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Metamorphic Force (ver EAA)

  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
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Game infos

Description Metamorphic Force (ver EAA)
Name metamrph
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1993
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P sim
Added to MAME .102
Romset size 15 MB
Romset file 15 files
Romset zip 6 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Fighter

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 good
Driver graphic imperfect
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service yes
Input tilt no
Input players 4
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 59.185606

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 224a03 524288 a5bedb01 5e7a0b93af654ba6a87be8d449c7080a0f0e2a43 maincpu 100001 good no
arcade 224a04 524288 ada53ba4 f77bf854dff1f8f718579fe6d3730066708396e2 maincpu 100000 good no
arcade 224a05 262144 4b4c985c c83cce05355023be9cd55b4aa595c61f8236269c soundcpu 0 good no
arcade 224a06 2097152 972f6abe 30907495fc49fe3424c092b074c1dc137aa14306 shared 0 good no
arcade 224a07 1048576 61b2f97a 34bf835d6361c7809d40fa20fd238c9e2a84b101 shared 200000 good no
arcade 224a08 1048576 dc94d53a 91e16371a335f078a81c06a1045759653080aba0 gfx1 2 good no
arcade 224a09 1048576 1931afce 78838c0fd2a9c80f130db1fcf6c88b14f7363639 gfx1 0 good no
arcade 224a10 2097152 161287f0 a13b197a98fa1cebb11fb87b54e277c72852c4ee gfx2 0 good no
arcade 224a11 2097152 df5960e1 ee7794dd119f5f2c52e7ba589d78067a89ff3cab gfx2 2 good no
arcade 224a12 2097152 ca72a4b3 a09deb6d7cb8be4edaeb78e0e676ea2d6055e9e0 gfx2 4 good no
arcade 224a13 2097152 86b58feb 5a43746e2cd3c7aca21496c092aef83e64b3ab2c gfx2 6 good no
arcade 224a14 262144 3c79b404 7c6bb4cbf050f314ea0cd3e8bc6e1947d0573084 k053250_1 0 good no
arcade 224eaa01.15h 262144 30962c2b ae1b2f92881bb0f386b6a413c1da507e73c29382 maincpu 1 good no
arcade 224eaa02.15f 262144 e314330a 728a18d604eca58409551e52b7dc18e2d807700a maincpu 0 good no
arcade metamrph.nv 128 2c51229a 7f056792cc44ec3d4aacc33c825ab796a913488e eeprom 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
K054539 ADPCM k054539_2 audio 18432000
M68000 maincpu cpu 16000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 soundcpu cpu 8000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.102 [Stefan Lindberg]

0.67 [R. Belmont, Phil Stroffolino]


Bugs:

- metamrph, metamrphj, metamrphu: Graphics bugs in the emulation. abelardator2 (ID 03814)

- Crashes just before approaching the first level's boss with an Access Violation error. Kekule (ID 00758)


WIP:

- 0.177: Abelardo Vidal added clone Metamorphic Force (ver AAA). Renamed (metamrpha) to (metamrphe).

- 0.175: caius added clone Metamorphic Force (ver EAA - alternate).

- 0.153: Alex Jackson fixed Metamorphic Force background and sprite offsets.

- 0.142u5: Changed region gfx3 to k053250_1.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (metamrpu) to (metamrphu) and (metamrpj) to (metamrphj).

- 0.123u6: Zsolt Vasvari fixed game doesn't start.

- 0.102: Stefan Lindberg added Metamorphic Force (ver EAA). Renamed (metamrph) to (metamrpu).

- 0.98u2: Changed description to 'Metamorphic Force (ver UAA)' and clone (Japan ver JAA) to 'Metamorphic Force (ver JAA)'.

- 0.69: GMB added clone Metamorphic Force (Japan ver JAA).

- 0.67: R. Belmont and Phil Stroffolino added 'Metamorphic Force (US ver UAA)' (Konami 1993) and clone (Japan ver JAA).

- 17th May 2003: Yasuhiro Ogawa added Japan versions of G.I. Joe and Metamorphic Force.

- 30th March 2003: R. Belmont enabled the shadows in Konami System GX driver and tilemap alpha blending in the Mystic Warriors driver. David Haywood fixed flickering sprites in Metamorphic Force, graphics layer offsets in several games in both the Mystic Warriors and Konami System GX drivers. Acho A. Tang added the infrastructure support for 3 independent colored shadows/highlights as required by the Konami games, and he cracked the protection in Violent Storm. The improvements also allow Twinbee Yahhoo to be fully playable now.

- 21st March 2003: Acho A. Tang fixed various graphics glitches in Mystic Warriors, Kyukyoku Sentai Dadandarn, Metamorphic Force and Gaiapolis. R. Belmont improved the graphics in the aforementioned drivers.


LEVELS: 6


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 26 years ago:

Metamorphic Force (c) 1993 Konami Company, Limited.

Beat-'em-up with 4 selectable characters who have the power to morph into Were-animals.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX224

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) K054539 (@ 48 Khz)

Players : 2 or 4 (Selectable by dipswitch)
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 2
=> Attack, Jump

- TRIVIA -

Metamorphic Force was released in August 1993.

King Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Konami Amusement Sounds '93 Autumn - KICA-7620, 7621) on October 21, 1993.

- UPDATES -

Japanese version :
* Version JAA
* Has additional Japanese subtitles when bosses speak.
* Has an energy bar instead of numbers.
* Has 2 Lives.

American version :
* Version UAA
* Has numbers to count energy instead of an energy bar.
* "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen added.

European version :
* Version EAA
* Has numbers to count energy instead of an energy bar.

- STAFF -

Producers : K. Kozuki, Y. Nishimura
Exective Producer : Masahiro Inoue
Software Designers : Gen, Tetsu. W, Yossy
Graphic Designers : Asadon (Asa "Don"), Satochan, Sochichi
Sound Effects : Sakagon
Music Editors : M. Izu, Ega
Hardware Designer : Yusaku
Visual Designer : Ricky
Special Thanks to : Keisuke, Kingoro, J_Kane, Ina X

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1621&o=2

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