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The PolyGame Master (PGM) is an arcade system board released in 1997 by the Taiwanese company IGS. The PGM was developed in order to compete with the likes of SNK's Neo Geo MVS system in Taiwan. It was succeeded by PGM2 in 2007, and PGM3 in 2012.

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Certain later games, released by CAVE, came on a single dedicated board and utilizes a customized BIOS programmed by CAVE.

System specifications

  • Main processor: Motorola 68000, running at 20 MHz
  • Sound processor: Zilog Z80, running at 8.468 MHz
  • Sound chip: ICS2115; 32 channel PCM
  • Protection chip: ARM7 ASIC with internal code, running at 20 MHz
  • Hardware features: 1 scrolling 8×8 tiles 4bpp scrolling tilemap, 32×32 tiles 5bpp scrolling tilemap with linescroll, arbitrary size 5bpp sprites, zoom and shrink capabilities

    • System specifications

  • Main processor: IGS036 (differs per game, internal code)
  • Graphic processor: IGS037
  • Sound chip: Yamaha YMZ774-S
  • Protection chip: R5F21256SN (extra MCU for protection and IC Card communication)
  • Media: ROM (Custom program ROM module (KOV3 only))

    • System specifications

  • Main processor: Dual Core Intel Atom Processor
  • Chipset: Intel D525 + ICH8M
  • RAM: 2 GB
  • Media: SD Card (capacity max to 1 GB)

    • References

    PolyGame Master Wikipedia
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