Lost In Translation/Mace - The Dark Age
Mace The Dark Age | |
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Manufacturer | Atari Games |
Released | 1996 |
Control Method |
8-way Joystick 4 Button(s) |
Main CPU | R5000 (little) (@ 150.000 MHz) ADSP2115 (@ 16.000 MHz) |
Sound CPU | Stereo (2x) DMA-driven DAC |
Video Details |
Raster (Horizontal) 640 x 480 pixels 57.00 Hz Palette colours |
Screens | 1 |
ROM Info | 2 ROMs plus Laserdisc, Hard Disk or CD-ROM 557,056 bytes (544.00 KiB) |
MAME ID | mace · macea |
About The Game
Mace - The Dark Age is 3-D, one-on-one fighting arcade video game.
The best fighters from around a mediaeval type planet are gathered and dispatched on a quest to recover the mysterious Mace of Tanis from a dark magician called Asmodeus.
Tips and tricks
Play as Grendal
Starting in 2-player mode, one player must have 3 wins. Then on your next match in the select screen go to the Executioner and hold down START+EVADE. Grendal will appear. Continue to hold down those buttons and press an attack button to select. Now you control the RAGE known as Grendal!
Pojo Code
To be POJO, you must perform TARIA's execution in 1-player mode (and then continuing) or in 2-player mode. Then on your next match in the select screen, go to Taria and hold down START+EVADE. POJO will appear - press an attack button to select. Pojo will now unleash her awesome fighting prowess for you.
Stage Codes
To unlock each secret, move to each character listed and press Start after each one, then go to your desired character and select as usual. All of these secrets are for two-player mode except for the Random A.I.:
- Battle in a Mini Golf Course (Koyasha, Mordos Kull, Takeshi)
- Battle at Machu Pichu (Namira, Koyasha, Taria)
- Battle in the Castle (Mordos Kull, Taria, Ragnar)
- Battle in San Francisco Rush (Xiao Long, Al' Rashid, Koyasha)
- Battle in Big Head Mode (Ragnar, Al' Rashid, Takeshi)
- Battle in Micronaut Mode (Takeshi, Al' Rashid, Ragnar, Xiao Long)
- Battle in Super Speed Grid Mode (Ichiro, Xiao Long, Koyasha)
- Battle the Random A.I. (Hell Knight, Xiao Long, Dregan, Namira)
To select a particular stage in which to fight, go to the character's portrait in player select and press START four times. Then select your character as usual.
Cool View For Mordos Kull's Execution
Do a Execution on Taria's Stage in the Water. You get to see an overview of the execution and the person's body will come flying towards you.
Staff
- Lead Programmer
- Bruce Rogers
- Programmer
- Roberto Rodriguez
- Art Director
- Matt Harvey
- Character Models
- Jeremy Mattson
- Character Textures
- Patrice Moriarity
- Matt Harvey
- Animators
- Takeshi Hasegawa
- Steve Stacy
- Backgrounds
- Matt Harvey
- Bob Ingold
- Support Programming
- Steven Bennetts
- Producer
- Robert Daly
- Associate Producer
- Loren Bryant
- Marketing Manager
- Derryl Depriest
- Audio
- Richard Marriott
- Technician
- Dennis Nale
- Game Design
- Roberto Rodriguez
- Loren Bryant
- Lead Tester
- Rob Reininger
- Testers
- Larry Cadelina
- Jerry Cruz
- Support Programmers
- Dave Shepperd
- Mike Albaugh
- Mike Lynch
- Todd Modjewski
- Hardware Design
- Steve Correll
- Andrew Dyer
- Ross Shaffer
- Ray Macika
- Chris Krubel
- 3dfx Interactive
- Hardware Support
- Steve Norris
- Don Thomas
- Jeff Peters
- Pat Cox
- Scott Parrish
- DCS2 Audio
- Matt Booty
- Ed Keenan
- Sr. Engineering Tech.
- Patrick Hubbell
- Additional Techinicians
- Mark Hoendervoogt
- Minh Nguyen
- Pete Mokris
- Mechanical Engineers
- Pete Takaichi
- Mark Gruber
- Ralph Perez
- Ted Valavanis
- Tom Sedor
- Chris Bobrowski
- Cabinet Design
- Matt Harvey
- Nik Erlich
- Jen Smith
- Marketing
- Derryl DePriest
- Mary Fujihara
- Ray Bersabe
- Randall Ng
- Jackie Sherman
- Video Production
- Greg Allen
- Brent Englund
- Executive Producer
- Mark Stephen Pierce
Cabinet and Artwork
Ports
- Consoles
- Nintendo 64 (1997)