fgtlayer: MAME ROM Information. History:
Fighting Layer (c) 1998 Namco.
A one-on-one 3-D fighting game.
- TECHNICAL -
Namco System 12 hardware
Game ID : FTL
Main CPU : PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz), H8/3002 (@ 14.7456 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C352 (@ 14.7456 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6
- TRIVIA -
Released in December 1998 in Japan only.
Developed by Arika, a Japanese video game developer, formed in 1996 by former Capcom employees.
The game features Allen Snider and Blair Dame who also appear in one of Arika's other fighting games, "Street Fighter EX Plus".
- STAFF -
Director : Akira Nishitani (Nin) (Arika), Toshio Natsui (Namco)
Planner : Hiroshi Nagata, Shinzi Watanabe, Hiroshi -SKN- Okuda
Programmer : Kurabar, Tarabar, Hiroyasu Od.Hasssy, Mitsu, M. Karasawa, S. Masuda M.K, Yoshiyuki Nagata
Modeling Designer : Jun Matsumura, Dirty Takaoka
Character Illustrations : Tadashi Aoki
Title Design : Motokazu Sakai
Effect Designer : Kazuko Kawanaka
Motion Designer : Dirty Takaoka, Alien Pole, Masaaki Tanaka, Kazuko Kawanaka, Hitoshi Yamaguchi
Background Designer : Kaori Matsumoto, Yoko Funato, Hiroshi Chiba, Yohnosuke Naitoh
Sound Creator : Shinji -Mega- Hosoe, Takayuki Aihara, Ayako Saso
* Cast of Characters :
Tetsuo Kato : Kouji Sakurai
George Jensent : Nozomu Yokoyama
Hong Gillson : Souichiro Shibata
Lan-Yinghua : Takako Nakamura
Janis Luciani : Yuko Watanabe
Exodus : Akira Yamada
Shang-Fenghuang : Daisuke Hirakawa
Jigjid Bartol : Hideki Ogihara
Sessyu Tsukikage : Shocker Oh!No!
Capriccio : Shinji Ishii
Blair Dame : Hikari Tachibana
Allen Snider : Osamu Hosoi
Preston Ajax : Tomoyuki Ishida
Clemence Kleiber : Masayoshi Seto
Joe Fendi : Hiroaki Yoshida
Vold Ignitio : Kyousuke Tatsuno
Narration : Alex Easley
Producer : Mihara (Arika), Akihiko Tokue (Namco)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.77 [smf]
WIP:
- 0.130u1: Changed description to 'Fighting Layer (Japan, FTL1/VER.A)'.
- 0.79u2: Changed description to 'Fighting Layer (FTL0/VER.A)'.
- 0.78: smf fixed user3 rom loading and input - Game now playable. Changed input to 2x Players, 6x buttons and 2x coin slots.
- 24th December 2003: smf sent in a driver for Namco System 12, supporting Aquarush, Ehrgeiz, Fighting Layer, Mr. Driller and Tekken 3.
- 0.77: smf added Fighting Layer (FTL1/VER.A) (Arika/Namco 1998).
- 15th May 2003: Guru - Fighting Layer (Namco 1998, System 12) arrived from Narendra Verma.
Other Emulators:
* ZiNc
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Romset: 53760 kb / 12 files / 23.0 zip
MAME XML Output:
   | <game name="fgtlayer" sourcefile="namcos12.c"> |
   |    | <description>Fighting Layer (Japan, FTL1/VER.A)</description> |
   |    | <year>1998</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Arika / Namco</manufacturer> |
   |    | <rom name="ftl1vera.2e" size="2097152" crc="f4156e79" sha1="cedb917940be8c74fa4ddb48213ce6917444e306" region="user1" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="ftl1vera.2j" size="2097152" crc="c65b57c0" sha1="0051aa46d09fbe9d896ae5f534e21955373f1d46" region="user1" offset="1"/> |
   |    | <rom name="ftl1rom0.9" size="8388608" crc="e33ce365" sha1="f7e5b98d2e8e5f233265909477c84331f016ebfb" region="user2" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="ftl1rom1.10" size="8388608" crc="a1ec7d08" sha1="e693a0b16235c44d4165b2f53dc25d5288297c27" region="user2" offset="800000"/> |
   |    | <rom name="ftl1rom2.11" size="8388608" crc="204be858" sha1="95b22b678b7d11b0ec907698c18cebd84437c656" region="user2" offset="1000000"/> |
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   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="CXD8661R" clock="100000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="sub" name="H8/3002" clock="16737350"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="c352" name="C352" clock="25106025"/> |
   |    | <display tag="gpu:screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="640" height="480" refresh="60.000000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="2"/> |
   |    | <input players="2" buttons="6" coins="2" service="yes"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Freeze" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="imperfect" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="65536"/> |
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