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title Gradius III (Asia)
set name grdius3a
manufacturer Konami
year 1989
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Horizontal (hof)
driver status good
driver source gradius3.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent / Mr. Do: parent
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rating

74.1% after 96 votes
 
parent Gradius III (Japan)
other clones Gradius III (World ?)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 2048
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x224
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 3
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hardware
cpu 68000 @ 10MHz
cpu 68000 @ 10MHz
cpu Z80 @ 3.579545MHz
audio YM2151 @ 3.579545MHz
audio K007232 @ 3.579545MHz
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data
version added .036b13
last change(s) .059
roms
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945_12.e15  131072  e9771b91  grdius3a    c9f4610b897c13742b44b546e2bed8ee21945f61 
945_m09.r17  131072  b4a6df25  gradius3    85533cf140d28f6f81c0b49b8061bda0924a613a 
945_m08.n17  131072  74e981d2  gradius3    e7b47a2da01ff73293d2100c48fdf00b33125af5 
945_l06b.r11  131072  83772304  gradius3    a90c75a3de670b6ec5e0fc201876d463b4a76766 
945_l06a.n11  131072  e1fd75b6  gradius3    6160d80a2f1bf550e85d6253cf521a96f5a644cc 
945_l07c.r15  131072  c1e399b6  gradius3    e95bd478dd3beea0175bf9ee4cededb111c4ace1 
945_l07a.n15  131072  96222d04  gradius3    b55700f683a556b0e73dbac9c7b4ce485420d21c 
945_l07d.r13  131072  4c16d4bd  gradius3    01dcf169b78a1e495214b10181401d1920b0c924 
945_l07b.n13  131072  5e209d01  gradius3    0efa1bbfdc7e2ba1e0bb96245e2bfe961258b446 
945_m05.d9  65536  c8c45365  gradius3    b9a7b736b52bca42c7b8c8ed64c8df73e0116158 
945_a02.l3  524288  4dfffd74  gradius3    588210bac27448240ef08961f70b714b69cb3ffd 
945_l04a.k6  131072  884e21ee  gradius3    ce86dd3a06775e5b1aa09db010dcb674e67828e7 
945_l04c.m6  131072  45bcd921  gradius3    e51a8a71362a6fb55124aa1dce74519c0a3c6e3f 
945_l04b.k8  131072  843bc67d  gradius3    cdf8421083f24ab27867ed5d08d8949da192b2b9 
945_l04d.m8  131072  0a98d08e  gradius3    1e0ca51a2d45c01fa3f11950ddd387f41ddae691 
945_a01.h3  524288  339d6dd2  gradius3    6a52b826aba92c75fc6a5926184948735dc20812 
945_l03a.e6  131072  a67ef087  gradius3    fd63474f3bbde5dfc53ed4c1db25d6411a8b54d2 
945_l03c.h6  131072  a56be17a  gradius3    1d387736144c30fcb5de54235331ab1ff70c356e 
945_l03b.e8  131072  933e68b9  gradius3    f3a39446ca77d17fdbd938bd5f718ae9d5570879 
945_l03d.h8  131072  f375e87b  gradius3    6427b966795c907c8e516244872fe52217da62c4 
945l14.j28  256  c778c189  gradius3    847eaf379ba075c25911c6f83dd63ff390534f60 
945_a10.b15  262144  1d083e10  gradius3    b116f133a7647ef7a6c373aff00e9622d9954b61 
945_l11a.c18  131072  6043f4eb  gradius3    1c2e9ace1cfdde504b7b6158e3c3f54dc5ae33d4 
945_l11b.c20  131072  89ea3baf  gradius3    8edcbaa7969185cfac48c02559826d1b8b081f3f 
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cabinet art
flyer gradius3.png
PCB gradius3.png
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additional information
info 0.36b13 [Nicola Salmoria]

Bugs:
  • The place where the cube of the background sticks to on nine stages becomes strange. fostar (ID 00062)
Possible Bugs:
  • There's another bug in gradius3; or a offset problem or a visible area problem. Reply from Mamesick: Yeah, that's why I changed back in my 32FX the visible area to 304x224 (which is wrong but at least fixes those issues. An hack a la NeoGeo) IIRC someone here in the past said that this happens on the real PCB too. Robiza (ID 01124)
WIP:
  • 0.124u5: Robiza fixed missing title text in intro.
  • 0.109u1: Fixed sprite layer Gradius III.
  • 0.97u2: Mamesick fixed wrong mapped buttons (power-up, shoot and missile).
  • 0.95u3: R. Belmont made Gradius III visible area (320x224) region symmetrical and fixed K052109 layer 2's X offset.
  • 14th April 2005: R. Belmont - Submitted a fix for the Gradius 3 layer alignment and visible area glitches pointed out by AWJ on MAMETesters.
  • 0.59: Added clone Gradius III (World ?). Fixed rom names.
  • 14th March 2002: Chack'n added the Japan version of Captain America and The Avengers, a World version of Gradius 3 and fixed quite a few ROM file names.
  • 0.37b1: Phil Stroffolino and Nicola Salmoria support a priority buffer, updated by tilemap.c, which can be used to draw sprites using the new function pdrawgfx(). This allowed to fix many tile/sprite priority bugs e.g. in Ajax, Lightning Thunder, Simpsons, Vendetta, Punk Shot, Gradius III and others.
  • 0.36b13: Nicola Salmoria added Gradius III (Japan) (Konami 1989) and clone (Asia).
  • 14th March 2000: Eisuke Watanabe fixed Ajax and Gradius 3 priority problems.
  • 3rd January 2000: Aaron Giles fixed a Gradius3 endian problem.
  • 22nd December 1999: Nicola Salmoria fixed title screens and sprite priorities in Gradius 3.
  • 21st December 1999: Nicola Salmoria sent in a driver for Gradius 3.
ARCADE RELEASE: Gradius III (Konami) - 1989/Dec/11

LEVELS: 16

Other Emulators:
  • Sparcade
Recommended Games (R-Type):

Gradius / Nemesis

Gradius (PlayChoice-10)

Vs. Gradius

Gradius II / Vulcan Venture

Gradius III

Gradius 4: Fukkatsu

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Salamander 2

R-Type

R-Type II

R-Type Leo

Turtle Ship

Hellfire

X Multiply

Zero Wing

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Rezon

Blaze On

Hyper Duel

Super Spacefortress Macross II

Romset: 3905 kb / 25 files / 1.46 zip
history Gradius III - Densetsu Kara Shinwa-e (c) 1989 Konami.

The Vic Viper starfighter returns to battle the onslaughts of the Bacterion Empire.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX945

Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), K007232 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2048

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

The subtitle of this game translates from Japanese as 'From Legend to Myth'.

This game is known outside Asia and Japan as "Gradius III".

Konami released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Gradius Arcade Soundtrack - KMCA-155) on 03/04/2002.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Play First Level Of "Salamander" Or "Gradius" : In Stage 10, when you are at the last boss of the game, get hit by the boss' attack that comes out of its mouth. You will then be taken either to Salamander stage 1 or Gradius stage 1.

* Stage Skip :
1. Turn Odd Number Dip Switches except Dip 1-5 AFTER boot up. As follows :
Coin A = 1 Coin/6 Credits
Coin B = 1 Coin/6 Credits
Lives = 3
Cabinet = Upright
Bonus Life = 50000
Difficulty = Hard
Demo Sounds = Off
Flip Screen = On
Upright Controls = Single
Service Mode = On
Unknown = Off

2. In game, hold Service Switch (Coin 3 = Key 7 in Mame) then press 1P Start Button.

- SERIES -
  1. Gradius (1985)
  2. Salamander (1986)
  3. Gradius 2 (1987, MSX)
  4. Gradius II - Gofer no Yabou (1988)
  5. Nemesis 3 - The Eve of Destruction (1988, MSX)
  6. Gradius III - Densetsu Kara Shinwa-e (1989)
  7. Nemesis '90 Kai (1993, Sharp X68000)
  8. Salamander 2 (1996)
  9. Solar Assault - Gradius (1997)
  10. Solar Assault - Revised (1997)
  11. Gradius Gaiden (1997, Sony PlayStation)
  12. Gradius IV - Fukkatsu (1999)
  13. Gradius Generation (2001, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
  14. Gradius V (2004, Sony PlayStation 2)
  15. Gradius Neo (2004, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
  16. Gradius Neo Imperial (2005, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
  17. Gradius Wide (2007, NTT DoCoMo i-mode Phones)
- STAFF -
  • Director : Hiroyasu Machiguchi
  • Game programmers : T. Shimomura, Yuko Itoh, M. Ozawa
  • Graphic designers : T. Miyoshi, M. Igarashi, R. Itoh, K. Hattori, Y. Asano
  • Sound editors : J. Kaneda, S. Fukami, M. Higashino, K. Nakamura, Mutsuhiko Izumi
  • Engineers : K. Ban, K. Itoh
  • Title designers : F. Shibuya, M. Yoshihashi
- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Super Famicom (1991)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2000, "Gradius III & IV")
Sony PSP (2006, "Gradius Collection")

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.
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cheats
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code comments
00000000:101050:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives
20900000:007A9E:000060F8:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
00010000:10101B:00000000:00000080  Invincibility (2/2):1st = For Normal Stage, 2nd = For 3D Stage
00000000:10102C:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Always have Maximum Speed
00010000:10102D:000000C0:FFFFFFFF  Always have Maximum Speed (2/2)
00000001:10102C:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Get Maximum Speed Now!
00010001:10102D:000000C0:FFFFFFFF  Get Maximum Speed Now! (2/2)
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Cursor Position
00010000:10106A:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No Cursor
00010000:10106A:00000001:FFFFFFFF  "SPEEDUP"
00010000:10106A:00000002:FFFFFFFF  "MISSILE"
00010000:10106A:00000003:FFFFFFFF  "DOUBLE"
00010000:10106A:00000004:FFFFFFFF  "LASER"
00010000:10106A:00000005:FFFFFFFF  "OPTION"
00010000:10106A:00000006:FFFFFFFF  "?"
00010000:10106A:00000007:FFFFFFFF  "!"
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Missile
00010000:10106D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  None
00010000:10106D:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Normal
00010000:10106D:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Photon Torpedo
00010000:10106D:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Spread Bomb
00010000:10106D:00000004:FFFFFFFF  2-Way
00010000:10106D:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Control
00010000:10106D:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Upper
00010000:10106D:00000008:FFFFFFFF  S. Spread
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Main Shot:Includes Lasers & Doubles
00010000:10106C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal Shot
00010000:10106C:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Normal Double
00010000:10106C:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Tailgun Double
00010000:10106C:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Vertical Double
00010000:10106C:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Freeway Double
00010000:10106C:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Normal Laser
00010000:10106C:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Ripple Laser
00010000:10106C:00000005:FFFFFFFF  "C. Laser" Laser
00010000:10106C:00000006:FFFFFFFF  "Twin Laser" Laser
00010000:10106C:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Spread Gun Laser
00010000:10106C:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  "E.Laser" Laser
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Weapon Type
00010000:10106E:00000000:FFFFFFFF  A
00010000:10106E:00000001:FFFFFFFF  B
00010000:10106E:00000002:FFFFFFFF  C
00010000:10106E:00000003:FFFFFFFF  D
00010000:10106E:00000005:FFFFFFFF  EDIT
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Missile Type
00010000:101075:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Normal Missile
00010000:101075:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Photon Torpedo
00010000:101075:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Spread Bomb
00010000:101075:00000005:FFFFFFFF  2-Way
00010000:101075:00000016:FFFFFFFF  Control
00010000:101075:0000001C:FFFFFFFF  Upper
00010000:101075:0000001D:FFFFFFFF  S.Spread
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Double Type
00010000:101077:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Tail Gun
00010000:101077:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Vertical
00010000:101077:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Normal Double
00010000:101077:00000013:FFFFFFFF  Free Way
00010000:101077:00000017:FFFFFFFF  Spread
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Laser Type
00010000:101079:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Normal Laser
00010000:101079:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  C.Laser
00010000:101079:0000000B:FFFFFFFF  Twin Laser
00010000:101079:0000000C:FFFFFFFF  Ripple
00010000:101079:00000018:FFFFFFFF  E.Laser
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Option Type
00010000:10107B:0000000D:FFFFFFFF  Normal
00010000:10107B:0000000E:FFFFFFFF  Snake
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Shield Type
00010000:10107D:00000010:FFFFFFFF  Shield
00010000:10107D:00000012:FFFFFFFF  Force Shield
00010000:10107D:00000011:FFFFFFFF  Free Shield
00010000:10107D:0000001A:FFFFFFFF  Reduce
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Edit Special Type
00010000:10107F:00000014:FFFFFFFF  Flash
00010000:10107F:0000001B:FFFFFFFF  Normal
00010000:10107F:00000019:FFFFFFFF  Speed Down
00010000:10107F:0000001E:FFFFFFFF  Option
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00080300:1039C3:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Select Starting Lap (Buggy)
00080300:101051:0000000C:FFFFFFFF  Select Starting Round (Buggy)
00080100:1038F1:00000020:00000000  Select Starting Area (Buggy):There maybe some corrupted graphics at the start
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
20900000:000096:000010A6:FFFFFFFF  Skip RAM/ROM Check:It's better to use together with Pre-Enable
00000020:040002:00000041:FFFFFFFF  Sound Test Timer Stop:[PL2 Start]Next Code
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