- For the Legend of Zelda series Triforce, see Triforce.
The Triforce is an arcade system board developed jointly by Nintendo, Namco, and Sega, with the first games appearing in 2002. The name "Triforce" is a reference to Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series of games, and symbolized the three companies' involvement in the project. The system hardware is based on the Nintendo GameCube with several differences, including double the amount of 1T-SRAM, as well as provisions for add-ons such as Sega's GD-ROM system and upgradeable RAM modules.
Specifications
- Main CPU: IBM PowerPC "Gekko" @ 486 MHz
- Graphics: Custom ATI/Nintendo "Flipper" @ 162 MHz.
- Colour: 24-bit Color (24-bit Z Buffer)
- Hardware Features: Fog, Subpixel Anti-Aliasing, 8 Hardware Lights, Alpha blending, Virtual Texture Design, Multi-Texturing, Bump Mapping, Environment mapping, MIP Mapping, Bilinear filtering, Trilinear filtering, Anisotropic filtering, Real-time Hardware Texture Decompression (S3TC), Real-time Decompression of Display List, Embedded Framebuffer, 1MB Embedded Texture Cache, HW 3-line Deflickering filter.
- Sound DSP: Custom Macronix 16-bit DSP @ 81 MHz
- Main RAM: Main Memory 48MB of MoSys 1T-SRAM, Approximately 10ns Sustainable Latency.
Triforce games released
- F-Zero AX (2002)
- Virtua Striker 2002 (2002)
- F-Zero AX "Cycraft ver." (2003)
- Gekitou Pro Yakyuu (2003)
- The Key of Avalon: The Wizard Master (2003)
- The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.10 (2003)
- The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.20: Summon The New Monsters (2003)
- The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.30: Chaotic Sabbat (2004)
- The Key of Avalon 2: Eutaxy Commandment (2004)
- The Key of Avalon 2: War of the Key (2005)
- Virtua Striker 4 (2005)
- Mario Kart Arcade GP (2005)
- Virtua Striker 4 ver.2006 (2006)
- Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 (2007)
Triforce games unreleased
- Star Fox Armada (2002/2003)
- The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.20: "Summons & Banquet" (2003)
Games in development
Notes
Nintendo, Sega and Namco announced the Triforce project in February 18, 2002.
The arcade game Virtua Striker 2002 and the Nintendo GameCube game Virtua Striker 2002 are not the same game. The GameCube version is based off of Virtua Striker 3.
F-Zero AX "Cycraft ver." is a updated version of the Triforce Arcade Board based game F-Zero AX the game use a new technology: the hydraulic cockpit called Cycraft. This "attraction" is more commonly found in Sega's Amusement parks Joypolis in Japan, but has been spotted elsewhere in the world.
The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.10 is a updated version from the Triforce Arcade Trading Card based game The Key of Avalon. This version doesn't have a subtitle, but a new mode called "The Demon Road Competition Meeting" was included.
The Key of Avalon Ver. 1.20: "Summons & Banquet" was the "first version" of the official "ver. 1.20". This version was never released and tested in Segas's Ikebukuro GIGO (now club Sega Ikebukuro) in November, 2003 to January, 2004. Later the official version was released with another subtitle.
The Key of Avalon 2: Eutaxy Commandment (2004) games's version is Ver.2.00
The Key of Avalon 2: War of the Key (2005) games's version is Ver.2.50
Star Fox Armada (working title) is a once rumored Star Fox game for the Triforce hardware that was eventually released on the GameCube as Star Fox Assault.