Atomiswave

The Atomiswave is Sammy Corporation's 2003 custom arcade system board and cabinet, which is based on Sega's NAOMI system board (Thus it's often common to see the "Sega" logo on its boot up screen). The Atomiswave system board uses interchangeable game cartridges, and the cabinet's control panel can be easily switched out with different control sets, including dual joysticks, dual lightguns, and a steering wheel.

With the retirement of the aging NeoGeo MVS system, SNK Playmore chose the Atomiswave as its next system to develop games for. In a contract with Sammy, SNK Playmore agreed to develop five games for the Atomiswave system. Metal Slug 6 was SNK Playmore's fifth game for the Atomiswave, after which SNK moved on to a Taito Type X2 arcade board.

Technical Specifications

*CPU: Hitachi SH-4 128-bit RISC CPU 200 MHz
**Rated performance: 360 MIPS/1.4 GFLOPS
*Graphics processor: PowerVR 2 100 MHz
**Polygon performance: 3 to 5 million polygons/sec
**Rendering speed: 500 M pixels/sec
**Additional features: bump mapping, fog, alpha-blending (transparency), mip mapping (polygon-texture auto switch), tri-*linear filtering, anti-aliasing, environment mapping, and specular effect
*Sound processor: ARM7 Yamaha AICA (with internal 32-bit RISC CPU, 64 channel ADPCM) 45 MHz
*Memory
**System: 16 MB
**Graphics: 16 MB
**Sound: 8 MB
*Storage media: ROM board

List of Atomiswave games

*2003
**"Demolish Fist" (Sammy / Dimps)
**"Dolphin Blue (game)" (Sammy)
**"Guilty Gear X Version 1.5 " (Sammy / ARC System Works)
**"Maximum Speed" (Sammy)
**"Premier Eleven " (unreleased) (Sammy / Dimps)
**"Sports Shooting USA" (Sammy)
**"Sushi Bar" (unreleased) (Sammy)
*2004
**"Chase 1929" (unreleased) (Sammy)
**"Dirty Pigskin Football" (Sammy)
**"Faster Than Speed" (Sammy)
**"Force Five" (unreleased) (Sammy)
**"Guilty Gear Isuka" (Sammy / ARC System Works)
**"Kenju" (unreleased) (Sammy)
**"The King of Fighters Neowave" (Sammy / SNK Playmore)
**"" (Sammy / IGS)
**"Ranger Mission" (Sammy)
**"The Rumble Fish" (Sammy / Dimps)
**"Salaried Worker Golden Taro " (Sammy)
*2005
**"Extreme Hunting" (Sammy)
**"Fist of the North Star (Hokuto No Ken)" (Sega / Buronson / Tetsou Hara / Coamix)
**"Victory Furlong - Horse Racing" (Sammy)
**"Neo Geo Battle Coliseum" (Sega / SNK Playmore)
**"The Rumble Fish 2" (Sega / Dimps)
**"Samurai Shodown VI" (Sega / SNK Playmore)
**"The King of Fighters XI" (Sega / SNK Playmore)
*2006
**"Metal Slug 6" (Sega / SNK Playmore)
**"Extreme Hunting 2 Tournament Edition" (Sega)

External links

* [http://www.atomiswave.net ATOMISWAVE.NET]
* [http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=812 System16.com's Atomiswave Hardware page]