Hardware Overview (Sega NAOMI 2)

the sega naomi 2 is an arcade board developed by sega and is a successor to sega naomi hardware it was originally released in 2000 since it uses similar naomi architecture (but significantly beefed up), it is also fully backwards compatible with its predecessor the naomi 2 is significantly more powerful than the naomi, including a dual cpu setup, new t\&l gpu, dual rasterizer gpu, increased memory, and faster bandwidth this leads to games with much more polygons than a naomi game, rendered at much faster speeds, while the new t\&l gpu adds advanced lighting and particle effects it was also more affordable than the very expensive (and difficult to program) sega hikaru arcade system that preceded it the naomi 2 was nevertheless more powerful than home systems at the time as with the naomi, the naomi 2 was also available in gd rom and satellite terminal variants it was sega's last proprietary arcade system board; subsequent sega arcade boards have been based on console and pc hardware components true false 240false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type false unhandled content type shared components with dreamcast the naomi and naomi 2 share the following components that can be directly used from a dreamcast if needed for repairs powervr2 gpu @ 100mhz (315 6226) dreamcast = ic201 naomi 2 = ic15 + ic110 hitachi sh 4 cpu @ 200mhz yamaha aica (315 6232) super intelligent sound processor dreamcast = ic301 naomi 2 = ic33 video encoder (315 6258) dreamcast = ic401 naomi 2 = ic5 + ic 41 apprently the powervr2 from the dreamcast is 720 mflop processing speed, while naomi is 1 gflop (30% faster) however i have successfully used a dreamcast ic on a naomi 2 without issues test button on the front panel there are two switches labelled psw1 (test) and psw2 (select) psw1 is the test button switch press this during boot to enter the diagnostics menu where you can test ram, rom and other things