Taito F3 System

The Taito F3 System (also known as the Taito Cybercore in North America) is an hardware board created by Taito.

Main CPU : MC68EC020 @ 16MHz Sound CPU : MC68000 @ 16MHz Sound chip : ES5505 @ 16MHz Sound DSP Chip : ES5510 Video resoution : 320x224 Board composition : Board and Cartridge
Hardware Features : 4 scrolling layers (512x512 or 1024x512) of 4/5/6 bpp tiles, 1 scrolling text layer (512x512, characters generated in vram) 4bpp chars, 1 scrolling pixel layer (512x256 pixels generated in pivot ram) 4bpp pixels, 2 sprite banks (for double buffering of sprites), Sprites can be 4, 5 or 6 bpp, Sprite scaling, row scroll on all playfields, Line by line zoom on all playfields, column scroll on all playfields, Line by line sprite and playfield priority mixing, Alpha blending on playfields and VRAM layer. Notes : Two versions of the F3 System hardware exist: A standard F3 cartridge system and the infinitly more rare single board version.