0.119u4 [Luca Elia]
< Japan >
WIP:
- 0.129: Phil Bennett fixed access violation (debug) in Hana wo Yaraneba!.
- 0.119u4: Luca Elia added 'Hana wo Yaraneba! (Japan)' (Dynax 1991).
- 6th October 2007: Luca Elia - Here we go again, some new japanese games. We have two hanafuda games, running on the Dynax driver. First up is Hanafuda Hana Tengoku (1992). This one requires a bit more work to be faithfully emulated, since it uses the older Dynax driver blitter with the layers mixer chip usually found on DonDenLover class boards. Next one is Hana wo Yaraneba! (1991). A third hanafuda game, Hanajingi, was also dumped. Alas, I couldn't find any code roms, so it's added as not working. Finally, a Jaleco quiz game, called Hayaoshi Quiz Ouza Ketteisen (1993). Priorities are currently wrong since, as I write, we're missing the dump of a 512 byte prom. This game runs on the Megasys1 driver (which, incidentally, I wrote some 9 years ago!). The later games on this driver use a light form of protection, whereby the inputs are accessed by sending a series of codes to a "device", and reading back the result. The codes are game specific, and prevent any rom swapping. Interestingly, for the first time the dumper identified what appears to be an 8-bit microcontroller, that must be involved. We will need the code from in there, for this and a handful of others games, in order to achieve a faithful emulation. As for this game, it's the first episode of a series. The other two episodes are Hayaoshi Quiz Grand Champion Taikai (already in MAME) and Hayaoshi Quiz Nettou Namahousou (recently dumped). Though they run on a later platform, Jaleco Mega System 32. Thanks to Dyq, Bnathan, Guru / Team Japump, sayu.
