stargrds: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Star Guards (c) 1987 Bally Midway.
- TECHNICAL -
Game No. 0E89
Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC (@ 8 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 64
Players : 3
Control : Double 8-way joysticks
- TRIVIA -
Released in March 1987.
- STAFF -
Programmed by : Edward March Jr.
Screen graphics by : Scott Morrison
Special animation by : Robert Beech
Sounds by : Bob Libbe, Michael Bartlow
Cabinet art by : Paul Niemeyer
Support by : Dan Stern, Jim Belt, Bob Ploussard
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.56 [Aaron Giles]
WIP:
- 0.145u7: Added 'Midway Sounds Good Sound Board' sound and left/right Speaker.
- 0.127u8: Couriersud fixed duplicated inputs in Star Guards.
- 0.98u1: Aaron Giles fixed sound sync with various sound boards, allowing for kludges to be removed from Star Guards.
- 0.56: Aaron Giles added Star Guards (Bally Midway 1987).
- 9th October 2001: Aaron Giles added Star Guards to the MCR3 driver and did some other cleanups and bugfixes.
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:
- Collect energy to stay strong.
- Destroy the most squad leaders to gain control of a star.
- Gain control of four stars to earn new weapon.
- Use button when lit to activate weapon.
- Left Joystick moves. Right Joystick fires.
- Fly togehter to explore the star sector.
LEVELS: 73 (endless)
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Romset: 448 kb / 10 files / 120.6 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Star Guards</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Bally Midway</manufacturer> |
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| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="sg" name="Midway Sounds Good Sound Board"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="sg:dac" name="DAC"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="512" height="480" refresh="30.000000" /> |
| | | <input players="3" coins="3" tilt="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="doublejoy" ways="8" ways2="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="MONO.IP0" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Energy Units" tag="MONO.IP3" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="8" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="10" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="12" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="14" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="MONO.IP3" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="MONO.IP3" mask="192"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="128"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Medium" value="192" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="64"/> |
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