Only 70 arcade units were made of NetMerc, as this was the remaining stock of Model 1 boards. Unfortunately the stocks of Model 1 boards, which were no longer being produced, were depleted with the release of Star Wars.
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NetMerc (or TecWar as it was originally called until a conflict with William Shatner's Sci-Fi series came up) was kept alive due to its good first showing at the GiGa arcade in Ikebukuro (better than Daytona on its first trial weekend). Sega internal Model 1 games were all cancelled except for Sega Rally (which was originally a Model 1 game), that team was put on Model 2 and the game artwork was redone. During this time AM#3 (where we were based) had started using the Model 2 board for all of their games. The game was supposed to be finished by AOU, but schedule slippages meant it ran on for another 6 months before being completed. However, the game wasn't shelved and actually went into production. You're right that the game wasn't well received at the AOU show, partly because it wasn't actually that good compared to other games from Sega, and partly because people didn't 'get' it. Notes (from Andy Reece) : I'm one of the 2 programmers that developed the game in Tokyo, In total there were 2 programmers and 2 artists from the UK, and we lived in Tokyo for a year while developing the game. It was not recieved very well at the AOU show and apparently shelved. This game was based on Model 1 hardware and the old Virtuality amiga system and used twin 2" screens on the inside of the headset for a 3D effect. Notes : Jointly developed between Sega and Virtuality. Unfortunately, seeing as it was so expensive to manufacture it was never a stunning financial success for Sega, but it did cement their place in the history books as the world leader in 3D arcade technology, a title which they still hold to this day, and it led to possibly the most popular platform ever, Model 2.Įmulators : MAME (partial) - Modeler (partial) Virtua racer was the game being written to find out how viable hardware 3D games were, it was never designed to be released, but it was such a success internally they decided to actually release it. Notes : Sega went to General Electric Aerospace (who made the first 3D simulators for NASA in the 1960s) in 1991-92 for assistance to develop a CG platform architecture for their new experimental 3D system, which later became known as Model 1. Video resolution : 496x384 in 65536 colorsīoard Pictures : Board in metal case - AMP - Communication board - CPU board - I/O board - Sound board - Video board
Video : Shading Flat Shading, Diffuse Reflection, Specula Reflection, 2 Layers of Background Scrolling, Alpha Channel Sound Timing Chip : YM3834 8MHz (only used for its timers)Ĭo-Processor Abilities : Floating decimal point operation function, Axis rotation operation function, 3D matrix operation function Each can access up to 8meg sample rom *per chip* Sound chip : 2 x Sega MultiPCM Custom 28 channel PCM chips 8 MHz, 1 for Music and 1 for Effects. Graphics Co-Processor : Fujitsu TGP MB86233 FPU 32bits 16M flops Main CPU : 32bits RISC NEC V60 uPD-70616 16 MHz (2.5 MIPS) DecemBy HAS Admin in Uncategorized Super-Go-Down-The-Hole – A short platformer as another test for the latest version of the Scorpion Engine.
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