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Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Dipswitchs
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon
Name drgnunit
Manufacturer Seta
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b05
Romset size 3.25 MB
Romset file 26 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Platform

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 no
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 384 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade obj-1.bin 131072 53a95b13 b7c7994441aafcea49662dc0fbebd6db836723f5 gfx1 1 good no
arcade obj-2.bin 131072 d7f6ab5a a32f1705e833c339bd0c426a395cc706da96dad7 gfx1 0 good no
arcade obj-3.bin 131072 0bccd4d5 7139ef793efe7c6477f78b50207227b1be223755 gfx1 80001 good no
arcade obj-4.bin 131072 60d17771 0874c10a2527293715db95bd7c83886d94f810cf gfx1 80000 good no
arcade obj-5.bin 131072 6b87bc20 9a0e3e18339d6c12e63960fb940a56c16dcb87cf gfx1 40001 good no
arcade obj-6.bin 131072 80b801f7 5b5635903137e50bc982d05b73c2648bbf182e71 gfx1 40000 good no
arcade obj-7.bin 131072 cbaa7f6a 060f0651b8ca07d239ef1b7c63943cdd433e1ae9 gfx1 c0001 good no
arcade obj-8.bin 131072 826c1543 f669f255b4596da5648592b5993b02671e404102 gfx1 c0000 good no
arcade prg-e.bin 131072 728447df 8bdc52a4cc5f36794a47f963545bdaa26c9acd6b maincpu 0 good no
arcade prg-o.bin 131072 b2f58ecf 5198e75b22bab630b458797988f2e443c601351f maincpu 1 good no
arcade scr-1e.bin 131072 dc9cd8c9 04450a5cfde5d6b69fdd745cd930309863e1aadd gfx2 80000 good no
arcade scr-1o.bin 131072 671525db e230e99754c9f40af7da2054bd5ea09823e0b1b7 gfx2 0 good no
arcade scr-2e.bin 131072 b6126b41 13275f05868d93af95ebb162d229b69ddd660438 gfx2 a0000 good no
arcade scr-2o.bin 131072 2a3f2ed8 9d188100437a10eb3d3097f28e28e3cb2dc1b21d gfx2 20000 good no
arcade scr-3e.bin 131072 1592b8c2 d337de280c5ea3704dec9baa04c45e1c837924a9 gfx2 c0000 good no
arcade scr-3o.bin 131072 4d33a92d 8b09768abb460446405224565eb6652d2dc1c571 gfx2 40000 good no
arcade scr-4e.bin 131072 8201681c 7784a68828d728107b0228bb3568129c543cbf40 gfx2 e0000 good no
arcade scr-4o.bin 131072 79a0aa61 9905d90afb759b1d983856d7bef17c139d4f0e4f gfx2 60000 good no
arcade snd-1.bin 131072 8f47bd0d c55e22ac4294931cfb72ac88a2128891d9f8ee93 x1snd 0 good no
arcade snd-2.bin 131072 65c40ef5 726b46144e2216d17b0828abad2f5e7c2305c174 x1snd 20000 good no
arcade snd-3.bin 131072 71fbd54e bdaf7ecf1c79c6c8fc82d959186ca2f3304729c8 x1snd 40000 good no
arcade snd-4.bin 131072 ac50133f d56a9569bd72c7bc13d09dcea9789cdc7252ffb4 x1snd 60000 good no
arcade snd-5.bin 131072 70652f2c 04ff016a087a230efe4644eb76f68886aae26978 x1snd 80000 good no
arcade snd-6.bin 131072 10a1039d a1160fe600d39ae6fdbf247f634c2e094b3a675f x1snd a0000 good no
arcade snd-7.bin 131072 decbc8b0 9d315d1119fbc2bf889efdb174ebc5e26ecad859 x1snd c0000 good no
arcade snd-8.bin 131072 3ac51bee cb2ee501895b848d434991152dea293685f8ed22 x1snd e0000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker mono audio
X1-010 x1snd audio 16000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b5 [Luca Elia]


Artwork available


Bugs:

- [possible] In the 1st level, when the main character moves between the two game layers, sprite priority fails. Kekule (ID 01105)


WIP:

- 0.143u2: Brian Troha implemented coin mode 1 & 2 for Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon.

- 12th August 2007: Mr. Do - DaPlumber has been hard at work, and cleaned up a couple pieces from the BYOAC/CAG artwork: Castle of Dragon bezel.

- 0.76u2: Inigo Luja fixed Dragon Unit dipswitches. Added 'Difficulty' and 'Demo Sounds' dipswitches.

- 6th August 2000: Guru - Dumped an alternative version of Castle of Dragon taken from an original Seta PCB. This version appears to be an official version, and not a prototype (like the current version in MAME). It looks similar, but can't be rom-swapped with the current set.

- 0.37b5: Luca Elia added 'Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon' (Seta 1989).

- 6th July 2000: Luca Elia added Thundercade, Caliber 50, Dragon Unit and Blandia to the Seta driver.


STORY:

- One day, from out of nowhere, ferocious dragon Zuriv arrived in the peaceful Kingdom of Wenlary. Zuriv destroyed the town and locked the princess on the top floor of castle. Two young kings, named Duke and Narda left for a journey to recue the trapped princess.


LEVELS: 7


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* FB Alpha

* Raine


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon (c) 1989 Athena Company, Limited.

A beat'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips: X1-010 (@ 16 Mhz)

Screen Orientation: Horizontal
Video Resolution: 380 x 240 Pixels
Screen Refresh: 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors: 512

Players: 2
Control: 8-Way Joystick
Buttons: 3
= > Attack, Jump, Crouch

- TRIVIA -

Dragon Unit / Castle of Dragon was released in June 1989. You can changes the title from Japanese (Dragon Unit) to English (Castle of Dragon) (selectable by a dipswitch).

Licensed to Taito for Japan distribution.

The game was also licensed to Romstar for the manufacture and distribution of a Conversion Kit in the USA, as "Castle of Dragon [Conversion Kit]".

- STAFF -

Producer: Sakae Nakamura
Game Director: Crazy Tom
Game Designer: Minoru Esaki
Composer: Shotaro Sasaki
Manupilater: Kouichi Ishibashi
Map Designer: Yoshie Ishiyama
Extra Debugers: Undead Tama (Undead Tamai), Zensack Yamamura
Programmer: Tom_boy
Animator: Super Esaki
Sound Mixer: Enjoy Sasaki
Hardware Service: Drunkard Nonaka
Special Thanks: Mr. Abe, Mr. Shinohara, Mr. Akiba, Mr. Suzuki, Mr. Fjimoto, Mr. Miyaboo, Stadio Irikaya, T. Yoshikawa, M. Esaki, S. Sasaki

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicom (1989)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=700&o=2

High scores

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