Davewellington at 08:53, 3 December 2012

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{{Infobox game hardware
|name = Sega System 16
|kanji =
|kana =
|romaji =
|image = System16.png
|image2 =
|caption= System 16B PCB
|manufacturer = SEGA
|year = 1986
|media =
|cpu = 68000
|gpu =
|sound = Z80
|resolution = 15k
|standard = [[Sega System 16 Pinout|System 16 Pinout]]
|predecessor = [[Sega System E]]
|successor = [[Sega System 24]]
}}
'''System 16''' hardware was developed and released by [[Sega]] in 1986. Following on from System 16A, a second revision, System 16B was released to arcades in 1987 with upgraded hardware. In 2007, Sega released ''Fantasy Zone: Complete Collection'' for PlayStation 2, including the newly developed ''Fantasy Zone II'' for the theoretical "System 16C" platform. While this was never released to arcades, a bootleg version exists.
System 16 is not [[JAMMA]] - instead opting to use their own [[Sega System 16 Pinout|configuration]].

== Hardware Specification ==
=== System 16A ===
* Main CPU : MC68000 @ 10 MHz
* Sound CPU : Z80 @ 4 MHz
* Sound chip : Yamaha YM2151 @ 4 MHz & NEC uPD7751 ADPCM Decoder
* Video resolution : 320 x 224 (vertical)
* Colours : 4096
* Board composition : CPU board + Video board
* Hardware Features : 128 Sprites on screen at one time, 2 tile layers, 1 text layer, 1 sprite layer with hardware sprite zooming, translucent shadows
=== System 16B ===
Differences from System 16A:
* Sound CPU : Z80 @ 5 MHz
* Sound chip : YM2151 @ 4 MHz & Nec uPD7759 @ 640 kHz
* Board composition : Mother board + Rom board (see picture above)
* Hardware Features : Sprite Scaling
=== System 16C ===
The theoretical System 16C has additional work RAM (256KB) and sprite RAM (8KB).

== Pinout ==
The pinout for System 16 can be viewed [[Sega System 16 Pinout|here]].
==Game List==
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:auto"
|-
! Title
! Model
! Notes
|-
| Action Fighter ||A|||
|-
| Ace Attacker ||B||
|-
| Alex Kidd : The Lost Stars||A||
|-
| Alien Syndrome ||B||
|-
| Altered Beast / Jyuohki ||B||
|-
| Aurail ||B||
|-
| Bay Route ||B||
|-
| Body Slam / Dump Matsumoto||A||
|-
| Bullet ||B||
|-
| Charon ||B||
|-
| Cotton ||B||
|-
| Dunk Shot ||B||
|-
| Dynamite Dux ||B||
|-
| E-Swat ||B||
|-
| Excite League ||B||
|-
| Fantasy Zone||A||
|-
| Flash Point ||B||
|-
| Golden Axe ||B||
|-
| Heavy Weight Champ ||B||
|-
| M.V.P. ||B||
|-
| Passing Shot ||B||
|-
| Riot City ||B||
|-
| Ryu Kyu ||B|||
|-
| SDI||A&B||
|-
| [[Shinobi]]||A&B||
|-
| Sonic Boom ||B||
|-
| Sukeban Jansi Ryuko||A&B||
|-
| Super League ||B||
|-
| Tetris||A&B||
|-
| Time Scanner||A&B||
|-
| Toryumon ||B||
|-
| Tough Turf ||B||
|-
| Wonder Boy III : Monster Lair ||A&B||
|-
| Wrestle War ||B||
|-
|}

==Common Faults==
=== Suicide Battery ===
System 16 PCBs have a battery onboard that is used to help store the encryption keys required for decrypting the game data. When this battery dies, the encryption keys are lost and the game will either lose audio or no longer function, depending on the version. A guide to fix a suicided System 16 board can be found here - [http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/ The Dead Battery Society]. Desuicided boards can be identified by observing the CPU's - a suicide capable PCB will have a CPU encased in a black box, while a desuicided PCB will have a plain CPU.

== External Links ==
* [http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/segas16a.c.html System 16A MAME Driver - includes PCB layouts]
* [http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/segas16b.c.html System 16B MAME Driver - includes PCB layouts]
* [http://reassembler.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/sega-system-16-sprite-viewer.html Reassembler - System 16 Sprite Viewer]

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Davewellington at 08:53, 3 December 2012