finehour: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Finest Hour (c) 1989 Namco.
Stomp through the enemy opposition in your very own assault mech! Equipped with a laser beam, Vernier jump-jets, auto-targeting, and automatic cooling system, this mech is a force to be reckoned with. Of course, the enemy doesn't know that yet, do they? Teach 'em a lesson in threat assessment!
- TECHNICAL -
Namco System 2 hardware
Game ID : FH
Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C140 (@ 21.39 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 8192
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Released in September 1989.
Finest Hour is the first game from Namco where the hero is a robot.
Many of the stages' names seem to be named after songs by the rock band Rush - for example, 'Distant Early Warning' and 'Subdivisions'.
Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Finest Hour : Namco Game Sound Express Vol.3 - VICL-15004) on 21/09/1990.
- STAFF -
Produced by : S. Yokoyama
Development directed by : S. Okamoto
General agent : K. Matsuoka
Management by : S. Sakurai
Marketing investigated by : Toshio Natsui
Superviser of test play : Y. Seto
Directed & programmed by : K. Nikaido
Character designers : Y. Teshima, T. Kinoshita, K. Yanagihara, S. Sasaki
Graphic designers : N. Yanagisawa, H. Fukuda, Mitsuru Fukuoka (M. Fukuoka), Masato Nagashima
Development supported by : M. Kato
Music composed by : Katsurou Tajima
Logotype designed by : N. Abe
Lyrics translated by : R. Okamoto
Publicity poster arranged by : H. Kuwahara
Presidental advisor : E. Sato
Graphic utility distribution : A. Nagamatsu
Coordinate supported by : E. Saita, Y. Honda
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.36b8 [Keith Wilkins]
0.36b6 [?]
Bugs:
- Player falls into terrain sometimes. Iaspis (ID 03796)
- Regardless of credits entered, only one is shown. Kale (ID 03797)
- ROZ plane colors are bad in-game. Source (ID 02373)
WIP:
- 0.133u1: hap properly added support for Namco System 2 multiple posirq anyway, this fixes Finest Hour bad sprite colors.
- 0.88u1: Phil Stroffolino fixed tilemap priorities in Finest Hour.
- 0.36b9: Added new cpu4 rom ($8000).
- 0.36b8: Keith Wilkins added Finest Hour (Japan) (Namco 1989).
- 12th October 1999: Keith Wilkins sent in another Namco System 2 update with controls working in most games, and also fixed a lot of the graphics bugs. The playable games are now Assault, Ordyne, Mirai Ninja, Phelios, Valkyrie No Densetsu, Finest Hour, Burning Force, Marvel Land, Dragon Saber and Cosmo Gang the Video.
- 0.36b6: Added Finest Hour (Testdriver).
LEVELS: 4 (must be finished twice)
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Romset: 6312 kb / 29 files / 2.02 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Finest Hour (Japan)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Namco</manufacturer> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="12288000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="slave" name="68000" clock="12288000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="M6809" clock="2048000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="mcu" name="HD63705" clock="2048000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="c140" name="C140" clock="21333"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2151" clock="3579545"/> |
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| | | <input players="2" buttons="3" coins="2" service="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Video Display" tag="DSW" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Frozen" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-1" tag="DSW" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-2" tag="DSW" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-3" tag="DSW" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-4" tag="DSW" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-5" tag="DSW" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="$2000-6" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="H" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="L" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="8192"/> |
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