The earliest non-microprocessor based arcade system boards were designed around codeless state machine computers with the main board and any support boards consisting of discrete logic circuits comprising each element of the game itself.
The next generation of arcade system boards, with the inclusion of microprocessor based technology, incorporated the game program code directly on the main system board via game code stored in ROM chips mounted on the main board.
Later arcade system boards, including the DECO Cassette System, SNK's Neo-Geo, Capcom's CPS-2, and Sega's NAOMI, separated the system board from the game program itself, akin to a home video game console and cartridge.
This method benefitted both manufacturers and arcade game owners. Once the system board was purchased, the owner could switch out the games at a fraction of the price and with less effort, and the manufacturers could produce fewer of the costly system boards and more of the less-costly games.
This is just a simple information for those electronic hardware freaks who's curious what type of arcade system board is used to power up Animal Kaiser machine
There are various types of NAMCO ARCADE HARDWARE as follow:
So...Which hardware type is use to power up Animal Kaiser system?
The answer is : Namco's System 16 -N2 Hardware (2003 -2008)
The System N2 Arcade Platform runs on an nForce2 based motherboard which NVIDIA developed, It is based on a GeForce graphics card running the graphics in OpenGL Format, It runs a Linux operating system which appears to be based on debian, It runs in an arcade game racing cabinet designed by Bandai Namco Games.
There is a great advantage in development because the N2 is based on PC development and porting is relatively easy and inexpensive to achieve due to the nature of the architecture.
The SEGA Lindbergh, Taito's Taito Type X and Taito Type X+ operate in a similar way to the N2 platform, except that they use other Operating systems.
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