cottonbm: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Cotton Boomerang - Magical Night Dreams (c) 1998 Success.
A followup game to Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang uses the same graphics, sound and enemies, but slightly different gameplay.
Gone are the lifebars, now you have one-hit kills (similar to the very first episode).
Gone are the extra lives, instead you have 3 chosen characters, tag-team style.
Gone is the experience-based level system, leveling up now depends on bonus items during the game.
Gone are the special, full-screen Magic attacks, instead you have an instant smart-bomb when you change into a different character in-game.
Gone are the powerup-dependant magic attacks, now each character has his/her own magic attack by default.
The characters are also equipped with secondary attacks to make their shooting style more distinctive from each other. And to top that, you have plenty of new moves, counterattacks, powerups, and key combinations to use.
Whereas Cotton 2 was more of a tactical shooter (whenever that is applicable to the game) with its chain combo and life/experience system, Cotton Boomerang is an all-out shooter due to the added moves, different level layout, and generally faster and crazier gameplay.
- TECHNICAL -
Sega Titan Video hardware (STV)
Main CPU : (2x) SH-2 (@ 28.6364 Mhz), 68000 (@ 11.45456 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SCSP (@ 11.45456 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 704 x 513 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 6144
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
- TRIVIA -
Released in July 1998.
The game uses the same music as Cotton 2, for which Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album (Cotton 2 - PCCB-00278) on 19/09/1997.
PATENTS :
U.S.A : 4,442,486 - 4,454,594 - 4,462,076
Europe : 80244
Canada : 1,183,276
Honk Kong : 88-4302
Singapore : 88-155
- SERIES -
1. Cotton - Fantastic Night Dreams (1991)
2. Marchen Adventure Cotton 100% (1994, Super Famicom)
3. Panorama Cotton (1994, Sega Mega Drive)
4. Cotton 2 - Magical Night Dreams (1997)
5. Cotton Boomerang - Magical Night Dreams (1998)
6. Rainbow Cotton (2000, Sega Dreamcast)
7. Magical Pachinko Cotton (2003, Sony PlayStation 2)
- STAFF -
Programmer : Masaru Hatsuyama, Takashi Egawano
Designer : Masahiro Pukuda, Toshihisa Katsuki
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Sega Saturn (1998)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.76u2 [David Haywood, Angelo Salese, Olivier Galibert]
0.74u2 [?]
0.63 [?]
WIP:
- 0.143u2: Angelo Salese fixed 1st level boss play completely invisible in Cotton Boomerang.
- 0.143: Angelo Salese fixed black screen instead of intro in Cotton Boomerang.
- 0.126u5: R. Belmont fixed sprite layer offset toward upper-left and Fatal Error crash in Cotton Boomerang.
- 0.126u3: R. Belmont enable strict PC relative loads for ST-V games; at least Cotton Boomerang needs them.
- 0.90u2: Changed description to 'Cotton Boomerang (JUET 980709 V1.000)'.
- 15th April 2004: Mariusz Wojcieszek fixed a sprite rendering bug in the ST-V driver where some sprites got distorted to the wrong size, improving Othello Shiyouyo title screen, helicopter in Die Hard Arcade, attract modes in Cotton Boomerang and Hanagumi Taisen Columns and it also makes Super Major League almost playable.
- 0.81u4: Mariusz Wojcieszek added some RBG0 scrolling which greatly improved background graphics in cotton2, cottonbm, grdforce and othellos.
- 0.76u2: Status - Cotton Boomerang has missing ground in places.
- 0.76u1: More ST-V improvements, fixing various graphical issues (Shienryu Sprite Colours) and general other bits and pieces. More games are 'watchable' now, for example Cotton 2, Cotton Boomerang, Puyo Puyo Sun, Columns 97 however they lack controls [David Haywood].
- 0.74u2: Added Cotton Boomerang (Success 1998).
- 0.63: Added Cotton Boomerang (Testdriver).
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Romset: 26624 kb / 7 files / 12.5 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Cotton Boomerang (JUET 980709 V1.000)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Success</manufacturer> |
| | | <biosset name="jp" description="EPR-20091 (Japan 97/08/21)" default="yes"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp1" description="EPR-19730 (Japan 97/02/17)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp2" description="EPR-17951A (Japan 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp3" description="STVB1.11J (Japan 95/02/20)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="jp4" description="EPR-17740 (Japan 95/01/31)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="euro" description="EPR-17954A (Europe 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="us" description="EPR-17952A (USA 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="tw" description="EPR-17953A (Taiwan 95/04/25)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="tw1" description="STVB1.11T (Taiwan 95/02/20)"/> |
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| | | <biosset name="dev" description="Development (bios 1.061)"/> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="68000" clock="11289600"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="scsp" name="SCSP"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="cdda" name="CD/DA"/> |
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| | | <input players="4" buttons="4" coins="2" service="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
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| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW1" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="PDR2" tag="DSW2" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW2" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="imperfect" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="6144"/> |
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