grdforce: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Guardian Force (c) 1998 Success.
A tank shoot 'em up from Success.
- TECHNICAL -
Sega Titan Video hardware (STV)
Main CPU : (2x) SH-2 (@ 28.6364 Mhz), 68000 (@ 11.45456 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SCSP (@ 11.45456 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 704 x 513 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 6144
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
- TRIVIA -
Released in March 1998.
Guardian Force was a good game with interesting gameplay but a few boards were released, so the game was not as popular as other games and was a flop.
PATENTS :
U.S.A : 4,442,486 - 4,454,594 - 4,462,076
Europe : 80244
Canada : 1,183,276
Honk Kong : 88-4302
Singapore : 88-155
- STAFF -
Planner : Kazutoshi Yashiki
Director : Kazutoshi Yashiki, Taku Ishigouoka (ISHI)
Main graphic designer : Kazutoshi Yashiki, Taku Ishigouoka (ISHI), Yusuke Nemoto (NEMO), Takeshi Takahashi (TAKA)
System programmer : Masaru Haisuyama
Main programmer : Yuichi Horiguchi (HORI)
Graphic designer : Toru Kagawa, Michi Yoshikuni
Programmer : Masato Taniguchi (TANI), Yuichiro Sato (SATO), Yukio Ushigome, Tomohide Ooshiro
Sound : Kenichi Hirata, Misako Tago
3-D adviser : Mizuho Sasa
Title : Yusuke Nemoto (NEMO), Takeshi Takahashi
Special Thanks : Liu Hiangoong, Chie Akama, Yumiko Tachibana, Hiromi Hirata
Producer : Takato Yoshinari
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Sega Saturn (1998)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.80u2 [Angelo Salese]
0.74u2 [?]
0.63 [?]
Artwork available
WIP:
- 0.138u1: Angelo Salese fixed Test mode doesn't work in Guardian Force.
- 0.122u6: Kingshriek removed unnecessary check that could cause SCSP hangs in Guardian Force.
- 24th September 2007: Mr. Do - Some more instruction cards courtesy of Tormod: Guardian Force.
- 0.90u2: Changed description to 'Guardian Force (JUET 980318 V0.105)'.
- 0.81u4: Mariusz Wojcieszek adds some RBG0 scrolling which greatly improves background graphics in cotton2, cottonbm, grdforce and othellos.
- 0.80u2: Angelo Salese update the ST-V driver and making Guardian Force playable.
- 0.74u2: Added Guardian Force (Success 1998).
- 0.63: Added Guardian Force (Testdriver).
LEVELS: 7
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T-MEK
Guardian Force
Romset: 22528 kb / 6 files / 9.86 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="grdforce" sourcefile="stv.c" romof="stvbios"> |
| | | <description>Guardian Force (JUET 980318 V0.105)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Success</manufacturer> |
| | | <biosset name="jp" description="EPR-20091 (Japan 97/08/21)" default="yes"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp1" description="EPR-19730 (Japan 97/02/17)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp2" description="EPR-17951A (Japan 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp3" description="STVB1.11J (Japan 95/02/20)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp4" description="EPR-17740 (Japan 95/01/31)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="euro" description="EPR-17954A (Europe 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="us" description="EPR-17952A (USA 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="tw" description="EPR-17953A (Taiwan 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="tw1" description="STVB1.11T (Taiwan 95/02/20)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="debug" description="Debug (95/01/13)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="dev" description="Development (bios 1.061)"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-20091.ic8" merge="epr-20091.ic8" bios="jp" size="524288" crc="59ed40f4" sha1="eff0f54c70bce05ff3a289bf30b1027e1c8cd117" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-19730.ic8" merge="epr-19730.ic8" bios="jp1" size="524288" crc="d0e0889d" sha1="fae53107c894e0c41c49e191dbe706c9cd6e50bd" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-17951a.ic8" merge="epr-17951a.ic8" bios="jp2" size="524288" crc="2672f9d8" sha1="63cf4a6432f6c87952f9cf3ab0f977aed2367303" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="stvb111j.ic8" merge="stvb111j.ic8" bios="jp3" size="524288" crc="3e23c81f" sha1="f9b282fd27693e9891843597b2e1823da3d23c7b" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-17740.ic8" merge="epr-17740.ic8" bios="jp4" size="524288" crc="5c5aa63d" sha1="06860d96923b81afbc21e0ad32ee19487d8ff6e7" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-17954a.ic8" merge="epr-17954a.ic8" bios="euro" size="524288" crc="f7722da3" sha1="af79cff317e5b57d49e463af16a9f616ed1eee08" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-17952a.ic8" merge="epr-17952a.ic8" bios="us" size="524288" crc="d1be2adf" sha1="eaf1c3e5d602e1139d2090a78d7e19f04f916794" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="epr-17953a.ic8" merge="epr-17953a.ic8" bios="tw" size="524288" crc="a4c47570" sha1="9efc73717ec8a13417e65c54344ded9fc25bf5ef" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="stvb111t.ic8" merge="stvb111t.ic8" bios="tw1" size="524288" crc="02daf123" sha1="23185beb1ce9c09b8719e57d1adb7b28c8141fd5" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="stv110.bin" merge="stv110.bin" bios="debug" size="524288" crc="3dfeda92" sha1="8eb33192a57df5f3a1dfb57263054867c6b2db6d" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="stv1061.bin" merge="stv1061.bin" bios="dev" size="524288" crc="728dbca3" sha1="0ed2030177f0aa8285645c395ae9ad9f568ab1d6" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="mpr20844.7" size="2097152" crc="283e7587" sha1="477fabc27cfe149ad17757e31f10665dcf8c0860" region="game0" offset="200000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mpr20839.2" size="4194304" crc="facd4dd8" sha1="2582894c98b31ab719f1865d4623dad6736dc877" region="game0" offset="400000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mpr20840.3" size="4194304" crc="fe0158e6" sha1="73460effe69fb8f16dd952271542b7803471a599" region="game0" offset="800000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mpr20841.4" size="4194304" crc="d87ac873" sha1="35b8fa3862e09dca530e9597f983f5a22919cf08" region="game0" offset="c00000"/> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="SH-2" clock="28636360"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="slave" name="SH-2" clock="28636360"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="68000" clock="11289600"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="scsp" name="SCSP"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="cdda" name="CD/DA"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="320" height="224" refresh="59.764793" pixclock="6711646" htotal="427" hbend="0" hbstart="320" vtotal="263" vbend="0" vbstart="224" /> |
| | | <input players="4" buttons="4" coins="2" service="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="PDR1" tag="DSW1" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="PDR2" tag="DSW2" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="imperfect" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="6144"/> |
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