Sega Triforce

5 games in the catalog

The Triforce (トライフォース) is an arcade board developed in a joint venture between Sega, Nintendo, and Namco. It was also the result of a partnership between Sega and Namco that started a few months prior to the board's reveal. The Triforce is based on the Nintendo GameCube video game console to reduce development costs, and allowed for arcade ports of home console games, and vice versa. It is named after the magical, often sought-after object in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series. While the platform was shared between the three companies, Nintendo was not in the business of producing arcade games at the time, so it licensed its properties to Sega and Namco. Sega was the first to launch a game for the system with Virtua Striker 2002 in the Autumn of 2002, which shipped on Sega's propietary GD-ROM format (with later releases doing the same). Namco would not release a game for the system until 2005, and would ship its software on ROM cartridges. In 2012, a homebrew application was released for the Wii that enabled this GameCube-derived console to run Mario Kart Arcade GP and its sequel (see the list below). The coder stated that support for other games and additional features are possible but emphasised that he would not be releasing homebrew or information due to his anger at others in the homebrew scene who had leaked his work.[4]. Another homebrew project, Nintendont, allows players to play Triforce games on the WiiU's vWii, with unknown limitations.