darkseal2: MAME ROM Information. History:
Dark Seal II (c) 1992 Data East.
Five legendary heroes must fight through the evil monsters in order to eradicate the evil presence from their kingdom. May the power be with you!
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : MAS
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 14 Mhz)
Sound CPU : HuC6280 (@ 8.055 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.627 Khz), OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Released in May 1992.
This game is known in US as "Wizard Fire".
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dark Seal II : Data East Gamadelic - PCCB-00129) on 17/09/1993.
- SERIES -
1. Dark Seal (1990)
2. Dark Seal II (1992)
- STAFF -
Game master : Yoshiyuki Urushibara
Project leader : Naomi Susa
Soft leader : Souichi Akiyama
Object graphic leader : Yohiyuki Ishibiki
Back graphic leader : Masanori Tokoro
Music leader : Tatsuya Kiuchi
Soft : Haruyuki Kobayashi, Shinichi Suzuki
Character designer : Tomoki Matoba
Object designers : Kazumi Minagawa, Sonomi Kiyota, Chie Kitahara, Hitomi Fujiwara, Asami Kaneko, Yasuko Kurohiji, Hiroshi Koga
Back designers : Ryohei Harakata, Kazuhi Imoto
Music composers : Tom Sato, Mihoko Ando, Gamadelic
Hard : Shingo Mitsui, Masao
* CAST :
Knight : Greg Sullivan
Wizard : Susan Barger
Bard : Bill O'Neill
Dwarf : William Rooney
Elf : Chiwe Gordon
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.131u3 [Irongiant]
0.64 [Bryan McPhail]
Bugs:
- darkseal2: [possible] Cutscenes suffer from glitched-up voice samples. Samurai Fox (ID 03941)
WIP:
- 0.144u7: Converted Wizard Fire to use generic DECO functions [David Haywood].
- 0.133u1: Renamed (wizdfiru) to (wizdfireu) and (darksel2) to (darkseal2).
- 0.132u1: Angelo Salese added irq hack support in the Rohga driver, fixes character selection behaviour in Wizard Fire.
- 0.131u3: Irongiant added Wizard Fire (Over Sea v2.1). Renamed (wizdfire) to (wizdfiru).
- 0.122u2: Changed HuC6280 CPU2 clock speed to 2685000 Hz.
- 0.96: Changed HuC6280 CPU2 clock speed to 8055000 Hz.
- 0.93: Changed 2nd OKI6295 clock speed to 15255 Hz.
- 0.87: Changed VSync to 58Hz.
- 0.71u2: Inigo Luja fixed dips in Wizard Fire. Added dipswitches '2 Coins to Start, 1 to Continue' and 'Unused'.
- 0.64: Bryan McPhail added Wizard Fire (US v1.1) (Data East 1992) and clone Dark Seal 2 (Japan v2.1). TODO: On Wizard Fire when you insert a coin and press start, the start button being held seems to select the knight right away. Check on real board.
- 25th January 2003: Bryan McPhail sent in a driver for Wizard Fire / Dark Seal 2 (works fully) and Rohga and Nitroball (not working because of protection).
LEVELS: 5
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
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Romset: 10945 kb / 22 files / 5.08 zip
MAME XML Output:
   | <game name="darkseal2" sourcefile="rohga.c" cloneof="wizdfire" romof="wizdfire"> |
   |    | <description>Dark Seal 2 (Japan v2.1)</description> |
   |    | <year>1992</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Data East Corporation</manufacturer> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-01-3.3d" size="131072" crc="82308c01" sha1="aa0733e244f14f2c84b6929236771cbc99532bb2" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-00-3.3a" size="131072" crc="1d38113a" sha1="69dc5a4dbe9d9737df198240f3db6f2115e311a5" region="maincpu" offset="1"/> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-03.5d" merge="je-03.5d" size="131072" crc="5217d404" sha1="7cfcdb9e2c812bf0d4ac8306834242876ac47844" region="maincpu" offset="40000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-02.5a" merge="je-02.5a" size="131072" crc="36a1ce28" sha1="62d52d720c89022de97759777230c45c460d8fb6" region="maincpu" offset="40001"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas13" merge="mas13" size="524288" crc="7e5256ce" sha1="431d78ad185ba0216097f131fb2583a1a067e4f0" region="maincpu" offset="80000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas12" merge="mas12" size="524288" crc="005bd499" sha1="862079022f97bd11f2f33677dce55bd3b144a81b" region="maincpu" offset="80001"/> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-06.20r" size="65536" crc="2066a1dd" sha1="a0d136e90825fa9c089894a6852c634676d64579" region="audiocpu" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="jb-04.10d" merge="je-04.10d" size="65536" crc="73cba800" sha1="dd7612fe1482713fcee5960b7db158be872d7fda" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="mas00" merge="mas00" size="1048576" crc="3d011034" sha1="167d6d088d51a41f196be104d795ffe24297c96a" region="gfx2" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas01" merge="mas01" size="1048576" crc="6d0c9d0b" sha1="63e19dfd6451810637664b08e880aef139ca6ed5" region="gfx2" offset="100000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas02" merge="mas02" size="524288" crc="af00e620" sha1="43f4680b22ac6baf840274462c07fee68a2fbdfb" region="gfx3" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas03" merge="mas03" size="524288" crc="2fe61ea2" sha1="0909e6c689c3e10225d7c074bd654ff2ada96983" region="gfx3" offset="80000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas04" merge="mas04" size="1048576" crc="1e56953b" sha1="0655ac7f3c5030a80c2d6bad5c3a79b2cb1ae4a2" region="gfx4" offset="1"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas05" merge="mas05" size="1048576" crc="3826b8f8" sha1="d59197b4e0525b86876f9cce6fbf80caba976851" region="gfx4" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas06" merge="mas06" size="1048576" crc="3b8bbd45" sha1="c9f9d4daf9c0cba5385af26f3762b29c291ff62b" region="gfx4" offset="200001"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas07" merge="mas07" size="1048576" crc="31303769" sha1="509604be06ec8e0c1b56a81a8ffccdf0f79e9fd7" region="gfx4" offset="200000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas08" merge="mas08" size="524288" crc="e224fb7a" sha1="9aa92fb98bddff313db2077c4db102e94c7af09b" region="gfx5" offset="1"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas09" merge="mas09" size="524288" crc="5f6deb41" sha1="850d0e157b4355e866ec770a2012293b2c55648f" region="gfx5" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas10" merge="mas10" size="524288" crc="6edc06a7" sha1="8ab92cca9d4a5d4fed3d99737c6f023f3f606db2" region="oki1" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mas11" merge="mas11" size="524288" crc="c2f0a4f2" sha1="af71d649aea273c17d7fbcf8693e8a1d4b31f7f8" region="oki2" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="mb7122h.16l" merge="mb7122h.16l" size="1024" crc="2bee57cc" sha1="bc48670aa7c39f6ff7fae4c819eab22ed2db875b" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="14000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="HuC6280" clock="2685000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2151" clock="3580000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="oki1" name="OKI6295" clock="1006875"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="oki2" name="OKI6295" clock="2013750"/> |
   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="320" height="240" refresh="58.000000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="2"/> |
   |    | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW1_2" mask="7"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="7" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="6"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="5"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="4"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/5 Credits" value="3"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="2"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW1_2" mask="56"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="8"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="56" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="48"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="40"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="32"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/5 Credits" value="24"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="16"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW1_2" mask="64"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="2 Credits to Start, 1 to Continue" tag="DSW1_2" mask="128"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW1_2" mask="768"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3" value="256"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4" value="768" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="5" value="512"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW1_2" 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="Magic Gauge Speed" tag="DSW1_2" mask="12288"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Very Slow" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Slow" value="4096"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="12288" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Fast" value="8192"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW1_2" mask="16384"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16384" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW1_2" mask="32768"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32768"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="2048"/> |
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