Neo-Geo MVS was developed by SNK Corp., Released in April 26, 1990
A cartridge-based arcade system board. The MVS stands for Multi Video System, and as its name suggest, offers owners the ability to put up to six different arcade titles into a single cabinet, a key economic consideration for operators with limited floorspace. With its games stored on self-contained cartridges, a game cabinet can be exchanged for a different game title by swapping the game’s ROM-cartridge and cabinet artwork.
Other Informations:
Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)
TOTAL RAM: 214 KB.
– Main Motorola 68000 RAM: 64 KB (32 KB x2).
– Video RAM: 84 KB.
— Main VRAM: 64 KB (32 KB x2)
— Palette memory: 16 KB (8 KB x2)
— Fast video sprite RAM: 4 KB (2 KB x2)
– Zilog Z80 Sound RAM: 2 KB.
– Battery-backup save NVRAM: 64 KB.
On-board ROM: 512 KB
– Zoom look-up table: 128 KB
– Fix layer graphics: 128 KB
– Zilog Z80 sound: 128 KB
– Motorola 68000 BIOS: 128 KB
Display resolution: 320×224 px (many games only use the centermost 304 px)
Color palette: 65,536 (16-bit) (not RGB565, but RGB666, where the lowest bit of each channel is shared with one bit)
Maximum colors on screen: 4096 (12-bit)
Maximum sprites on screen: 380
Minimum sprite size: 1×2 px
Maximum sprite size: 16×512 px
Maximum sprites per scanline: 96
Simultaneous scroll planes: 3
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Released on April 26, 1990 in Japan, the same day as the Neo-Geo AES console.
MVS stand for ‘Multi Video System’, Neo-Geo means ‘New World’.