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title Wizard Fire (Over Sea v2.1)
set name wizdfire
manufacturer Data East Corporation
year 1992
genre Fighter / 2.5D (hof)
category Fighter / 2.5D (hof)
driver status good
driver source rohga.c
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rating

68.2% after 31 votes
 
clones Dark Seal 2 (Japan v2.1)
Wizard Fire (US v1.1)
display
colour emulation good
palette 2048
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x240
frequency 58.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu 68000 @ 14MHz
cpu HuC6280 @ 2.685MHz
audio YM2151 @ 3.58MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 1.006875MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 2.01375MHz
data
version added .131u3
last change(s) .064
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
je-01.3d  131072  b6d62367  wizdfire    e9521b28660f62b70e6e33c3e9cf345fc106eff6 
je-00.3a  131072  f33de278  wizdfire    9407a73f578ec312944fc69f247e83704d713174 
je-03.5d  131072  5217d404  wizdfire    7cfcdb9e2c812bf0d4ac8306834242876ac47844 
je-02.5a  131072  36a1ce28  wizdfire    62d52d720c89022de97759777230c45c460d8fb6 
mas13  524288  7e5256ce  wizdfire    431d78ad185ba0216097f131fb2583a1a067e4f0 
mas12  524288  005bd499  wizdfire    862079022f97bd11f2f33677dce55bd3b144a81b 
je-06.20r  65536  79042546  wizdfire    231561df9415a289756a533709f610894fb9176e 
je-04.10d  65536  73cba800  wizdfire    dd7612fe1482713fcee5960b7db158be872d7fda 
je-05.12d  65536  22e2c49d  wizdfire    06cc2d0476156d1f521c4c57621ce3922a23aa04 
mas00  1048576  3d011034  wizdfire    167d6d088d51a41f196be104d795ffe24297c96a 
mas01  1048576  6d0c9d0b  wizdfire    63e19dfd6451810637664b08e880aef139ca6ed5 
mas02  524288  af00e620  wizdfire    43f4680b22ac6baf840274462c07fee68a2fbdfb 
mas03  524288  2fe61ea2  wizdfire    0909e6c689c3e10225d7c074bd654ff2ada96983 
mas04  1048576  1e56953b  wizdfire    0655ac7f3c5030a80c2d6bad5c3a79b2cb1ae4a2 
mas05  1048576  3826b8f8  wizdfire    d59197b4e0525b86876f9cce6fbf80caba976851 
mas06  1048576  3b8bbd45  wizdfire    c9f9d4daf9c0cba5385af26f3762b29c291ff62b 
mas07  1048576  31303769  wizdfire    509604be06ec8e0c1b56a81a8ffccdf0f79e9fd7 
mas08  524288  e224fb7a  wizdfire    9aa92fb98bddff313db2077c4db102e94c7af09b 
mas09  524288  5f6deb41  wizdfire    850d0e157b4355e866ec770a2012293b2c55648f 
mas10  524288  6edc06a7  wizdfire    8ab92cca9d4a5d4fed3d99737c6f023f3f606db2 
mas11  524288  c2f0a4f2  wizdfire    af71d649aea273c17d7fbcf8693e8a1d4b31f7f8 
mb7122h.16l  1024  2bee57cc  wizdfire    bc48670aa7c39f6ff7fae4c819eab22ed2db875b 
cabinet art
control panel wizdfire.png
PCB wizdfire.png
additional information
info 0.131u3 [Irongiant]

0.64 [Bryan McPhail]

WIP:
  • 0.133u1: Renamed (wizdfiru) to (wizdfireu) and (darksel2) to (darkseal2).
  • 0.132u1: Angelo Salese added irq hack support in the Rohga driver, fixes character selection behaviour in Wizard Fire.
  • 0.131u3: Irongiant added Wizard Fire (Over Sea v2.1). Renamed (wizdfire) to (wizdfiru).
  • 0.122u2: Changed HuC6280 CPU2 clock speed to 2685000 Hz.
  • 0.96: Changed HuC6280 CPU2 clock speed to 8055000 Hz.
  • 0.93: Changed 2nd OKI6295 clock speed to 15255 Hz.
  • 0.87: Changed VSync to 58Hz.
  • 0.71u2: Inigo Luja fixed dips in Wizard Fire. Added dipswitches '2 Coins to Start, 1 to Continue' and 'Unused'.
- 0.64: Bryan McPhail added Wizard Fire (US v1.1) (Data East 1992) and clone Dark Seal 2 (Japan v2.1). TODO: On Wizard Fire when you insert a coin and press start, the start button being held seems to select the knight right away. Check on real board.
  • 25th January 2003: Bryan McPhail sent in a driver for Wizard Fire / Dark Seal 2 (works fully) and Rohga and Nitroball (not working because of protection).
LEVELS: 5

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Ghouls'n Ghosts (Mega-Tech)

Vs. Castlevania

Castlevania (PlayChoice-10)

Cadash

Dragon Unit

Dark Seal

Rampart

Crossed Swords (NeoGeo)

The King of Dragons

Knights of the Round

Exvania

Wizard Fire

Light Bringer

Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom

Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara

Action Hollywood (Excaliwood)

Sol Divide

Knights of Valour

Knights of Valour 2

The Crystal of Kings

Romset: 10945 kb / 22 files / 5.19 zip
history Wizard Fire (c) 1992 Data East.


5 legendary heroes must fight through hoards of monsters in order to eradicate their evil presence from their kingdom, in this colourful, isometric scrolling multi-player beat-em-up.


Wizard Fire is another in a long line of derivative but playable fantasy-themed beat-em-ups that came to typify the arcade scene of the early nineties.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : MAS


Main CPU : 68000 (@ 14 Mhz)

Sound CPU : HuC6280 (@ 8.055 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.627 Khz), OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 58.00 Hz

Palette colors : 2048


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


This game is known outside US as "Dark Seal 2".


Only 100 PCBs were manufactured.


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Dark Seal II : Data East Gamadelic - PCCB-00129) on 17/09/1993.


- SERIES -
  1. Gate of Doom (1990)
  2. Wizard Fire (1992)
  3. - STAFF -
    • Game master : Yoshiyuki Urushibara
    • Project leader : Naomi Susa
    • Soft leader : Souichi Akiyama
    • Object graphic leader : Yohiyuki Ishibiki
    • Back graphic leader : Masanori Tokoro
    • Music leader : Mr. K
    • Soft : Haruyuki Kobayashi, Shinichi Suzuki
    • Character designer : Tomoki Matoba
    • Object designers : Kazumi Minagawa, Sonomi Kiyota, Chie Kitahara, Hitomi Fujiwara, Asami Kaneko, Yasuko Kurohiji, Hiroshi Koga
    • Back designers : Ryohei Harakata, Kazuhi Imoto
    • Music composers : Tom Sato, Mihoko Ando, Gamadelic
    • Hard : Shingo Mitsui, Masao
    • * CAST :
    • Knight : Greg Sullivan
    • Wizard : Susan Barger
    • Bard : Bill O'Neill
    • Dwarf : William Rooney
    • Elf : Chiwe Gordon
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=wizard-fire&page=detail&id=3178&o=2
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