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Message: [QUOTE="Ferik, post: 247730, member: 9097"] One of the things to note in terms of power is that the 32X's two SH2 CPU's are really all it has. There's no hardware acceleration at all. Everything it does has to be rendered in software. The reason the Genesis got away with a piddly little 68000 at like 7.6mhz is because it had special hardware dedicated to moving tiles and sprites around the screen, and handling multiple layers. If you want to see how the Saturn and Playstation handle 3D without dedicated hardware look no further than the 32X, and while it could do more colors than the Genesis it wasn't well suited to 2D games because it didn't have the hardware to move tiles around, which meant games like Knuckles Chaotix and Tempo were forced to rely on the Genesis for the environments to maintain a stable framerate giving it a far more modest boost over the Genesis than you'd probably expect looking at the tech specs. I really don't think there's anything the 32X can do that the Jaguar couldn't also do, and both had the same problem of trying to wrangle really complicated processor layouts with a simple Motorola 68k often used as a fallback. [/QUOTE]

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