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World Grand Prix (US)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Configurations
  9. Dipswitchs
  10. Roms list
  11. Chips list
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
Download wgp.zip (6.56 MB)
Snapshot

Game infos

Description World Grand Prix (US)
Name wgp
Manufacturer Taito America Corporation
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .037b10
Romset size 6.56 MB
Romset file 17 files
Romset zip 2 B
Language English
Genre Driving

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

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

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt yes
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 4 no
stick 0 255 20 10 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 320 240 60

Configuration

name tag mask
Steering type
Name Analogue
Value 0
Default no
Name Digital
Value 16
Default yes

FAKE
16

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c32-01.12 524288 d27d7d93 82ae5856bbdb49cb8c2ca20eef86f6b617ea2c45 gfx2 3 good no
arcade c32-02.11 524288 c5721f3a 4a8e9412de23001b09eb3425ba6006b4c09a907b gfx2 2 good no
arcade c32-03.10 524288 9ec3e134 e82a50927e10e551124a3b81399b052974cfba12 gfx2 1 good no
arcade c32-04.9 524288 473a19c9 4c632f4d5b725790a1be9d1143318d2f682fe9be gfx2 0 good no
arcade c32-05.71 524288 3698d47a 71978f9e1f58fa1259e67d8a7ea68e3ec1314c6b gfx3 0 good no
arcade c32-06.70 524288 f0267203 7fd7b8d7a9efa405fc647c16fb99ffcb1fe985c5 gfx3 1 good no
arcade c32-07.69 524288 743d46bd 6b655b3fbfad8b52e38d7388aab564f5fa3e778c gfx3 100000 good no
arcade c32-08.68 524288 faab63b0 6e1aaf2642bee7d7bc9e21a7bf7f81d9ff766c50 gfx3 100001 good no
arcade c32-09.16 524288 96495f35 ce99b4d8aeb98304e8ae3aa4966289c76ae4ff69 gfx1 0 good no
arcade c32-10.9 524288 a44c66e9 b5fa978e43303003969033b8096fd68885cfc202 maincpu 80000 good no
arcade c32-11.8 524288 2b326ff0 3c442e3c97234e4514a7bed31644212586869bd0 ymsnd 0 good no
arcade c32-12.7 524288 df48a37b c0c191f4b8a5f55c0f1e52dac9cd3f7d15adace6 ymsnd.deltat 0 good no
arcade c32-24.34 65536 e9adb447 8b7044b6ea864e4cfd60b87abd28c38caecb147d audiocpu 0 good no
arcade c32-25.12 131072 0cc81e77 435190bc24423e1e34134dff3cd4b79e120852d1 maincpu 0 good no
arcade c32-27.63 131072 be2397fb 605a02d56ae6007b36299a2eceb7ca180cbf6df9 sub 1 good no
arcade c32-28.64 131072 38f3c7bf bfcaa036e5ff23f2bbf74d738498eda7d6ccd554 sub 0 good no
arcade c32-29.13 131072 fab47cf0 c0129c0290b48f24c25e4dd7c6c937675e31842a maincpu 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 sub cpu 12000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b10 [David Graves]


WIP:

- 0.165: Reduced tagmap lookups in World Grand Prix [Wilbert Pol].

- 0.158: Removed dead code (video\wgp.c) [Alex Jackson].

- 0.157: Clean up banking and removed unneeded postload callbacks [Alex Jackson].

- 0.136u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct to World Grand Prix.

- 0.130u2: Demoted World Grand Prix to have the GAME_NOT_WORKING flag.

- 0.118u3: Stephane Humbert cleaned up several Taito drivers to use common input port macros. Fixed the dipwitches for all games (a few still remain unknown though) and added many notes. Removed button 7. Changed description of clones (joystick version set 1) to 'World Grand Prix (joystick version) (Japan, set 1)' and (joystick version set 2) to 'World Grand Prix (joystick version) (Japan, set 2)'.

- 0.59: Added dipswitches 'Motor Test', 'Flip Screen', 'Coinage', 'Price to Continue', 'Slave / Master ???', 'Communication' and 'Machine ID'.

- 0.57: Added clone World Grand Prix (joystick version set 2) (Japan). Added 'Steering type' dipswitch. Changed description of clone (joystick version) (Japan) to 'World Grand Prix (joystick version set 1) (Japan)'.

- 10th November 2001: Guru - Dumped an alternative version of WGP.

- 0.53: David Graves added clone World Grand Prix 2 (Japan).

- 10th August 2001: David Graves added color raster effects to the World Grand Prix driver, and he fixed other graphics bugs in World Grand Prix 2 so it is now playable.

- 21st May 2001: David Graves added state saving support to World Grand Prix and fixed some graphics problems.

- 0.37b15: David Graves fixed sprites in World Grand Prix.

- 30th December 2000: David Graves added World Grand Prix 2 to the World Grand Prix driver, but it has some graphics problems with zooming rotation layers.

- 0.37b11: Added clone World Grand Prix (joystick version) (Japan) and (Testdriver) World Grand Prix 2 (Japan). Fixed rom names.

- 30th December 2000: David Graves added World Grand Prix 2 to the World Grand Prix driver, but it has some graphics problems with zooming rotation layers.

- 0.37b10: Added 'World Grand Prix (US)' (Taito America Corporation 1989) and clone (Japan).

- 4th December 2000: David Graves added support for a third Taito TC0100SCN chip emulation.

- 1st December 2000: David Graves updated the TC0100SCN Taito chip emulation to support extra wide tilemaps, making Darius 2, Ninja Warriors and Warrior Blade playable.

- 15th November 2000: David Graves sent in a driver for World Grand Prix.


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

WGP - Real Racing Feeling (c) 1989 Taito.

- TECHNICAL -

Board Number : K1100537A
Prom Stickers : C32

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : stick
Buttons : 7

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1989, WGP was released in March 1990 in Japan.

- STAFF -

Programmers : Yoshinori Kobayashi, Osaru Kinoshita, Yuji Hiroshige, Masahiro Okamoto, Tarabar Hori
Character designers : Seiji Kawakami, Tetsuya Shinoda, Yasuhiko Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Satou, Atsumi Yoshino
Hardware : Yasuhiro Shibuya, Toshihiro Tanaka, Tsukasa Nakamura, Tadashi Kushiro, Yasushi Yamanouchi
Mechanic : Tohru Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Iwasaki, Shigeio Ueda
Sound by (Zuntata) : (Mar), Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack)
Graphic designer : Rintarou Doi
Cabinet designer : Shinobu Sekiguchi
Direction & Game designer : Hiroyuki Sakou

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



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