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Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Japan 941024)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Serie
  11. Categories
  12. History
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Game infos

Description Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Japan 941024)
Name pgear
Manufacturer Capcom
Year 1994
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 3P sim
Added to MAME .037b15
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language Japanese
Genre Platform

Parent and clones

Parent armwar : Armored Warriors (Euro 941024) (1994)

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 no
Input players 3
Input buttons
Input coins 3

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 384 224 59.637405 8000000 512 64 448 262 16 240

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade pgear.key 20 c576d6fd e480d16bcfb58f9a8402bbb81aedd686a0f2f754 key 0 good no
arcade pwg.01 131072 18a5c0e4 pwg.01 bb1353dd74884aaeec9b5f1d0b284d9cad53c0ff audiocpu 0 good no
arcade pwg.02 131072 c9dfffa6 pwg.02 64e71028befe9a2514074be765dd020e1d2ea70b audiocpu 28000 good no
arcade pwg.06 524288 87a60ce8 pwg.06 e2085c7c8c6792d055dbbb023c7f4e4aa38ae924 maincpu 180000 good no
arcade pwg.07 524288 f7b148df pwg.07 f369669713cf647222094c570a2eacd48a8637cf maincpu 200000 good no
arcade pwg.08 524288 cc62823e pwg.08 edaf9bebdfc65ae5414090abd6844176eec39a00 maincpu 280000 good no
arcade pwg.09a 524288 4c26baee pwg.09a 685f050206b9b904ce6a1ae9a8e8f019012cea43 maincpu 300000 good no
arcade pwg.10 524288 07c4fb28 pwg.10 58a1ff3d105be7df833dd4f32973766649efcbcf maincpu 380000 good no
arcade pwg.11m 2097152 a78f7433 pwg.11m e47ffba7b9dac9d0dda985c5d966194be18260f7 qsound 0 good no
arcade pwg.12m 2097152 77438ed0 pwg.12m 733ca6c6a792e66e2aa12c5fc06dd459527afe4b qsound 200000 good no
arcade pwg.13m 4194304 ae8fe08e pwg.13m b6f09663dcda69b5d7ac13e4afaf1efd692fb61e gfx 0 good no
arcade pwg.14m 1048576 c3f9ba63 pwg.14m 66191a52c39daa89b17ede5804ee41c028036f14 gfx 1000000 good no
arcade pwg.15m 4194304 db560f58 pwg.15m 0c3716b32eb24544ff5d16b5dcadce195cd10d00 gfx 2 good no
arcade pwg.16m 1048576 815b0e7b pwg.16m 549785daac3122253fb94f6541bc7016147f5306 gfx 1000002 good no
arcade pwg.17m 4194304 bc475b94 pwg.17m a157664450895a146a532581dd6f4b63dff21c86 gfx 4 good no
arcade pwg.18m 1048576 0109c71b pwg.18m eb51284ee0c85ff8f605fe1d166b7aa202be1344 gfx 1000004 good no
arcade pwg.19m 4194304 07439ff7 pwg.19m f71e07c6d77c32828f5e319268b24b13a1a4b0c2 gfx 6 good no
arcade pwg.20m 1048576 eb75ffbe pwg.20m e9d1deca60be696ac5bff2017fb5de3525e5239a gfx 1000006 good no
arcade pwgj.03a 524288 c79c0c02 4e24d34be255bb3886bd6b767779ee5fc81dca6e maincpu 0 good no
arcade pwgj.04a 524288 167c6ed8 23a4a7faae817ffc6c5faa4db5b96b8c8c0dfe86 maincpu 80000 good no
arcade pwgj.05a 524288 a63fb400 b27464b000cd12d9247254f843be27639fbf3a48 maincpu 100000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
DSP16 qsound:qsound cpu 4000000
M68000 maincpu cpu 16000000
Q-Sound qsound audio 4000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 8000000

Serie

Serie : Armored Warriors
  1. Armored Warriors (Euro 941024) (1994)
  2. Armored Warriors (Euro 941011 Phoenix Edition) (bootleg) (1994)
  3. Armored Warriors (Asia 941024) (1994)
  4. Armored Warriors (Asia 940920) (1994)
  5. Armored Warriors (Euro 941011) (1994)
  6. Armored Warriors (USA 941024) (1994)
  7. Armored Warriors (USA 940920) (1994)
  8. Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Japan 941024) (1994)
  9. Powered Gear: Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (Japan 940916) (1994)
  10. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Euro 950424) (1995)
  11. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (Japan 950420) (1995)
  12. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (USA 950424) (1995)
  13. Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness (USA 950424 Phoenix Edition) (bootleg) (1995)
  14. Cyberbots - Fullmetal Madness (Jpn, 1M) (1997)

Categories

History


Capcom CPS-II cart. published 25 years ago:

Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment (c) 1994 Capcom Company, Limited.

An up-to-3-player side-scrolling beat'em up game where four selectable mechs and their respective pilots try to save Earth from battle with a sister planet's renegade army. Parts of destroyed mechs can be outfitted onto your mech to create interesting and deadly combinations.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "CP System II" hardware.
Green Board [Japan]

Players: Up to 3.
Control: 8-way joystick per player.
Buttons: 3 per player.
=> [1] Arm attack, [2] Jump, [3] Weapon attack

- TRIVIA -

Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment was released on September 16, 1994 in Japan. It was known as the 7th CPS-II game.

This game is known outside Japan as "Armored Warriors". Here is a list of known export releases:
"Armored Warriors [Blue Board]"
"Armored Warriors [Grey Board]"

Sony Music Works released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Powered Gear Arcade Game Track - SRCL-3089) on December 1, 1994.

- UPDATES -

Green Board releases :

REVISION 1 :
* Build date : 940916

REVISION 2 :
* Build date : 941024

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Selecting Joint Parts : While the demo appears for joint machine, the player who gets the radio machine must enter the following keys...
Beta-Cannon - Hold Up.
Gamma-Battler - Hold Left or Right.
Alpha-Fortress - Hold Down.

* Selecting Parts : At the stage title screen, hold B+C (over 1 sec.) and then enter the following keys...
Bomber - Leftup
Death Drill - Up
Missile - Rightup
Laser blade - Left
Force claw - Right
Flame - Leftdown
Chain spark - Down
Laser - Rightdown

Note : You can select both the arm and the sub weapon at the same time, but, if you enter codes for arm or sub weapon twice only the later code will work.

- SERIES -

1. Powered Gear - Strategic Variant Armor Equipment [Green Board] (1994)
2. Cyberbots - Fullmetal Madness (1995)

- STAFF -

Planners: Kiyo, T.H.T.Fuji, Tuchihashi Bakabon
Programmers: Y. Tunazaki Forever, Hero Hero, H. HASssssY, Hamachan, Dress
Mechanical and object designers: Yochabare, E. Kuratani, H. Uemura, Naoki Fujisawa, Y. Maruno, H. Yoshino, You-Tenkozow (You.Ten Kozow), Igami, Nekokan, U.F.O, Naoki Fukuda, Bakky
Art designers: Matsumoto, Y. Maruyama, M. Oshino, Takuji Mishima, Saru, Kohei Akiyama
Sound composer: Takayuki Iwai (Anarchy Takapon)
Sound designer: Tomuyuki Kawakami (T.K NY)
Special adviser: Noritaka Funamizu (Poo), Shochan, Kenkn, Meshi, Furoboh
Character designer: T.O.M
AD designers: Sensei, Sakomizu
Director: Yoshiki Okamoto (Kihaji Okamoto)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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