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Quarth (Japan)

 
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Quarth (Japan)

| 1989
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Developer: Konami
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
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)


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:
Quarth (c) 1989 Konami.

A puzzle game.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX063

Main CPU : KONAMI (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Quarth was released in October 1989.

This game is known outside Japan as "Block Hole".

King Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Konami Game Music Collection Vol.2 - KICA-1016) on August 21, 1990.

- STAFF -

Executive producer & programmer: Nada 89 100G
Pop visual futurist: Hiroshi Iuchi (Iuchi 1)
Demo programmer: Ishida Z80
Special visual effect: Happy Samejima
Title graphic: Ogenki Takano
Sound effects editor: Shikama
Music composed by: Kazuo Hanzawa
Processing to hard: Ueno Furukawa
Package design: Maya 2095

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Game Boy [JP] (March 16, 1990) "Quarth [Model DMG-QRJ]"
Nintendo Famicom [JP] (April 13, 1990) "Quarth [Model KDS-H7]"
Sony Playstation 2 [JP] (2006, "Quarth [Oretachi Gasen Zoku] [Model SLPM-62704]")

* Computers :
MSX 2 [JP] (March 09, 1990) "Quarth [Model RC769]"
Sharp X68000 [JP] (1990) "Quarth [Model RA954]"
NEC PC9801 (JP] (199?)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2102&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 40A0 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 40B0 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 4007 00000000 FFFFFFFF Sound Test Timer Stop [PL1 Shot1]Next Code

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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