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Dark Seal (World revision 3)

  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 Dark Seal (World revision 3)
Name darkseal
Manufacturer Data East Corporation
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .035b06
Romset size 2.94 MB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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 no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 3

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 256 240 58

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade fz_02.j1 65536 3c9c3012 086c2123725d4aa32838c0b6c82317d9c789c465 gfx1 0 good no
arcade fz_03.j2 65536 264b90ed 0bb1557673107c2d732a9374d5601a6eaf229473 gfx1 10000 good no
arcade fz_06-1.j15 65536 c4828a6d fbfd0c85730bbe18401879cd68c19aaec9d482d8 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade fz_07.k14 131072 588dd3cb 16c4e7670a4967768ddbfd52939d4e6e42268441 oki2 0 good no
arcade fz_08.l17 131072 c9bf68e1 c81e2534a814fe44c8787946a9fbe18f1743c3b4 oki1 0 good no
arcade ga_00.h12 131072 fbf3ac63 51af581ee951eedeb4aa413ecbebe8bf4d30613b maincpu 40000 good no
arcade ga_01-3.h14 131072 f409050e 4653094aeb5dd7ba1e490c04897a23ba8990df3c maincpu 1 good no
arcade ga_04-3.j12 131072 bafad556 5bd8a787d41a33919701ced29212bc11301e31d9 maincpu 0 good no
arcade ga_05.j14 131072 d5e3ae3f 12f6e92af115422c6ab6ef1d33675d1e1cd58e10 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade mac-00.b1 524288 52acf1d6 a7b68782417baafc86371b106fd31c5317f5b3d8 gfx4 0 good no
arcade mac-01.b3 524288 b28f7584 e02ddd45130a7b50f80b6dd049059dba8071d768 gfx4 80000 good no
arcade mac-02.e20 524288 49504e89 6da4733a650b9040abb2a81a49476368b514b5ab gfx3 0 good no
arcade mac-03.h3 524288 9996f3dc fffd9ecfe142a0c7c3c9c521778ff9c55ea8b225 gfx2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
H6280 audiocpu cpu 8055000
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
OKI6295 oki2 audio 2013750
Speaker mono audio
YM2151 ym2 audio 3580000
YM2203 ym1 audio 4027500

Serie

Serie : Dark Seal
  1. Dark Seal (World revision 3) (1990)
  2. Dark Seal (World revision 1) (1990)
  3. Dark Seal (Japan revision 4) (1990)
  4. Gate of Doom (US revision 4) (1990)
  5. Gate of Doom (US revision 1) (1990)
  6. Dark Seal 2 (Japan v2.1) (1992)
  7. Wizard Fire (Over Sea v2.1) (1992)
  8. Wizard Fire (US v1.1) (1992)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b6 [Bryan McPhail]

0.33b7 [Bryan McPhail]


Bugs:

- When using your weapon the music playback would ever so slightly increase. Tafoid (ID 00130)


WIP:

- 0.163: Tafoid corrected labels for clone Dark Seal (World revision 1) with a detailed PCB picture/dump which matched 100% - provided by System11. Also, changed integer values for xtals to presets.

- 0.162: Osso readded flipscreen support and enabled save state support in Dark Seal.

- 0.145u4: Corrado Tomaselli corrected rom labels in clone Dark Seal (Japan). Brian Troha added PCB location for remaining MASK roms to Dark Seal. Renames roms to conform to MAME (Data East) format. Changed description of clone (Japan) to 'Dark Seal (Japan revision 4)'.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (darksea1) to (darkseal1), (darkseaj) to (darksealj) and (gatedom1) to (gatedoom1).

- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in Dark Seal.

- 0.126u4: Fabio Priuli added DIP locations to Dark Seal.

- 0.96u3: Bryan McPhail fixed OKI sample rate in Dark Seal. Changed HuC6280 CPU2 clock speed to 8055000 Hz and 2nd OKI6295 to 15255 Hz.

- 0.84u5: UNZU fixed YM2203, MSM6295 and YM2151/YM3012 balance.

- 0.57: SSG EG type support added to YM2203 emulation (which is now complete). This fixes some sound effects in other games (e.g. Dark Seal) [Jarek Burczynski].

- 21st December 2001: Jarek Burczynski added SSG EG type support to the YM2203 emulation, which fixes sounds in Heavy Barrel and Dark Seal.

- 24th April 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed Dark Seal graphics.

- 0.37b6: Changed clock speed of the 2x OKI6295 to 7627 Hz.

- 9th April 2000: Bryan McPhail fixed quite a few graphics problems and cleaned up Led Storm / Mad Gear, Dark Seal, Pocket Gal, Caveman Ninja and dec8 drivers.

- 0.36b13: Marco Cassili added clone Dark Seal (Japan). Changed VSync to 58Hz, palettesize to 2048 colors and YM2151 clock speed to 3580000 Hz and the 2x OKI6295 to 7757 Hz.

- 23rd December 1999: Marco Cassili added another Dark Seal romset.

- 0.36b8: Bryan McPhail added VIDEO_BUFFERS_SPRITERAM. See darkseal for usage examples.

- 0.36b5: Changed YM-2151 clock speed to 3.7MHz.

- 0.36b2: Changed VSync to 60Hz.

- 0.35b12: Changed description to 'Dark Seal (World revision 3)' and clone (Japan revision 1) to 'Dark Seal (World revision 1)'.

- 0.35b9: Changed description to 'Dark Seal (Japan revision 3)' and clones (revision 1) to 'Dark Seal (Japan revision 1)', 'Gate Of Doom (revision 1)' to 'Gate of Doom (US revision 1)' and 'Gate Of Doom (revision 4)' to 'Gate of Doom (US revision 4)'.

- 0.35b6: Bryan McPhail added Dark Seal (revision 3). Changed H6280 CPU2 clock speed to 4027500 Hz. Changed 'Dark Seal' to clone 'Dark Seal (revision 1)' and clone 'Gate Of Doom (set 1)' to 'Gate Of Doom (revision 1)'. Renamed (darkseal) to (darksea1), (gatedoom) to (gatedom1) and (gatedoma) to (gatedoom).

- 8th March 1999: Bryan McPhail has added another Dark Seal clone and fixed graphics.

- 0.35b5: Bryan McPhail added full sound to Dark Seal. Changed M68000 clock speed to 12MHz. Replaced ADPCM sound with H6280 (4MHz), YM2203, YM2151a and 2x OKI6295 sound.

- 1st March 1999: Bryan McPhail has sent in his dec0 driver, with Boulder Dash support added and Sly Spy, Midnight Resistance and Dark Seal now have full sound and music. All this was possible to do because he also added support for the Hu6280 CPU into MAME.

- 0.35b2: Changed description of clone 'Gate Of Doom (set 2)' to 'Gate Of Doom (revision 4)'.

- 0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone Gate Of Doom (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Gate Of Doom (set 1)'.

- 0.34RC1: Howie Cohen added high score saving to Dark Seal.

- 0.33b7: Bryan McPhail added 'Dark Seal' (Data East 1990) and clone Gate Of Doom. No sound. Gate of Doom has no tile or sprite roms dumped as they were soldered to the board, it seems quite safe to use the ones from Dark Seal.

- 26th March 1998: CaBBe dumped Dark Seal (World revision 1).


LEVELS: 7


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History


Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Dark Seal (c) 1990 Data East Corporation.

Fantasy hack and slash game in which up to four people can play at the same time, choosing from three stock fantasy characters (Knight, Wizard and Bard) and, for some reason, a Ninja. Players must then fight their way through enemy-packed levels, plundering treasure and avoiding the game's many traps. Gameplay is highly reminiscent of Atari's legendary 1985 classic, "Gauntlet".

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : MAC

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 8.055 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 4.0275 Mhz), YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), (2x) OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Dark Seal was released in July 1990 in Japan.

Export releases:
This game is known in US as "Gate of Doom".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dark Seal - PCCB-00048) on December 15, 1990.

- SERIES -

1. Dark Seal (1990)
2. Dark Seal II (1992)

- STAFF -

Game master : Yoshiyuki Urushibara
Main programmer : Naomi Susa
Main draphic designers : Shinji Noda, Jun Matsuda, Yoshiyuki Ishibiki
Programmers : Mentaiko, Tac. H, K. Miyazawa
Graphic designers : Masanori Tokoro, Eiko Kurihara, Ooe Marchan, Sonomi Nagao, Kazumi Minagawa, Kazunori Hashimoto, Masayuki Inoshita, H. Fuziwara, Chie Kitahara
Music composers : Hiroaki Yoshida (Maro), Tatsuya Kiuchi, Kenji Mori
Sound effects : Azusa Hara (Azusa)
Hardware : Shingo Mitsui

Special Thanks : Kazuyuki Kurata, Koji Akibayashi, Yoshi Honda, Joe Kaminkow, Yasuhiko Nomura, Shinichi Suzuki, M. Ishikawa, Iwabe Hiroyuki

Project leader : Mentaiko

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

destructor__________________1.006.800
majygool______________________967.650
cessna________________________556.550
dark_kariya___________________185.100
didyeah_______________________168.600
hulkiii_______________________114.050
zarouk_________________________92.100