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The Mega Drive's Z80 was essentially just powerful enough to play music and sounds - it couldn't really be used for much else, leaving the 68k to focus on gamep
by vertex-four 10y ago
The Mega Drive's Z80 was essentially just powerful enough to play music and sounds - it couldn't really be used for much else, leaving the 68k to focus on gameplay and manipulating the sprite-based Video Display Processor.
- boomlinde 10y agoOnly relatively speaking. The MD runs the games of the previous generation (Master System) natively on the Z80. The hardware of the MD, including the VDP and audio, is basically a superset of that of the MS.
- vertex-four 10y agoWhile true, people expected better audio out of the Genesis than the Master System, which involved more processing power.