0.36b1 [Bryan McPhail]
Bugs:
- [possible] Small graphics glitch on stage 1. Smitdogg (ID 03037)
WIP:
- 0.154: Jets and Layer added clone Gang Wars (Japan). David Haywood added Gang Wars (bootleg). Reinstated the bootleg, these 68705 instead of alpha MCU bootlegs might be interesting later down the line even if the main code is the same. Also one of our mask roms was bad, and the gangwarsu set should definitely have been using different roms for the gfx [David Haywood]. Added gfx2 rom ($200000) from clone (Japan) to Gang Wars. Added new gfx2 roms to clone (US).
- 18th May 2014: David Haywood - In the World version of Gang Wars the 'On The Way' sign has corrupt lines going through it, on the US set it's missing entirely. The issue with the World set hasn't always existed, for a long time the World set was a 'bootleg' set, using bootleg graphic ROMs, but a real World board was then dumped (including Mask ROMs for the graphics) and it was discovered that the program ROMs matched the already supported bootleg set, so the bootleg set was removed. Anyway, the source of that problem is actually simple, one of the newly dumped MASK roms was a bad dump, and has a 'fixed bits' problem in the first couple of tiles, it slipped under the radar when it was added (likely my fault). A fresh dump of that ROM reveals it to be the same as you'd get if you combined the bootleg roms. With that ROM being used the World version of the game now looks correct again. The issue with the US set is a little different. Those graphics aren't actually used in the US set because when the US set was produced they made a number of enhancements, first of all they translated all the speech (the World version still plays Japanese speech samples for the story) and they polished up that sign post too, replacing the 'ON THE WAY' graphic with a more logical 'ONE WAY' graphic. Obviously they didn't / couldn't change the MASK roms for this, so instead they changed the 4 additional socketed graphic ROMs. The World / bootleg versions have the following tiles near the end of the ROM. The US set attempts to draw this sign using the tiles from this position in ROM, which obviously gives the incorrect results you see at the start of this article. A dump of the graphic roms from the US set shows that the tiles in these positions have been changed. Using the correct graphic roms therefore gives the correct results for this scene in the US set too. The newly dumped Japan version is like the World version, but with the story / power up screens shown in Japanese. It has the 'On The Way' sign. I've also readded the bootleg set, even if for all MAME purposes it matches the 'World' set aside from the split graphic roms. It has the potential to be interesting later on however because these Alpha bootlegs tended to use 68705 MCUs instead of the regular Alpha ones. We've seen this on a number of the boards, and for Kyros we actually currently load 2 MCUs.
- 0.141u2: Tafoid fixed samples played incorrectly in Gang Wars. Swapped audiocpu roms ($30000/$70000).
- 0.139u2: David Raingeard added correct GFX roms for Gang Wars, renamed bootleg set as Euro set (and new parent), made note about bootleg GFX roms. Changed description of clone (bootleg) to 'Gang Wars'. Renamed (gangwars) to (gangwarsu) and (gangwarsb) to (gangwars).
- 0.133u1: Renamed (gangwarb) to (gangwarsb).
- 0.128u6: Phil Bennett reduced all Alpha68k YM2413 clocks from 8MHz to 3.579545 MHz.
- 0.61: Added dipswitches 'Timer Speed', 'Price to Continue' and 'Allow Continue'.
- 0.59: Acho A. Tang fixed color in the 2nd last graphics bank. Fixed the first boss has a glitch in some of his animations. Fixed gfx2 rom loading.
- 0.37b2: Bryan McPhail fixed cpu2 rom loading in Gang Wars. Changed description to 'Gang Wars (US)'.
- 0.36b1: Bryan McPhail added 'Gang Wars' (Alpha 1989) and clone (bootleg).
- 17th July 1999: Bryan McPhail sent in drivers for Time Soldiers, Sky Soldiers, Sky Adventure and Gang Wars.
- 6th June 1999: Bryan McPhail has gotten a nice new shiny computer science degree, and for a nice celebration he almost finished some drivers. Here are some pics of Gang Wars, Gold Medalist, Sky Adventure, Sky Soldiers and Time Soldiers, but don't expect to see these before 0.36b1.
LEVELS: 5 (developed by Team Guernica)
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Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:
Gang Wars (c) 1989 Alpha Denshi Company, Limited.
2 street brawlers fight their way through a gang of hoodlums that like to laugh incessantly at you while they're beating you up! Features customizable statistics for your fighter.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 7.15909 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), YM2413 (@ 8 Mhz), DAC
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Gang Wars was released in July 1989.
- UPDATES -
The US cocktail version is different.
* 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen added.
The bootleg version have some different sounds.
- STAFF -
Producer & Director & Game designer : Tsutomu Maruyama
Graphic designers : Tsutomu Maruyama, Hatsue Honbe, Mitsunari Ishida, Kazushige Hakamata
Music composers & Sound effects : Yuka Watanabe, Hiroaki Shimizu
Main programmers : Eiji Fukamatsu, Hideo Kamoda, Yuuji Noguchi,Osamu Iijima
Hardware : Eiji Fukatsu
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