New Taito arcade syst. made of PC parts(Celeron, Rade9200SE)

[Reznor007]

This idea isn't new for Taito. Look at the Wolf System...Pentium 200 MMX with a Voodoo1 in 1998. This was used just before G-NET, which is just a PS1 based system(using PCMCIA cards for game media).

Before that, the last system that was really custom designed by Taito(not counting console mods) was the JC System. http://www.system16.com/taito/hrdw_jc.html

 

[Fox5]

This idea isn't new for Taito. Look at the Wolf System...Pentium 200 MMX with a Voodoo1 in 1998. This was used just before G-NET, which is just a PS1 based system(using PCMCIA cards for game media).

Before that, the last system that was really custom designed by Taito(not counting console mods) was the JC System. http://www.system16.com/taito/hrdw_jc.html

Sounds similar I suppose....a 200mhz pentium when 500 mhz p3s and athlons were available, as well as at the very least the tnt for graphics, which would be several times more powerful than the voodoo. So in 1998 they had top end performance from 1996.

Now it's a cpu that may have been top end performance in 2000, and a video card that may have been top end performance in 2000. The question is, why? Does Intel really offer that good a price on the celeron that companies wanna use it? In retail, I see a celeron at 2.6 ghz for $76, an athlon xp 2600 goes for $71, and probably the entire athlon xp line and duron line would outperform that cpu, and the durons go as low as $20.
In video cards the 9200 se is $40. I don't see anything in that price range that's better(maybe the 8500, but it's discontinued probably), but I'd rather see a 1.4ghz duron in there and upgrade the video card to say a 9600 or a geforce 4 ti for an extra $40 or $50.

 

[Jabjabs]

What's wrong with the 9200 SE? I'm mean I have one... oh yeah, they are crap... I'm cheap.

(don't answer that first question)

 

[PC-Engine]

Taito were never known to push state of the art technology unlike SEGA so I don't see why they should start to now. If their software doesn't require a lot of geometry performance then it makes perfect sense to use this setup assuming it costs less than a TriForce board. Actually this system seems more powerful than a TriForce.

 

[ChryZ]

Taito knows where they're headed with this one. They're one of the longest-running operations in the whole industry and have a large enough market to make use out of whatever budget arcade platform they come up with.

Hell yeah. I've yesterday, when this thread was opened, was wondering what their latest arcade games are, so since I lost a bit of track .... I headed over to their web-site and found this gem: http://www.taito.co.jp/game/history/index.html . It's the history of all their arcade machines from 1960 (!) up to today. Amazing, how many machines they've created over so many years. It's fun to browse through that history, especially the old illustrations to promote the machines are totally amusing.

On a personal note: I love Taito's classics, some of my all time favorite, most beloved games are from them. Games like Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Island, New Zealand Story never lost their charm to me ... acually I am heavily addicted to "Bubble Bobble Old & New" on GBA atm

 

[PC-Engine]

I have the TG-16 version of Taito's Cadash. Very nice game.

 

[Fox5]

Taito were never known to push state of the art technology unlike SEGA so I don't see why they should start to now. If their software doesn't require a lot of geometry performance then it makes perfect sense to use this setup assuming it costs less than a TriForce board. Actually this system seems more powerful than a TriForce.

I'm thinking more about the same power, 9200se is about geforce 2 level, and flipper is about geforce 2 level, but if I understand correctly, it does a lot of things in parallel and gets a lot of effects for free so it can be better.

Anyhow, the 9200se isn't what I'm complaining about mainly, it's the celeron, celerons offer horrible performance, and the athlon xp and duron lines look much lower priced and perform much better, does intel like sell celerons to companies for 1/10th the retail price or something?