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Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52)

  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. Disks list
  12. Serie
  13. Categories
  14. MAMEinfo
  15. History
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Game infos

Description Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52)
Name gauntdl
Manufacturer Midway Games
Year 1999
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P sim
Added to MAME .091u1
Romset size 544 KB
Romset file 2 files
Romset zip 259 B
Language English
Evaluation 80 to 90 (Very Good)
Genre Maze

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 yes
Input tilt yes
Input players 4
Input buttons
Input coins 4

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 640 480 57 17510400 640 0 640 480 0 480

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade gauntdl.bin 524288 3d631518 d7f5a3bc109a19c9c7a711d607ff87e11868b536 user1 0 good no
arcade vegassio.bin 32768 d1470e23 f6e8405cfa604528c0224401bc374a6df9caccef dcs 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
ADSP-2104 dcs:dcs2 cpu 16000000
DMA-driven DAC dcs:dac2 audio
R5000 (little) maincpu cpu 200000000
Speaker dcs:rspeaker audio

Disks list

name md5 sha1 merge region index status optional
gauntdl ba3af48171e727c2f7232c06dcf8411cbcf14de8 ide:0:hdd:image 0 good no

Serie

Serie : Gauntlet
  1. The Gauntlet (1982)
  2. Gauntlet (1983)
  3. Gauntlet (rev 14) (1985)
  4. Gauntlet (UK) (1985)
  5. Gauntlet (UK) (128K) (1985)
  6. Gauntlet (2 Players, rev 6) (1985)
  7. Gauntlet (2 Players, German, rev 4) (1985)
  8. Gauntlet (2 Players, German, rev 1) (1985)
  9. Gauntlet (2 Players, Japanese, rev 5) (1985)
  10. Gauntlet (2 Players, Japanese, rev 2) (1985)
  11. Gauntlet (2 Players, rev 3) (1985)
  12. Gauntlet (German, rev 10) (1985)
  13. Gauntlet (German, rev 3) (1985)
  14. Gauntlet (German, rev 6) (1985)
  15. Gauntlet (German, rev 8) (1985)
  16. Gauntlet (Japanese, rev 13) (1985)
  17. Gauntlet (Japanese, rev 12) (1985)
  18. Gauntlet (rev 1) (1985)
  19. Gauntlet (rev 2) (1985)
  20. Gauntlet (rev 4) (1985)
  21. Gauntlet (rev 5) (1985)
  22. Gauntlet (rev 7) (1985)
  23. Gauntlet (rev 9) (1985)
  24. Gauntlet (Spanish, rev 15) (1985)
  25. Gauntlet (PlayChoice-10) (1985)
  26. Gauntlet II (1986)
  27. Gauntlet II (2 Players, rev 2) (1986)
  28. Gauntlet II (2 Players, rev 1) (1986)
  29. Gauntlet II (2 Players, German) (1986)
  30. Gauntlet II (German) (1986)
  31. Gauntlet (1986)
  32. Gauntlet (Euro) (1986)
  33. Gauntlet (1987)
  34. Gauntlet (1988)
  35. Gauntlet (USA) (1988)
  36. Gauntlet (198?)
  37. Gauntlet - The Third Encounter (Euro, USA) (1990)
  38. Gauntlet (Euro, Bra) (1990)
  39. Gauntlet Legends (version 1.6) (1998)
  40. Gauntlet Legends (version 1.2) (1998)
  41. Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52) (1999)
  42. Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.4) (1999)
  43. Gauntlet Legends (Euro) (1999)
  44. Gauntlet (UK) (19??)
  45. Gauntlet Legends (USA) (2000)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.102u5 [Reznor007]

0.91u1 [Aaron Giles]


HardDisk required


Bugs:

- If you go into test mode and do a filesystem check the game crashes. Reznor007 (ID 00888)


WIP:

- 0.155: Phil Bennett fixed missing streaming BGM/Sounds during gameplay in gauntdl. Reverted "passing of attotime as const references; MAME 0.154" in video\voodoo.c. This fixed emulation hangs in gauntdl and gauntdl24 after initialization.

- 0.119u3: Aaron Giles added "top 20" dedicated rasterizers for all the Seattle games and Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy. These improve rasterization performance by another 10-20%. Aaron Giles fixed several more bugs in the 64-bit MIPS recompiler. It is now capable of running the Seattle games and the 3D Gauntlets.

- 0.104u7: Aaron Giles fixed Gauntlet Dark Legacy craches.

- 0.102u5: Reznor007 added Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52). Aaron Giles added missing color combine mode used by Gauntlet Dark Legacy. Changed 'Gauntlet Dark Legacy' to clone 'Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.4)' and replaced harddisk file. Renamed (gauntdl) to (gauntd24).

- 0.91u1: Aaron Giles added 'Gauntlet Dark Legacy' (Midway 1999).

- 19th April 2004: Aaron Giles - I've spent a little time trying to get my preliminary Vegas driver back up and running. At the moment, I have Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy up and running with sound, but they both die a terrible death when actual gameplay is encountered (either in attract mode or in the actual game). War: The Final Assault is in the same category. One thing I've discovered recently is that the CPU emulation is still the big bottleneck, even moreso than the Voodoo emulation. When the heavy-duty floating point calculations kick in, the current dynamic recompiler is pretty inefficient. I'm starting to think about bumping the compiler to a two-pass system in order to provide an optimization pass that could help out the code quality immensely.

- 0.78: Aaron Giles fixed IDE controller final sector handling for Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and added new PIC mapping.

- 12th December 2003: Aaron Giles - Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and War: Final Assault work with the new ADSP-2104-based DCS sound core, the others fall over at the moment unless I help them along.


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Harddisk: 3.01 GB (CYLS: 6256, HEADS: 16, SECS: 63 - Compressed: 1.54)

History


Arcade Video game published 19 years ago:

Gauntlet Dark Legacy (c) 2000 Midway Games, Incorporated.

Step into the world of of Gauntlet Dark Legacy and prepare for an adventure. Built on the strength of "Gauntlet Legends", Dark Legacy takes the action to a new dimension with new characters, new realms, new combos and improved graphics. Four new characters join forces with the original four Legends characters to explore and battle their way through eight realms of gameplay. The Mountain, Desert, Forest and Castle Realms have been updated to match the depth and complexity of the four new realms... Ice, Town, Sky and Dream. There is also a bonus Battlefield Realm. Multi-player gameplay has been enhanced by allowing two players to work together to activate special moves with new combos. In addition, Dark Legacy is full of secret codes and passwords that give special access to alternate characters and many other surprises (see 'Tips And Tricks' section for more information).

- TECHNICAL -

Midway Vegas hardware

Main CPU : R5000 (@ 200 Mhz)
Sound CPU : ADSP2104 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)

Players : 4
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Gauntlet Dark Legacy was released in March 2000 in USA and in June 2000 in Japan, even if the title screen says 1999 (development year).

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Play as Pojo The Chicken (From "Mace - The Dark Age") : enter EGG as initials and 911 as password.

* Play as Stick Jester : enter EGG as initials and 911 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Blue side. You get a stick figure of a Jester).

* Play as Armored Warrior : enter RAT as initials and 333 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get an armored warrior with a rat's head).

* Play as Ice Dwarf : enter ICE as initials and 600 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get a big dwarf).

* Play as Big Headed Jester : enter PNK as initials and 666 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Yellow side. You get a Jester with a HUGE head).

* Play as Cool Looking Knight : enter TAK as initials and 118 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get a REALLY cool looking Knight).

* Play as Scythe Wielding Valkyrie : enter TWN as initials and 300 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Green side. You get a valkyrie with a scythe).

* Play as Interesting Looking Warrior : enter CAS as initials and 400 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Blue side. You get an interesting looking warrior).

* Play as Evil Looking Wizard : enter GAM as initials and 666 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Yellow side. You get a wizard who doesn't look happy).

* Play as Cool Looking Wizard : enter SKY as initials and 100 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Green side. You get a wizard who looks pretty cool).

- SERIES -

1. Gauntlet (1985, Arcade)
2. Gauntlet II (1986, Arcade)
3. Gauntlet - The Deeper Dungeons (1987, Level pack for 8-bit computers)
4. Gauntlet [Model NES-GL-USA] (1988, NES)
5. Gauntlet - The Third Encounter [Model PA2024] (1990, Lynx)
6. Gauntlet III - The Final Quest (1991, Atari ST)
7. Gauntlet 4 (1993, Mega Drive)
8. Gauntlet Legends (1998, Arcade)
9. Gauntlet Dark Legacy (1999, Arcade)
10. Gauntlet Seven Sorrows (2006, PS2/XBOX)

- STAFF -

Lead Programmer : Steven Bennetts
Art Director : Steve Caterson
Producer : Mike Hally
Lead 3D Artist : Don Livingston
3D Artist : Stig Asmussen, Rhizaldi Bugawan, Chris Sutton, Paul Haskins
Character Animation : Takeshi Hasegawa, Gustavo Rasche
Programmer : Nathan Pooley, Johnathan Hudgins, Lennard Fedderson, Tyler Voltier
Game Design : Mike Hally, KJ Holm
Music & Sound Design : Joe Lyford
Audio Programmer : Sean Gugler
Executive Producer : Dan Van Elderen
Producer : Kevin Potter
Associate Producer : Sean Wilson
Assistant Producer : Matthew Vella, Nico Bihary
Voice Actor : Douglas Lawrence, Lani Minella, Wally Fields, Tox Gunn, Patrice Crawford

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation 2 (2001)
Microsoft XBOX (2002)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002)
Nintendo GameCube (2002)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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