Hippodrome (US) | 1989

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Developer: Data East USA
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Hippodrome (US) VGMuseum Game Endings
Hippodrome (US) on CAESAR
Hippodrome (US) high score and replay at MARP
Hippodrome (US) 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)


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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:
Hippodrome (c) 1989 Data East USA.

The brave knight takes on a slew of medieval opponents. Money won during fights can be used to purchase fighter upgrades.

The game has 9 different selectable colosseums, each with a different opponent to face:
Pandemonium: Cawnus the Lamia Noble
Gehenna: Gran the Gargoyle
Tarterus: Norfolk the Lizard Man
Gadsheim: Sharon the Armor Dragon
Archeron: Daldnoa the Scorpion Man
Elysium: Solomon the Wizard
Twin Paradises: Charry Steve The Assassins
Abyss: Pon the Giant

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), HuC6280 (@ 1.342325 Mhz)
Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.757 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 2
=> Slash, Jump

- TRIVIA -

Hippodrome was released in March 1989.

This game is known in Japan as "Fighting Fantasy".

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (G.S.M. Data East 1 - D25B1002) on June 21, 1989.

- STAFF -

Game Designers : Marcy Eiko, Dotman
Hardware : Darkness K.K
Programmers : Susan, Vince Y., Tac. H
Sounds : Azusa Hara (Azusa), Hiroaki Yoshida (Maro), Hitomi Komatsu, Hiroyuki
Voices : Torba RR, Yuzi. S, Joe Kaminkow, Steve Walton

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
NEC TurboGrafx-16 [US] (1993)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1127&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 FF87FD 00000059 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00010000 FF87FC 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time (2/2)
00000001 FF87FD 00000000 FFFFFFFF Finish this Stage Now!
00010001 FF87FC 00000000 FFFFFFFF Finish this Stage Now! (2/2)
00000001 FF800D 00000008 FFFFFFFF End the game next stage Enable during play!
00000000 FF82F4 00000000 FFFFFFFF Always 1 hit to kill boss
00010000 FF8324 00000000 FFFFFFFF Always 1 hit to kill boss (2/2)
00000001 FF82F4 00000000 FFFFFFFF Kill Boss with 1 hit Now!
00010001 FF8324 00000000 FFFFFFFF Kill Boss with 1 hit Now! (2/2)
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 FF805E 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 FF8032 00000020 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1
00010000 FF805C 00000020 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000001 FF8032 00000000 FFFFFFFF Drain All Energy Now! PL1
20800000 013AB0 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 Invincibility cheat ONLY works on VS CPU mode.
20910000 01D1CE 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 (2/4)
20910000 01D26A 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 (3/4)
20910000 01E2CA 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 (4/4)
00000000 FF8052 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL1
00010000 FF8051 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL1 (2/3)
00010000 FF8050 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL1 (3/3)
00000000 FF805D 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Necklaces PL1
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000 These PL2 cheats are for a real player ONLY!!
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000 -----------------------------------------------
00000000 FF809E 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 FF8072 00000020 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2
00010000 FF809C 00000020 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000001 FF8072 00000000 FFFFFFFF Drain All Energy Now! PL2
20800000 013AB0 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 Invincibility cheat ONLY works on VS CPU mode.
20910000 01D4F8 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 (2/4)
20910000 01D594 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 (3/4)
20910000 01E42C 00004E71 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 (4/4)
00000000 FF8092 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL2
00010000 FF8091 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL2 (2/3)
00010000 FF8090 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Gold PL2 (3/3)
00000000 FF809D 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Necklaces PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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