hikaru arcade system that preceded it.

As with the NAOMI, the NAOMI 2 was also available in GD-ROM and Satellite Terminal variants.

Technical Specifications

• Main CPU: 2× Hitachi SH-4 @ 400 MHz
  • Features: 2× 128-bit SIMD @ 400 MHz, 2× floating-point unit, graphic functions
  • Performance: 1440 MIPS and 5.6 GFLOPS
    • 40 million polygons/sec (20 million per CPU) with lighting
  • Note: With Elan used as geometry coprocessor, the SH-4's 128-bit SIMD matrix unit can be dedicated to game physics, artificial intelligence, collision detection, and overall game code
• Sound engine: Yamaha AICA Super Intelligent Sound Processor @ 67 MHz
  • Internal CPU: 32-bit ARM7 RISC CPU @ 45 MHz [1]
  • CPU performance: 17 MIPS
  • PCM/ADPCM: 16-bit depth, 48 kHz sampling rate (DVD quality), 128 channels [2]
  • Other features: DSP, sound synthesizer
• Main T&L geometry GPU coprocessor: VideoLogic Elan @ 100 MHz [3]
  • Lighting: Up to 16 light sources per polygon, ambient lighting, parallel lighting, point lighting, spotlight lighting
  • Vertex support: Combined dynamic and static model processing
  • Features: Reduces CPU load to 1/10th, multiple light type support (ambient, parallel, point, spot), hardware Z clipping, offscreen & backface culling [4]
  • Effects: Bump mapping, fog, alpha blending, MIP mapping, trilinear filtering, anti-aliasing, environment mapping, specular effects
• Rasterizer GPU: 2× NEC-VideoLogic PowerVR 2 (PVR2DC/CLX2) [5] @ 200 MHz
  • Bits: 64-bit per GPU
  • Texture mapping: Bump mapping, mipmapping, environment mapping, texture compression, multi-texturing, perspective correction, normal maping (Dot3 bump mapping)
  • Filtering: Point filtering, bilinear filtering, trilinear filtering, anisotropic filtering
  • Anti-aliasing: Super-sampling anti-aliasing (SSAA), full-scene anti-aliasing (FSAA)
  • Alpha blending: 256 levels of transparency, multi-pass blending, translucency sorting
  • Shading: Perspective-correct ARGB Gouraud shading, shadows
  • Rendering: ROP (render output unit), tiled rendering, 32-bit floating-point Z-buffering, 32-bit floating-point hidden surface removal, 256 fog effects, per-pixel table fog, per-pixel lighting
  • Polygons: Quad polygons, triangle polygons
  • GMV (general modifier volumes): Light beams, shadows, lasers, glowing suns
  • Geometric performance: 28 million textured polygons/sec (14 million per rasterizer GPU) with lighting, shadows and trilinear filtering
  • Fillrate:
    • Rendering: 2 billion pixels/sec (with transparent polygons) to over 6.4 billion pixels/sec (with opaque polygons)
    • Textures: 200 million texels/sec for rasterizer GPU
• Operating systems:
  • Native operating system
  • Custom Windows CE, with DirectX 6.0, Direct3D and OpenGL support
• RAM: 168 MB
  • Main SDRAM: 32 MB (100 MHz) [6]
  • VRAM: 128 MB
    • PowerVR2 SDRAM: 64 MB (100 MHz)
    • Elan geometry VRAM: 32 MB
    • Model data VRAM: 32 MB [7]
  • Sound DRAM: 8 MB
  • Bandwidth: 6 GB/sec
• Storage media: ROM board, GD-ROM drive
  • ROM access time: Under 100 nanoseconds
  • ROM can be accessed directly, and effectively be used as RAM.
• Color depth: 32-bit ARGB, 16,777,216 colors (24-bit color) [8] with 8-bit (256 levels) alpha blending, YUV and RGB color spaces, color key overlay
• Display resolution: 31 kHz horizontal sync, 60 Hz refresh rate, VGA, progressive scan
  • Single monitor: 496×384 to 800×608 pixels
  • Dual monitor: 992×768 to 1600×608 pixels
• GFLOPS performance: 7.5 GFLOPS
• Textures per pass: 10
• Polygon performance:
  • 10 million textured polygons/sec with 6 light sources per polygon, shadows, trilinear filtering and other effects
  • 100 million polygons/sec raw
• Extensions: communication, 4-channel surround sound, PCI, MIDI, RS-232C
• Connection: JAMMA Video compliant

List of Games

NAOMI 2 Games

• Jet Squadron (prototype) (2000)
• Virtua Fighter 4 (2001)
  • Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (2002)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned (2004)
• Virtua Striker 3 (2001)
• Wild Riders (2001)
• Club Kart: European Session (2002)
• King of Route 66 (2002)
• Sega Driving Simulator (2002)
• Soul Surfer (2002)
• Club Kart Prize (2003)

NAOMI 2 GD-ROM Games

• Beach Spikers (2001)
• Virtua Fighter 4 (2001)
  • Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution (2002)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Evolution Ver. B (2003)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Final Tuned (2004)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Ver. B (2001)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Ver. B (2001)
  • Virtua Fighter 4 Ver. C (2002)
• Virtua Striker 3 (2001)
• Initial D: Arcade Stage (2002)
• Initial D: Arcade Stage 2 (2003)
• Initial D: Version 3 (2004)

NAOMI 2 Satellite Terminal Games

• World Club Champion Football Serie A 2001-2002 (2002)
  • World Club Champion Football Serie A 2001-2002 Ver.2 (2003)
  • World Club Champion Football Serie A 2002-2003 (2003)
  • World Club Champion Football Serie A 2002-2003 Ver.2 (2004)
  • World Club Champion Football European Clubs 2004-2005 (2005)
  • World Club Champion Football European Clubs 2005-2006 (2006)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0079 Card Builder (2005)
• Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Card Builder (2007)

Sega arcade boards
Originating in arcades
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