David Haywood’s MAME(tm) WIP

This one ended up on the backburner when I had CPS3 to work on. I’ve finally got back to it, and now it appears to work fine. Just one unemulated game in this SemiCom series now (the original ‘Magicball Fighting’)

and just as a bonus.. some nice rear action

As pointed out on Mameworld, the backgrounds used in Swat Police shown on my pages here have all been lifted from other games, mostly it would seem NeoGeo ones. (I think some of the explosions are taken from Metal Slug too)

Mutation Nation vs. Swat Police

Aggressors of Dark Kombat vs. Swat Police

Burning Fight vs. Swat Police

Art of Fighting 2 vs. Swat Police

so.. here’s the fun part, can anybody tell me where the rest of the graphics come from?

Contra 3 (SNES) + ???? vs Swat Police

Various people pointed out that the Red buildings are
from Contra 3 : Alien Wars on the Snes (x-flipped)

Judge Dredd (Snes) vs Swat Police

Kitsune Sniper pointed out that the Logo is a modified version of the
one from Judge Dredd on the SNES

???? vs Swat Police

???? vs Swat Police

Burning Fight vs Swat Police

From Burning Fight (thanks BBH)

Burning Fight vs Swat Police

From Burning Fight (thanks BBH)

Burning Fight vs Swat Police

BBH shows that this is a (fairly modified) version of the Burning Fight stage 1

Burning Fight vs Swat Police

BBH pointed out that this was from a Burning Fight Bonus Stage

Burning Fight vs Swat Police

Another from Burning Fight pointed out by BBH

Brian added this one, but it uses one of the layers in a different way to the other ESD games on the driver so I fixed it. Easy to guess because the hardware is clearly still derived from Tumble Pop (just less obviously than Jumping Pop etc.) It’s a Korean game with gameplay like Cabal etc.

thanks to f205v for finding this one. controls aren’t hooked up (looks like it might be dials, like ‘off the wall’, the Sente game)

Black Touch ‘96 is a Korean Beat ‘em Up game. It dosen’t seem to be related to the older ‘Black Touch’ (which is a hack of Dragon Punch.

My initial impression is that this is actually an original Korean game, rather than a hack. It uses a pretty wacky sprite system where all the sprites are made of strips a tilemap. I haven’t quite figured out how it works yet. The text layer tile banking is also wrong.

Sound isn’t emulated because the sound chips are driven by a PIC, which is probably read protected.

It of course has obligatory ‘Girl between Levels’ as found on many Korean games.

In other news, I took a look back at the Kaneko Supernova driver and fixed up the priorities for Cyvern. The Speed took a bit of a nosedive in the process, but it’s a stunning game, and looks even better with proper rendering order.

These fixes also bring some missing graphics in Sen Know, Saru-Kani-Hamu-Zou, and Gals Panic S into view. Furthermore I’ve identified (but not yet fixed) the problem with bad zooming / flicking sprites in Sengeki Striker.