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DU Update: War Gods
#289643 - 06/16/12 11:14 PM







As promised I've been working on buying up all the original Atari and Midway drives from the 1990s that I can before they all fail. Today we got a version of War Gods that looks like it's 10 months(?) newer than the one in mame. Being Midway there is no telling how many bugs and additions to the game that could mean.




http://smitdogg.mameworld.info/pics/wargodspcb.jpg
http://smitdogg.mameworld.info/pics/wargodshd.jpg



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289645 - 06/17/12 12:00 AM


Let's see if this works 100% emulated on mame.
This game have the same style combat just like Primal Rage II?



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Lewis King]
#289647 - 06/17/12 12:50 AM


Nice! love me some Wargods.Nothing like goofy characters duking it out in early 3D.It even has a 3D button

@Animal Bear:it works,its already in MAME



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: mesk]
#289694 - 06/17/12 05:03 PM


> @Animal Bear:it works,its already in MAME

I know but even with my dual quad core, the game fails in 100% a little. A few seconds 95 or 91 very quick. Some small "fail" issues in the timing.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Lewis King]
#289736 - 06/18/12 02:00 AM


No Primal Rage 2 was going to be similar to Killer Instinct 2.

No polygons but pre-rendered stuff.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289771 - 06/18/12 09:46 AM


There is a version of wargods which allows to run on a standard 15 Khz monitor. Do you know if it has been dumped yet ?



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289772 - 06/18/12 10:59 AM


I am sure collectors are rubbing their hands thinking about the hundreds gigs they will feed their hdd with soon. ;-)

Nice job as always.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: kevenz]
#289781 - 06/18/12 04:10 PM


> No Primal Rage 2 was going to be similar to Killer Instinct 2.
>
> No polygons but pre-rendered stuff.

kevenz anyways if someone give us a video for this game.
Why this people is so obscure for some games even don´t work on mame?
Scary american games, just not for kids?
If we can´t play, only just a small video to see what is about.
Only play the first one on MegaDrive when i was a kid.
Good old Days!



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289783 - 06/18/12 04:15 PM


I think it's this one. The first dip switch seems to affect the sync.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289785 - 06/18/12 04:19 PM


thats greeaaaaaaaaaaaaat
Can't wait converting my war gods pcb to it



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289786 - 06/18/12 04:20 PM


So you've checked the version of yours, it's the one in mame?



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289787 - 06/18/12 04:24 PM


BTW it could be some hardware change doing that? The hard drive is not the first thing that is read. I see the chip checker go in the bouncing mildly retarded "Midway 57" or completely unsynced depending on the first dip, so I'm not so sure about it fixing yours (the socketed roms match the ones currently in mame).



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289788 - 06/18/12 04:35 PM


I don't know, i have to check.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289796 - 06/18/12 08:04 PM


> I don't know, i have to check.

If the hard drive is a different version, please consider dumping it.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Lewis King]
#289799 - 06/18/12 10:41 PM


Animal-Bear: no video because the game is only 30% complete or something..... maybe someday it will boot correctly in mame.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: kevenz]
#289804 - 06/19/12 12:34 AM


> Animal-Bear: no video because the game is only 30% complete or something..... maybe
> someday it will boot correctly in mame.

And why they don´t use a câmera "put a coin" and film in to the Arcade Board?

It's the same thing.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289832 - 06/19/12 11:49 AM


for those interested,i still have a Mace the dark age board with a faulty hd.i sent a pic of it to guru and he said that is a version that you guys don't have .i promised him that i would've sent it to him,but i'm broke right now and i can't even afford the shipping to australia.so if anyone of yours is interested and lives a little closer to italy or in europe,i'll be glad to send it over to you



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Foxhack]
#289833 - 06/19/12 11:58 AM


How can I check if it is the same without dumping it ?
Looking at the serial/dates in the test mode ?



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289838 - 06/19/12 02:38 PM


> How can I check if it is the same without dumping it ?
> Looking at the serial/dates in the test mode ?

... I guess? I dunno, I'm just a guy who plays the games.

(Well, not THIS game. But you know.)



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: alca]
#289844 - 06/19/12 04:06 PM


Look at the date on the chip test screen when it boots. I'm not completely sure at this point if it's indicating the revision of something on the hardware or the hard drive though.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Solstar]
#289845 - 06/19/12 04:08 PM


If it's faulty it's probably not going to dump or will make a bad one but you could try. It's easy to dump a hard drive though. Connect it to your computer and pull it up in a program like Winhex and save an image. Or try your luck with chdman but mine ran out a couple of months ago.



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Re: DU Update: War Gods new [Re: Smitdogg]
#289949 - 06/20/12 09:45 PM


On the real pcb, when the "15 Khz" dip switches is on,
the game runs on 15 Khz "fine".

When the game starts (after the self test), the graphics don't fit on the screen (they are too big to fit), but there are no sync problems.

You cannot adjust the width and height on the monitor to see all graphics.

Don't know it I explain me clearly, I am sorry.

I think this revision handles this.



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Update new [Re: Smitdogg]
#290129 - 06/23/12 09:52 PM


alca dumped his board and it's a another different revision (08/15/1996).




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Yay! new [Re: Smitdogg]
#290137 - 06/24/12 02:09 AM


> alca dumped his board and it's a another different revision (08/15/1996).

Also, stupid question.

Are there differences in the data contained in the hard drive, or are the revision differences only on the ROM data on the board?



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Re: Yay! new [Re: Foxhack]
#290140 - 06/24/12 02:17 AM


The roms haven't changed in the versions we found. It probably never did.


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