Rumors about a missing hardware link between the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast have swirled mysteriously for many years. Now, thanks to a series of interviews published by Japan’s Beep21 gaming magazine (machine translation), the truth is out. An ex-Hitachi, ex-Sega, and ex-Sony engineer has confirmed that he proposed and developed a Saturn graphics accelerator, codenamed TRIP, based on Hitachi’s SH‑3 processor.
The Sega Saturn console launched in late 1994 / early 1995, as Sega’s fifth-generation…

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