fantjour: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Fantastic Journey (c) 1994 Konami.
A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up.
- TECHNICAL -
Konami GX hardware
Game ID : GX321
Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 24 Mhz)
Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 9.2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) K054539 (@ 48 Khz)
Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Released in April 1994.
This game is known in Japan as "Gokujyou Parodius! - Kako no Eikou wo Motomete".
Stage 1 music is a remix of 'In the Mood', by Joe Garland.
Stage 1 boss music is a remix of 'Carmen Toreador Song', by Georges Bizet.
Stage 2 music is a remix of 'Stars and Stripes Forever', by John Philip Sousa.
Stage 3 music is a remix of 'Tritsch-Tratsch Polka', by Johann Strauss.
Stage 3 boss music is a remix of 'Mambo No. 5', by Damaso Perez Prado.
Stage 4 music is a remix of 'William Tell Overture', by Gioacchino Rossini.
Stage 4 boss music is a remix of "Gradius"'s Aircraft Carrier music.
Stage 5 music is a megamix of 'Yankee Doodle', 'Ej Lucka, Lucka' / Czech Folk Song, 'Mary Had a Little Lamb', 'Circus Song' (Chopsticks), 'London Bridge', 'Picnic'.
Stage 5 boss music is a remix of 'Piano Sonata K.331, 3rd : Rondo Alla Turca', by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Stage 6 music is a remix of 'Juugoya Otsukisan', by Nagayo Motoori.
Stage 6 boss music is a remix of 'Zuizui Zukkorobashi', by Japanese Children's Song.
Moai Ship stage music is a remix of 'Die Walkure', by Richard Wagner.
Moai Ship stage boss music is a remix of 'Symphony No.25 in G minor, K.183; 1st movement', by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Stage 7 music is a remix of 'Symphony No.9 in E minor : From The New World', by Antonin Dvorak.
Special stage music is a megamix of music from others Konami Games : "TwinBee", "Salamander", "AJax", "Gradius II", "Gradius III", "Thunder Cross".
Special stage boss music is a remix of 'Flight of the Bumblebee', by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Ranking table music is a remix of 'The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a', by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
King Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gokujyou Parodius - KICA-7641) on 05/07/1994.
- SERIES -
1. Parodius - Tako wa Chikyuu o Sukuu (1988, MSX)
2. Parodius Da! - Shinwa kara Owarai e (1990)
3. Fantastic Journey (1994)
4. Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius (1995, Nintendo Super Famicom)
5. Sexy Parodius (1996)
- STAFF -
Programmers : Chichibinta Tsukasa, V. Mailer
Character Designers : Shuzilow.Ha, Magurou, Taro Maru, Ishimaroid, Bon.Natsumi
Music : Prophet Fukami, M.Puddin' Satoko, Sitar Senoo
Sound effects : Gokujyou-Tasaka, 118
Hard designers : Million Hide, Suke, Escape Yoshiaki, Nanba Shot Tom
Product designer : Poper Takashi
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.136u3 [R. Belmont, Phil Stroffolino, Olivier Galibert]
0.67 [R. Belmont, Phil Stroffolino, Olivier Galibert]
Artwork available (gokuparo)
WIP:
- 0.137: David Haywood and Tirino73 fixed clone Fantastic Journey (ver AAA) - Game now playable.
- 0.136u3: Tirino73 added clone Fantastic Journey (ver AAA). Changed Fantastic Journey from a clone of Gokujyou Parodius to the parent set Fantastic Journey (ver EAA).
- 27th January 2010: Tirino73 dumped Fantastic Journey (Gokujou Parodius) Ver.AAA - Asia (Konami 1994). Differences are: Notice string modified to show "-in asia excluding japan".
- 0.131: Olivier Galibert fixed clone Fantastic Journey - Game now playable.
- 3rd December 2006: Mr. Do - We have the instruction card for Gokujyou Parodius II from Jeston.
- 0.98u1: Changed description to 'Gokujyou Parodius (ver JAD)'.
- 0.97u5: Changed description to 'Gokujyou Parodius (Japan ver JAD)'.
- 5th June 2003: R. Belmont fixed the scratchy reverb effect that was apparent in some songs in Gokujou Parodius and Sexy Parodius, and he corrected the sound chip internal timer frequency.
- 0.67: R. Belmont and Phil Stroffolino added Gokujyou Parodius (Ver JAD) (Konami 1994) and clone Fantastic Journey.
- 16th March 2003: R. Belmont fixed the intro screen graphics glitches in Sexy Parodius and Gokujou Parodius.
- 11th March 2003: R. Belmont sent in a Konami System GX driver supporting Lethal Enforcers 2, Gokujou Parodius, Taisen Puzzle-Dama, Sexy Parodius, Daisu-Kiss and Taisen Tokkae-Dama.
- 10th March 2002: R. Belmont reported some more progress with the Konami GX system driver. Alpha blending is working fine and the priorities are sorted out.
- 17th August 2001: R. Belmont sent in some pictures of a work-in-progress Konami System GX driver. The sound is fully emulated but there are some graphics problems in the 3 games that are working (Gokujou Parodius, Twinbee Yahoo! and Sexy Parodius) and the rest of the games suffer from unemulated protection.
LEVELS: 9 (8 + special stage)
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Romset: 13057 kb / 12 files / 5.21 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Fantastic Journey (ver EAA)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Konami</manufacturer> |
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| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="SYSTEM_DSW" mask="67108864"> |
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