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Tech Romancer (USA 980914)

 
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Tech Romancer (USA 980914)

| 1998
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Developer: Capcom
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(6)
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:
Tech Romancer (c) 1998 Capcom.

A futuristic robotic fighting game from Capcom.

- TECHNICAL -

Sony ZN-2 hardware

Main CPU : PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SPU (@ 8 Mhz), Q-Sound (@ 4 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6

- TRIVIA -

Tech Romancer was released in September 1998.

This game is known in Japan as "Choukou Senki Kikaioh", translates from Japanese as 'Super Steel Knights Kikaioh'.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Recycle It, Don't Trash It!" screen.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

Time-release bypass : You must have access to the machine's test mode to use these codes (Note : There may be 2 test modes available on the machine. It's not the Service Mode dip switch).

* Enable Gourai Early
It normally takes 200 hours for Gourai to become available. If you have access to the machine's test mode, you can enable Gourai in less than 5 minutes.
1. Enter the Sound & Voice menu in test mode.
2. Input this code with the Player 2 controls : Left, Left, Right, Right, Guard, A, B (a sound will indicate that the code was correctly entered).
3. Exit test mode without any other modifications.
Gourai will now be the middle character on the character select screen.

* Enable Dark Pulsion, Dixen EX, and Wise Duck Olrosso early. It normally takes 600 hours for Dark Pulsion, Dixen EX, and Wise Duck Olrosso to become available. If you have access to the machine's test mode, you can enable Dark Pulsion, Dixen EX, and Wise Duck Olrosso in less than 10 minutes.
1. Follow the steps in the 'Enable Gourai Early' code if you haven't already done so.
2. Enter the Color menu in test mode.
3. Input this code with the Player 2 controls : Down, Down, Up, Up, B, A, Guard (a sound will indicate that the code was correctly entered).
4. Exit test mode without any other modifications.
Dark Pulsion, Dixen EX, and Wise Duck Olrosso will be available to the right of Rafaga, but will only be usable in Hero Challenge mode.

- STAFF -

Original concept by : Shoji Kawamori
Mechanical design : Shoji Kawamori, Kazutaka Miyatake
Design director : Shida Eiji
Initial character design : Naoki Fukuda
Motion & Modeling design : Katsuhiro Nakano, Shinji Sakashita, Sayuri Shintani, Toshikazu Matsumoto
Background design : Daisuke Nakagawa, Yoshio Nishimura, Kazumi Teramoto, Yoko Fukumoto
CG Movie : Koichi Takeda
Programmer : Kohei Akiyama, Ryoma Ikeda, Katsuo, Kenji Yamaguchi, Kazuo Yamawaki
Music : Yuki Iwai
Sound effect : Takeshi Kitamura, Hiroshi Ohno
Planner : Eiichiro Sasaki, Ryozo Tsujimoto
In cooperation with Studio Nue.
Producer : Takashi Shono

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sega Dreamcast [US] (March 31, 2000) [Model T-1208N]
Sega Dreamcast [EU] (July 7, 2000) [Model T-7009D-50]

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2844&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 0005EEA0 0000001D FFFFFFFF Infinite Select Time
00000000 0005E07C 0000005A FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00000001 1FAF0010 00000001 FFFFFFFF Unlock Gourai You need to reset the game to see any effect after you've set this cheat
00000001 1FAF0014 00000001 FFFFFFFF Unlock Extra Characters You need to reset the game to see any effect after you've set this cheat.It is incomplete because you can NEVER select Gamuda, Quvearl, Goldibus or Blodia (prototype)
60000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0005E100 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1 Take no red or yellow damage
00010000 0005E102 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000001 0005E100 00000090 FFFFFFFF Drain All Energy Now! PL1
00000000 0005E142 00000064 FFFFFFFF Infinite Armour PL1
00010000 0005E112 00000096 FFFFFFFF Infinite Armour PL1 (2/2)
62000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Select Character PL1 Use on the Character selection screen.
00010000 0005EE94 00000009 FFFFFFFF Gamda
00010000 0005EE94 0000000A FFFFFFFF Quvearl
00010000 0005EE94 0000000B FFFFFFFF Blodia
00010000 0005EE94 0000000C FFFFFFFF Goldibus (1st)
00010000 0005EE94 0000000D FFFFFFFF Goldibus (2nd)
60000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0005E101 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2 Take no red or yellow damage
00010000 0005E103 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000001 0005E101 00000090 FFFFFFFF Drain All Energy Now! PL2
00000000 0005E143 00000064 FFFFFFFF Infinite Armour PL2
00010000 0005E113 00000096 FFFFFFFF Infinite Armour PL2 (2/2)
62000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Select Character PL2 Use on the Character selection screen.
00010000 0005EE95 00000009 FFFFFFFF Gamda
00010000 0005EE95 0000000A FFFFFFFF Quvearl
00010000 0005EE95 0000000B FFFFFFFF Blodia
00010000 0005EE95 0000000C FFFFFFFF Goldibus (1st)
00010000 0005EE95 0000000D FFFFFFFF Goldibus (2nd)

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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