Mame game : gunbird : Gunbird (World)

Game infos

Description Gunbird (World)

Name gunbird

Manufacturer Psikyo

Year 1994

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .060

Romset size 11.38 MB

Romset file 11 files

Romset zip 4 B

Language English

Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)

Genre Shooter

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	270	no	320	224	59.3

Configuration

name	tag	mask
Region Name Hong Kong Value 11 Default no Name Korea Value 13 Default no Name Taiwan Value 7 Default no Name USA Value 14 Default no Name World Value 15 Default yes	DSW	15

Dipswitchs

2C Start, 1C Continue
- Off
- On [Free Play]
Bonus Life
- 400K
- 600K
Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1C 6C [Free Play]
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1C 6C [Free Play]
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
Coin Slot
- Individual [Free Play]
- Shared
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Hardest
- Normal
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Lives
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Service Mode
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	3.u71	131072	2168e4ba	ca7ad6acb5f806ce2528e7b52c19e8cceecb8543	audiocpu	0	good	no
arcade	3020.u19	1			pals	0	nodump	no
arcade	3021.u69	1			pals	0	nodump	no
arcade	4.u46	262144	b78ec99d	399b79931652d9df1632cd4d7ec3d214e473a5c3	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	5.u39	262144	925f095d	301a536119a0320a756e9c6e51fb10e36b90ef16	maincpu	2	good	no
arcade	u14.bin	2097152	7d7e8a00	9f35f5b54ae928e9bf2aa6ad4604f669857955ec	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	u15.bin	2097152	a827bfb5	6e02436e12085016cf1982c9ae07b6c6dec82f1b	gfx1	400000	good	no
arcade	u24.bin	2097152	5e3ffc9d	c284eb9ef56c8e6261fe11f91a10c5c5a56c9803	gfx1	200000	good	no
arcade	u25.bin	1048576	ef652e0c	6dd994a15ced31d1bbd1a3b0e9d8d86eca33e217	gfx1	600000	good	no
arcade	u3.bin	262144	0905aeb2	8cca09f7dfe3f804e77515f7b1b1bdbeb7bb3d80	spritelut	0	good	no
arcade	u33.bin	2097152	54494e6b	f5d090d2d34d908b56b53a246def194929eba990	gfx2	0	good	no
arcade	u56.bin	1048576	9e07104d	3bc54cb755bb3194197706965b532d62b48c4d12	ymsnd	0	good	no
arcade	u64.bin	524288	e187ed4f	05060723d89b1d05714447a14b5f5888ff3c2306	ymsnd.deltat	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68EC020	maincpu	cpu	16000000
Speaker	mono	audio
YM2610	ymsnd	audio	8000000
Z80	audiocpu	cpu	4000000

Serie

Serie : Gunbird

Gunbird (World) (1994)
Gunbird (Japan) (1994)
Gunbird (Korea) (1994)
Gunbird (Jpn) (1995)
Gunbird (Jpn) (1995)
Gunbird 2 (1998)

0.60 [Brian Troha]

0.57 [Brian Troha]

0.37b5 [Luca Elia]

< Japan >

Artwork available

WIP:

- 8th October 2006: Mr. Do - Added Gunbird instruction cards from TheSheep.

- 0.79u2: Leon van Rooij fixed Gunbird attract mode (tilemaps can be opaque).

- 0.67: Changed descriptions to 'Gunbird (World)' and clones (Japan) to 'Gunbird (Japan)' and (Korea) to 'Gunbird (Korea)'.

- 0.62: Added new cpu1 roms and changed VSync to 59.299999Hz.

- 4th September 2002: Brian Troha submitted a new version of Gunbird (World) that fixes several bugs caused by the older, corrupt ROMs.

- 30th August 2002: Brian Troha fixed the dipswitches in Strikers 1945 and Gunbird, and Paul Priest improved them a little.

- 0.60: Brian Troha added Gunbird (World). Added 'Country' dipswitch. Renamed (gunbird) to (gunbirdk).

- 24th March 2002: Brian Troha re-submitted the addition of a world version of Gunbird to the Psikyo driver.

- 19th March 2002: Brian Troha corrected the Gunbird addition which is actually a world version.

- 18th March 2002: Pekka Salmia submitted an addition of the USA version of Gunbird to the Psikyo driver.

- 0.57: Added Gunbird (Korea). Renamed (gunbird) to (gunbirdj).

- 1st October 2001: Brian Troha added the Korean versions of Donpachi and Gunbird.

- 2nd July 2001: Bart Puype fixed Gunbird from crashing sometimes.

- 0.37b9: Added 'Flip Screen' dipswitch.

- 0.37b6: Changed 68EC020 CPU1 clock speed to 16MHz.

- 0.37b5: Luca Elia added 'Gun Bird (Japan)' (Psikyo 1994).

- 30th June 2000: Luca Elia sent in a Psikyo driver, the strongest games being Sengoku Ace and Gunbird.

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* FB Alpha

* Raine

LEVELS: 7 (restarts once with a "level zero" at the beginning)

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History

Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Gunbird (c) 1994 Psikyo.

In this vertical shoot-'em-up, you have 5 selectable characters who fight the big army of pirates but this time to restore a magic mirror.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 3
=> Shot, Bomb, Auto-Shot

- TRIVIA -

Gunbird was released in September 1994.

Marion also appears as a selectable character in another Psikyo's game : "Gunbarich".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gunbird 2, Gunbird - SGCD-0003) on 04/12/1998.

Note : There are 20 different endings!

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Extra Features : If you hold Test Button + PL1 Button 1 during boot, you get extra options in the test menu. A level skip, BG test usually etc...

- SERIES -

1. Gunbird (1994)
2. Gunbird 2 (1998)

- STAFF -

Staff : Hirofumi Nakamura, Artmic, Jun-Ichi Niwa, Shin Nakamura, Rick Johnson, Hyoue Ogama, Wataru Yamazaki, Hideyuki Oda, Ikuda Yosida, Youko Tsukagoshi, Hiromi Tanegasima, Toshinori Sugita, Seiki Sato, Shiori Saito, Yusa Tarou
Music Composed by : Masaki Izutani

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sega Saturn (dec.15, 1995; "Gunbird [Model T-14402G]")
[JP] Sony PlayStation (dec.15, 1995; "Gunbird [Model SLPS-00157]")
[JP] Sony PS2 (feb.19, 2004; "Gunbird 1&2 [Model SLPM-62469]")
[EU] Sony PS2 (mar.18, 2005; "Gunbird 1&2 [Model SLPM-62469]")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Gunbird (World)