0.36b8 [Phil Stroffolino, Nao, Dave Spicer]
0.36b5 [Testdriver]
Artwork available
Bugs:
- gradius2, gradius2a, gradius2b, vulcan, vulcana, vulcanb: Title screen demo plays the stages in the wrong order. gamestone (ID 03759)
WIP:
- 0.156: According to schematics the twin16 video is priority related, not a flip bit. This fixed sprite-background priority is wrong in Vulcan Venture and clones [Alex Jackson].
- 0.152: Use the redumped gfx2 roms for all the Vulcan Venture/Gradius II sets, plus some cleanups [Alex Jackson].
- 28th May 2012: Mr. Do - Thanks to Gamestone at Gradius Home World, we have totally awesome cocktail artwork for clone Gradius II.
- 0.143u8: Kanikani fixed DIPSW and added DIP locations to clones Gradius II.
- 0.134u2: IronGiant added clone Vulcan Venture (Old). Changed parent description to 'Vulcan Venture (New)' and clone (Older Ver.) to 'Vulcan Venture (Oldest)'. Renamed (vulcana) to (vulcanb).
- 0.134u1: Brian Troha and Dumping Union added clone Vulcan Venture (Older Ver.).
- 0.133u2: hap fixed sprite lag in clone Gradius II. Reverted Gradius II sprite-background priority hack, this fixes severe priority problems in Devil World, but reintroduces bugs on gradius2 level 7 and ending. Also lowered the K007232 volume, this fixed defective sound in Vulcan Venture.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (grdius2a) to (gradius2a) and (grdius2b) to (gradius2b).
- 0.128u6: Roberto Zandona updated clone Gradius II - GOFER no Yabou (Japan New Ver.) to use proper gfx2 roms (same values of vulcan but byteswapped).
- 29th July 2008: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Gradius II - GOFER no Yabou (Japan New Ver.).
- 0.124u2: Changed clock speed of the 2x 68000 to 9216000 Hz and VSync to 60.606061 Hz.
- 0.110u2: Roberto Zandona and Mamesick fixed video hardware (draw_sprites, tilemap_draw etc.) in Vulcan Venture.
- 3rd September 2006: Mr. Do - Added instruction cards for Gradius II.
- 0.102u5: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed sprite drawing in Vulcan Venture.
- 0.99u4: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed background/sprites priority in the stage 7 of Vulcan Venture.
- 0.76u2: Changed description of the clones to 'Gradius II - GOFER no Yabou'.
- 0.62: Bryan McPhail fixed priority problems in Vulcan Venture.
- 0.56: Changed description of clones (Japan set 1) to 'Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (Japan New Ver.)', (Japan set 2) to 'Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (Japan Old Ver.)' and (Japan set 3) to 'Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (Japan Older Ver.)'. Fixed rom names.
- 6th October 2001: Chack'n fixed the dipswitch settings in clone Gradius 2.
- 0.36b10: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 3579545 Hz.
- 0.36b8: Phil Stroffolino, Nao and Dave Spicer added 'Vulcan Venture' (Konami 1988) and clones 'Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (Japan set 1)', (Japan set 2) and (Japan set 3).
- 27th October 1999: Takahiro Nogi fixed UPD7759 problems in Vulcan Venture.
- 26th October 1999: Phil Stroffolino got collision detection working in Vulcan Venture with help from Dave Spicer and Nao.
- 21st October 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a Twin16 update, with Hard Puncher / Final Round being completely playable, but Vulcan Venture is still missing the collisions.
- 0.36b6: Phil Stroffolino added clone (Testdriver) Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (Japan).
- 0.36b5: Phil Stroffolino added (Testdriver) Vulcan Venture.
- 9th October 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a Twin16 update with working sprites in Vulcan Venture (but collisions are missing), and Final Round is also playable now.
- 8th September 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a very preliminary Konami Twin16 driver (Vulcan Venture for example), but nothing works yet.
ARCADE RELEASE: Gradius II (Konami) - 1988/Mar/24
LEVELS: 7 (gradius2)
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
* Sparcade
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Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:
Vulcan Venture (c) 1988 Konami.
Export release. Game developed in Japan. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese release entry; "Gradius II - GOFER no Yabou [Model GX785]".
- TECHNICAL -
Konami Twin 16 Hardware
Game ID : GX785
- TRIVIA -
Vulcan Venture was released in March 1988.
The main differences from the original Japanese are:
* Continue available.
* Different title screen.
* 'Option' is called 'Multiple'.
* 'Ripple Laser' is called 'Pulse Laser' in Vulcan Venture.
The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'ASO'.
- SERIES -
1. Nemesis (1985)
2. Salamander (1986)
3. Gradius 2 (1987, MSX)
4. Vulcan Venture (1988)
5. Nemesis 3 - The Eve of Destruction (1988, MSX)
6. Gradius III - Densetsu Kara Shinwa-e (1989)
7. Nemesis '90 Kai (1993, Sharp X68000)
8. Salamander 2 (1996)
9. Solar Assault - Gradius (1997)
10. Solar Assault - Revised (1997)
11. Gradius Gaiden (1997, Sony PlayStation)
12. Gradius IV - Fukkatsu (1999)
13. Gradius Generation (2001, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
14. Gradius V (2004, Sony PlayStation 2)
15. Gradius Neo (2004, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
16. Gradius Neo Imperial (2005, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
17. Gradius Wide (2007, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
18. Gradius Rebirth (2008, Nintendo Wii)
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] [US] (jul.15, 2016) "Arcade Archives - Gradius II [Model CUSA-03723]"
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] [EU] [AU] (aug.23, 2016) "Arcade Archives - Vulcan Venture [Model CUSA-03940]"
- CONTRIBUTE -
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