Sega Nomad

The Sega Nomad (project name "Venus ") is a portable version of the Sega Genesis and was released in 1995 in the U.S.. Due to the limited success has been waived release in Europe and Japan.

With the Nomad all Genesis games can be played, as well as all Mega Drive games that do not have regional protection. Likewise, the equipment can be connected with the Sega Mega Drive 2 AV cables to a TV. In addition, the Nomad offers a second controller port, so that it can be used as a full-fledged home console and was the smallest at that time existing home console. Power is supplied either via an attachable battery compartment for six AA batteries, an alternatively attachable and rechargeable battery pack called Power -Back (MK -6102 ), a power adapter for 12 volt car Zigaretteanzünder (MK- 2115 ) or a Mega -Drive -2230 volt power supply.

The Nomad came at a time on the market than there are already 32 -bit consoles like Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation were released. In addition, the Nomad was not marketed as a standalone handheld, but as a portable Mega Drive. These facts and a low battery life (about 2 hours) denied the product a greater success. The launch price was $ 180.

Specifications

  • Main Processor: Motorola 68000, 16- bit, 7.67 MHz
  • Co-processor: Zilog Z80A, 8 -bit, 3.58 MHz
  • Resolution: 320 × 224 pixels, 64 colors
  • Color Palette :: 512 colors (RGB, 3 bits per color channel )
  • Sprite size ( 8, 16, 32) x (8, 16, 32)
  • Screen: Passive - LCD color screen, 320 × 224 pixels
  • Audio: 10 channels (3 PSG -Square Waves 1 PSG -noise, 6 FM, the sixth channel can be replaced by a PCM channel )
  • RAM: 64K RAM ( 68000, address space $ FF0000 - $ FFFFFF ), 64 KB of video RAM, 8 KB RAM Z80 ( often also called RAM - Sound )
Handheld game console Cartridge (electronics) PlayStation (console) Sega 32X Dreamcast Variations of the Sega Mega Drive#The Mega Jet and Sega Nomad
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