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August 31, 2005 - We've already shared hands-on impressions of Sega's first next generation arcade game, House of the Dead 4, but we never really got the full word on the specifications behind the board off which the game was claimed to be running. The latest issue of Famitsu has the details we've been looking for on the so-called Lindberg arcade board.

According to the magazine, Lindberg sports an Intel Pentium 4 Processor running at 3.0 gigahertz. The board includes a gigabyte of main memory. For the board's graphics unit, Sega has gone with an NVIDIA chip with 256 megabytes memory. Sound is handled by a 3D audio synthesizer chip capable of 5.1 channels and 64 simultaneous sounds. Games are set to be distributed on DVD.

Sega will be showing this board off at the JAMMA arcade show, set to open its doors at a convention center near Tokyo on Thursday. According to Famitsu, Sega will show video footage of Virtua Fighter 5, After Burner, The House of the Dead 4. These three were also shown at E3 in video form. It's unknown if we'll be getting a new look, or if Sega will share the same footage.

In addition to these titles, Famitsu is home to two new Lindberg announcements. Power Smash 3 (the series known as Virtua Tennis in America) will be shown in video form at the show. Former head of AM2, Yu Suzuki, will show video footage of Psy-Phi (pronounced "Sci-Fi"), an original battle shooting game that uses a touch screen for control.

Here are the full specs of the Lindberg board as revealed by Famitsu:

CPU: Intel Pentium Processor 3.0Ghz with 1 Megabyte L2 Cache, Hyper Threading Compatible, 800MHz FSB

Memory: 184pin DDR SD-RAM PC3200 512 Megabytes x 2 (dual)

GPU: NVIDIA GPU, 256 bit GDDR3 Memory 256 Megabytes. Compatible with Vertex Shader 3.0 and Pixel Shader 3.0. Can output same or different video stream to two screens

Sound: 3D Audio Synthesizer Chip, Max 64 channels, Compatible with 5.1 channel output

Input/Output:
Video: Analogue D-Sub 15 pin, Two DVI-I Terminals
Sound: 5.1 Channel (front 2 channels use RCA Connectors), SP-DIF (optical)
LAN: On board: 10/100/1000 BASE-TX. JVS I/O Connector
Serial: 2 Channel (can switch one channel between 232C and 422)
USB 2.0 x 4

Other: Original security system, compatible with All.Net, games distributed on DVD.

We'll have more on Lindberg and all of Sega's new games from JAMMA late Wednesday night/early Thursday morning.

IGN

到時候可能在台灣很難玩到VF5........唉

(沒看到Eji已經早先po一篇了,集中討論)


Sony的Playstation/PS2、Sega的Dreamcast、Microsoft的Xbox等...都是現在
部分主流遊戲機台的硬體基礎，也就是那些現在於遊樂場執行華麗3D遊戲的機台。

SEGA選擇等同於高階PC的規格作為未來營業用的電玩機板規格，相當程度上也顯示
了，我們目前使用的電腦平台實際上可展現的3D遊戲能力是超過我們的想像，祇不過
因為PC是開放平台，沒有辦法做到更深層的特定優化而已?

就不知道這個系統的OS是什麼，若是真的還來個WindowsXP(真的有許多機台是這樣)
搭配DirectX，那麼那些遊戲實際上都可以在當下PC執行沒有問題了。除非是遊戲商有
另行設計部份認證的晶片防止軟體外流至電腦平台上.

只怕很快就被人破解,然後模擬器就出來啦...

不一定喔 xbox是pc架構 模擬進度卻是最慢的

真期待VF5啊~~~
也希望SEGA能用這來開發新的RCG
例如SRC,頭文字D,DAYTONA USA,SCUND RACE等等

有新作跟新基板是很好啦.....
不過,SEGA居然用INTEL+NVIDIA.....
省下硬體經費來提昇軟體經費有多少效益值得關注,以CPU來說的話應該是5系列的?????
不過SEGA的某些遊戲真的該好好注重一下軟體內容,因為這某些遊戲經常是音樂比內容好多了的情況.....



稍稍糾正一下.....是SCUD RACE不是SCUND RACE喔.....
目前根據手邊得到的消息,SEGA RALLY 3在預定表上出現過.....
個人感覺PS2的RALLY 2005實在不怎樣.....

大型電玩用PC架構, 早在我剛入行的時候在某國內大型電玩研發廠商(不是股票漲到爆的那家.....)時就已經在研究了.日本的大型電玩基版變成PC BASE, 也是早晚的事. 事實上現在大型電玩的市場早已經不足以支持專門平台的研發成本了. 而且PC的CPU/GPU性能,價錢,貨源穩定度, 已經無人能敵了.不過雖然主要零組件是用PC的東西, 但是像晶片組, BIOS等, 他們要搞出個跟現行PC不一樣的(也許只有10%不一樣就夠了)是很簡單的....要模擬談何容易? 人家
SEGA可不是笨蛋呀~~

事實上大型電玩的畫面已經很久沒有看到進步了, 這次SEGA採用PC核心零件, 會大幅提昇大型電玩
畫面的等級, 依照SEGA的軟體研發能力, 我很期待SEGA能弄出什麼東西來.....

不過期待的MODEL 4跟NAOMI 3都消失了.....
傳說中的POWER VR5也不見了.....
對SEGA來說減少了研發硬體的成本支出,對我們這些忠實的老玩家來說卻少了一分屬於SEGA的優越感及成就感.....