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World Grand Prix (US)

| 1989
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Developer: Taito America Corporation
Controls/Input Device: Control(stick), Buttons(7)
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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
WGP - Real Racing Feeling (c) 1989 Taito.

- TECHNICAL -

Board Number : K1100537A
Prom Stickers : C32

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : stick
Buttons : 7

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1989, WGP was released in March 1990 in Japan.

- STAFF -

Programmers : Yoshinori Kobayashi, Osaru Kinoshita, Yuji Hiroshige, Masahiro Okamoto, Tarabar Hori
Character designers : Seiji Kawakami, Tetsuya Shinoda, Yasuhiko Kikuchi, Tsuyoshi Satou, Atsumi Yoshino
Hardware : Yasuhiro Shibuya, Toshihiro Tanaka, Tsukasa Nakamura, Tadashi Kushiro, Yasushi Yamanouchi
Mechanic : Tohru Yamamoto, Nobuyuki Iwasaki, Shigeio Ueda
Sound by (Zuntata) : (Mar), Yasuhisa Watanabe (Yack)
Graphic designer : Rintarou Doi
Cabinet designer : Shinobu Sekiguchi
Direction & Game designer : Hiroyuki Sakou

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=3155&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 108E55 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 10B6DF 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Race Time
00100000 10BB2A 000000C8 FFFFFFFF Always ride at 200km/h
00100000 10BB2A 00000119 FFFFFFFF Always ride at 280km/h
00100001 10BB2A 00000119 FFFFFFFF Get 280km/h speed boost Now! Best used with an activation key for best effect (it's like a turbo option)
00000000 142311 00000075 FFFFFFFF Hands free game completion Just watch and don't enable the speed cheats with this enabled

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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