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title Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.4)
set name gauntd24
manufacturer Midway Games
year 1999
genre Maze (hof)
category Maze / Shooter Large (hof)
driver status good
driver source vegas.c
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rating

75% after 148 votes
 
parent Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52)
display
colour emulation good
palette 0
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 640x480
frequency 57.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
controls
players 4
nplayers 4P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 4
hardware
cpu R5000 (little) @ 200MHz
cpu ADSP2104 @ 16MHz
audio DMA-driven DAC
audio DMA-driven DAC
data
version added .102u5
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
gauntdl.bin  524288  3d631518  gauntdl    d7f5a3bc109a19c9c7a711d607ff87e11868b536 
vegassio.bin  32768  d1470e23  gauntdl    f6e8405cfa604528c0224401bc374a6df9caccef 
CHD
name md5 set
gauntd24  1faed82ad08aba21be061ccca709e691  gauntd24 
cabinet art
cabinet gauntdl.png gauntdl.png
control panel gauntdl.png
flyer gauntdl.png
additional information
info 0.102u5 [Reznor007]

0.91u1 [Aaron Giles]

HardDisk required

Bugs:
  • When you set the game to run in VGA mode the game crashes once it starts to load the game after the initial boot sequence. Reznor007 (ID 00887)
  • If you go into test mode and do a filesystem check the game crashes. Reznor007 (ID 00888)
WIP:
  • 0.119u3: Aaron Giles added "top 20" dedicated rasterizers for all the Seattle games and Gauntlet Legends/Dark Legacy. These improve rasterization performance by another 10-20%. Aaron Giles fixed several more bugs in the 64-bit MIPS recompiler. It is now capable of running the Seattle games and the 3D Gauntlets.
  • 0.102u5: Reznor007 added Gauntlet Dark Legacy (version DL 2.52). Replaced also harddisk file in clone (version DL 2.4). Aaron Giles fixed overflow in Voodoo 1/W calculation that messed up some textures and added missing color combine mode used by Gauntlet Dark Legacy.
  • 0.91u1: Aaron Giles added Gauntlet Dark Legacy (Midway 1999).
  • 19th April 2004: Aaron Giles - I've spent a little time trying to get my preliminary Vegas driver back up and running. At the moment, I have Gauntlet Legends and Gauntlet: Dark Legacy up and running with sound, but they both die a terrible death when actual gameplay is encountered (either in attract mode or in the actual game). War: The Final Assault is in the same category. One thing I've discovered recently is that the CPU emulation is still the big bottleneck, even moreso than the Voodoo emulation. When the heavy-duty floating point calculations kick in, the current dynamic recompiler is pretty inefficient. I'm starting to think about bumping the compiler to a two-pass system in order to provide an optimization pass that could help out the code quality immensely.
  • 0.78: Aaron Giles fixed IDE controller final sector handling for Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and added new PIC mapping.
  • 12th December 2003: Aaron Giles - Gauntlet: Dark Legacy and War: Final Assault work with the new ADSP-2104-based DCS sound core, the others fall over at the moment unless I help them along.
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Romset: 544 kb / 2 files / 260.0 zip

Harddisk: 3079.1 MB (Heads: 16, Cylinders: 6256, Sectors: 63 - Compressed: 1574.5)
history Gauntlet Dark Legacy (c) 1999 Midway Games.


Step into the world of of Gauntlet Dark Legacy and prepare for an adventure. Built on the strengh of "Gauntlet Legends", Dark Legacy takes the action to a new dimension with new characters, new realms, new combos and improved graphics. Four new characters join forces with the original four Legends characters to explore and battle their way through eight realms of gameplay. The Mountain, Desert, Forest and Castle Realms have been updated to match the depth and complexity of the four new realms... Ice, Town, Sky and Dream. There is also a bonus Battlefield Realm. Mutli-player gameplay has been enhanced by Allowing two players to work together to activate special moves with new combos. In addition, Dark Legacy is full of secret codes and passwords that give special access to alternate characters and many other surprises (see 'Tips And Tricks' section for more information).


- TECHNICAL -


Midway Vegas hardware


Main CPU : R5000 (@ 200 Mhz)

Sound CPU : ADSP2104 (@ 16 Mhz)

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


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 640 x 480 pixels

Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz

Palette colors : 65536


Players : 4

Control : 8-way Joystick

Buttons : 3


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* Play as Pojo The Chicken (From "Mace - The Dark Age") : enter EGG as initials and 911 as password.


* Play as Stick Jester : enter EGG as initials and 911 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Blue side. You get a stick figure of a Jester).


* Play as Armored Warrior : enter RAT as initials and 333 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get an armored warrior with a rat's head).


* Play as Ice Dwarf : enter ICE as initials and 600 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get a big dwarf).


* Play as Big Headed Jester : enter PNK as initials and 666 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Yellow side. You get a Jester with a HUGE head).


* Play as Cool Looking Knight : enter TAK as initials and 118 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Red side. You get a REALLY cool looking Knight).


* Play as Scythe Wielding Valkryie : enter TWN as initials and 300 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Green side. You get a valkyrie with a scythe).


* Play as Interesting Looking Warrior : enter CAS as initials and 400 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Blue side. You get an interesting looking warrior).


* Play as Evil Looking Wizard : enter GAM as initials and 666 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Yellow side. You get a wizard who doesn't look happy).


* Play as Cool Looking Wizard : enter SKY as initials and 100 as password (this code can only be put in if you are playing the Green side. You get a wizard who looks pretty cool).


- SERIES -
  1. Gauntlet (1985)
  2. Gauntlet [PlayChoice-10] (1985)
  3. Gauntlet II (1986)
  4. Gauntlet - The Third Encounter (1990, Atari Lynx)
  5. Gauntlet III - The Final Quest (1991, Atari ST)
  6. Gauntlet 4 (1993, Sega Mega Drive)
  7. Gauntlet Legends (1998)
  8. Gauntlet Dark Legacy (1999)
  9. Gauntlet Seven Sorrows (2006, Sony PlayStation 2 & Microsoft XBOX)
  10. - STAFF -
    • Lead Programmer : Steven Bennetts
    • Art Director : Steve Caterson
    • Producer : Mike Hally
    • Lead 3D Artist : Don Livingston
    • 3D Artist : Stig Asmussen, Rhizaldi Bugawan, Chris Sutton, Paul Haskins
    • Character Animation : Takeshi Hasegawa, Gustavo Rasche
    • Programmer : Nathan Pooley, Johnathan Hudgins, Lennard Fedderson, Tyler Voltier
    • Game Design : Mike Hally, KJ Holm
    • Music & Sound Design : Joe Lyford
    • Audio Programmer : Sean Gugler
    • Executive Producer : Dan Van Elderen
    • Producer : Kevin Potter
    • Associate Producer : Sean Wilson
    • Assistant Producer : Matthew Vella, Nico Bihary
    • Voice Actor : Douglas Lawrence, Lani Minella, Wally Fields, Tox Gunn, Patrice Crawford
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Sony PlayStation 2 (2001)
    • Microsoft XBOX (2002)
    • Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002)
    • Nintendo GameCube (2002)
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=gauntlet-dark-legacy&page=detail&id=3337&o=2
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