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Cyvern (US)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. BIOS set
  11. Chips list
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Cyvern (US)
Name cyvern
Manufacturer Kaneko
Year 1998
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .141u3
Romset size 26 MB
Romset file 8 files
Romset zip 12 B
Language English
Evaluation 80 to 90 (Very Good)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic imperfect
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service yes
Input tilt yes
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 320 240 59.5971

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cv-usa.u10 1048576 1023ddca 7967e3e876cdb797bdaa2eb5136a33cd43941501 user1 0 good no
arcade cv-usa.u8 1048576 f696f6be d9e66173ca12693255d2bb0982da2fb96bfd155d user1 1 good no
arcade cv100-00.u24 4194304 cd4ae88a 925f4ae01a6ad3633be2a61be69e163f05401cf6 gfx1 0 good no
arcade cv101-00.u20 4194304 a6cb3f0b 8d83f44a096ca0a70962ca4c602c4331874c8560 gfx1 400000 good no
arcade cv200-00.u16 4194304 ddc8c67e 9b99e87e69e88011e6d693d19ac5e115b4fa50b0 gfx2 0 good no
arcade cv201-00.u13 4194304 65863321 b8b75f50406068ffc3fca3887d2f0a653ca491c9 gfx2 400000 good no
arcade cv210-00.u18 4194304 7486bf3a 3b4285ca570e9c5ad396c615bfc054372d1b0162 gfx3 400000 good no
arcade cv300-00.u4 4194304 fbeda465 4d5066a22f4589b6b7f85b3e77c348d900ac4bdd ymz 0 good no
arcade sknsa1.u10 asia 524288 745e5212 sknsa1.u10 caba649ab2d83b2d7e007eecee0fc582c019df38 maincpu 0 good no
arcade sknse2.u10 europe 524288 e2b9d7d1 sknse2.u10 b530a3bb9dedc8cfafcba9f1f10277590be04a15 maincpu 0 good no
arcade sknsj1.u10 japan 524288 7e2b836c sknsj1.u10 92c5a7a2472496028bff0e5980d41dd294f42144 maincpu 0 good no
arcade sknsk1.u10 korea 524288 ff1c9f79 sknsk1.u10 a51e598d43e76d37da69b1f094c111273bdfc94a maincpu 0 good no
arcade sknsu1.u10 usa 524288 384d21ec sknsu1.u10 a27e8a18099d9cea64fa32db28d01101c2a78815 maincpu 0 good no
arcade supernova-modbios-korea.u10 koreamod 524288 1d90517c supernova-modbios-korea.u10 463962ffe19880135f0d95a7beda79e27448e872 maincpu 0 good no
arcade supernova_modbios-japan.u10 japanmod 524288 b8d3190c supernova_modbios-japan.u10 62c9a4a075fd944e89fe95c6b46046101eb6de1c maincpu 0 good no

BIOS set

name description default
asia Asia yes
europe Europe yes
japan Japan yes
japanmod Japan (No Region Lock) yes
korea Korea yes
koreamod Korea (No Region Lock) yes
usa USA yes

Chips list

name tag type clock
SH-2 maincpu cpu 28638000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YMZ280B ymz audio 16666666

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.141u3 [?]

0.62 [Sylvain Glaize, David Haywood]


Artwork available


Bugs:

- Original PCB video. Smitdogg (ID 04238)


WIP:

- 0.141u3: Added Cyvern (US). Renamed (cyvern) to (cyvernj).

- 9th February 2011: Smitdogg - We got the rare USA version of Cyvern.

- 3rd July 2008: R. Belmont - The SH-2 DRC successfully got Cyvern past the on-screen POST last night, but that revealed a problem with cycle counting that was making MAME timing and interrupts work poorly at best. I fixed that, but there's now a bug where it crashes trying to resume after handling an interrupt. Never a shortage of fun with this stuff!

- 2nd July 2008: R. Belmont - I've been working on a MAME UDRC frontend for the SH-2 for just under a week now. Last night it finally made it all the way through the suprnova BIOS and into the Cyvern boot code without errors (including handling interrupts). There are still several instructions left to implement before it actually shows something, but so far so good so what, right? This will speed up ST-V (and Saturn in MESS), Kaneko SuperNova, Psikyo SH-2 and CPS3. And SH-2 is a pure subset of SH-4 (aside from different boot vector semantics) so once done this frontend will make a fine starting point for an SH-4 UDRC.

- 0.125u5: David Haywood fixed priorities from start to end in Cyvern (still not perfect).

- 8th June 2008: David Haywood - I took a look back at the Kaneko Supernova driver and fixed up the priorities for Cyvern. The Speed took a bit of a nosedive in the process, but it's a stunning game, and looks even better with proper rendering order.

- 9th September 2007: Mr. Do - Some more instruction cards for more games courtesty of Tormod: Cyvern.

- 0.62: Sylvain Glaize and David Haywood added 'Cyvern (Japan)' (Kaneko 1998).


LEVELS: 5 (must be finished twice)


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History


Arcade Video game published 21 years ago:

Cyvern - The Dragon Weapons (c) 1998 Kaneko Company, Limited.

Take control of 3 artificially enhanced elemental dragons and battle against tons of enemy airships and hulking bosses in this excellent overhead shooter. Features awesome graphics & sound effects as well as responsive controls and a high level of challenge.

- TECHNICAL -

Kaneko Super Nova System Hardware

Main CPU : SH-2 (@ 28.638 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YMZ280B (@ 16.66 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Shoot / Banish, [B] Bomb

- TRIVIA -

This game was shown at the 1998 AOU Amusement Expo show, in Japan. It was then released in April 1998 in Japan.

There is a 'Plus' upgrade for this game :
* You can modify each dragon with special abilities.
* There is a gauge during boss fights showing how much energy the boss has left now.
* Multiple endings
* If you have certain items, some bosses will change into their 'true boss form'.

- STAFF -

Planners : Atsushi Kaneko, Tony
Soft : K. Minegishi, Hiyorinn.S, Sho-Chan, Osapan
Designers : U-Zool, Hiroki Narisawa, Endo Chang, Kazuto=Lee, Ryo.Kimura, Ishi-Ryu, Gomez, Maruken!
Sound : Katsuya Yoneda
Special Thanks : Iwao Horita

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=565&o=2

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