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title Chimera Beast (prototype)
set name chimerab
manufacturer Jaleco
year 1993
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Horizontal (hof)
driver status good
driver source megasys1.c
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rating

70.5% after 20 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 1024
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x224
frequency 60.000000Hz
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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 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu 68000 @ 12MHz
cpu 68000 @ 7MHz
audio YM2151 @ 3.5MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 4MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 4MHz
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data
version added .036b07
last change(s) .120
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
prg3.bin  262144  70f1448f  chimerab    60aaee1cf7aa15ffa4962d947747b0ae7cdcfd8a 
prg2.bin  262144  821dbb85  chimerab    df204db38995ff4c898b8a0121834ec1b84b215c 
prg8.bin  65536  a682b1ca  chimerab    66f5d5a73f5e8cba87eac09c55eee59117d94f7b 
prg7.bin  65536  83b9982d  chimerab    68e7d344ebfffe19822c4cf9f7b13cb51f23537a 
chimerab.mcu  262144    chimerab  no dump   
s1.bin  524288  e4c2ac77  chimerab    db4bff3c02f22cc59a67b103fd176f4d88531f93 
s2.bin  524288  fafb37a5  chimerab    e36c4d18209add696982e36e84397ec51b9a9e7e 
scr3.bin  131072  5fe38a83  chimerab    0492be1a92baacb80ed5bdc0167beda3e9163d76 
b2.bin  524288  6e7f1778  chimerab    ac93f56c998f28e3f453fcdbf85f3217c9ae97de 
b1.bin  524288  29c0385e  chimerab    4416cb17d3121ec00bceff2614dc424a359f127a 
voi11.bin  262144  14b3afe6  chimerab    6d8659d0fc6980ffc1661702fc787737448dce9d 
voi10.bin  262144  67498914  chimerab    8d89fa90f38fd102b15f26f71491ea833ec32cb2 
prom  512    chimerab  no dump   
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cabinet art
art no cabinet, marquee, flyer, control panel or PCB images found
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additional information
info 0.36b7 [Luca Elia]

0.36b5 [?]

Bugs:
  • At the end of the game and in a later level (the cave), there are a problem with the background color. Part of the background color is grey while other is black. Lord Caos (ID 00522)
  • No movements in attract mode / instruction screen. YMI Source (ID 00366)
WIP:
  • 0.37b14: Changed 68000 CPU2 clock speed to 7MHz.
  • 0.36b7: Luca Elia added Chimera Beast (Jaleco 1993).
  • 8th October 1999: Luca Elia sent in a huge Mega System 1 update with many fixes and new drivers for Chimera Beast, Iga Ninjyutsuden, Plus Alpha and Peek-a-Boo.
  • 0.36b5: Added Chimera Beast (Jaleco 1993) (Testdriver).
STORY:
  • Far away on a planet similar to Earth a new life form emerges a life from that ingests other creatures, absorbs their DNA, and then somehow is able to assume the characteristics of their prey. These greedym merciless creatures are without conscience. They are the most purley evil and dangerous of all known life forms in the universe. What fate awaits these amoral predators, which soon will come to be known simply as... Eaters!
LEVELS: 7

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Chimera Beast

Romset: 3585 kb / 13 files / 1.08 zip
history Chimera Beast (c) 1993 Jaleco.


A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up where 1 or 2 players control creatures known as 'eaters' which are capible of eating other creatures and taking their DNA, thus aquiring their abilities or characteristics.


- TECHNICAL -


Jaleco Mega System 1-C hardware


Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)

Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 7 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.5 Mhz), (2x) OKI6295 (@ 30.303 Khz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 1024


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Jaleco never released this game.


In Stage 6, destroying the jeeps that are on the ground makes a pair of humans appear. They are Allen and Rick, from Jaleco's 1991 release, "64th Street - A Detective Story".


- STAFF -
  • Executive produced by : Tokuhiro Takemori
  • Directed by : Shigeru Hashimoto
  • Game designed by : Y. Hiroyama
  • Programmed by : Manbow
  • Bg designers : Helluder, Toukaidou Nozomi, Reiko Takano, Tutomu Rukada
  • Obj. designers : Sigeru, Toukaidou Nozomi, Nanae
  • Creatures designed by : Y. Hiroyama
  • Sounds & Music composed by : Kiyoshi Yokoyama
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=chimera-beast&page=detail&id=454&o=2
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code comments
00000000:FFCBCF:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:FFCBCB:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00000000:FFCCD3:00000000:00000002  Invincibility PL1
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:FFCC7F:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:FFCC7B:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00000000:FFE053:00000000:00000002  Invincibility PL2
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