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Mega Zone

| 1983
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Developer: Konami
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
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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* 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:
Mega Zone (c) 1983 Konami.

A great action shoot'em up game.

Take the control of an amphibious Rocket Tank, and your mission is to advance through infested enemy territory, you must choose your path carefully and take precise aim, increase your fire power collecting twelve power item pods; "MEG" stay alert to all enemy's moves. Your encounter a multitude of enemies varies depending on which path you choose. The screen continues until reach the ominous "Megazone" and annihilate the giant mechanical eyeballs the fortress Command tower which is only vulnerable when open. Your next mission awaits...

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX319

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : I8039 (@ 477.266 Khz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz), DAC, (3x) RC (@ 1.789772 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Mega Zone was released in March 1983.

Also licensed to Kosuka for manufacture and distribution.

There is many unused graphics on the grahic ROM, including the wolf enemy from "Pooyan"!.

Yashiro Oda holds the official record for this game with 2,228,650 points.

- UPDATES -

Second revision:
* Build date: Oct. 11, 1983

First revision:
* Build date: Sep. 20, 1983

- STAFF -

Staff: Koji Hiroshita, Y. Sakamoto, T. Fujiwara, N. Inoue, S. Fukutake

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1597&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 3B1D 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 3BA0 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
20800000 85E1 00000085 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 85E6 00000027 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/2)
00000000 3FAF 00000001 FFFFFFFF Power Up + Invincibility
00010000 3F77 000000E0 FFFFFFFF Power Up + Invincibility (2/5)
00010000 3F8F 000000E1 FFFFFFFF Power Up + Invincibility (3/5)
00010000 3FA7 000000E3 FFFFFFFF Power Up + Invincibility (4/5)
00010000 3FBF 000000E2 FFFFFFFF Power Up + Invincibility (5/5)
00000000 3FA3 00000000 00000010 Rapid Fire

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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