wargods: MAME ROM Information.
History:
War Gods (c) 1996 Midway.
10 mystical characters battle for dominance in a 3-D environment.
- TECHNICAL -
Midway V Unit hardware
Main CPU : TMS32031 (@ 50 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2115 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 400 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz
Palette colors : 32768
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
- TRIVIA -
This game is the only game on the Midway V Unit to use a hard-disk (401 megabyte). Only about 100M of the hard drive is used.
War Gods was the first truly 3-D fighting game to include the Digital Skin Technology that eliminates polygon look.
Michael Jackson used to own this game. It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on Apr. 24th, 2009.
- STAFF -
Executive Producers : Neil Nicastro, Ken Fedesna
Associate Producers : Cary Mednick, Paul Dussault
PROGRAMMING
Project Lead, System Design : Joe Linhoff
Co-Lead, Game Play : George Petro
Systems/DCS2 : Matt Booty, Ed Keenan
ART / ANIMATION
Art Direction, Character Design/Models : Jim Gentile
Lead Animator, Character Design : Jim Rohn
Background Designs, Models/Effects : Dave Zabloudil
Character Animation : Tom Brierton
Additional Art : Eric Kinkead
SOUNDS
Music/Speech/Sound Effects : Vince Pontarelli
Voice of Exor : Jeff Morrow
Additional Art : David Simon, John Carlton, Nik Ehrlich, Jack E. Haeger
Hardware Design : Ray Macika, Mark Loffredo, Cary Mednick, Chris Bobrowski, Donna Conrad, Steve Correll, Pat Cox, Chris Krubel, Al Lasko, John Lowes, Steve Norris, Keith Novak, Sheridan Oursler, Jeff Peters, Greg Piotrowski, Tom Sedor, Ross Shaffer, Glen Shipp, Ted Valvanis, Ken Williams
Motion Talent : Al Gomez, Tony Marquez, Melissa Grein, Randy Raethke
VIDEO TALENT
Warhead : Brian Glynn
Kabuki Jo : Min Chong
Pagan : Kathy Terrafino
Tak : Tak Ohseki
Voodoo : William Obea
Vallah : Kerri Hoskins
Ahau Kin : Brian Smith
Anubis : Jon Larrieu
Cy-5, Maximus : Todd Burquist
Game Testers : Alex Gilliam, Paulo Garcia, Sydney Strong, Shariq Kahn, Mike Cronin, Sherman Simon, Sheridan Simon, Eddie Ferrier, Mike Vinikour
Make-Up/Costumes : Art Anthony (Make-Up/Costumes/Armor), Cindy Maniates, Costume Exchange Inc.
Exor/Grox Sculptures : Paul Jessel, Marie Cenkner, Animasaur Productions
Special Thanks : John Root, Jon Hey, Jeff Johnson, Louis Mangubat, Todd Allen, D.B. (Snoozy), Ela Aktay, Sal Divita, Gina Ehrlich, Joan Faux, Pat Fitzgerald, Mary Gentile, Rachael Gentile, Jim Greene, Eugene Jarvis, Heidi Keenan, Lily Klinger, Christina Linhoff, John Krawzack, Leslie Petro, Nicholas Petro, Alexander Petro, Eric Pribyl, Maryann Rohn, Jamie Rohn, Art Tianis, Jim Tianis, Mark Turmell, Christa Woss, Dan Wojciechowicz
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Sony PlayStation (1997)
Nintendo 64 (1997)
* Computers :
PC [Windows 95] (1997)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.63 [Aaron Giles]
HardDisk required
Bugs:
- The Sound D/RAM chip fails during the Post and the "Listen for Tone" fails as well during the post. georgc3 (ID 03472)
WIP:
- 0.130: Aaron Giles fixed DCS2 speedup handler so it doesn't get lost during a memory remap. This should give a slight speed bump to the Seattle/Vegas games and to War Gods.
- 0.79u2: Replaced Custom sound with 2x DMA-driven DACs.
- 0.78u4: Changed region cpu2 to sound1.
- 0.76u2: Midway V-Unit Update [Aaron Giles]: WarGods sound is 100% now (stereo). Added some pre-initialization to the WarGods NVRAM.
- 0.63: Aaron Giles added War Gods (Midway 1996). ADSP-2115 CPU support [Aaron Giles].
- 8th December 2002: Aaron Giles added War Gods (with imperfect sound) and Off Road Challenge (with several in-game problems, but correct sound) to the V-unit driver.
- 11th November 2002: Guru - Received and dumped War Gods (Midway 1996, including 420M hard drive). Thanks Taucher.
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War Gods
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Bloody Roar 2
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Romset: 160 kb / 2 files / 17.6 zip
Harddisk: 401.4 MB (CYLS: 988, HEADS: 16, SECS: 52 - Compressed: 59.9)
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>War Gods</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Midway</manufacturer> |
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