daioh: MAME ROM Information. History:
Daioh (c) 1993 Sammy.
An excellent vertically scrolling space shoot'em up. Excellent graphics, multi-layer scrolling, big sprites (especially bosses), and an extreme difficulty that continued to increase from easy to insane the farther along you went without getting killed.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : X1-010 (@ 16 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 384 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1536
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
=> Ion Shot, Laser Shot, Missile Shot, Fire Bomb, Mega Beam, Atomic Bomb
- TRIVIA -
Released in July 1993.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Great King'.
Developed by Athena Co., Ltd. In 1997, Daioh's staff established a new company, called 'Warashi', their first game "Shienryu" was very smilar to Daioh.
Mark Carmichael holds the official record for this game with 144,900 points on July 15, 2006.
- STAFF -
Programmer : Tsutomu Tabata
Graphic designers : Undead Tama, Kata Chumuri, Numa
Composer : Sho
Sound driver : K. Zikil-Hide Ishibashi
Producer : Noriyuki Takasaki
Exective producer : Sakae Nakamura
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.62 [David Haywood]
Bugs:
- On the attract mode screen with the earth down, there is a glitchy line at the bottom and the explosion is glitched. cpukett / Twisty (ID 00317)
WIP:
- 24th November 2002: David Haywood fixed the background layer placement in Daioh.
- 0.62: David Haywood added Daioh (Athena 1993).
- 27th August 2002: David Haywood changed Daioh to use the redumped ROMs, fixing the background graphics glitches.
- 26th August 2002: David Haywood added Daioh to the Seta driver, it's playable but there is some garbage in the background graphics.
LEVELS: 7 (must be finished twice)
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
* Raine
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Romset: 8192 kb / 7 files / 2.90 zip
MAME XML Output:
   | <game name="daioh" sourcefile="seta.c"> |
   |    | <description>Daioh</description> |
   |    | <year>1993</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Athena</manufacturer> |
   |    | <rom name="fg1-001" size="524288" crc="104ae74a" sha1="928c467e3ff98285a4828a927d851fcdf296849b" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="fg1-002" size="524288" crc="e39a4e67" sha1="c3f47e9d407f32dbfaf209d29b4446e4de8829a2" region="maincpu" offset="1"/> |
   |    | <rom name="fg1-004" size="1048576" crc="9ab0533e" sha1="b260ceb2b3e140971419329bee07a020171794f7" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="fg1-003" size="1048576" crc="1c9d51e2" sha1="1d6236ab28d11676386834fd6e405fd40198e924" region="gfx1" offset="100000"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="fg1-006" size="2097152" crc="2052c39a" sha1="83a444a76e68aa711b0e25a5aa963ca876a6357e" region="gfx3" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="fg1-007" size="1048576" crc="4a2fe9e0" sha1="e55b6f301f842ff5d3c7a0041856695ac1d8a78f" region="x1snd" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="16000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="x1snd" name="X1-010" clock="16000000"/> |
   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="270" width="384" height="240" refresh="60.000000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="2"/> |
   |    | <input players="2" buttons="6" coins="2"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="COINS" mask="16"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="COINS" mask="32"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="COINS" mask="64"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Country" tag="COINS" mask="128"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="USA (6 buttons)" value="128" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Japan (2 buttons)" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW" mask="7"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="2"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="4"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="7" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="3"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="6"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="5"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Free Play" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW" mask="56"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="8"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="32"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="56" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="24"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="48"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="40"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Free Play" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="64" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Auto Shot" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW" mask="256"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="256" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW" mask="512"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="512" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW" mask="3072"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="2048"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="3072" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="1024"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW" mask="12288"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2" value="4096"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3" value="12288" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="5" value="8192"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW" mask="49152"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="300k and every 800k" value="32768"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="500k and every 1000k" value="49152" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="800k and 2000k only" value="16384"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1000k Only" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="1536"/> |
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