Sega 32X

Type: Console
Publisher: Sega
Firstly released in: United States
First release: Nov 1994
Release and compatibility details: Named in Europe and USA as 32X, in Japan as Super 32-X

Success and unsuccess:

Most popular years: 1994-1995
Most popular countries: USA, Europe
Amount of games in database: 133 (list)
Amount of music records in database: 4 (list)
Amount of downloadable MIDI tunes: 1 (list)
Importance on the market in the most popular years: Low

Characteristics:

This is addon to the Sega Mega Drive console, which makes full 32-bit system from it. It was intended to use primarily for US and European market, because in Japan Sega released Sega Saturn already and felt (wisely) that there wasn't enough room in the Japanese video game market for two Sega
32-bit systems.

Added hardware:

CPU: 2x RISC Hitachi SH2 na 23MHz
Palette: 32768 color
RAM: 512 KB
Sound: Digital stereo PCM, mixed with s Megadrive Sound

Games and music info:

Most common media for storing games: Cartridge
Average packed game size: 1.5 MB
Music formats: GYM

Emulation info:

Gens - Best Mega Drive emulator, which emulates also 32X games with acceptable compatibility rate - around 75% games work now.

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..).