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#### NEC PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 (1987)

The PC Engine (called TurboGrafx - 16 in the US) was the first 16-Bit graphics home entertainment
system to be released. The PC Engine was created by NEC of Japan. Supporting over 1000 software
titles with such popular titles as Bonk's Adventure, Bomberman, Dracula X and Ys IV . The PC Engine
was embraced by millions of Japanese gamers, and because of this, the system will be remembered as
the starting of a legacy. This system was the first of it's kind to use credit card size game cartridges
and later supported CD-ROMs and portable models with built in TV tuners.

Features:
Custom 8bit CPU: HuC6280 (7.16MHz) (1.5 Million Instructions Per Second [MIPS])
Video Processor: HuC6270 - 16 bit
Color Processor: HuC6260
Resolution: 256 x 216
Sound Processor: 8 bit PCM stereo / 6-channel stereo
Ram: 8 Kbyte (64Kbit)
Video Ram: 64Kbyte (512 Kbit)
Cart Size: 256Kbit - 20 Megabit Max. (S.F. 2) Normally 8 Mbits
colors Pallet: 512 - (256 for sprites, 256 for the background.)
Max # of sprites: 64
Sprite Size: 16 x 16 , 32x64

Links:
Universo PCENGINE - upce.netfirms.com/index.html
Turbo Station 16 - pcenginefx.com/TS/

MESS Emulation State:
Preliminary... Xevious and Raiden8x work OK.

Generated on Tue Jul 15 11:11:04 2003