Finally Nintendo has unveiled all the technical specifications of the new CD ROM which is due to hit the Japanese and American market this fall. Super NES ND (Nintendo Disc) which it is going to be called in Japan, will have a 32 Bit Co processor which makes it superior to all other available systems. The games (discs) won’t look like common CD’s. The CD itself is going to be inside a cardridge which, apart from the CD, is going to contain 256 Kbit of RAM memory opperating like the memory in normal cardridge games. In addision a safety chip protects agains piracy.
All those who complained about the slow opperating processor of the SNES with its 3,58 MHz, can look forward to the SNES ND RISC-based processor which opperates with a speed of 21.477 MHz. In addision it contains a custom chip which actually is a further processor. This enables the CD to read RAM memory without rejecting other tasks. It has a clock frequency of 4,295 MHz. This system which Nintendo have created themselves is called HANDS (Hyper Adcanced Nintendo Data Transfer System)
The primary part of the “brain” will be located in a System Cardridge which means that it will be very easy to upgrade the console if there is any need for it.
What games are comming out for this system is still unclear. Virgin says that they plan to make a SNES ND version of the fantastic popular adventure game 7th Guest and Seta has mumbled something about the RPG Gdleen that will contain natural talk instead of text only. We hope to find out more about the other games comming for this system at the CES in Chicago early June... the same place SNES ND is going to be officially shown for the first time."
Technical specifications:
Ram memory: 8+4 Mbit
Sub memory: 1 Mbit
ROM memory: 2 Mbit
Co processor: 32-Bit RISC
Clock frequency: 21.477 MHz
Average accesstime: 0,7 seconds
Data Output speed: 150 Kbytes/second
Price tag USA: $299
In stores (USA): Fall 1993
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