Sega Mega-CD

Type: Console
Publisher: Sega
Firstly released in: Japan
First release: 1991
Release and compatibility details: Named in Europe and Japan as Sega Mega CD, in USA as Sega CD

Success and unsuccess:

Most popular years: 1992-1995
Most popular countries: Japan, USA
Amount of games in database: 396 (list)
Amount of music records in database: 32 (list)
Amount of downloadable MOD tunes: 4 (list)
Amount of downloadable MIDI tunes: 19 (list)
Importance on the market in the most popular years: Medium

Characteristics:

This generaly is not a game console, but it's an addon to Sega Mega Drive, to be able to play the CD games. That's why the system's specification is almost the same as Mega Drive, only exception is that games come on CDs, not on cartridges. Added hardware:

CPU Motorola 68000 on 12,5 MHz
CD single speed
Sound 16bit DA

Games and music info:

Most common media for storing games: CD
Average packed game size: 650MB (size of one CD)
Music formats: WAV / Redbook Audio / MP3

Emulation info:

Look in the Sega Mega Drive section for emulators, they mostly emulate also Sega Mega-CD very well and with high compatibility rate.

This emulation info was written on 20.December 2002. (This time is very important, because emulation info very depends on the time it was written - emulators can improve a lot after this time..).