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Magical Crystals (World, 92/01/10)

  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. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Magical Crystals (World, 92/01/10)
Name mgcrystl
Manufacturer Kaneko
Year 1991
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .103u2
Romset size 4.25 MB
Romset file 8 files
Romset zip 888 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
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 yes
Input tilt yes
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 0 no 256 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mc000.u38 1048576 28acf6f4 6647ad90ea580b65ed28772f9d65352b06833d0c gfx1 0 good no
arcade mc001.u37 524288 005bc43d 6f6cd99e8e60562fa86581008455a6d9d646fa95 gfx1 100000 good no
arcade mc002e02.u36 131072 27ac1056 34b07c1a0d403ca45c9849d3d8d311012f787df6 gfx1 200000 good no
arcade mc010.u04 1048576 85072772 25e903cc2c893d61db791d1fe60a1205a4395667 gfx2 0 good no
arcade mc020.u34 1048576 1ea92ff1 66ec53e664b2a5a751a280a538aaeceafc187ceb gfx3 0 good no
arcade mc030.u32 262144 c165962e f7e130db387ae9dcb7223f7ad6e51270d3033bc9 oki 0 good no
arcade mc100e02.u18 131072 246a1335 8333945a92e08a7bff425d2d6602557386016dc5 maincpu 0 good no
arcade mc101e02.u19 262144 708ea1dc ae6eca6620729bc1e815f1bfbd8fe130f0ba943c maincpu 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
OKI6295 oki audio 2000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2149 ym2149_2 audio 2000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.103u2 [Uncle Tom]

0.59 [Brian Troha]

0.53 [Luca Elia]


WIP:

- 0.173: Improved ROM labeling for Japan set based on PCB picture, and noted that the Japan set we have is revision 2, but a revision 0 exists, undumped [Lord Nightmare].

- 0.136u1: Corrado Tomaselli changed Magical Crystals to use YM2149.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (mgcrysto) to (mgcrystlo) and (mgcrystj) to (mgcrystlj).

- 0.122u8: Removed 8x 'Unknown/Unused' dipswitches.

- 0.122u6: Corrado Tomaselli verified and changed CPU frequencies and OKI M6295 pin 7 in Magical Crystals. Changed OKI6295 CPU4 clock speed to 2MHz.

- 0.106u3: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.

- 0.103u2: Uncle Tom added Magical Crystals (World, 92/01/10). Changed 'Magical Crystals (World)' to clone 'Magical Crystals (World, 91/12/10)' and clone (Japan) to 'Magical Crystals (Japan, 92/01/13)'. Renamed (mgcrystl) to (mgcrysto).

- 0.101u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added bitmap to keep sprites on screen to the Kaneko video driver. This fixed level 1 boss sprites effect in Magical Crystals.

- 0.59: Brian Troha added Magical Crystals (World). Renamed (mgcrystl) to (mgcrystj).

- 18th March 2002: Brian Troha added the World version of Magical Crystals to the Kaneko16 driver.

- 0.55: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 18181 Hz.

- 0.54: Changed palettesize from 8192 to 2048 colors.

- 0.53: Luca Elia added 'Magical Crystals (Japan)' (Kaneko 1991).

- 31st July 2001: Luca Elia added Magical Crystals and Sand Scorpion to the Kaneko16 driver.


LEVELS: 18


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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Skweek (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

Super Duck

Cheese Chase

Princess Clara Daisakusen

Burglar X

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History


Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Magical Crystals (c) 1991 Kaneko.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 18.181 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2048

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

- TRIVIA -

Also licensed to Atlus.

- STAFF -

Programmers : S. Igarashi (Toy), Y. Shiono (Borg), M. Satoh, Y. Sakakura
Graphics designers : K. Matsuoka, T. Takei, H. Kumagai, H. Yoshida
Graphics support : H. Narushima, H. Watanabe, Y. Kubo, S. Hozumi, A. Funatsu
Music / Sound effects : Tatsuya Watanabe, H. Higashi, Y. Abe, - K.I.S.S. -
Hardware : H. Morinaga
Management : N. Tanaka
Producer : Hiroshi Kaneko

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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