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title War Gods
set name wargods
manufacturer Midway
year 1995
genre unknown
category Fighter / Versus (hof)
driver status good
driver source midvunit.c
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rating

64.4% after 92 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 32768
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 512x400
frequency 57.349016Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 6
coin slots 4
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hardware
cpu TMS32031 @ 50MHz
cpu ADSP-2115 @ 16MHz
audio DMA-driven DAC
audio DMA-driven DAC
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data
version added .063
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
u2.rom  32768  bec7d3ae  wargods    db80aa4a645804a4574b07b9f34dec6b6b64190d 
u41.rom  131072  398c54cc  wargods    6c4b5d6ec5c844dcbf181f9d86a9196a088ed2db 
CHD
name md5 set
wargods    wargods 
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additional information
info 0.63 [Aaron Giles]

HardDisk required

Bugs:
  • The Sound D/RAM chip fails during the Post and the "Listen for Tone" fails as well during the post. georgc3 (ID 03472)
WIP:
  • 0.130: Aaron Giles fixed DCS2 speedup handler so it doesn't get lost during a memory remap. This should give a slight speed bump to the Seattle/Vegas games and to War Gods.
  • 0.79u2: Replaced Custom sound with 2x DMA-driven DACs.
  • 0.78u4: Changed region cpu2 to sound1.
  • 0.76u2: Midway V-Unit Update [Aaron Giles]: WarGods sound is 100% now (stereo). Added some pre-initialization to the WarGods NVRAM.
  • 0.63: Aaron Giles added War Gods (Midway 1996). ADSP-2115 CPU support [Aaron Giles].
  • 8th December 2002: Aaron Giles added War Gods (with imperfect sound) and Off Road Challenge (with several in-game problems, but correct sound) to the V-unit driver.
  • 11th November 2002: Guru - Received and dumped War Gods (Midway 1996, including 420M hard drive). Thanks Taucher.
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Romset: 160 kb / 2 files / 17.6 zip

Harddisk: 401.4 MB (Heads: 16, Cylinders: 988, Sectors: 52 - Compressed: 59.9)
history War Gods (c) 1996 Midway.


10 mystical characters battle for dominance in a 3-D environment.


- TECHNICAL -


Midway V Unit hardware


Main CPU : TMS32031 (@ 50 Mhz)

Sound CPU : ADSP2115 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) DMA-driven (@ 16 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 512 x 400 pixels

Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32768


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 6


- TRIVIA -


This game is the only game on the Midway V Unit to use a hard-disk (401 megabyte). Only about 100M of the hard drive is used.


War Gods was the first truly 3-D fighting game to include the Digital Skin Technology that eliminates polygon look.


Michael Jackson used to own this game. It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on Apr. 24th, 2009.


- STAFF -
  • Executive Producers : Neil Nicastro, Ken Fedesna
  • Associate Producers : Cary Mednick, Paul Dussault
  • PROGRAMMING
  • Project Lead, System Design : Joe Linhoff
  • Co-Lead, Game Play : George Petro
  • Systems/DCS2 : Matt Booty, Ed Keenan
  • ART / ANIMATION
  • Art Direction, Character Design/Models : Jim Gentile
  • Lead Animator, Character Design : Jim Rohn
  • Background Designs, Models/Effects : Dave Zabloudil
  • Character Animation : Tom Brierton
  • Additional Art : Eric Kinkead
  • SOUNDS
  • Music/Speech/Sound Effects : Vince Pontarelli
  • Voice of Exor : Jeff Morrow
  • Additional Art : David Simon, John Carlton, Nik Ehrlich, Jack E. Haeger
  • Hardware Design : Ray Macika, Mark Loffredo, Cary Mednick, Chris Bobrowski, Donna Conrad, Steve Correll, Pat Cox, Chris Krubel, Al Lasko, John Lowes, Steve Norris, Keith Novak, Sheridan Oursler, Jeff Peters, Greg Piotrowski, Tom Sedor, Ross Shaffer, Glen Shipp, Ted Valvanis, Ken Williams
  • Motion Talent : Al Gomez, Tony Marquez, Melissa Grein, Randy Raethke
  • VIDEO TALENT
  • Warhead : Brian Glynn
  • Kabuki Jo : Min Chong
  • Pagan : Kathy Terrafino
  • Tak : Tak Ohseki
  • Voodoo : William Obea
  • Vallah : Kerri Hoskins
  • Ahau Kin : Brian Smith
  • Anubis : Jon Larrieu
  • Cy-5, Maximus : Todd Burquist
  • Game Testers : Alex Gilliam, Paulo Garcia, Sydney Strong, Shariq Kahn, Mike Cronin, Sherman Simon, Sheridan Simon, Eddie Ferrier, Mike Vinikour
  • Make-Up/Costumes : Art Anthony (Make-Up/Costumes/Armor), Cindy Maniates, Costume Exchange Inc.
  • Exor/Grox Sculptures : Paul Jessel, Marie Cenkner, Animasaur Productions
  • Special Thanks : John Root, Jon Hey, Jeff Johnson, Louis Mangubat, Todd Allen, D.B. (Snoozy), Ela Aktay, Sal Divita, Gina Ehrlich, Joan Faux, Pat Fitzgerald, Mary Gentile, Rachael Gentile, Jim Greene, Eugene Jarvis, Heidi Keenan, Lily Klinger, Christina Linhoff, John Krawzack, Leslie Petro, Nicholas Petro, Alexander Petro, Eric Pribyl, Maryann Rohn, Jamie Rohn, Art Tianis, Jim Tianis, Mark Turmell, Christa Woss, Dan Wojciechowicz
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • Sony PlayStation (1997)
  • Nintendo 64 (1997)
  • * Computers :
  • PC [Windows 95] (1997)
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Machine's picture.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=war-gods&page=detail&id=3135&o=2
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