GameKing I .28GM-218.29 GameKing

it unclear whether machine uses traditional fm synthesis sound chip or relies on digital samples music , sound effects. many of games have soundtracks consisting of short audio samples sampling rate of 8 khz, opposed games on other systems such game boy sound generated custom chip via fm synthesis.

video hardware

according brian provinciano s reverse engineering of gameking, gameking games heavily rely on bitmap rather tile-based rendering of screen, e.g. levels in platform , shoot em games in reality large 4-colour bitmaps, instead of using common method of graphic tiles , tile maps, in other game consoles , arcade games. done economic reasons (the cpu alone can handle graphics easily, @ resolution) , easy development of games, apart objectively low resolution of screen. while such scheme seems work, has disadvantage of using cartridge space inefficiently, e.g. platform games limited 3 levels. @ point, unknown if gameking uses form of sprite rendering, although unlikely , unnecessary.