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G-Darius (Ver 2.01J)

  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. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description G-Darius (Ver 2.01J)
Name gdarius
Manufacturer Taito
Year 1997
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .074u2
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language English
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent gdarius2 : G-Darius Ver.2 (Ver 2.03J) (1997)

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic imperfect
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 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 78081g503.ic655 8192 upd78081 0 nodump no
arcade e39-01.1 4194304 bdaaa251 e39-01.1 a42daa706ee859c2b66be179e08c0ad7990f919e bankedroms 400000 good no
arcade e39-02.2 4194304 a47aab5d e39-02.2 64b58e47035ad9d8d6dcaf475cbcc3ad85f4d82f bankedroms 800000 good no
arcade e39-03.12 4194304 a883b6a5 e39-03.12 b8d00d944c90f8cd9c2b076688f4c68b2e6d557a bankedroms c00000 good no
arcade e39-04.27 4194304 6ee35e68 e39-04.27 fdfe63203d8cecf84cb869039fb893d5b63cdd67 zsg2 0 good no
arcade e39-05.3 1048576 750e5b13 68fe9cbd7d506cfd587dccc40b6ae0b0b6ee7c29 bankedroms 0 good no
arcade e39-06.4 1048576 2980c30d 597321642125c3ae37581c2d9abc2723c7909996 bankedroms 1 good no
arcade e39-07.14 524288 2252c7c1 e39-07.14 92b9908e0d87cad6587f1acc0eef69eaae8c6a98 mn10200 0 good no
arcade m534002c-14.ic353 524288 e3f23b6e m534002c-14.ic353 e18907cf8c6ba54d96edba0a9a00487a90219e0d maincpu:rom 0 good no
arcade tt01.ic652 8 daac13e7 tt01.ic652 96d94f2b06fb7ecd91454969f4959a583ffb9d5a cat702_1 0 good no
arcade tt07 8 ccf2f332 tt07 6eb07cd5fab29f5536fd94aa88a2b09f28cc3494 cat702_2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
CXD8530CQ maincpu cpu 67737600
MN1020012A mn10200 cpu 12500000
SPU spu audio 33868800
Speaker rspeaker audio
ZSG-2 zsg2 audio 25000000

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

History


Arcade Video game published 22 years ago:

G-Darius (c) 1997 Taito Corp.

G-Darius literally added a new dimension to the highly regarded 'Darius' series, with the introduction of fully 3D rendered backgrounds and enemies. Namco had already done the same with their Xevious series for "Xevious 3D/G", released two years' earlier, but G-Darius is generally regarded as the most accomplished of the two titles.

G-Darius' game-play was also enhanced, with the 'Capture Ball' system; this allowed the player to capture almost any enemy craft and use it against the game's other enemies. Captured enemies can either be detonated like a ''bomb'', damaging all enemies nearby; or used to fire a special 'Alpha Beam', which cuts through everything but gold-colored objects and enemy bosses. Each boss is capable of firing its own version of this beam at the player; when both beams meet, they will interrupt each other's path. Depending on how rapidly the player presses the Fire button, one beam will grow and eventually overpower the others. The Capture ball was actually introduced in "Darius Gaiden" but was only used to a minimal extent.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito FX-1B hardware
Prom Stickers : E39

Main CPU : PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SPU (@ 16.9344 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6

- TRIVIA -

G-Darius was released in September 1995.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Reverse Scale Bullet' and is an example of 'ateji' - fitting the kanji phonetics to the name of the game to give the name double (sometimes even triple) meaning.

The game was originally named 'Fire Breaker' at early stage of development.

Lee Ota (from the Truxton series staff) produced this game. It's why the first and the last stage (and bomb/power-up) are similar to "Truxton". But the gameplay is really different to Toaplan's games. So, responses from Toaplan games fans were not very favourable.

The name of the twin characters, Orsa and Mayoru, is a play-on-words of the third largest constellation of our solar system, Ursa Major, which means Great Bear.

All stages in this game share the same music theme but remixed each time!

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Welcome to the Karu Land - PCCB-00196) on November 17, 1995.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Zone Select :
1. Hold Service Switch button during boot count.
2. Wait until machine displays 'Service Switch Error' on screen.
3. Push buttons in the following sequence 'Start(x3), Service Switch, Start'.
4. Insert credit then go to Zone Select screen.

- 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 -

Producer : Naomitsu Abe
Director : Naomitsu Abe, Makoto Ohsaka, Akira Ohtsuki, Makoto Fujita
Character graphics : Makoto Fujita, Tohru Kawaishi, Kenichi Morita, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Toshihiro Fukui, Ryosuke Hayase, Atsushi Horimizu, Yatta Ushiroda, Baw Baw
Program : Akira Ohtsuki, Nobuyuki Hayashi, Katsuyuki Fujita, Takafumi Fujimoto, Hirohisa Matsumura, Hiroyuki Maruyama, Hikaru Taniguchi, Yasutaka Hayashi, Shunsuke Ono, Masakazu Takeda, Harumi.K, Hirotaka Fukakawa, Koji Kato, Hitoshi Kozuka
Music : Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)
Sound effects : Yukiharu Urita (Zuntata)
Hardware : Katsumi Kaneoka
Design works : Naoto Hashizume
Quality warranty : Nobuhiro Koyama, Eiji Kawabata, Makoto Obonai

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[US] Sony PlayStation (mar.31, 1998) "G.Darius [Model SLUS-00690]"
[JP] Sony PlayStation (apr.9, 1998) "G-Darius [Model SLPS-01348]"
[EU] Sony PlayStation (1998) "G.Darius [Model SLES-01314]"
[JP] Sony PS2 (aug.25, 2005) "Taito Memories Gekan [Model SLPM-66092]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [AU] (mar.30, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
[EU] Sony PS2 (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
[US] Sony PS2 (may.16, 2007) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLUS-21349]"

* COMPUTERS:
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [JP] by CyberFront.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

foxmulder___________________1.783.640
louthrax____________________1.500.600
cessna______________________1.340.800