gunbird: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Gunbird (c) 1994 Psikyo.
In this vertical shoot-'em-up, you have 5 selectable characters who fight the big army of pirates but this time to restore a magic mirror.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Released in September 1994.
Marion also appears as a selectable character in another Psikyo's game : "Gunbarich".
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gunbird 2, Gunbird - SGCD-0003) on 04/12/1998.
Note : There are 20 different endings!
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
* Extra Features : If you hold Test Button + PL1 Button 1 during boot, you get extra options in the test menu. A level skip, BG test usually etc...
- SERIES -
1. Gunbird (1994)
2. Gunbird 2 (1998)
- STAFF -
Staff : Hirofumi Nakamura, Artmic, Jun-Ichi Niwa, Shin Nakamura, Rick Johnson, Hyoue Ogama, Wataru Yamazaki, Hideyuki Oda, Ikuda Yosida, Youko Tsukagoshi, Hiromi Tanegasima, Toshinori Sugita, Seiki Sato, Shiori Saito, Yusa Tarou
Music Composed by : Masaki Izutani
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Sega Saturn [JP] (December 15, 1995; "Gunbird [Model T-14402G]")
Sony PlayStation [JP] (December 15, 1995; "Gunbird [Model SLPS-00157]")
Sony PlayStation 2 [JP] (February 19, 2004; "Gunbird 1&2 [Model SLPM-62469]")
Sony PlayStation 2 [EU] (March 18, 2005; "Gunbird 1&2 [Model SLPM-62469]")
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.60 [Brian Troha]
0.57 [Brian Troha]
0.37b5 [Luca Elia]
< Japan >
Artwork available
WIP:
- 8th October 2006: Mr. Do - Added Gunbird instruction cards from TheSheep.
- 0.79u2: Leon van Rooij fixed Gunbird attract mode (tilemaps can be opaque).
- 0.67: Changed parent and clone descriptions to 'Gunbird'.
- 0.62: Added new cpu1 roms and changed VSync to 59.299999Hz.
- 4th September 2002: Brian Troha submitted a new version of Gunbird (World) that fixes several bugs caused by the older, corrupt ROMs.
- 30th August 2002: Brian Troha fixed the dipswitches in Strikers 1945 and Gunbird, and Paul Priest improved them a little.
- 0.60: Brian Troha added Gunbird (World). Renamed (gunbird) to (gunbirdk). Added 'Country' dipswitch.
- 24th March 2002: Brian Troha re-submitted the addition of a world version of Gunbird to the Psikyo driver.
- 19th March 2002: Brian Troha corrected the Gunbird addition which is actually a world version.
- 18th March 2002: Pekka Salmia submitted an addition of the USA version of Gunbird to the Psikyo driver.
- 0.57: Added Gunbird (Korea). Renamed (gunbird) to (gunbirdj).
- 1st October 2001: Brian Troha added the Korean versions of Donpachi and Gunbird.
- 2nd July 2001: Bart Puype fixed Gunbird from crashing sometimes.
- 0.37b9: Added 'Flip Screen' dipswitch.
- 0.37b6: Changed 68EC020 CPU1 clock speed to 16MHz.
- 0.37b5: Luca Elia added Gun Bird (Japan) (Psikyo 1994).
- 30th June 2000: Luca Elia sent in a Psikyo driver, the strongest games being Sengoku Ace and Gunbird.
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
* Raine
LEVELS: 7 (restarts once with a "level zero" at the beginning)
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Romset: 11648 kb / 11 files / 4.09 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Gunbird (World)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Psikyo</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="4.u46" size="262144" crc="b78ec99d" sha1="399b79931652d9df1632cd4d7ec3d214e473a5c3" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2610" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="270" width="320" height="224" refresh="59.300000" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="3" coins="2" service="yes" tilt="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Region" tag="DSW" mask="15"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="World" value="15" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="USA" value="14"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Korea" value="13"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hong Kong" value="11"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Taiwan" value="7"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW" mask="65536"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="65536" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW" mask="131072"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="131072"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW" mask="786432"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="524288"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="786432" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="262144"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW" mask="3145728"> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="1048576"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="3145728" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW" mask="4194304"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="400K" value="4194304" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="600K" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW" mask="8388608"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8388608" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Credits/Coinage" tag="DSW" mask="16777216"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="A+B/A&B" value="16777216" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="A&B/A [Free Play]" value="0"/> |
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| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/5 Credits" value="33554432"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1C 6C [Free Play]" value="0"/> |
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| | | <dipswitch name="2C Start, 1C Continue" tag="DSW" mask="2147483648"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2147483648" default="yes"/> |
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| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="4096"/> |
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