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Hello everyone and welcome to the past.  This site is dedicated to the owner of The Games Arena's favourite consoles the Sega Mega CD.  Hope you enjoy the site and here is a little introduction.

MEGADRIVE - While Nintendo ruled over the rest of the planet.  Sega conquered Europe with the 16-Bit Megadrive.  It wasn't pretty- a matt black slab of plastic that was eerily lightweight- but it had big-name developers lining up to bring their games to its plasticy cartridges.  Again, The Big S had a hefty line-up of popular coin-ops to convert, and its sales meant a boom time for gaming.  And with the release of top titles like the Sonic series, Mortal Kombat series and the Ecco series it gradually broke through in America and began to dominate..  But now it is time to get one it can be picked up cheaply and the games can also be very cheap some just 50p - £1 try it you'll like it.

TOP 10

  1. DAYTONA USA 2001

  2. SONIC ADVENTURE

  3. CAPCOM VS SNK 2

  4. SHENMUE

  5. CRAZY TAXI

  6. STREET FIGHTER ALPHA 3

  7. VIRTUA TENNIS

  8. ECW ANARCHY RULZ

  9. HOUSE OF THE DEAD 2

  10. QUAKE 3 ARENA

Technical Specs

CPU: 
Hitachi SH-4
200MHz clock rate
360 MIPS (millions of instructions per second)
1.4 GigaFLOPS (floating-point operations per second)
128-bit 3D calculations
64-bit data bus
800+ MBytes/second bus bandwidth

Graphics Core: 
NEC PowerVRSG
3 million polygons/second peak rendering rate
Perspective-Correct Texture Mapping
Point, Bilinear, Trilinear and Anisotropic Mip-map filtering
Gouraud shading 32-bit z-buffer
Colored light sourcing
Full scene anti-aliasing
Hardware-based Fog
Bump mapping
24-bit color
Hardware-based texture compression
Shadow and Light volumes
Super sampling

Memory: 
16 MB main RAM
8 MB video RAM
2 MB sound RAM

Resolution: 
640x448.

Colors: 
16.7 million

Sound: 
Yamaha Audio Core
32-bit RISC CPU
DSP for real-time effects
64 sound channels
Full 3D sound support
Hardware-based audio compression

Dreamcast Control Pad: 
Digital and analog directional controls
Dual analog triggers
Virtual Memory System data save unit

Expansion Options: 
Modem: 33.6kb per second transfer rate (56kb in U.S.)
Upgradable

Operating System: 
Customized Microsoft Windows CE and Sega operating system

Media: 
GD-ROM (GigaByte Disk-ROM) Drive - Maximum speed 12X
1.2 GigaByte capacity 

Console Dimensions: 
7 7/16" X 7 11/16" X 3" , 190 mm (W) x 195 mm (H) x 78 mm (D)
Weight: 4.4 pounds, 2.0 kg 

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