Pulstar | 1995

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Developer: Aicom
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(4)
Number of Players: 2
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Pulstar VGMuseum Game Endings
Pulstar on CAESAR
Pulstar high score and replay at MARP
Pulstar 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:
Pulstar (c) 08/1995 Aicom.

An accomplished and graphically superb sideways scrolling shoot-em-up that borrows many of its visual and gameplay elements from all three games in Irem's legendary "R*Type" series; including the Beam weapon and R-type's infamous pod attachment. Unlike "R*Type", however, Pulstar's pod cannot be detached from the front of the ship and merely acts as a shield to protect the player's ship.

Pulstar consists of eight challenging levels, with the player able to start the game on any one of the first four.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the SNK "Neo-Geo MVS" hardware.
Game ID : 0089

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 59.19 Hz
Palette colors : 4096

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Attack/Charge attack, [B] Restart the move

- TRIVIA -

Pulstar was one of the first games on the NEO-GEO to use state-of-the-art SGI rendered graphics like those found in Nintendo Super Famicom's "Donkey Kong Country".

The pre-production name of this game was 'Reaction'.

Tracy Miller holds the official record for this game with 68,350 points.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Pulstar - PCCB-00192) on 21/10/1995.

- STAFF -

Staff : Nenko, M. Yoshida, T. Nagakubo, Naomi, Daikiti, K. Katoku, K. Urahama, K. Okabe, Toshio. I, Yamadasan, Shion, F. Ryuze
Music composed by : Harumi Fujita, Yasuaki Fujita

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
SNK Neo-Geo CD (1995)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2067&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 1017DE 00000007 FFFFFFFF Max Speed
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 10132A 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 1016AD 000000A4 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1
00000000 10132B 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000 [ These cheats have NOT been tested yet! ]
00000000 1017E1 00000067 FFFFFFFF Full Powerups and addons
00000000 1017E1 000000FF FFFFFFFF Max Power
00000000 1017DF 00000001 FFFFFFFF bomb
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00010000 1017E0 00000003 FFFFFFFF Laser 3
00010000 1017E0 00000004 FFFFFFFF Laser 4
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Space
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00018000 101ADD 00000007 FFFFFFFF Space 7 (2/2)
00010000 101AB5 00000008 FFFFFFFF Final Space 8
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00000000 101696 000000FF FFFFFFFF Full Charge PL1
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Cartridge/NeoGeo Type Enable it DURING the neogeo bios booting sequence. If you miss the boot sequence reset and THEN enable it. The Home (NEOGEO) setting may open up other aspects of the game or it may even make the game unplayable.
00010000 10FD82 00000080 FFFFFFFF Arcade (MVS)
00010000 10FD82 00000000 FFFFFFFF Home (NEOGEO)

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