The Power of the Sharp X68000
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- It was nearly the arcade at home in 1987. Witness its legend.
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Episode Notes:
1. Captured using a few emulators but mainly XM6.
2. The x68000 was supported until 1993.
3. Its games library consisted of over 800 games.
4. Later models used the 32-bit X68030 CPU.
5. Unlike many computers of the time, it had dedicated sprite and background hardware. This was one of the reasons a 1987 computer could do games from 1990's so well visually.
6. Some of its later games had nasty load times due to the floppy disc swapping. Games like Fatal Fury Special needed to load from as many as 3 discs in between matches.
7. A few of the segments have what appears to be a slightly jerky framerate. This isn't the X68000. The screen capture software I use did not like the emulator and produced this side effect. I'll use different means in the future. I do apologize for the look of it. - Ігри
If a few of these look framey, check the description here for more info. I used screen capture software on a PC with emulation. The combo gave me issues that shouldn't be taken as indicative of real hardware. I'm looking for a solution for future videos.
Also guys, I'm aware(today) that other computers had a 68000 CPU when the X68000 shipped. The video is my point of view at the time. I genuinely felt it went without saying given the context. As in "unthinkable to me". Of course many moons later I realized that there were other products that sported it as well, but this was firmly about how I felt about the X68000. I've been working on a Sega on the Commodore Amiga for the past 6 months, so I am well aware of its release date and specs.
yo SLX! have you played the Castlevania on X68000?
Yes. Even owned it for a short while back in 06.
Play on MiSTer?
@Jon Anderson - Looking into it.
i think the pc cores on mister are still cooking and not fully done 😅
neat that theyre supported tho
The 68000 is one of the best processors for its time. It has a 16bit data bus but does 32bit instructions and has 32 bit registers. I am a engineer and had to work with a 16 bit processor that was very similar to it, and was amazed at how powerful it was. I have a new respect for the 68000 processor and the processor in the sega genesis was by far way more powerful than the SNES the SNES was designed for helper chips from the ground up, the Sege Genesis was not.
What's crazy is that it's still super relevant today. It's still used in a lot of real time applications like fire alarm systems.
Yeah, and it's cute too, because the codename for that chip was "Cynthia" and that's my wife's name. Hahaha
Snes the best .clock não dugniguca nada .pois o snes trabalha de forma diferente .o snes manda mais instruções que o mega drive .1.5 mips vs 1.3😂
And it got upgraded too, latest ones being able to do FPU instructions, being fully 32 bit, and running at speeds like 56 mhz!
@@miriamalmeida6687Ok, first off.
1. That is a lie.
2. 16 bit data bus versus 8. You can write 16 bits in 2 cycles or write 32 bits in 2 cycles. Same goes for reading, making the MD faster.
3. Albeit the MD cpu only reads every other cycle, 64,000 cycles is bigger than 60,000. And that’s not including the fact it can literally transfer twice the data.
4. DMA is 14.8 kilobytes (see 128K mode) vs 6.8 kilobytes a frame.
This computer was used as the dev system for Capcom CPS1 arcade games and Mega drive games
It's pretty unbelievable that something this powerful existed in 1987! It was pulling off mid-90's graphics damn near a full decade early!
Agreed although the Amiga in 1986 was another revolutionary computer far ahead of the competition for gaming.
Jepp 1 year after the amiga, but also the price point was that of a professional workstation, nevertheless it gave the Amiga a run for its money. Bad thing is it never made it to the wet due to translation issues.
The systems costs thousands of dollars even back then since it's a workstation computer. So yeah, it was a cutting edge and ahead of it's time compared to a typical console but definitely not targeting mainstream consumers since barely anyone will be shelling out that kind of dough just to play games on it.
@@DarkZerol shut up i don't care
The release time difference between the Amiga and Sharp X68000 is a full 16 months ... a little more than the "one year" assumed by some. The Amiga arrived on store shelves in decent stock volumes in November 1985, compared to Sharp X68000's launch in March 1987.
Another cool addon for the X68000 was the MIDI card. A lot of games had separate MIDI soundtracks, and that was a big part of the X68000 gaming experience.
Apart from the Neo Geo Aes and SEGA Wondermega. This is one of the coolest designs I've seen for a gaming system. Crazy to think it came out in 1987
It was a computer not a game system
lol I was still gaming on a Commodore 64 up until Christmas '92 when I got a Super Nintendo. This would have blown my mind to have this in the 80s
@@BurritoKingdom Well, it was a pretty cool tower design for a computer too. ^_^
@@TRJ2241987 you missed out on the Sega Master System then the Sega Genesis/Mega-Drive
And that's what we could've had in 1989 had SEGA just released the Sega CD as a standalone console instead of the Megadrive. And you'd have it all for $300 instead of $500 for the combo.
One of those systems I never heard of back then but would have LOVED to own.
At what point would you want to own this, if you are gonna blow you're money on something expensive, might as well get a Neo Geo.
@@yeahyeahwowman8099 I grew up in the sticks of central Mississippi pre-internet. I, to this day, have not seen a Neo Geo in any of my friends homes. Plus, I wasn't as much into fighters back then so the Sharp would have been better for games I liked to play. Doesn't matter, the past is dead anyway.
@@KREllis-vr1ix up to me with these semi overpriced systems that are unattainable, you might as well dream big, lol. Me personally, most of these obscure devices still never look as good as Metal Slug, Fatal Fury, Windjammer, any genre of game on Neo-Geo, Neo-Geo has been around forever, lol.
Thanks to emulation, these libraries are finally available to a big audience. Thanks for covering this system!
On the otherside, that library is completely in Japanese only a handful of X68k English translations exist lol. The shumps and fighting games are fine though.
Having watched you for years I never got the impression you were some rich kid, just someone who was passionate about their hobby and would work hard to get the stuff you wanted. Always enjoyed hearing your stories about growing up and the personal history of various games. If anything you remind me of myself, someone who has been lucky to have supportive friends and family so you were able to have disposable income, at least within reason.
Indeed. I wouldn't have played half the stuff I did without the people around me.
The x6800 is sometimes called the Japanese Amiga. I can see where this comes from in that it's a computer that was far ahead of its time when it was released.
Both were also based one the Motorola 68000, though the Sharp runs faster than a stock Amiga.
@@artemusprine and also has more colors and utilizing fm sound chip like the arcade of the 80s.
@@maroon9273 the amiga was a few years older though and much cheaper.
@@drunkensailor112 Yeah, we can't always spend like a drunken sailor!
I feel like if you spend $3000 on an A500 + upgrades AND you could find ports that actually took advantage of those upgrades, you'd get just as impressive performance, if not better.
Japanese computer enthusiasts dubbed the X68K “The God Computer”.
To add on to Capcom using the X68K as its development platform for the CPS 1 and 2 games, former Capcom music composer Hiroaki Kondo was credited as “Hiroaki ‘X68K’ Kondo” on the games he worked on.
As someone who is heavily into vintage computing (PCs) this thing from 1987 is seriously impressive!
I used to think Sharp was wack for no reason. They showed me.
I don't think I've watched your SEGA video of this machine (yet), so I this might be the first time I've really seen it in action, and, holy smokes, I never knew how arcade perfect it was back then. Another amazing video, X!
I just watched your other x68000 video, and am excited to get more coverage. This was an amazing piece of hardware in it's day, and had really impressive software.
Thanks, SLX for hitting it out of the park once again with AAA quality content!
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Here to say that I love the variety you bring to your channel. I could easily watch your Sega content all day, but you do such a good job of highlighting other, lesser-known products on lesser-known systems and making them sound alluring. You've made me want to try out so many games!!
The Sharp X6800 and the Fujitsu Towns Marty were outstanding gaming machines of the time. If I could have any computer it would be the top end X6800. The combined two tower design is a real eye catcher.
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whew getting into Japanese's retro computers is something I've wanted to do for awhile but the recent cost is insane. This is why I'm so, SO thankful for emulation as of late. We would loose the ability to play these games to time if that wasn't possible.
As always thanks for the content SLX keep up the good work!!
Playing James Pond 2 operation ROBOCOD as this was uploaded
Man I really love you tackling different kinds of consoles. Great video!
Finding out the Sharp X68000, the FM Towns and the PC Engine/TurboGrafx-16 were incredible discoveries for me along with finding out about Laserdiscs, Hi-Vision laserdiscs, S-VHS, D-VHS/D-Theater tapes and HD CRT televisions from the early to mid 2000’s. And also, can you make a video on the FM Towns and some unreleased games on Sega as well as some non-Sega platforms please?
Great video, *Sega Lord X.*
I'm looking forward to more in this series.
As the proud owner of two systems and 53 original releases for the platform, I'd say that if you're this happy with the arcade-port & arcade-adjacent action stuff, you absolutely need to check out some of the rest of the library! There's a metric ton of fantastic games on this thing, from the many doujin-softs to the expansive RPG library. Lots & lots of things to enjoy here once you jump off the arcade beaten path :)
The x68000 wasn't just games it was also a more or less state of the art computer in it's day ... A proto gaming desktop
The x68000 was released under the name of a personal workstation.
It was intended to be a Macintosh.
However, the actual performance was very different, with hardware sprites and an 8-chord FM sound source to allow porting of arcade games.
It’s inspiring as heck to see such a faithful retro style channel be so large - awesome video as always ❤
HECK YEAH! LOOOVED this video! I knew almost nothing about this. Super looking forward to your next videos.
Just as I was thinking about your channel, you upload a new video 😮 a great night it is! Thank you.
Videos like this are why I love this channel: video games and consoles I know next to nothing about, with a lot of positivity. Rock on Sega Lord X!
That's a pretty amazing piece of history and hardware! Awesome video SLX!
What an absolute beast. I would love to see a game comparison! Thanks for the vid man!
I know there is an X68000 mini in the works, but they had like a demo version for testing costing an insane amount of money. I hope we can get it for an accesible price
any toaster pc can run the emulators you dont need a special box
the minis are cute/endearing but i wouldnt wait for them to play 😅
Really!? Is there a company who is working in a x68000 mini? If that thing would include stuff as Castlevania, Final Fight and Street Fighter 2, then shut up and take my wallet!
EDIT: i read it was already launched and in ultra limited quantities 😑That sucked!
@@TexasHollowEarth I got an X68k Ace last year. Holy grail obtained
@@gigatywing3483 - I was talking about the upcoming X68000 Mini, but congrats just the same 😎👍
I'm really pumped for more videos about the x68k!
Lord X I have been a fan for many years now and I just wanted to say that all your videos from day 1 have been nothing but a joy to watch.I agree! Yes! make more videos in the near future about the Sharp X68000.Great system with many awesome titles.Thank you for all the hard work making and sharing your videos to the world..👌👊👍🤘💪🎮🕹 All the best to you sir!!
SF on this was always 🤯 to me!
This is one of the final systems I have yet to own & have been wanting one for years! This and the Pioneer Laseractive have been at the top of my want list for a long time.
I am particularly jelly of Game Sack's setup that he owns in his review of the system. He owns basically every single major upgrade for it 😲 Cannot imagine how much all that would cost today!
As usual, another great video. You're probably one of the few UA-cam channels I regularly watch and your content is excellent. can't wait to see more X68000 videos!
The x68000 was the system i fell in the japanese retro pc rabbit hole, but then i discovered the pc98 and now i barely touch it again! Pc98 had 70% market share and hundreds if not thousands of doujin games ❤❤❤
MSX was where most of Konami PC games were on
@@BurritoKingdom i'm sure at the time, the x68000 was awesome. But now all those games are known mostly by any enthusiast. The pc98 and 88 are lands where almost no western gamer has landed foot before 😄.
That is really refreshing
@@CousinHubertRetrogaming things are changing fast, happy owner of a X68000, FM-Towns Fresh-e, and a PC9821 AP2…living in the Midwest (USA). I guess people just don’t talk much about PC98s
@@Toyaddict81 wow that's great! I have about 37 of those old japanese computers. Many with their original working monitors. Can't get enough!
Rusty on PC-98 is amazing. I can't believe it never received a console port!? A TurboGrafx CD version of it would have been incredible..... better than the Valis games! NEC really shit the bed on what to release to the Western TurboGrafx during it's short lifespan 😥👎
This was an awesome video man! What a computer system! I enjoyed seeing the difference of quality in each game and since you have covered most of the games here you can see the slight differences which is cool! Thanks SLX!
Awesome to see Geograph Seal here! One of my faves for the X68000 and groundbreaking for its time in the multi-mode 3D action. Same dev went on to make jumping flash like you mentioned, but their true masterpiece on the PS1 was the Ghost in the Shell game- taking all they learned since their first exploration in 3D combat with Geograph Seal and integrating it into the GiTS world wonderfully with expressive and free-form Fuchikoma control.
Oh heck yes. This computer doesn't get the recognition it deserves. I can't wait to see what you have in store
Thanks for making this. Just recently heard of this legendary machine.
Most of these games were developed on the x6800. Other than more ram the CPS boards were identical
The Q-Sound chip CPS2 uses was just a tad different in some ways but besides that too, SFIITNC was almost arcade perfect due to CPS2 boards being similar to X68000.
@@kwizzeh that game came out on the CPS 2 though! Although that said, they're extremely similar boards.
@@kyzapgs7584 My brain was going a mile a minute there and cross wires lol Yeah they are still extremely similar boards with the X68K home conversion having a downgraded quality due to difference in sound chips. Fun fact: for Hyper Street Fighter II on Xbox & PS2, the CPS1 Arranged soundtrack used the X68K soundtrack with brand new X68K arrangements of songs that were exclusive to SSFIITurbo. Like Akuma theme for example - which was rumored to be rendered on real X68K hardware and recorded for the home ports of HSFII:AE.
Strider is cool but omg that constant “ha!” with every slash!? Can’t believe that
Great topic. I think that even many people that are heavily into retrogaming, like me, know little about this system, so future videos will be welcome.
I look forward to watching more videos in this series!
It's great that you're branching out to other consoles like this, keep up the great videos!
the amiga and atari st both had motorola 68000 processors in 1985. though they were at 8MHz, not 16
Love the content! Been really all over your stuff recently and very pleased with what's getting posted! Also, another good vid on the Sharp X68000 worth watching is from GameSack
I’m ALL for the future vids on this topic!! I love this console and honestly didn’t know there were emulators for it. Uhhh may have to check those out 😊
This and the MSX fascinated me
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@@lordsosa9383 lol
@@teen_laqueefa what you laughing at punk i know you aint laughing at me
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I was glad to learn of the 68000. Thanks for the video!
I was aware of the X68k existence thanks to Akumajo Dracula (Castlevania) music in late 90s early 00s, I was obsessed with a Castlevania music album called "Perfect Selection Dracula Battle II" that featured many tracks rearranged from "Akumajo Dracula" X68000 version, that later I played on PS1 thanks to the compilation "Castlevania Chronicles", so I knew the X68k was a beast at least Audio-wise.
Thank you for sharing, I really loved it, more games please :)
The Mister FPGA gave me access to the X68000 finally and what an under appreciated gem it is... glad it's finally getting recognition!
I think they're going to make it x68000 mini in Japan
Thanks for covering this gaming computer gem it's much appreciated 👍😎👍 💯‼️
I love the Cotton port on this console 🔥 great video pal 🙂
The Sharp X68000 was one of the original gaming PC's. I'm glad you're reviewing the device.
That must have happened after the SNES TV; the gaming histron will tell you why.
The MiSTer FPGA with a MT-32Pi is such a fantastic way to play X68K.
I never knew much about this one- every interesting! Thanks for sharing!!
Sega Lord X is my favorite gaming channel. He’s not Bias, He’s Diverse, and his Commentary is 2nd to none.
This is the one old computer that i would never sell.
Many arcade titles were actually developed using the Sharp X68000. You could own a literal dev kit of sorts back in the day!
Awesome video!
Fascinating stuff. I never would have known that something that powerful existed in homes when I was 4.
Great video this got me looking into x68000 and it's games
Amazing, one can not expect less than amazing from Sega Lord X
The soundchip is extremely underrated, such amazing soundtracks were on this computer, it is amazing! Ku2 Serious is an amazing one amongst them.
It had the Yamaha 2151 FM chip found on a lot of arcade boards of that period.
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I never heard of this! Amazing vid! 👍
x68k was a great system! Awesome video as always!
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This video was So amazing for me man. Love the knowledge and stories of the past.
A long waited video
Cotton on the x68000 was the best of all versions
Great Stuff, as always!
Flat shaded polygons be damned, Geograph Seal was super impressive back then. I would have loved to get my hands on the 68000 back in the 90s, that thing was a BEAST! Looking forward to more videos about it
All the more impressive when you realize that the system had no polygon processing capability and that's ALL brute-force sprite pushing that you're seeing!
@@whisper2053 that's true. What an amazing piece of kit!
Getting ready to set this up on MiSTER
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The X6800 was a legend for it's time for sure. Just about arcade perfect ports was the envy of late 80's and early 90's gamers. Being expensive and only released in Japan, this was truly a niche product. Oh, and I can't stand Viewpoint on any platform.
"Oh, and I can't stand Viewpoint on any platform."
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I thought Viewpoint was a thing of beauty on the Neo Geo. The Sharp port is surprisingly terrible, must be a botched coding job.
@@Marcus_K Viewpoint's graphics was most definitely not it's problem. It was super unforgiving and over the top brutal in difficulty. Yes, the Sharp port is indeed surprisingly terrible and most likely due to a botched port.
@@gtssage From today's perspective the very high difficulty level no doubt is annoying for most players. However, back in the '90s, when you just paid $200 for an AES cart, I think then it was better for them to be too difficult than too easy, so that they'd last longer.
@@Marcus_K Indeed. Difficulty was added to 8 and 16 bit games to prolong the game play. I love shmups from the 80's, 90's, 2000's and modern but still avoid Viewpoint. MAME is awesome for those gen shmups. Regardless, I remember playing Viewpoint in arcades and revisiting it during the PC emulation boom.
Great video! I'd love to see more Japanese computer coverage on other systems like the NEC PC-9801 and Fujitsu FM-Towns (Marty). I also recommend checking out the X68000's upgraded port of the PC Engine/TurboGrafx vertical bug shooter, Cybercore. I loved that one on TG16 as a kid.
Thanks, I enjoyed this. Such rare stuff out of my price range
Great episode!
The MiSTer core playes Geograph Seal super well and holy crap is that game fun. Thank you for highlighting it!
I've never heard of this gizmo until now, but you've instantly sold me on it. Amazing technical prowess for the time!
They're working on an X68000 mini to be released in Japan in the future.
Dude, Super Grafix... you da boss
Great video! Definitely an interesting topic; I’m not familiar with this at all, but it looks amazing for its time. Games like Street Fighter look absolutely great running on it!
Yeah, the X68000 wasn't far apart from arcade hardware in 1987-88.
I'm posting two comments this one is before I even see the video! SLX with another Banger I feel it!
Great video as ever 😊
Great video
This system is truly legendary both in price and ability. It would have been incredible to own it but I had a hard enough time getting ahold of the console's themselves let alone something truly insane like this. But wow looking at it now it would have been incredible. And looking at it even from a modern perspective it's pretty damn impressive.
Good stuff as always man.
Finally, the original Titan of home computer video games. The Sharp.
The Capcom CPS system was based on the X68000 so no wonder CPS port on the X68000 were faithful to the original
I've never even heard of this system!
After seeing the title I just assumed it was about the Motorola 68000 or something. Educational AND entertaining 😄
Yeah it was unfortunately never released outside of Japan, and it is kind of about the 68000 cause that was the main processor in the computer.
@@Gatorade69 Japan had extremely strict export restrictions on computer hardware & software at the time making the x68000k, PC88-98 and other Japanese PCs of that time extremely difficult to acquire outside of Japan. It's why IBM clones took over other SEA regions, ironically by other Japanese electronic companies like NEC.
Sharp planned on releasing Power X which uses a power pc 601. X68k series, fm towns series, neo geo console and later Ms dos were the closet thing to the arcade at home in the 4th gen era.
I've heard a lot of good things about a lot of the X6800 games, so I'm going to have to try it out soon.
I can sympathize with that intro. I've had a lot of people over to my house who think I was some "spoiled rich kid" because I have a lot of older consoles and handhelds and the games to support them. Nope, I merely worked for over a decade at a glorified pawn shop that specialized in video games, music, and DVDs. We had a deep employee discount, could order from other stores, and paid cash when most other stores in the area would only offer store credit. I almost miss working there.
You touched on it a bit with Street Fighter II, but It's worth looking into how many of these Japanese arcade games were originally developed using the X68000 as a devkit for very similar arcade boards, which often just had more RAM or similar enhancements. It was simply the most powerful retail computer a developer could buy in Japan in the late 80s.
Great new series to cover. Would love to hear you talk about stuff like the amazing Akumajou Dracula next 👍
I've never heard of this console. So, I learned something new today.
Yes, please run a series on X68k gaming! I'd love to watch them and I can't be alone.