The Atomiswave is a custom

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and

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from

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. It is based on Sega's

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console, sharing similarities with the

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, as far as it uses interchangeable

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s, as well as a removable module for changing the control scheme (including dual

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s, dual

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s and a

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), but unlike the NAOMI, the Atomiswave does not feature expanded RAM compared to the Dreamcast. With the retirement of the aging

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system,

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chose the Atomiswave as its next system to develop games for. In a contract with

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, SNK Playmore agreed to develop five games for the Atomiswave system. ''

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'' was SNK Playmore's fifth game for the Atomiswave, after which SNK moved on to a

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2 arcade board.

Specifications

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SH-4 32-bit

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200

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**Rated performance: 360 MIPS/1.4

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*Graphics processor:

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2 100 MHz **

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performance: 3 to 5 million polygons/sec **Rendering speed: 500 M pixels/sec **Additional features:

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, fog, alpha-blending (transparency), MIP mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), tri-*linear filtering,

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, and specular effect *Sound processor: ARM7

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AICA (with internal 32-bit RISC

, 64 channel ADPCM) 45 MHz *Memory **System: 16 MB **Graphics: 16 MB **Sound: 8 MB *Storage media: ROM board

AW-net

In Japan, the Atomiswave was able to connect via a special modem to the AW-Net online system set up by Sammy. The AW-Net was primarily used to play online with other players and to create online player rankings. AW-Net was discontinued on 30 November 2006 following the merger of Sammy and Sega; the follow-up system was

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Games

Released

Unreleased

*''Sushi Bar'' (Sammy, 2003) *''Premier Eleven'' (Sammy/Dimps, 2003) *''Chase 1929'' (Sammy, 2004) *''Force Five'' (Sammy, 2004) *''Kenju'' (Sammy / DreamFactory, 2004)

References

External links

http://atomiswave.forumer.com/System16.com's Atomiswave Hardware pagehttps://segaretro.org/Atomiswave
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