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Air Duel (Japan)

 
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Air Duel (Japan)

| 1990
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Developer: Irem
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(4)
Number of Players: 2
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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Air Duel (c) 1990 Irem Corp.

A vertically scrolling shoot-em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Irem M-72 system hardware

Main CPU : V30 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), DAC (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Gun, [B] Guided bomb

- TRIVIA -

Air Duel was released in June 1990.

Several music pieces from this game were recycled for others games from the same musicians:
The mission 1 music was recycled and remixed in "Gun Force II" (Stage 2 part 1).
The mission 2 music contains a synth solo (after 32 seconds) which was performed with a sax in "Metal Slug 2 - Super Vehicle-001/II" (mission 3).
The mission 3 music was recycled and remixed with electric guitar in "Metal Slug 3" (mission 1, underwater way).
The mission 3 music was also recycled and remixed in "Gun Force II" (Stage 2 part 2).
The mission 4 music was recycled and remixed in "Gun Force II" (stage 1).

- SERIES -

1. Air Duel (1990)
2. Air Assault (1993)

- PORTS -

* Computers :
PC [MS Windows, Online] [EU] (December 9, 2011) "IREM Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
Apple MacIntosh [Online] [US] (August 21, 2011) "Irem Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
PC [Desura] [US] (November 2, 2013) "IREM Arcade Hits" by Plug In Digital

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=46&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 A3EFE 00000063 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
60000000 00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 A2391 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 A23A2 00000019 FFFFFFFF Infinite Bombs PL1
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Invincibility PL1
00010000 A2374 00000002 00000002 Enabled
00010000 A2374 00000000 00000002 Disabled
00000000 A2334 00000000 00000080 Rapid Fire - Normal PL1 Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00000000 A2334 00000000 00000080 Rapid Fire - Special PL1 Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00010000 A2398 00000000 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire - Special PL1 (2/2)
60000000 00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 A23E5 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 A23F6 00000019 FFFFFFFF Infinite Bombs PL2
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Invincibility PL2
00010000 A23C8 00000002 00000002 Enabled
00010000 A23C8 00000000 00000002 Disabled
00000000 A2335 00000000 00000080 Rapid Fire - Normal PL2 Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00000000 A2335 00000000 00000080 Rapid Fire - Special PL2 Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00010000 A23EC 00000000 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire - Special PL2 (2/2)

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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