legiono: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Choutoki Meikyuu Legion (c) 1987 Nichibutsu.
Pick up allies to form a powerful Legion against 'The Dark Empire'.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), (2x) DAC
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Released in May 1987 in Japan.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Time Dimension Mystery Legion'.
- UPDATES -
* 1.05
* 2.03
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.62 [David Haywood, Phil Stroffolino]
WIP:
- 0.142u2: Changed parent description to 'Legion - Spinner-87 (World ver 2.03)' and clone to 'Chouji Meikyuu Legion (Japan bootleg ver 1.05)'. Angelo Salese hooked up 1414M4 emulation to Legion. Changed region gfx5 to blit_data.
- 0.141: Tomasz Slanina added preliminary simulation of text layer protection in Chouji Meikyuu Legion and fixed sfx. Changed user1 rom ($0) to audiocpu ($4000).
- 31st December 2010: Tomasz Slanina - I fixed a couple of video/sound issues in Chouji Meikyuu Legion emulation: Added SFX. Fixed video priorities (no more garbage gfx over the playfield). Simulated protection in"legion" set, so the functionality is now close to the other ("legiono" - possibly a bootleg) set. Legion was _almost_ playable before. It's still not perfect (broken test mode, missing various text strings here and there ) but imo more enjoyable. Game has really unique (as for 80s) feature - 'time warp' bombs. How it works? Try it yourself. Here's a couple of shots from the game.
- 0.123u6: Changed description to 'Chouji Meikyuu Legion (ver 2.03)' and clone to 'Chouji Meikyuu Legion (ver 1.05)'.
- 0.123u2: RansAckeR added DIP locations to Legion.
- 0.77: Fixed gfx2 rom address to $18000.
- 18th July 2003: Tomasz Slanina to fix emulation of Legion. It use the same kind of protection(?) MCU/blitter like Ninja Emaki.
- 0.62: David Haywood and Phil Stroffolino added Legion (ver 2.03) (Nichibutsu 1986) and clone Legion (ver 1.05).
- 13th October 2002: Phil Stroffolino added Legion to the Armed Formation driver.
- 6th June 2002: David Haywood added Legion to the Terra Force / Armed Formation driver, but it has various graphics glitches.
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* FB Alpha
* Raine
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Romset: 640 kb / 13 files / 241.7 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="legiono" sourcefile="armedf.c" cloneof="legion" romof="legion"> |
| | | <description>Chouji Meikyuu Legion (Japan bootleg ver 1.05)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Nichibutsu</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1a" size="65536" crc="8c0cda1d" sha1="14b93d4fb4381ebc6a4ccdb480089bf69c6f474b" region="maincpu" offset="1"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1c" size="65536" crc="21226660" sha1="ee48812d6ec9d4dccc58684164916f91b71aabf2" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1b" merge="legion.1b" size="65536" crc="c306660a" sha1="31c6b868ba07677b5110c577335873354bff596f" region="maincpu" offset="20001"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1d" merge="legion.1d" size="65536" crc="c2e45e1e" sha1="95cc359145b1b03123262891feed358407ba105a" region="maincpu" offset="20000"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1h" merge="legion.1h" size="16384" crc="2ca4f7f0" sha1="7cf997af9dd74ced9d28c047069ccfb67d72e257" region="audiocpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1i" merge="legion.1i" size="32768" crc="79f4a827" sha1="25e4c1b5b8466627244b7226310e67e4261333b6" region="audiocpu" offset="4000"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1g" size="32768" crc="c50b0125" sha1="83b5e9707152d97777fb65fa8820ba34ec2fac8d" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1e" merge="legion.1e" size="65536" crc="a9d70faf" sha1="8b8b60ae49c55e931d6838e863463f6b2bf7adb0" region="gfx2" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1f" merge="legion.1f" size="32768" crc="f018313b" sha1="860bc9937202dc3a40c9fa7caad11c2c2aa19f5c" region="gfx2" offset="18000"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1l" merge="legion.1l" size="65536" crc="29b8adaa" sha1="10338ebe7324960683de1f796dd311ed662e42b4" region="gfx3" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1k" merge="legion.1k" size="65536" crc="ff5a0db9" sha1="9308deb363d3b7686cc69485ec14201dd68f9a97" region="gfx4" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="legion.1j" merge="legion.1j" size="65536" crc="bae220c8" sha1="392ae0fb0351dcad7b0e8e0ed4a1dc6e07f493df" region="gfx4" offset="10000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM3812" clock="4000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="dac1" name="DAC"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="dac2" name="DAC"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="270" width="288" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="3" coins="2" tilt="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="P2" mask="512"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="512" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW1" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="6" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW1" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="30k Then Every 100k" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="50k Only" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW1" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW1" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW1" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW1" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW1" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW2" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Free Play" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW2" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin Slots" tag="DSW2" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Common" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Individual" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW2" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW2" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW2" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="2048"/> |
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