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I'm glad to see this forum is still running.

Has anyone done some further testing in the meantime and has some nice numbers for us?

I don't own a PC powerful enough, so I can't do it myself.

Also, could Venus be described as a T&L ASIC?

Whooooooow! What happened here? 5 minutes I'm outta the house, and as soon as I come back, this topic has 6 pages! O_O Anyhow! I love the Model 3. Can't help it! I love it. And about the Hikaru-board: Assuming it's graphic hardware uses a similar design as the one on Model 3... would that even be ca...

Thanks a lot for explaining... makes me unerstand the hardware a little more and I finally know what the SCSI-interface was used for. Model 3 is just such an obscure piece of hardware, makes it even more interesting. Some say it's because it was Military-grade hardware, so not a lot of info got into...

I don't see much of a difference between Step 1/1.5 and Step 2.x in general. L.A. machine guns maybe looks somewhat ahead, but it seems Model 3 was nowhere near used to full capacity, especially Step 2.x. (I mean where did all the extra fillrate go to? And what about that huge amount of available me...

Wow, thanks for clearing that up! I was wondering about that for a long time... So pixel- and texture-fillrates have been upgraded for Step 2.x. What about geometry/vertices? BTW, is the CPU-board found in Sega's Model 3 also part of the original Real 3D-pro image generator, or was the CPU-board com...

I would be sad if this forum was gone. Unfortunately, I can't contribute much as I can't even afford a PC to play Supermodel3. But I was reading here for some time, even the old threads before the restart... And I enjoy reading about the technical details. Discord is not a substitute, as it is not p...

Hello again, sry for asking a lot of technical stuff lately, but I don't know a better place to ask about this. This time, I'd like to learn a bit more about the differences in the video-boards between Model 3 Step 1, Step 1.5 and Step 2. 1) To my understanding, the video boards are clocked differen...

Polygon strips usually already happen when you create the 3d-models. There should be no need to optimize this later, they share vertices automatically at the modelling process. I mean they have a TON of memory (RAM, VRAM, CROM, VROM and more) on the Model 3, so you're right that they can get away wi...

I always thought that the beginner's Track of Daytona 2 - Battle on the Edge had some pretty elaborate geometry, plus the 40 cars. The first track here, I mean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp-hMCUT9F0 (That track was removed in the power edition and replaced by a much more boring track, IMO) BTW...