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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by mjevans on Monday July 11, 2016 @05:51PM (#12075013)
I think that's both why they were so expensive back in the day AND why it was so hard to develop on (all I have -ever- heard about developing games for that platform).
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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by ekianjo on Monday July 11, 2016 @07:20PM (#12075557)
To be fair most devs at the time completely ignored the second CPU because it was apparently very hard to make them work together. So they treated it as a single CPU console. Which kinds of defeats the purpose :)
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Re:Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years by creshal on Tuesday July 12, 2016 @07:32AM (#12078184)
Going by the Wikipedia description of it, they had multiplexed RAM access. So developers could choose between having two CPUs at half the RAM speed (4KiB CPU-local cache are enough to make up for it, right?) or a single CPU at full RAM speed.
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