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Marvel Land (US)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
Download marvland.zip (4.41 MB)
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Game infos

Description Marvel Land (US)
Name marvland
Manufacturer Namco
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .036b14
Romset size 4.41 MB
Romset file 26 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Platform

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
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 288 224 60.606061 6144000 384 0 288 264 0 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mv1-chr0.bin 262144 1c7e8b4f b9d61895d9c9302c5cb5f7bb7f045b2014c12317 gfx2 0 good no
arcade mv1-chr1.bin 262144 01e4cafd 27c911d6d4501233094826cf1b4b809b832d6d9f gfx2 80000 good no
arcade mv1-chr2.bin 262144 198fcc6f b28f97d58fb2365843bbc3764cb59bfb9d5dfd92 gfx2 100000 good no
arcade mv1-chr3.bin 262144 ed6f22a5 62ab2a2746abbbed533a5b519bbb0d603030cdca gfx2 180000 good no
arcade mv1-obj0.bin 262144 73a29361 fc8ac9a063c1f18ae619ddca3062491774c86040 gfx1 0 good no
arcade mv1-obj1.bin 262144 abbe4a99 7f8df4b40236b97a0dce984698308647d5803244 gfx1 80000 good no
arcade mv1-obj2.bin 262144 753659e0 2662acf7bec528c7ac4181f62154581e304eea82 gfx1 100000 good no
arcade mv1-obj3.bin 262144 d1ce7339 a89a0ef39b6ac3fdaf6a2b3c04fd048827fcdb13 gfx1 180000 good no
arcade mv1-roz0.bin 131072 7381a5a9 0515630f124725adfd21575b390209833bb6a6ef gfx3 0 good no
arcade mv1-roz1.bin 131072 e899482e caa511baba1805c485503353efdade9e218f2ba5 gfx3 80000 good no
arcade mv1-roz2.bin 131072 de141290 c1daa6c01ba592138cffef02edfa0928f2232079 gfx3 100000 good no
arcade mv1-roz3.bin 131072 e310324d 936c7aeace677ed51a720e4ae96cdac0f4984a9b gfx3 180000 good no
arcade mv1-roz4.bin 131072 48ddc5a9 c524b18d7b4526227d5b99d7e4a4582ce2ecd373 gfx3 200000 good no
arcade mv1-sha.bin 262144 a47db5d3 110e26412aa84f229773049112709be457b7a6ff gfx4 0 good no
arcade mv1-voi1.bin 524288 de5cac09 2d73e54c4f159e52db2c403a59d6c137cce6f53e c140 0 good no
arcade mv2_dat0 131072 62e6318b 5c26bc054298f2a0980f7e82ba1844bc9f5eff98 data_rom 0 good no
arcade mv2_dat1 131072 8a6902ca 272e8699b872b3a50d72090b43c57493e6642bfe data_rom 1 good no
arcade mv2_dat2 131072 f5c6408c 568fb08d0763dc91674d708fa2d15ca952956145 data_rom 100000 good no
arcade mv2_dat3 131072 6df76955 fcfb520399acdd3776f66944121d6980552d3100 data_rom 100001 good no
arcade mv2_mpr0 131072 d8b14fee 8b5615106426efad45c651f1d6b9a6e3238bc242 maincpu 0 good no
arcade mv2_mpr1 131072 29ff2738 9f493f32ae1c4e7ef48d7e208c63a222636bda06 maincpu 1 good no
arcade mv2_snd0 131072 a5b99162 cafe8d1dae1e981c7ff9b70076b3e1d52cd806f7 audiocpu c000 baddump no
arcade mv2_spr0 65536 aa418f29 413798d9c1d98cfcadb045a5436aaee61ce6718f slave 0 good no
arcade mv2_spr1 65536 dbd94def 56a8d7acd483bc4d12c8bc5b7e90ffdb132be670 slave 1 good no
arcade sys2c65c.bin 32768 a5b2a4ff 068bdfcc71a5e83706e8b23330691973c1c214dc mcu 8000 good no
arcade sys2mcpu.bin 8192 a342a97e 2c420d34dba21e409bf78ddca710fc7de65a6642 mcu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
C140 c140 audio 21333
HD63705 mcu cpu 2048000
M68000 slave cpu 12288000
M6809 audiocpu cpu 2048000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579545

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b14 [?]

0.36b8 [Keith Wilkins]

0.36b6 [Testdriver]


Bugs:

- [possible] Compared to the Japan Version of the game the music sounds wrong. cibomatto2002 (ID 02048)


WIP:

- 0.180: Tagged Marvel Land as imperfect sound. Note: The sound in this version does not match Japan or any of the ports and sounds incorrect. Needing redump of sound rom [System11].

- 0.133u1: Renamed (marvlanj) to (marvlandj).

- 0.36RC2: Re-added C140 sound rom (512k).

- 0.36b16: Replaced C140 sound rom (512k) with 2x 256k roms.

- 0.36b14: Added Marvel Land (US). Renamed (marvland) to (marvlanj).

- 0.36b11: Added new cpu4 rom (sys2c65c.bin).

- 0.36b8: Keith Wilkins added 'Marvel Land (Japan)' (Namco 1989).

- 12th October 1999: Keith Wilkins sent in another Namco System 2 update with controls working in most games, and also fixed a lot of the graphics bugs. The playable games are now Assault, Ordyne, Mirai Ninja, Phelios, Valkyrie No Densetsu, Finest Hour, Burning Force, Marvel Land, Dragon Saber and Cosmo Gang the Video.

- 0.36b6: Added (Testdriver) Marvel Land.


LEVELS: 18


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Marvel Land (c) 1989 Namco.

Great horizontal platform game that takes place in a fantasy amusement park. You play as Prince Paco, who is on a quest to save Princess Luxy from the evil Mole King.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 2 hardware
Game ID : MV

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 8192

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1989, Marvel Land was released in January 1990 in Japan.

Some bonus level parade floats and rides featured in levels contain popular Namco characters such as "Pac-Man", Pooka from "Dig Dug", Solvalou from "Xevious", "Mappy", "Grobda", Paccet from "Baraduke", Dragon from "Dragon Spirit" and "Berabow Man".

The pink female robot that appears in the game later appears in the Namco Museum series behind the museum's information desk.

Default highscore table (TOP 5) :
RANK SCORE NAME ROUND
1ST 80000 AAA 2-2
2ND 40000 BBB 2-1
3RD 20000 CCC 1-4
4TH 10000 DDD 1-4
5TH 5000 EEE 1-3

- UPDATES -

* World and Japanese versions have different gameplay, bonuses and bosses.
* In the Japanese version you can choose between easy and normal course.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Mega Drive (1991)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1570&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gohat0________________________242.340
columbojeff___________________199.630
dark_kariya___________________156.570
furohon_______________________143.270
sawys_________________________138.150
majygool______________________119.920
michaelknight_________________108.010
zarouk_________________________40.250
didyeah________________________24.160
hulkiii________________________19.480