Warzard (Japan 961023) - Gioco MAME

Videogioco arcade pubblicato 28 anni fa:

Warzard © 1996 Capcom Company, Limited.

Taking place in the year 1999 of an alternate Earth, follow the adventures of four heroes as they take on an army of mythical monsters unleashed by Valdool to bring about the destruction of the world. Take your pick from Leo the Lion King, Tao the Martial artist, Tabasa the Witch, or Mukuro the Ninja as they fight their way across the globe in order to defeat Valdool the iron giant.

DATI TECNICI
Capcom Play System III Hardware (CP-S III)
ID gioco: CP-S III No. 01
CD Number: CAP-WZD000
CD Label: CAP-WZD-5

CPU principale: Hitachi SH2 (possibly 2)
Storage: SCSI CD Rom, RAM and Flash ROM.
RAM: SIMMs on the left w/ 16M of data each (each has 8x 16M Flash ROMs, there's 4 SIMMs plugged in on this board). SIMMs on the right w/ 8M each (there's 4 Flash ROMs on each board and there are 2 SIMMs plugged in)
OSC: 60MHz. 42.9545MHz, XTAL 3.6864MHz.

Giocatori: 2
Controllo: Joystick a 8 direzioni
Pulsanti: 6

→ [1] LP (Jab), [2] MP (Short), [3] HP (Fierce)
→ [4] LK (Strong), [5] MK (Forward), [6] HK (Roundhouse)

CURIOSITÀ
Warzard è stato rilasciato nell'Ottobre 1996.

Questo gioco è noto fuori dal Giappone come "Red Earth". Despite the common appearance of the game in Japan, it saw a very limited release in the United States.

War-Zard is the first game to run on the Capcom Play System III hardware (CPS III), the first Capcom system that uses a CD-Rom instead of expensive EPROMs to hold the game data (about 50MB). When starting a cabinet with a new CPS-3 game the first time, the hardware needs 25 minutes to initialize the game. In fact it overwrites some flashroms with data from the new CD. This procedure allows the game later to startup as fast as it would normally run from regular EEPROMs.

The character Leo was inspired by Conan the Barbarian.

AGGIORNAMENTI

• 961023
• 961121

CONSIGLI E TRUCCHI
During the game's credits (staff roll), press MP (Middle Punch) and UP to make Mobi-chan (the little Capcom robot) appear. Now you can shoot the credits for fun.

STAFF
Pianificatore: Tatsuya Nakae (-Dai-), Musasabi Zirou, Murasaki Umagoyashi, Masahiro Nakano (E-Z!)
Programmatore: Tsutomu Urago, Yuzo Tsunazaki, Ariyoshi Kiyoko, Noboru Taniguchi, Toshiyuki Furuko, Masakazu Matsushita
Progettazione oggetti: Kurisan, Eripyon, Ikusan Z, Shibata, Kimo Kimo, Shisui, M. Nakatani, Kaname, Satoshi, Mizuho, Kitasan, Yorio, Mizupyon, Koichi Kikutani, -GM Clip-Isi-B, Kozuchi, Rassie, Sakuno, Kidai - Shigeyama, Dekao, Jin, Takep, Tomohiko Ohsumi, Mach Windy, Yoshino Hiroaki, Naoki Fukushima, You-Ten Nakano, K. Tokunaga, Magari, Ken Jiman, Naoki Fukuda, Gen Kadoi, Tetsuo
Designer scorrimento: Ziggy, Yoko Fukumoto, Taka, Yumiko, Goro Suzuki, Hisashi Sawada, Kisabon, Iwai, Takky, May, Daisuke Nakagawa
Lavoro artistico originale: Akira Yasuda (Akiman), Shoei, Monkey-Chop, Daichan, Ikedai, Sakomizu, Edayan
Compositore musica: Takayuki Iwai (Anarchy Takapon)
Designer suono: Ryoji, Hachibee
Ingegnere suono: Yoshihiko Ida
Programmatori suono: Yasushi Ikeda, Tomohiro Masuda
Programmatori CP-System III: Yoji Mikami, E-Bou, Go! Ozawa

• Doppiatori:

Kenji, Blade: Kosei Kishino
Hydron: Osamu Hosoi
Mai-Ling, Tao, Taru's Mobstar: Megumi Urawa
Leo: Daisuke Gouri
Tessa, Lavia: Tomoko Naka

Producer: Saddy
General Producer: Noritaka Funamizu

Ringraziamenti speciali: Haruo Murata (Mucchi), Takuya Shiraiwa, Matt Taylor, Erik Suzuki, Magdalena Viloria F., Harumi Yamashita, Alison Stroll, Rita Rokos, Darryl Williams, Takashi Kubozono (Mr. Kubozono), Kazushi Hirao (Mr. Hirao), Team Dirty Belet, Shinichi Yasuki (S-Yasuki), Wataru Kondo

CONVERSIONI
This game was never ported to any home consoles available at that time (Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation). This was most likely due to the lack of RAM these consoles had, which the game needed to store the thousands of sprite animations. Another reason could have been the limited character roster available (only 4 fighters) for 2 player fighting.

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