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Light Bringer (Ver 2.2O 1994/04/08)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
Download lightbr.zip (21.25 MB)
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Game infos

Description Light Bringer (Ver 2.2O 1994/04/08)
Name lightbr
Manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1993
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P sim
Added to MAME .135u1
Romset size 21.25 MB
Romset file 17 files
Romset zip 7 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 yes
Input players 4
Input buttons
Input coins 4

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 4095 25 25 no
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 320 224 58.97

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade d69-01.bin 2097152 9ac93ac2 1c44f6ba95505f85b0c8a90395f09d2a49da3553 ensoniq.0 0 good no
arcade d69-02.bin 2097152 dce28dd7 eacfc98349b0608fc1a944c11f0483fb6caa4445 ensoniq.0 400000 good no
arcade d69-03.bin 2097152 6999c86f 8a91930edfc0b5d23e59f8c3b43131db6edb4d37 gfx2 0 good no
arcade d69-04.bin 2097152 cc91dcb7 97f510b1e1a3adf49efe82babdd7abce3756ce4b gfx2 1 good no
arcade d69-05.bin 2097152 f9f5433c d3de66385d883c72967c44bc29983d7a79f665d1 gfx2 600000 good no
arcade d69-06.bin 2097152 cb4aac81 15d315c6b9695cc2fe07defc67c7a4fb26de1950 gfx1 0 good no
arcade d69-07.bin 2097152 b749f984 39fd662bdc42e812519181a640a83e29e300826a gfx1 1 good no
arcade d69-08.bin 2097152 5b68d7d8 f2ee3dd7100a3c9d8f402fe36dae2bc66cb17be3 gfx1 900000 good no
arcade d69-09.bin 1048576 a96c19b8 7872b4dd9d51877bed709fec393413e41d6b954f gfx1 400000 good no
arcade d69-10.bin 1048576 36aa80c6 aeb5f7632810564426761b5798539bf4c4a0c64c gfx1 400001 good no
arcade d69-11.bin 1048576 c11adf92 ee9ce49a43b419c4f44ac1aea8d0a12d7b289244 gfx1 b00000 good no
arcade d69-18.bin 131072 04600d7b 666cfab09b61fd6e0bc4ff277018ebf1cda01b0e taito_en:audiocpu 100000 good no
arcade d69-19.bin 131072 1484e853 4459c18ba005786483c652857e527c6093efb036 taito_en:audiocpu 100001 good no
arcade d69-25.ic40 524288 27f1b8be e5fc47644a000c96056e2013c42272ae5beeb98e maincpu 0 good no
arcade d69-26.ic38 524288 2ff7dba6 8757d949f44bb69fbf918852046ed0cd46ab7864 maincpu 1 good no
arcade d69-27.ic34 524288 e232a949 aa6969e0aa195dbae1aecc4e812c590ab4389174 maincpu 3 good no
arcade d69-28.ic36 524288 a5546162 35d9cd41f379e7fc4092c6c519b158208b977d89 maincpu 2 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
ES5505 taito_en:ensoniq audio 15238050
M68000 taito_en:audiocpu cpu 15238050
M68EC020 maincpu cpu 16000000
Speaker taito_en:rspeaker audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.135u1 [Choi Sung Ho]

0.61 [?]

0.37b11 [Bryan McPhail]


Artwork available


Bugs:

- dungeonm, dungenmu, lightbr: At the begining of the second scenario, the ground is over the player at the entrance of the door on the starcaise, just when the exit arrow appears (see snapshot). Luja (ID 01171)


WIP:

- 0.135u1: Choi Sung Ho added Light Bringer (Ver 2.20 1994/04/08). Renamed (lightbr) to (lightbrj).

- 0.133u1: Renamed (dungenmu) to (dungeonmu).

- 0.127u7: Couriersud fixed a title screen trouble in clone Light Bringer.

- 0.126u5: Guru added README for Light Bringer.

- 0.105u1: Changed description to 'Dungeon Magic (Ver 2.1O 1994/02/18)' and clones (US) to 'Dungeon Magic (Ver 2.1A 1994/02/18)' and 'Light Bringer (Japan)' to 'Light Bringer (Ver 2.1J 1994/02/18)'.

- 0.67: Changed description of clone 'Lightbringer (Japan)' to 'Light Bringer (Japan)'.

- 0.61: Added 'Dungeon Magic (World)' (Taito 1993) and clone (US).

- 0.37b11: Bryan McPhail added 'Lightbringer (Japan)' (Taito 1993).

- 16th January 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed some memory corrupting bugs in the Taito F3 driver.

- 15th January 2001: Bryan McPhail finally submitted his Taito F3 driver, which is not graphically perfect and crashes hard sometimes but has complete ES5505 sound emulation thanks to Aaron Giles, Ian Schmidt and R. Belmont. Not all games are working due to 68020 core bugs, but these are: Ring Rage, Arabian Magic, Riding Fight, Grid Seeker: Project Stormhammer, Gunlock / Rayforce, Super Cup Finals / Hat Trick Hero '93, Top Ranking Stars, Light Bringer, Kaiser Knuckle / Global Champion, Bubble Bobble 2 / Bubble Symphony, Space Invaders DX, Taito Power Goal / Hat Trick Hero '95, Quiz Theater - 3tsu no Monogatari, Akkanvader, Moriguchi Hiroko no Quiz de Hyuu!Hyuu!, Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move Again, Puzzle Bobble 2X, Kyukyoku Tiger 2, Bubble Memories, Cleopatra Fortune, Puzzle Bobble 3, Arkanoid Returns, Kirameki Star Road, Puchi Carat and Pop 'N Pop.


LEVELS: 4


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* Raine


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History


Taito F3 cart. published 25 years ago:

Lightbringer (c) 1994 Taito.

Four mythical heroes traverse dungeons and castles to find and defeat the source of evil corruptive power that is threatening their land. Gameplay is refreshingly less linear than most beat'em ups.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "Taito F3 System" Hardware.

Prom Stickers : D69

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Lightbringer was released in February 1994 in Japan. It was known outside Japan as "Dungeon Magic".

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to '???'.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Lightbringer - PCCB-00154) on May 20, 1994.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Characters list:

Ash is an ex-knight with excellent swordsmanship.
- Power Attack : Arc Sword - attacks enemies by leaping into the air.
- Special Attack : Berserk - temporary invincibility + continuous attacks.

Gren is a roving eastern warrior and is an expert in martial arts.
- Power Attack : Break Off - makes a single attack with his sword.
- Special Attack : Fire Blast - explosion damages nearby enemies.

Cisty is a fairy with great magic and archery skills. Her whole family was destroyed long ago by the evil spirit.
- Power Attack : Arrow - attacks distant enemies with an arrow.
- Special Attack : Summon - summons spirits to defeat enemies.

Vold is a very old and powerful magician who wields a magic staff.
- Power Attack : Magic - attacks with various magical spells.
- Special Attack : Meteors - causes meteor showers.

- STAFF -

Project leader : Keppel Maekawa
Game designers : Keppel Maekawa, Turtle Mizukami, Mucha
Software : Takahiro Natani, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Takafumi Kaneko, Toshiyuki Hayashi, Kunio Kuzukawa
Character designer : Kawamoyan
Character bit works : Kawamoyan, Makenjy, Zyjy-30, Akiyoshi Takada, Bibiko, Mari Fukusaki (Fire Fukusaki), Mochi Mochi Natsuko, Shigeki Yamamoto
All music and sound effects : Nakayama Jyotohei (Zuntata)
Music sound effects director : Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)
Instructions : Naoto Hashizume
Image illustration : Kouichirou Yonemura
Hardware works : Hironobu Suzuki, Katumi Kaneoka

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sony PS2 (jul.28, 2005) "Taito Memories Joukan [Model SLPM-66057]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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