Taito Type X and variants
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| Type X board without a cabinet | |
| Developer | Taito |
|---|---|
| Type | Arcade system board |
| Release date | 2003 |
| Predecessor | Wolf |
| Emulated | ✓ |
The Taito Type X is an arcade system board designed and released by Taito in 2004. Based on standard PC hardware, Type X differs from specifications for a single set of hardware; it's a modular platform supporting multiple hardware configurations with different levels of graphical capability.
Games that use the Type X platform are compiled for Windows Embedded, so running them in a standard Windows installation is trivially easy. Other operating systems would require Wine, but it's unknown how well it works.
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Tools[edit]
Games need a launcher to work. For saving scores, you'll need to use save fixes on a per-game basis, 'Loaders Pack' has fixes for many games. Also, some shmup games for the original Type X need an extra fix.
There's more info about tools and games here.
Compatibility Layers[edit]
TeknoParrot offers an out-of-the-box solution for running Windows-based arcade games. Currently supports some games for Taito Type X, X⁺, X², X³ and X⁴.
Jconfig offers support for some Taito Type X, X⁺, X², X³ and X⁴ games, while support for each game is distributed separately.
idMacX offers support for Taito NesicaxLive games.
Chart[edit]
| Name | Operating System(s) |
|---|---|
| Type X / Type X⁺ | Windows XP Embedded |
| Type X7 | Windows XP Embedded |
| Type X² | Windows XP Embedded |
| Type Xᶻᵉʳᵒ | Windows Embedded Standard 7 |
| Type X³ | Windows Embedded Standard 7 64bit |
| Type X⁴ | Windows Embedded Standard 7 64bit / Windows Embedded 8 Standard / Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC |
Models[edit]
Type X[edit]
The Taito Type X had a Intel Celeron at 2.5 GHz with 256MB of RAM with the supported GPU being ATI Radeon 9600 SE 128 MB, 9600 XT 128MB, and X700 PRO 256MB GPUs.
Type X⁺[edit]
The Taito Type X⁺ just had a more powerful graphics board.
Type X7[edit]
The Taito Type X7 had an Intel Celeron M at 600 MHz with 512MiB of RAM. It had an ATI Mobility Radeon 9550 with 128MB of VRAM.
Type X²[edit]
The Taito Type X² had an Intel LGA 775 CPU with other supported CPU being the Celeron D 352, Pentium 4 651, and Intel Core 2 Duo E6400. The RAM could either be 512 MB, 1 GB, or 4 GB. The GPUs that were supported were the PCI Express ×16-based graphics, ATI Radeon x1600Pro, x1300LE, nVidia GeForce 7900GS, 7600GS, and 7300GS.
Type X² Satellite Terminal[edit]
The Taito Type X² Satellite Terminal was just a Type X² but with network multiplayer.
Type Xᶻᵉʳᵒ[edit]
The Taito Type Xᶻᵉʳᵒ had an Intel Atom 230 at 1.6 GHz with 1GB of RAM and a nVidia GeForce 9400M GPU.
Type X³[edit]
The Taito Type X³ had an Intel Core i5 2400 with other supported CPUs being the Intel Core i3/2120 and Core i7/2600. 2GB of RAM, up to 16GB, and an AMD Radeon HD 6770 GPU which could also be changed out for a nVidia GeForce GTX560Ti.
Type X⁴[edit]
Taito Type X⁴ has few different variations. Most of the Type X⁴ boards (500A) are equipped with Intel Core i5-4590 processor, 4GB of RAM, and nVidia GeForce GTX 960, but some games could have their own variations, for example, Densha De Go !! comes with nVidia GTX1080 (502A)/RTX2070 (504A), while Groove Coaster 4C comes with Intel Pentium G4400 and just Intel HD Graphics (601A).
