TOtosh·Dec 2, 2025Submission
Supermodel: Sega Model 3 arcade emulator
3 points · Open discussiontrzy
Supermodel
C++2022–2025
trzy / Supermodel
Supermodel
Official repository of the Sega Model 3 arcade emulator.
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
687GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Official repository of the Sega Model 3 arcade emulator.
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by year2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2022-06-27 18:00:13 UTC to 2025-12-02 18:55:40 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: Supermodel – A Sega Model 3 arcade emulator
Supermodel is a GPL-licensed emulator for Sega’s legendary Model 3 arcade platform, produced between 1996 and 1999. It supports Windows, Linux, and macOS.
The Model 3 was based on Real3D Pro-1000 Image Generator, intended for high-end real-time visualization and was state of the art at the time. Real3D itself was spun out of Lockheed Martin’s flight simulator business.
Model 3 was specced to handle 1M polygons/sec at a buttery smooth 57.524 FPS and featured hardware transformation & lighting, mip-mapping, multi-texturing, and anti-aliasing. It could render both triangle and true quad primitives. Rather than accepting a command list each frame, the Pro-1000 graphics subsystem featured scene graph processing and was capable of parsing a high level graph data structure consisting of view port nodes, transform nodes, and mesh pointers. This m
Read the rest
inimized the burden on the host PowerPC CPU, which could set up most of the scene in a single frame and transfer only updates to the transform matrices.
Two-D graphics are handled by an old-fashioned tile map generator from earlier Sega arcade boards. For audio, a Motorola 68000-based sound board drives two Yamaha-designed Sega Custom Sound Processors (the Sega Saturn console had one of these). Some games featured an MPEG audio board for additional music capability, powered by either a 68K or Z80.
Additional peripheral boards included Z80-based force feedback drive boards and a 68K-based network board with low-latency fiber optic link.
All are emulated by Supermodel, which today is the only playable Model 3 emulator.