tecmo/gaiden.cpp: Add a newer Wild Fang set, may be a year hack #12020
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New working machine ------------------------- Wild Fang (set 1) [Tailsnic Retroworks]
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I do find the updated year (2 years newer) on the title screen a little suspicious, as mentioned in private. While the set is very different to any currently supported set, came from an original PCB and is clearly a previously undumped revision, a leap of 2 years in the copyright date could indicate the string has been hacked. 2 years was a long time in the industry back then and it's uncommon to see dates updated like this. |
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src/mame/tecmo/gaiden.cpp
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| ROM_START( wildfangs ) /* Wild Fang - No title change option */ | ||
| ROM_REGION( 0x40000, "maincpu", 0 ) /* 2*128k for 68000 code */ | ||
| ROM_LOAD16_BYTE( "1.3s", 0x00000, 0x20000, CRC(3421f691) SHA1(7829729e2007a53fc598db3ae3524b971cbf49e9) ) | ||
| ROM_LOAD16_BYTE( "2.5s", 0x00001, 0x20000, CRC(d3547708) SHA1(91cc0575b25fe15d668eec26dd74945c51ed67eb) ) | ||
| ROM_START( wildfangt ) // Dipswitch selectable title of Wild Fang or Tecmo Knight |
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Please write “DIP switch” in plain English. It isn’t a single word. It’s an abbreviation for “dual inline package switch”.
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clawgrip: regarding the title screen year, look at the dates on the chips. assuming the dates match previous sets then it's a hack since the EPROM stickers are generic and not official labels. Official labels are square and silver with a thin black border and a single black number in the middle.
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Probably, but since there are lot of other changes besides the year (as Haze salid, if it’s a year hack, it’s from a different revision), it’s worth adding.
@cuavas A last word about it? Maybe adding “year hack?” and not adding it as a new parent?
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Yeah, probably a good idea to mark it as a possible hack, and make it a clone for now. We don’t know what else they’ve changed if it’s hacked.
You never know when the version the hack is based on might turn up – the early version of JJ Squawkers with the exploding nuts that the hack on Blandia hardware was based on turned up eventually.
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changed the title
src/mame/tecmo/gaiden.cpp
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| GAME( 1989, wildfangs, wildfang, wildfang, tknight, gaiden_state, init_wildfang, ROT0, "Tecmo", "Wild Fang", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE ) | ||
| GAME( 1989, wildfang, 0, wildfang, tknight, gaiden_state, init_wildfang, ROT0, "Tecmo", "Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE ) | ||
| GAME( 1989, wildfangs, wildfang, wildfang, wildfang, gaiden_state, init_wildfang, ROT0, "Tecmo", "Wild Fang", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE ) | ||
| GAME( 1991, wildfangh, wildfang, wildfang, tknight, gaiden_state, init_wildfang, ROT0, "Tecmo", "Wild Fang (year hack?)", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE ) |
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This reverses the input definitions for wildfang and wildfangs – I’m assuming that’s unintentional.
…finition order match ROM definition order.
…gram version. (mamedev#12020) Code is substantially different to other sets, but 1991 year display is suspect and possibly hacked. New working clones ------------------------- Wild Fang (year hack?) [Tailsnic Retroworks]
…gram version. (mamedev#12020) Code is substantially different to other sets, but 1991 year display is suspect and possibly hacked. New working clones ------------------------- Wild Fang (year hack?) [Tailsnic Retroworks]
New working clone
Wild Fang (year hack?) [Tailsnic Retroworks]