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Guwange (Japan)

 
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Guwange (Japan)

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Developer: Atlus/Cave
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 2
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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Guwange (c) 1999 Atlus Company, Limited.

Destroy the evil army with 3 Japanese characters and the spirits that possess them in this beautiful vertical shoot-'em-up.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : ATC05

Cave 1st Generation Hardware

Main CPU : MC68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 [Optional]
Sound Chips : Yamaha YMZ280B (@ 16.9344 Mhz) or OKIM6295 x (1 or 2) + YM2203 / YM2151 [Optional]
Other : 93C46 EEPROM

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [A] Shoot / Spirit, [B] Bomb, [C] Auto Fire

- TRIVIA -

Developed by Cave, Guwange was released by Atlus on June 24, 1999.

The story of Guwange is set during the Muromachi period of Japan. Sorcerers in eastern Japan would predict the day's fishing catch by the appearance of a fox-like voice from the mountains. If the voice sounded 'koon koon' then there was to be a great catch. If the voice sounded 'gwange gwange' then it was to be a horrible catch. The people soon named the place of the voice 'Prison-Gate Mountain', as all who saw the origin of this voice were never seen again. The people soon began to worship this being as the god of Prison-Gate Mountain. It is said that the men later came to call it 'Lord Guwange'. The game title of 'Guwange' appears to reflect the name of this mysterious mountain voice and also the 'bad' sound that it made to predict a horrible catch.

This game was supposed to be exported to South Korea. But Korean deliberation Organization rejected this game, because it has strong Japanese things (Korean people are really anti-Japanese).

Soundtrack releases :
Guwange / ESPrade Original Soundtrack [Cave - CVST-1000 - Dec 30, 2007]
GUWANGE Arrange Album + Original Soundtrack [Cave - CVAS-004] (2010-02-20)

- SCORING -

* Game Clear Bonus : upon clearance, the game rewards you for the following : full life segments remaining, maximum chain count, bombs remaining, and never receiving damage ('no miss').
1) Life bonus : if you have any full life segments remaining (denoted as L), this bonus is calculated by the following formula :
9,216 / (4 - L) / 32 * 10,000. If you have all three life segments remaining, but you were hit at least once, then this value is multiplied by 2. If you were never hit, then this value is multiplied by 4. Examples :
1 Full Life Segment : 9,216 / 3 / 32 x 10,000 = 96,000
2 Full Life Segments : 9,216 /2 / 32 x 10,000 = 144,000
3 Full Life Segments : 9,216 / 1 / 32 x 10,000 x 2 = 576,000
No miss : 9,216 / 1 / 32 x 10,000 x 4 = 1,152,000
It seems that no credit is given for partial life segments.
2) Chain bonus : multiply your maximum chain count by 100. Examples :
1,210 Chain : 1,210 x 100 = 121,000
15,889 Chain : 15,889 x 100 = 1,588,900
3) Bomb bonus : multiply the number of bombs remaining by 1,000,000. If you were never hit, this value is multiplied by 2. Examples :
2 bombs remaining : 2 x 1,000,000 = 2,000,000
3 bombs remaining, no miss : 3 x 1,000,000 x 2 = 6,000,000

- STAFF -

Producer : Kenichi Takano
Chief Programmer : Tsuneki Ikeda
Programmers : Satoshi Kohyama, Takashi Ichimura
Chief Designer : Junya Inoue
Designers : Akira Nakabayashi, Hiroyuki Tanaka, Atsushi Aburano, Toru Shimazu
Character Designers : Akira Nakabayashi, Junya Inoue
Calligraphy : Akira Nakabayashi
Character Voices : Yuko Nakamura, Junya Inoue, Kazushi Takamura, Takako Taniguchi, Takn Nagasawa, Takano Yoshida
Sound Producer : Junya Inoue
Music Composer : Masahiro Kusunoki
Sound Effects : Masahiro Kusunoki
Supervisor : Hiroyuki Tanaka (Atlus)
Special assist : Toshiaki Tomizawa

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Microsoft Xbox 360 (November 10, 2010, "Xbox Live Arcade")

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1058&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
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00000000 2028F9 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Bombs PL1
00000000 202918 00000002 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1
00000000 2028FB 0000000E FFFFFFFF Maximum Power PL1
00000000 2028FD 00000008 FFFFFFFF Maximum Avirity Power PL1
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 2026E0 00000024 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2
00000000 202959 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Bombs PL2
00000000 202978 00000002 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2
00000000 20295B 0000000E FFFFFFFF Maximum Power PL2
00000000 20295D 00000008 FFFFFFFF Maximum Avirity Power PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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