Lost In Translation/G-Darius

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G-Darius
Manufacturer	Taito
Released	1997
Control Method	8-way Joystick 6 Button(s)
Main CPU	PlayStation PSX CPU (@ 16.934 MHz)
Sound CPU	Stereo SPU
Video Details	Raster (Horizontal) 640 x 480 pixels 60.00 Hz 65,536 Palette colours
Screens	1
ROM Info	8 ROMs 19,922,944 bytes (19.00 MiB)
MAME ID	gdarius · gdarius2 · gdariusb

About The Game

G-Darius is an arcade video game which literally added a new dimension to the highly regarded 'Darius' series, with the introduction of fully 3D rendered backgrounds and enemies. Namco had already done the same with their Xevious series for "Xevious 3D/G", released two years' earlier, but G-Darius is generally regarded as the most accomplished of the two titles.

G-Darius' game-play was also enhanced, with the 'Capture Ball' system; this allowed the player to capture almost any enemy craft and use it against the game's other enemies. Captured enemies can either be detonated like a bomb, damaging all enemies nearby; or used to fire a special 'Alpha Beam', which cuts through everything but gold-colored objects and enemy bosses. Each boss is capable of firing its own version of this beam at the player; when both beams meet, they will interrupt each other's path. Depending on how rapidly the player presses the Fire button, one beam will grow and eventually overpower the others. The Capture ball was actually introduced in "Darius Gaiden" but was only used to a minimal extent.

Trivia

Makoto Fujita, Takeda , Ono and Katoh (see 'Staff' section) are members of G.Rev (the makers of "Border Down" in 2003). Hiroyuki Maruyama is the G.Rev president.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.

Tips and tricks

Zone Select

1. Hold Service Switch button during boot count.
2. Wait until machine displays 'Service Switch Error' on screen.
3. Push buttons in the following sequence 'Start(x3), Service Switch, Start'.
4. Insert credit then go to Zone Select screen.

Series

1. Darius (1986)
2. Darius II (1989)
3. Darius Twin (1991, Nintendo Super Famicom)
4. Darius Force (1993, Nintendo Super Famicom)
5. Darius Gaiden - Silver Hawk (1994)
6. G-Darius (1997)
7. G-Darius ver.2 (1997)

Staff

Producer

Naomitsu Abe

Director

Naomitsu Abe

Makoto Ohsaka

Akira Ohtsuki

Makoto Fujita

Character Graphics

Makoto Fujita

Tohru Kawaishi

Kenichi Morita

Hiroshi Hasegawa

Toshihiro Fukui

Ryosuke Hayase

Atsushi Horimizu

Yatta Ushiroda

Baw Baw

Program

Akira Ohtsuki

Nobuyuki Hayashi

Katsuyuki Fujita

Takafumi Fujimoto

Hirohisa Matsumura

Hiroyuki Maruyama

Hikaru Taniguchi

Yasutaka Hayashi

Shunsuke Ono

Masakazu Takeda

Harumi.K

Hirotaka Fukakawa

Koji Kato

Hitoshi Kozuka

Music

Hisayoshi Ogura (Zuntata)

Sound Effects

Yukiharu Urita (Zuntata)

Hardware

Katsumi Kaneoka

Design Works

Naoto Hashizume

Quality Warranty

Nobuhiro Koyama

Eiji Kawabata

Makoto Obonai

Cabinet and Artwork

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  G Darius flyer.

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  G Darius Ver.2 flyer.

Ports

Consoles

Sony PlayStation (1998)

Sony PlayStation 2 (2005, "Taito Memories Vol. 2")

Microsoft XBOX (2006, "Taito Legends 2")

Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, "Taito Legends 2")

Computers

PC [CD-ROM] (2006, "Taito Legends 2")

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name	Catalogue No.	Released	Publisher	Comments
G-Darius Original Arcade Score	ZTTL-0014	1997-08-21	Zuntata Records	CD version.
ZUNTATA LIVE 1997 ~CINETEQUE RAVE~ (AUDIO FILE)	ZTTL-0016	1997-10-22	Zuntata Records	CD version.
Zuntata Live 1997 -Cineteque Rave- (Visual File)	ZTTV-0001	1997-11-21	Zuntata Records	Released on VHS.
G-Darius Miraikanryou	ZTTL-0019	1998-02-21	Zuntata Records	CD version.
ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~AUDIO FILE~	ZTTL-0031	1998-10-21	Zuntata Records	2 CD version.
ZUNTATA LIVE 1998 "güten Talk" from the earth ~VISUAL FILE~	N/A	1998-11-10	Zuntata Records	Released on VHS.
ZUNTATA HISTORY L'ab-normal 3rd	ZTTL-0043	1999-07-01	Zuntata Records	CD version.
THE VERY BEST OF OGR GALLERy ~Concepts~	ZTTL-0049	1999-12-18	Zuntata Records	2 CD version.
Darius Premium Box -Rebirth-	ZTMD-0001~5	2005-05-25	Zuntata Records	5 CD version.
TAITO GAME MUSIC	ZTTL-1003	2004-09-24	Zuntata Records	CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.