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Doesn't this run on one of the CPUs Sega used in the Saturn or Dreamcast?


Same as in the Dreamcast yes, albeit the Casio seems to be clocked far lower (29mhz in Casio vs 200mhz for DC). Also the memory seems a bit anemic at 60ish-kb vs 16mb main for the DC (+8mb videomem and 2mb audiomem).

It was a fine CPU for the era with parallel instructions but also a fairly deep pipe compared to other contemporaries so it did best with a bit of hand tuning. (We worked on a DC game and Transform&Lighting loops needed hand optimizations iirc)


>29mhz in Casio

It's extremely overclockable, though: http://pm.matrix.jp/ftune2e.html


Not quite the same CPU but they're all based on the SuperH ISA. The 32X and Saturn both had dual SH-2s, Dreamcast had an SH-4, and Casio uses SH-3 and SH-4. The Dreamcast SH-4 has an FPU but the Casio one doesn't.




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