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title Galivan - Cosmo Police (12/16/1985)
set name galivan
manufacturer Nichibutsu
year 1985
genre Platform (hof)
category Platform / Fighter Scrolling (hof)
driver status good
driver source galivan.c
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rating

65.7% after 19 votes
 
clones Galivan - Cosmo Police (12/11/1985)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 4480
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x256
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
cpu Z80 @ 4MHz
audio YM3526 @ 4MHz
audio DAC
audio DAC
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data
version added .034b08
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
gv1.1b  32768  5e480bfc  galivan    f444de27d3d8aff579cf196a25b7f0c906617172 
gv2.3b  16384  0d1b3538  galivan    aa1ee04ff3516e0121db0cf50cee849ba5058fd5 
gv3.4b  16384  82f0c5e6  galivan    77dd3927c2161e4fce9e0adba81dc0c875d7e2f4 
gv11.14b  16384  05f1a0e3  galivan    c0f579130d64123c889c77d8f2f474ebcc3ba649 
gv12.15b  32768  5b7a0d6d  galivan    0c15def9be8014aeb4e14b6967efe8f5abac51f2 
gv4.13d  16384  162490b4  galivan    55592865f208bf1b8f49c8eedc22a3d91ca3578d 
gv7.14f  32768  eaa1a0db  galivan    ed3b125a7472c0c0a458b28df6476cb4c64b4aa3 
gv8.15f  32768  f174a41e  galivan    38aa7aa3d6ba026478d30b5e404614a0cc7aed52 
gv9.17f  32768  edc60f5d  galivan    c743f4af0e0e2c60f59fd01ce0a153108e9f5414 
gv10.19f  32768  41f27fca  galivan    3674dbecc2eb1c837159a8dfbb0086088631b2a5 
gv14.4f  32768  03e2229f  galivan    9dace9e04867d1140eb3c794bd4ae54ec3bb4a83 
gv13.1f  32768  bca9e66b  galivan    d84840943748a7b9fd6e141be9971431f69ce1f9 
gv6.19d  16384  da38168b  galivan    a12decd55fd1cf32fd192f13bd33d2f1f4129d2c 
gv5.17d  16384  22492d2a  galivan    c8d36949abc2fcc8f2b12276eb82b330a940bc38 
mb7114e.9f  256  de782b3e  galivan    c76da7d5cbd9170be93c9591e525646a4360203c 
mb7114e.10f  256  0ae2a857  galivan    cdf84c0c75d483a81013dbc050e7aa8c8503c74c 
mb7114e.11f  256  7ba8b9d1  galivan    5942b403eda046e2f2584062443472cbf559db5c 
mb7114e.2d  256  75466109  galivan    6196d12ab7103f6ef991b826d8b93303a61d4c48 
mb7114e.7f  256  06538736  galivan    a2fb2ecb768686839f3087e691102e2dc2eb65b5 
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cabinet art
marquee galivan.png
flyer galivan.png
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additional information
info 0.34b8 [Luca Elia, Olivier Galibert]

WIP:
  • 0.108u5: Vas Crabb fixed priority in Galivan. Added save state support to all games in galivan.c. Fixed portability issue in DAC audio save states.
  • 0.105u2: Twisty fixed some unknown dipswitches in Galivan. Added 'Life Invulnerability (Cheat)' dipswitch.
  • 0.36b13: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6MHz.
  • 25th December 1999: Nicola Salmoria merged the Ninja Emaki driver with the Galivan driver.
  • 0.35RC1: Added dipswitches 'Demo Sounds' and 'Invulnerability'.
  • 0.35b11: Nicola Salmoria added clone Cosmo Police Galivan (12/11/1985) and fixed sprites colors. Changed description of Galivan to 'Cosmo Police Galivan (12/16/1985)'.
  • 18th April 1999: Olivier Galibert ported Galivan for tilemaps, but unfortunately there was no speed gain.
  • 0.35b2: Nicola Salmoria made almost accurate colors in Galivan. Added proms ($0-400 - red, green, blue, sprite lookup table and sprite palette bank).
  • 0.34RC2: Changed YM3526 clock speed to 4MHz.
- 0.34b8: Luca Elia and Olivier Galibert added Galivan (Nichibutsu 1985). TODO: Player can't get off lifts (maybe a missing button?). Find the color proms and check color attributes. Find out how layers are enableddisabled and changed priority. Tune the sound section. Achieve pixel accurate positioning of gfx.
  • 2 (endless)
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Romset: 354 kb / 19 files / 153 zip
history Galivan - Cosmo Police (c) 1985 Nichibutsu.


A single player shooting/platform game in which the player runs and jumps around a colourful, multi-directional scrolling cave system. A variety of spacecraft and aliens attack in waves and must be killed or avoided. The player starts the game as an unarmed human with only the ability to kick and punch, but picking up a POW item will give encase the human in a robot suit and arm the player with a gun. Collecting the blue POW while in the suit awards the player with a beam weapon for a limited time, while the red POW gives the player a three shot cannon. POW items are dotted throughout the levels and can also be gained by shooting the blue robot aliens.


The player's character has an energy bar that decreases when the player is attacked, and should this fall below halfway, the robot suit will be lost and the player will once again be an unarmed human. Collecting a POW item will restore the player's energy, if a POW is collected while wearing the suit, however, the player's energy will NOT be increased but their weapon will receive a power-up.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM3526 (@ 4 Mhz), (2x) DAC


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3


- TRIVIA -


Released in December 1985.


The game is inspired by the Japanese telefilm 'SPACE SHERIFF GAVAN'.


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (G.S.M. Nichibutsu 1 - D28B0004) on 21/09/1988.


- UPDATES -


REVISION 1 :

* Build date : DEC 11 1986


REVISION 2 :

* Build date : DEC 16 1986


- SERIES -
  1. Galivan - Cosmo Police (1985)
  2. Cosmo Police Galivan II - Arrow of Justice (1993, Nintendo Super Famicom)
    3. - STAFF -
    • Directed by : Shigeki Fujiwara
    • Software by : T. Tsuchie
    • Hardware by : Isao Shiki
    • Designer by : K. Nakagawa
    • Music & Sound by : Kenji Yoshida
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Nintendo Famicom (1988)
    • Nintendo Super Famicom (1993)
    • * Computers :
    • Amstrad CPC (1986)
    • Commodore C64 (1986)
    • ZX Spectrum (1986)
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=galivan-cosmo-police&page=detail&id=911&o=2
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:E286:00000080:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Power
00000000:E3B2:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Weapon Time
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  See the Dip Switch Menu to enable Invincibility.
00000000:E3A6:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always be Human
00000000:E3A6:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Always be Galivan
00000000:E3A7:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always have Normal shot
00000000:E3A7:00000010:FFFFFFFF  Always have Beam shot
00000000:E3A7:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Always have 3-way shot
00000001:E3A6:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Change to Human Now!
00000001:E3A6:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Change to Galivan Now!
00000001:E3A7:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Get Normal shot Now!
00000001:E3A7:00000010:FFFFFFFF  Get Beam shot Now!
00000001:E3A7:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Get 3-way shot Now!
00000000:E22F:00000000:00000010  Rapid Fire:Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00010000:E22F:00000000:00000020  Rapid Fire (2/4)
00010000:E231:00000000:00000010  Rapid Fire (3/4)
00010000:E231:00000000:00000020  Rapid Fire (4/4)
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:E284:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:E285:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
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