Mame game : madgear : Mad Gear (US)

Game infos

Description Mad Gear (US)

Name madgear

Manufacturer Capcom

Year 1989

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P alt

Added to MAME .033b05

Romset size 2.09 MB

Romset file 19 files

Romset zip 722 B

Language English

Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)

Genre Driving

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 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	270	no	384	240	57.4444

Dipswitchs

Allow Continue
- No
- Yes
Background Music
- Off
- On
Cabinet
- Cocktail
- Upright One Player
- Upright Two Players
Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/2 Credits
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/3 Credits
- 6 Coins/1 Credit
- 8 Coins/3 Credits
- Free Play
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/2 Credits
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/3 Credits
- 6 Coins/1 Credit
- 8 Coins/3 Credits
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Difficult
- Easy
- Normal
- Very Difficult
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Service Mode
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	29.14k	256	7f862e1e	7134c4f741463007a177d55922e1284d132f60e3	proms	0	good	no
arcade	ls-05.12e	131072	b06e03b5	7d17e5cfb57866c60146bea1a4535e961c73327c	oki	20000	good	no
arcade	ls-06.10e	131072	88d39a5b	8fb2d1d26e2ffb93dfc9cf8f23bb81eb64496c2b	oki	0	good	no
arcade	ls-11.2l	524288	6bf81c64	2289978c6bdb6e4f86e7094e861df147e757e249	gfx4	0	good	no
arcade	ls-12.7l	262144	6c1b2c6c	18f22129f13c6bfa7e285f0e09a35644272f6ecb	gfx3	0	good	no
arcade	mg_01.5b	131072	1cea2af0	9f4642ed2d21fa525e9fecaac6235a3653df3030	maincpu	40001	good	no
arcade	mg_02.6b	131072	9f5ebe16	2183cb807157d48204d8d4d4b7555c9a7772ddfd	maincpu	40000	good	no
arcade	mg_03.7b	131072	b2672465	96d10046e67181160daebb2b07c867c08f8600dc	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	mg_04.8b	131072	b112257d	4acfd8ba0fe8d68ca7c9b0fde2b13ce0c9104258	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	mg_05.14j	65536	2fbfc945	8066516dcf9261abee1edd103bdbe0cc18913ed3	audiocpu	0	good	no
arcade	mg_06.10k	32768	382ee59b	a1da439f0585f5cafe2fb7024f1ae0527e34cd92	gfx2	0	good	no
arcade	mg_m07.rom2	65536	e5c0b211	dc4a92061c686a9d211a7b95aab2e41219508d67	sprites	40002	good	no
arcade	mg_m08.rom3	65536	59709aa3	384641da58c8b5198ad4fa51cd5fd9a628bcb888	sprites	40000	good	no
arcade	mg_m09.rom2	65536	40ee83eb	35e11fcb3b75ada99df23715ecb955bd40e10da8	sprites	40003	good	no
arcade	mg_m10.rom3	65536	b64afb54	5fdd4f67e6b7440448adf395b61c79b79b4f86e7	sprites	40001	good	no
arcade	mg_m11.rom0	65536	ee319a64	ce8d65fdac3ec1009b22764807c03dd96b340660	sprites	2	good	no
arcade	mg_m12.rom1	65536	887ef120	9d57b497334d64df9a4ab7f15824dcc6a333f73d	sprites	0	good	no
arcade	mg_m13.rom0	65536	eae07db4	59c4ff48d906b2bb101fbebe06383940fdff064f	sprites	3	good	no
arcade	mg_m14.rom1	65536	21e5424c	2f7c5d974c847bb14eaf278545bca653919110ba	sprites	1	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	10000000
OKI6295	oki	audio	1000000
Speaker	mono	audio
YM2203	ym2	audio	3579545
Z80	audiocpu	cpu	3579545

0.33b5 [Bryan McPhail]

Artwork available

WIP:

- 0.151: Various fixes [Phil Bennett]: Fixed Mad Gear and clones background tilemap bitplane order and vertical refresh rate. Changed VSync to 57.444400 Hz. Changed input from 1 to 3 buttons.

- 0.135u3: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to Last Duel driver.

- 28th July 2009: Mr. Do - Kiltron got busy this summer and recently cranked out Led Storm artwork (listed as parent Mad Gear).

- 0.132u4: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Mad Gear sets, corrected rom labels and added PCB locations to Mad Gear / LED Storm sets. Guru added README / PCB layout. Removed 7x 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in Last Duel driver.

- 0.122u6: Corrado Tomaselli verified and changed CPU frequencies and OKI M6295 pin 7 in Mad Gear. Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 1MHz.

- 0.97u3: Added priority prom (not used) to Mad Gear.

- 0.37b2: Bryan McPhail fixed sprite / tile priority in Mad Gear. Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 7759 Hz.

- 0.36b12: Added clone Mad Gear (Japan).

- 0.36b5: Fixed gfx3 and gfx4 rom ($0).

- 0.36b3: Bryan McPhail fixed the background in Led Storm. Added missing gfx3 ($0) and gfx4 ($0) roms.

- 17th August 1999: Bryan McPhail updated the Led Storm driver for the correct romset, and fixed the priority in the graphics driver.

- 0.35RC1: Jarek Burczynski fixed sound in Mad Gear and clone LED Storm.

- 12th June 1999: Jarek Burczynski added bankswitching to Mad Gear and clone LED Storm.

- 0.35b11: Bryan McPhail added clone Led Storm (US). Added ADPCM samples to Mad Gear [Bryan McPhail]. Added OKI6295 sound. Changed 68000 clock speed to 10Mhz, Z80 CPU2 to 3.579545 MHz and visible area to 240x384. Changed input from 4 to 1x button and added 3rd coin slot.

- 0.35b8: Changed visible area to 256x384. Changed description to 'Mad Gear (US)'.

- 0.35b3: Howie Cohen added high score saving to Mad Gear.

- 0.33b5: Bryan McPhail added 'Mad Gear' (Capcom 1989). Known issues: Preliminary and the romset is incomplete. Wrong dipswitches (service mode is in there somewhere).

- 24th March 1998: CaBBe dumped Mad Gear (US).

LEVELS: 9 (restarts once)

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History

Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Mad Gear (c) 02/1989 Capcom.

A modern version of "Burnin' Rubber" / "Bump 'n' Jump" featuring 9 stages...
Stage 1 : Capital
Stage 2 : Net Wood Forest
Stage 3 : Coral Sea
Stage 4 : Big Cave Tunnel
Stage 5 : Ruins Desert
Stage 6 : Million Valley
Stage 7 : Thunder Road
Stage 8 : Marin Snow Pipe Way
Stage 9 : Sky City

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.759 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 384 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

This game is also known as "LED Storm".

Capcom used the name 'Mad Gear' again as the name of a gang in "Final Fight".

- UPDATES -

'Fred' is called 'Mad Gear' in the Japanese version.

- STAFF -

Plan : Piston Takashi, Tomoshi Sadamoto
Game designer : Tomoshi Sadamoto
Programmers : N. Kaneko, Akikoro, Ken.Ken, Maekawa
Character designer : K. Ashenden
Art : Puttun. midori, Inu, Innocent Saicho
Sound : Ogeretsukun
Hard : Masayan

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1432&o=2

High scores

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Mad Gear (US)