The Neo Geo CDZ was a home video-game console manufactured by SNK. It has been suggested that SNK Playmore be merged into this article or section. ...

History

A CDZ system with control pad and A/V hookups

The CDZ was released in 1996 as the Japanese market replacment for SNK's previous effort, the Neo Geo CD. The NGCD had met with limited success, but it was plagued by slow loading times that could vary from 30 to 60 seconds between levls, depending on the game. Although SNK's American home entertainment division quickly acknowledged that the system simply wasn't capable of competing with 3D-capable powerhouse systems of the day like Sega's Saturn and Sony's Playstation, SNK corporate of Japan felt that they could continue to maintain profitable sales in the Japanese home market by shortening the previous system's load-times. Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The system, with four games The Neo Geo CD was released shortly after its cartridge-based equivalent in an effort to reduce cost. ... This article is about the video game company. ... The Sega Saturn (Japanese: セガサターン, Sega Saturn), a video game console of the 32-bit era, was released on November 22, 1994, in Japan and May 1995 in the United States; 170,000 machines were sold the first day of the Japanese launch. ... Sony Corporation (Japanese katakana: ソニー) (TYO: 6758), NYSE: SNE is a global consumer electronics corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. ... The original PlayStation was produced in a light grey colour; the more recent PSOne redesign sports a smaller more rounded case. ...

Popular rumor suggests that SNK made several changes to the CD hardware to end up with the CDZ, most prominent is the rumor that they increased the CD-ROM drive speed from 1x to 2x. The truth of the matter is that the CDZ system was internally identicle to the outgoing model, save for the fact that it had a larger amount of internal system memory, creating more temporary storage memory within the system and thus reducing load times by minimizing the need to read from game discs for level information.

Availability

The CDZ console was the third of three generations of CD system offered by SNK, the first two being the "top-loader" CD system and the second being the "front loader" CD system. Like the original "top loader" style CD system, the CDZ was offically sold only in Japan during it's production. However it's lack of a "region lock" feature and the fact that it could play older CD software made it a popular import item for enthusiasts in Europe and North America. Today they can be found sporadically on the internet, especially through auction sites such as EBay. World map showing location of Europe When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west...

Specs

• Processor: Motorola 68000(12 Mhz), Zilog-80A(4 MHz)
• Resolution: 320x224
• Color palette: 65,536
• Maximum colors on-screen: 4,096
• Maximum sprites on-screen: 380
• Minimum sprite size: 1x2
• Maximum sprite size: 16x512
• Maximum planes: 3
• Sound channels: 15
• Work RAM: 56 Mbit+64 kb cache
• Video RAM: 512 Kb
• Z80 RAM: 2Kb
• CD-ROM drive: 1x
• Save memory: 56 Mbit