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Truxton / Tatsujin

 
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Truxton / Tatsujin

| 1988
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Developer: [Toaplan] Taito Corporation
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)


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:
Tatsujin (c) 1988 Taito Corp.

Taking place somewhere in the near future of space travel, an alien armada is invading the player's home planet aboard 5 gargantuan asteroids. After surviving an attack on the player's cargo barge, players board and pilot one remaining fighter and challenge the aliens in a desperate attempt to quell the alien invasion and divert their asteroid fortresses in the process.

Tatsujin is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game, featuring 8 levels with non-stop action and 5 bosses.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : TP-013B
Prom Stickers : B65

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 3.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.5 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Tatsujin was released in October 1988 in Japan.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Master'.

This game is known outside Japan as Truxton.

Polystar released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Tatsujin : Toaplan Game Music Scene One - H24X-10005) on 25/06/1989.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.

- SERIES -

1. Tatsujin [TP-013B] (1988)
2. Tatsujin Oh [TP-024] (1992)

- STAFF -

Developed by Toaplan.

Staff : Lee Ota
Music composed by : Masahiro Yuge

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sega Mega Drive (1989) "Tatsujin [Model G-4020]"
NEC PC-Engine (1992) "Tatsujin [Model TP-04022]"
FM Towns Marty "Tatsujin"

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2982&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 81D17 0000000A FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 81847 0000000B FFFFFFFF Infinite Skulls
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Invincibility
00010000 81838 00000000 FFFFFFFF Enabled
00010000 81838 00000080 FFFFFFFF Disabled
00000001 81855 00000022 FFFFFFFF Get Max Speed Now!
00000000 81855 00000022 FFFFFFFF Always Max Speed
00000001 81D2D 00000004 FFFFFFFF Get 4 P Now! (5th P = Weapon Power Up)
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon
00010000 81845 00000000 FFFFFFFF Normal
00010000 81845 00000001 FFFFFFFF Better
00010000 81845 00000002 FFFFFFFF Best
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Select Fire
00010000 81841 00000000 FFFFFFFF Red
00018000 81843 00000000 FFFFFFFF Red (2/2)
00010000 81841 00000008 FFFFFFFF Green
00018000 81843 00000008 FFFFFFFF Green (2/2)
00010000 81841 00000010 FFFFFFFF Blue
00018000 81843 00000010 FFFFFFFF Blue (2/2)

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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