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Thunder Cross

 
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Thunder Cross

| 1988
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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:
Thunder Cross (c) 1988 Konami.

Wipe Out The Mechanikon Hordes! Take off into outer space and prepare for battle.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX873

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 : 2

- TRIVIA -

Thunder Cross was released in October 1988.

The legendary music Horizon by Olof 'Blaizer' Gustafsson found in many Amiga Cracktros of early 90s was actually a cover of the first level music of Thunder Cross. Olof Gustaffson is the inhouse musician of Digital Illusion of Pinball Dreams fame and before going commercial he was an active scener in the Amiga demo group 'The Silents'.

King Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Thunder Cross : Konami Kukeiha Club - 276A-7703) on May 21, 1989.

- UPDATES -

The Japanese version has different level order.

- SERIES -

1. Thunder Cross (1988)
2. Thunder Cross II (1991)

- STAFF -

Soft technicians : Kalcium Wada, The Great Utamaro
Team consultant : Beauty Hide
Production superviser : K. Hiro
Animation character : Moriyanma 24
Set visual artist : M. Sunachan
Sound designers : Nyanpy J-Kane, Prophet Fuka
Processing to Hard : Taka
Package designer : Maya 2095

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sony PlayStation 2 [JP] (February 8, 2007; "Oretachi Game Center Zoku: Thunder Cross [Model SLPM-62744]")

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2889&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 4086 000000FF FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00001301 40C0 00000006 FFFFFFFF Select Starting Stage Enable on the "Press Start" screen after you've inserted a credit
20800000 AA99 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 DD84 0000008F FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/3) 1st = Scenery, 2nd = Fire
20810000 DDB3 0000008F FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/3) Enemy
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 40A0 00000064 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000100 49B6 00000005 FFFFFFFF Select Speed PL1
00000000 49B8 00000002 FFFFFFFF Always Maximum Shot Power PL1
00000000 499A 00000001 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire - Main Shot PL1
62000000 0000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon PL1
00010000 49B7 00000000 FFFFFFFF Normal Shot
00010000 49B7 00000001 FFFFFFFF Vulcan
00010000 49B7 00000002 FFFFFFFF Boomerang
00010000 49B7 00000003 FFFFFFFF Tail Laser
62000000 0000 00000000 00000000 Select Extra Weapon PL1 Enabled after get a optional unit
00110000 49B9 00000000 FFFFFFFF No Extra Weapon
00110000 49B9 00000114 FFFFFFFF Laser
00110000 49B9 00000214 FFFFFFFF Flame
00110000 49B9 00000314 FFFFFFFF Napalm
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 40B0 00000064 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000100 4A36 00000005 FFFFFFFF Select Speed PL2
00000000 4A38 00000002 FFFFFFFF Always Maximum Shot Power PL2
00000000 4A1A 00000001 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire - Main Shot PL2
62000000 0000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon PL2
00010000 4A37 00000000 FFFFFFFF Normal Shot
00010000 4A37 00000001 FFFFFFFF Vulcan
00010000 4A37 00000002 FFFFFFFF Boomerang
00010000 4A37 00000003 FFFFFFFF Tail Laser
62000000 0000 00000000 00000000 Select Extra Weapon PL2 Enabled after get a optional unit
00110000 4A39 00000000 FFFFFFFF No Extra Weapon
00110000 4A39 00000114 FFFFFFFF Laser
00110000 4A39 00000214 FFFFFFFF Flame
00110000 4A39 00000314 FFFFFFFF Napalm
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000020 4612 000000A0 FFFFFFFF Sound Test Timer Stop [PL1 Shot1]Next Code

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