mcatadv: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Magical Cat Adventure (c) 1993 Wintechno.
In this game you play as a magical cat wandering around a forest. This game features some very nice/appealing graphics. The cat has many strange weapons.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : LINDA5
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz), Z80 (@ 7 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 4096
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Also known in Japan as "Catt".
Magical Cat Adventure is the only arcade game made by Wintechno. The main reason is certainly because this game was a flop.
- UPDATES -
The Japanese version has:
* Different animations.
* A storyline.
* Extra GFX.
* The gameplay is also a bit different (harder).
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.62 [Paul Priest, David Haywood]
WIP:
- 0.145u5: David Haywood fixed random crashes in Magical Cat Adventure driver.
- 0.136u4: Fabio Priuli added driver_data struct and save states to Magical Cat Adventure driver.
- 0.133u1: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Magical Cat Adventure.
- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in Magical Cat Adventure and reduced a 1.0 clipping out volume setting.
- 0.130u3: Christophe Jaillet and Fabio Priuli fixed palette regression in the MCatAdv driver.
- 0.129u5: Christophe Jaillet optimized the rendering loop in Magical Cat Adventure.
- 0.122u5: Corrado Tomaselli verified/corrected frequencies in Magical Cat Adventure. Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4MHz.
- 0.111u4: David Haywood added missing linescroll effect to Magical Cat Adventure. It can be seen in action on the first levels.
- 15th January 2007: David Haywood - I've added the missing linescroll to the Magical Cat Adventure driver, it's actually used in most levels for various little effect. Thanks to kold666 for the report at MAMEtesters.
- 0.95u3: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Catt (Japan).
- 15th April 2005: f205v dumped Catt (Japan).
- 0.85u1: Inigo Luja added conditional dipswitches for Coin_A and Coin_B in Magical Cat Adventure.
- 20th November 2002: Paul Priest merged the graphics emulation for Nostradamus and Magical Cat Adventure.
- 0.62: Paul Priest and David Haywood added Magical Cat Adventure (Wintechno 1993) and clone (Japan).
- 6th October 2002: Paul Priest added priorities, global sprite offsets and sprite buffering to the Magical Cat Adventure and Nostradamus driver.
- 5th October 2002: Paul Priest added Magical Cat Adventure to the Nostradamus driver, and R. Belmont added music and sound emulation to both of them.
LEVELS: 5
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* FB Alpha
* Raine
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Romset: 8832 kb / 14 files / 2.04 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Magical Cat Adventure</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Wintechno</manufacturer> |
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| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2610" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="320" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="3" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW1" mask="256"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="256" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW1" mask="512"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="512" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW1" mask="1024"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1024" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin Mode" tag="DSW1" mask="2048"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Mode 1" value="2048" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Mode 2" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW1" mask="12288"> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="4096"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="12288" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="8192"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="8192"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW1" mask="49152"> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="16384"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="0"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="32768"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW2" mask="768"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="512"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="768" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="256"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW2" mask="3072"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="1024"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="3072" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="2048"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="0"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="12288" default="yes"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="8" value="0"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright 2 Players" value="49152" default="yes"/> |
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