Gorkans | 1983

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Developer: Techstar
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy4way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 2
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Gorkans VGMuseum Game Endings
Gorkans on CAESAR
Gorkans high score and replay at MARP
Gorkans on datObase

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)


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

* 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:
Gorkans (c) 1983 Techstar.

In Gorkans, the player must use a four-way joystick to take control of a red flame-like character as he moves along blue lines (moving only forwards) and burns them away to collect flashing or spinning bombs for points before they explode. Gorkans must also watch out for the orange flames (which are palette-swapped versions of him) and also moving along the blue lines and burning them away - because if he ends up touching one of them (or unable to move given that he cannot retrace his steps), he will lose a life. If you are running out of space to go it is also possible to wait in one of the corners for the orange flames to burn themselves out. It is also possible to cut the orange flames off completely from Gorkans and force them to move along particular lines by clearing out all the lines around the walls and leaving them with no option.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Namco (@ 96 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 288 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 16

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Telko rereleased this title as "Mr. TNT" with modified characters.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=992&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 4CA6 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 4CA7 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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