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Marvel Land (US)

 
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Marvel Land (US)

| 1989
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Developer: Namco
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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* 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:
Marvel Land (c) 1989 Namco.

Great horizontal platform game that takes place in a fantasy amusement park. You play as Prince Paco, who is on a quest to save Princess Luxy from the evil Mole King.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 2 hardware
Game ID : MV

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 8192

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1989, Marvel Land was released in January 1990 in Japan.

Some bonus level parade floats and rides featured in levels contain popular Namco characters such as "Pac-Man", Pooka from "Dig Dug", Solvalou from "Xevious", "Mappy", "Grobda", Paccet from "Baraduke", Dragon from "Dragon Spirit" and "Berabow Man".

The pink female robot that appears in the game later appears in the Namco Museum series behind the museum's information desk.

Default highscore table (TOP 5) :
RANK SCORE NAME ROUND
1ST 80000 AAA 2-2
2ND 40000 BBB 2-1
3RD 20000 CCC 1-4
4TH 10000 DDD 1-4
5TH 5000 EEE 1-3

- UPDATES -

* World and Japanese versions have different gameplay, bonuses and bosses.
* In the Japanese version you can choose between easy and normal course.

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sega Mega Drive (1991)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1570&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
001000E0 40B368 00001510 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time Turn this cheat OFF on the Challenge Bonus Stages
20900000 007DF0 00006004 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (Flicker Type) This gives you the standard flicker Invincibility without flicker - it does NOT offer protection against everything. Spikes, lava, water can still kill you.
20810000 007E00 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (Flicker Type) (2/3) ROM Cheat fixes flicker on 100079 cheat, Part 1 branches past decrement branch, Part 2 fixes flickering
20810000 00CA3C 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (Flicker Type) (3/3) Fixes actual Check (only checks if Part 1 or Invincibility is active)
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Starting Round Turn this cheat OFF on the Challenge Bonus Stages
00090000 409003 00000000 00000000 World 1 Area 1
00090000 409003 00000001 00000000 World 1 Area 2
00090000 409003 00000002 00000000 World 1 Area 3
00090000 409003 00000003 00000000 World 1 Area 4
00090000 409003 00000004 00000000 Challenge Bonus Stage 1
00090000 409003 00000005 00000000 World 2 Area 1
00090000 409003 00000006 00000000 World 2 Area 2
00090000 409003 00000007 00000000 World 2 Area 3
00090000 409003 00000008 00000000 World 2 Area 4
00090000 409003 00000009 00000000 World 2 Area 5
00090000 409003 0000000A 00000000 Challenge Bonus Stage 2
00090000 409003 0000000B 00000000 World 3 Area 1
00090000 409003 0000000C 00000000 World 3 Area 2
00090000 409003 0000000D 00000000 World 3 Area 3
00090000 409003 0000000E 00000000 World 3 Area 4
00090000 409003 0000000F 00000000 Challenge Bonus Stage 3
00090000 409003 00000010 00000000 World 4 Area 1
00090000 409003 00000011 00000000 World 4 Area 2
00090000 409003 00000012 00000000 World 4 Area 3
00090000 409003 00000013 00000000 World 4 Area 4
00090000 409003 00000014 00000000 Escape from The Castle
00000001 101F85 00000040 FFFFFFFF Win the Tug of War Now!
20900000 00CB22 00004E75 FFFFFFFF Safe RollerCoaster Signs This stops the signs pushing you off the rollercoaster
20800000 009F10 00000060 FFFFFFFF Walk Across Gaps NOTE - Only protects you if walk off platforms,swings etc - if you jump you will drop normally.
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 40900B 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 40904B 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 10FE66 00000002 FFFFFFFF Sound Test Timer Stop Works for all Namco Sys 2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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