gekiridnj: MAME ROM Information. History:
Gekirindan (c) 1995 Taito.
A vertically scrolling shoot-em-up from Taito.
- TECHNICAL -
Taito F3 System hardware
Prom Stickers : E11
Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : ES5505 (@ 15.23805 Mhz)
Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4
- TRIVIA -
Released in September 1995.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Reverse Scale Bullet' and is an example of 'ateji' - fitting the kanji phonetics to the name of the game to give the name double (sometimes even triple) meaning.
The game was originally named 'Fire Breaker' at early stage of development.
Lee Ota (from the Truxton series staff) produced this game. It's why the first and the last stage (and bomb/power-up) are similar to "Truxton". But the gameplay is really different to Toaplan's games. So, responses from Toaplan games fans were not very favourable.
The name of the twin characters, Orsa and Mayoru, is a play-on-words of the third largest constellation of our solar system, Ursa Major, which means Great Bear.
All stages in this game share the same music theme but remixed each time!
The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Welcome to the Karu Land - PCCB-00196) on 17/11/1995.
- STAFF -
Producer : Lee Ota
Programmers : Mr. Lee, Toten, Takahito Naoi, Riki
System engineers : Masaki Yagi (Ymot), Nob
Character designers : Yasunobu Kousokabe, Saori Hiratsuka, Ryota Sasaki, Sakotan, Miyabi Tashiro, Debi., Kao
Designer : Hidetomo Ogino
CG designer : K. Kinoshita
Sound (Zuntata) : Kazuko Umino (Karu), Koji Sakurai
Special Thanks : Takao Yoshiba, Tokimemori, Zabog Osaka, Eiji Kawabata
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Sega Saturn [JP] (Apr.1997) [Model T-7008G]
Sony PlayStation 2 [JP] (August 25, 2005; "Taito Memories Gekan [Model SLPM-66092]")
Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Taito Memories Vol. 2")
Microsoft XBOX (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
* Computers :
PC [CD-ROM] (2006, "Taito Legends 2")
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.141u1 [Corrado Tomaselli, J. Bijl, The Dumping Union]
0.37b15 [Bryan McPhail]
0.37b11 [Bryan McPhail]
Artwork available
WIP:
- 15th May 2011: Mr. Do - Looks like gekiridn got renamed (again). You can simply grab the LAY file and let ClrMAME work it out. Thank you Roman, for the heads up.
- 0.141u1: Corrado Tomaselli, J. Bijl and The Dumping Union added Gekirindan (Ver 2.3O 1995/09/21) (Taito Corporation 1995) and clone (Ver 2.3J 1995/09/21). Renamed (gekirido) to (gekiridnj).
- 17th January 2011: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Gekirindan (Ver 2.3O).
- 17th December 2010: Smitdogg - We got the Asia version of Gekirindan.
- 0.105u1: Changed description to 'Gekirindan (Ver 2.3J 1995/09/21)'.
- 0.102u5: Nicola Salmora fixed distorted sound playing in Gekirindan.
- 0.37b15: Bryan McPhail added Gekirindan (Japan) (Taito 1995).
- 0.37b11: Bryan McPhail added Gekirindan (Testdriver).
LEVELS: 5
Other Emulators:
* Raine
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Romset: 17920 kb / 14 files / 5.62 zip
MAME XML Output:
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   |    | <description>Gekirindan (Ver 2.3J 1995/09/21)</description> |
   |    | <year>1995</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Taito Corporation</manufacturer> |
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   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="68000" clock="16000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
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   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="270" width="320" height="232" refresh="58.970000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="2"/> |
   |    | <input players="4" buttons="4" coins="4" service="yes" tilt="yes"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    |    | <control type="dial" minimum="0" maximum="4095" sensitivity="25" keydelta="25"/> |
   |    | </input> |
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