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Darius II (triple screen) (Japan)

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

Description Darius II (triple screen) (Japan)
Name darius2
Manufacturer Taito Corporation
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b10
Romset size 4.75 MB
Romset file 22 files
Romset zip 2 B
Language Japanese
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

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

Inputs infos

Input service no
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 0 no 288 224 60
raster 0 no 288 224 60
raster 0 no 288 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c07-01 524288 3cf0f050 f5a1f7e327a2617fb95ce2837e72945fd7447346 gfx2 0 good no
arcade c07-02 524288 75d16d4b 795423278b66eca41accce1f8a4425d65af7b629 gfx2 80000 good no
arcade c07-03.12 524288 189bafce d885e444523489fe24269b90dec58e0d92cfbd6e gfx1 0 good no
arcade c07-04.11 524288 50421e81 27ac420602f1dac00dc32903543a518e6f47fb2f gfx1 80000 good no
arcade c07-10.95 524288 4bbe0ed9 081b73c4e4d4fa548445e5548573099bcb1e9213 ymsnd 0 good no
arcade c07-11.96 524288 3c815699 0471ff5b0c0da905267f2cee52fd68c8661cccc9 ymsnd 80000 good no
arcade c07-12.107 524288 e0b71258 0258e308b643d723475824752ebffc4ea29d1ac4 ymsnd.deltat 0 good no
arcade c07-24 131072 486c9c20 9e98fcc1777f044d69cc93eda674501b3be26097 maincpu 80001 good no
arcade c07-25 131072 059f40ce b05a96580edb66221af2f222df74a020366ce3ea maincpu 40001 good no
arcade c07-26 131072 1f411242 0fca5d864c1925473d0058e4cf81ad926f56cb14 maincpu 80000 good no
arcade c07-27 131072 0a6f7b6c 0ed915201fbc0bf94fdcbef8dfd021cebe87474f maincpu 40000 good no
arcade c07-28 131072 da304bc5 689b4f329d9a640145f82e12dff3dd1fcf8a28c8 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade c07-29-1 65536 48de567f cdf50052933cd2603fd4374e8bae8b30a6c690b5 maincpu 1 good no
arcade c07-30-1 65536 6122e400 2f68a423f9db8d69ab74453f8cef755f703cc94c maincpu 20001 good no
arcade c07-31-1 65536 8279d2f8 bd3c80a024a58e4b554f4867f56d7f5741eb3031 maincpu 20000 good no
arcade c07-32-1 65536 216c8f6a 493b0779b99a228911f56ef9d2d4a3945683bec0 maincpu 0 good no
arcade c07-33-1 65536 2da03a3f f1f2de82e0addc5e19c8935e4f5810896691118f sub 40000 good no
arcade c07-34-1 65536 296984b8 3ba28e293c9d3ce01ee2f8ae2c2aa450fe021d30 sub 20000 good no
arcade c07-35-1 65536 dd8c4723 e17159f894ee661a84ccd53e2d00ee78f2b46196 sub 0 good no
arcade c07-36-1 65536 02cf2b1c c94a64f26f94f182cfe2b6edb37e4ce35a0f681b sub 40001 good no
arcade c07-37-1 65536 8b7d461f c783491ca23223dc58fa7e8f408407b9a10cbce4 sub 20001 good no
arcade c07-38-1 65536 46afb85c a08fb9fd2bf0929a5599ab015680fa663f1d4fe6 sub 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 sub cpu 8000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
Volume Filter 2610.2.r audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Serie

Serie : Darius
  1. Darius (World, rev 2) (1986)
  2. Darius Extra Version (Japan) (1986)
  3. Darius (Japan, rev 1) (1986)
  4. Darius (Japan) (1986)
  5. Darius (US, rev 2) (1986)
  6. Darius II (triple screen) (Japan) (1989)
  7. Darius II (dual screen) (Japan, Rev 2) (1989)
  8. Darius II (dual screen) (Japan, Rev 1) (1989)
  9. Darius Extra Version (198?)
  10. Darius II (Jpn) (1990)
  11. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (Ver 2.5O 1994/09/19) (1994)
  12. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (Ver 2.5J 1994/09/19) (1994)
  13. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (Ver 2.5A 1994/09/19) (1994)
  14. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk Extra Version (Ver 2.7J 1995/03/06) (Official Hack) (1994)
  15. Darius Gaiden (Euro) (1995)
  16. Darius Gaiden (Jpn, 3M) (1995)
  17. Darius II (Euro) (1996)
  18. Darius Gaiden (USA) (1996)
  19. G-Darius (Ver 2.01J) (1997)
  20. G-Darius Ver.2 (Ver 2.03J) (1997)
  21. G-Darius (Ver 2.02A) (1997)
  22. G. Darius (USA) (1998)
  23. Darius (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b10 [David Graves]


< Japan >


WIP:

- 0.143u8: Kanikani fixed DIPSW. Added 'Difficulty Enhancement' dipswitch. Changed description to 'Darius II (triple screen) (Japan)'.

- 0.143u2: [an UK collector] added clone 'Sagaia (dual screen) (World)'. Changed description of clones (Japan) to 'Darius II (dual screen) (Japan, Rev 2)' and (Japan old version) to 'Darius II (dual screen) (Japan, Rev 1)'.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (drius2do) to (darius2do).

- 0.122u4: Bryan McPhail fixed enemy missiles gfx (darius2_0114gre).

- 0.118u2: Removed 3rd button.

- 0.108: Roberto Zandona fixed graphics that don't disappear correctly in Darius II (bumped interleave).

- 0.106u9: Aaron Giles added "left half" and "right half" to the Darius layouts so you can stretch three screens over two, though you need to explicitly set them either in the UI or using the -view0 and -view1 parameters on the command line.

- 0.106u8: Aaron Giles triple screen support (3x 288x224) to Darius II.

- 0.93: Removed Custom sound and added 4x Volume_Filter.

- 12th April 2001: David Graves added the subwoofer emulation to darius2d and fixed a few other problems.

- 0.37b14: Andrea Mazzoleni improved subwoofer sounds in Darius II. Added Custom sound and changed the 2x 68000 clock speed to 8MHz.

- 7th March 2001: Andrea Mazzoleni improved the mixer system to include an adjustable low pass filter, which will be used with the Darius 2 driver.

- 0.37b13: Fixed rom names.

- 0.37b12: Added clone Darius II (dual screen) (Japan old version).

- 0.37b11: Changed visible area to 864x224. Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', 'Bonus Life', 'Lives', 'Invulnerability' and 'Allow Continue'.

- 16th December 2000: David Graves fixed a few problems in Taito multiscreen games and added a few clone romsets.

- 11th December 2000: Gerardo Oporto fixed the dipswitches in Darius 2.

- 0.37b10: David Graves added 'Darius II (Japan)' (Taito 1989) to the Ninja Warriors driver and clone Darius II (dual screen) (Japan) to the Warrior Blade driver.

- 4th December 2000: David Graves added support for a third Taito TC0100SCN chip emulation.

- 1st December 2000: David Graves updated the TC0100SCN Taito chip emulation to support extra wide tilemaps, making Darius 2, Ninja Warriors and Warrior Blade playable.

- 16th October 2000: David Graves sent in a preliminary Taito multiscreen driver with Darius 2, Ninja Warriors and Warrior Blade, however the extra wide background tilemaps are not emulated.


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Darius II (c) 1989 Taito.

The direct sequel to the 1986 original, Darius II retained the distinctive 3-screen format of the first game.

The power-up system of Darius II was changed from that of its parent game, with players having to destroy complete waves of a particular enemy to earn a power-up. 2 new power-ups were also added; the 1st was a new weapon power-up that gave the player green, vertical lasers, the 2nd power-up was a rainbow-colored item that powered up all of the players weapons.

Another new feature of Darius II is the appearance of mini-bosses - large enemies that appear at the mid point of a level, possessing similar strength and abilities to those of the game's normal bosses (such as extravagant weapons, or the inability to be damaged without first exposing a vulnerable area). The mini-bosses in Darius II are in fact smaller versions of the bosses from Darius.

The game is set in the inner regions of the Solar system, and has the same branching level structure as Darius, allowing players to select their own route through the game.

- TECHNICAL -

Prom Stickers : C07

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610, (4x) Volume

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Darius II was released in September 1989.

This game is known in US as "Sagaia" (licensed to Romstar for distribution).

Two versions of this game were made : The more common three-screen version (like the original "Darius"), and a harder to find two-screen version (aspect ratio : 8/3)

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Darius II : G.S.M. Taito 4 - PCCB-00010-12) on November 21, 1989.

Zuntata Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Zuntata History L'ab-normal 1st - ZTTL-0038) on April 1, 1999.

- SERIES -

1. Darius (1987, Arcade)
2. Darius II (1989, Arcade)
3. Darius Twin [Model SHVC-DT] (1991, Super Famicom)
4. Darius Force [Model SHVC-DH] (1993, Super Famicom)
5. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (1994, Arcade)
6. G-Darius (1997, Arcade)
7. G-Darius ver.2 (1997, Arcade)
8. Darius Burst (2009, Sony PSP)
9. Darius Burst - Another Chronicle (2010, Arcade)
10. Darius Burst - Another Chronicle EX (2011, Arcade)

- STAFF -

Directed and produced by : Hidehiro Fujiwara
Game designed by : Hidehiro Fujiwara, Senba Takatsuna
Programmed by : Akira Ohtsuki, Tatsuo Nakamura, Masashi Tsuzura, Shinji Soyano
Art designed by : Masami Kikuchi, Senba Takatsuna, Hisakazu Kato
Cabinet designer : Yoshinori Aiura
Hardware designed by : Toshiyuki Sanada
All music composed and arranged by : Hisayoshi Ogura (Team Zuntata)
Sound editors : Yasuhisa Watanabe, Norihiro Furukawa
Sound software : Naoto Yagishita

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sega Mega Drive (dec.20, 1990) "Darius II [Model T-11083]"
[JP] NEC PC-Engine CD (dec.24, 1993) "Super Darius II [Model NAPR-1031]"
[JP] Sega Saturn (june.7, 1996) "Darius II [Model T-1104G]"
[JP] Sony PS2 (jan.25, 2007) "Taito Memories II Joukan [Model SLPM-66649]"

* HANDHELDS:
Nintendo Game Boy [AS] (1991) "Sagaia [Model DMG-116 CHN]"
[JP] Nintendo Game Boy (dec.13, 1991) "Sagaia [DMG-S8A]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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