blazstar: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Blazing Star (c) 1998 Yumekobo.
A beautiful horizontally scrolling shoot'em up.
- TECHNICAL -
SNK Neo-Geo MVS hardware
Game ID : 0239
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : 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
=> Ship name (pilot) > [A] Normal/Rapid/Charge attack, [B] Break attack
=> Hell Hound (Caster) > [A] 4 way shot/6 way shot/Deathflame, [B] Hell burst
=> Windina (Leefa) > [A] Wave/Tidal wave/3 way spread, [B] Homing
=> Aryustailm (JB) > [A] Laser/Lightning bolt/Sword, [B] Sword field
=> Peplos (Asayuki) > [A] 3 way shot/3 way fire/Holy flare, [B] Devil breath
=> Dino 135 (Naomi Y.) > [A] Shot/Rapidshot/Spreadshot, [B] Special scatter
=> Dino 246 (Kaoru Y.) > [A] Shot/Rapidshot/Chargeshot, [B] Bomber
- TRIVIA -
Released in January 1998.
Blazing Star is Yumekobo's first game developed and released for the Neo-Geo MVS.
KAORU.Y (The last ship at the character selection screen) is the lead character from "Pulstar".
Part of the "Pulstar" / "R-Type" team also worked on Blazing Star (see Staff section for more information).
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Blazing Star - PCCB-00306) on 18/03/1998.
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
* Stage Select : At the ship select screen, hold RIGHT and D on both 1 and 2-player sides, then select your ship. The next screen will be a stage select menu.
* While choosing a ship in the select screen, press C+D for an extra color ship.
* Asayuki and its Peplos ship can't power-up with any items.
- STAFF -
Executive producers : Akio Inove, Nobuyuki Okude
Producer : Takaya ida
Sub. producer : Isamu yutani
Director : Michio Sato
Main programmer : Minoru Yoshida
Sub. programmer : Taka / M. Sakae
Chief designer : Tomonori Nagakubo
Designers : Kyou Yamanaka, Izumi Senou, Saki, Shotabira, Yumetard, Tatsuo Shioda
Character designer : Daikichi
Design helpers : Mayumi Takeuchi, Itsuo Iton, Mitsuo Takano, Masakazu Ishizaki
Sound designer : Yasuaki Fujita
Music composer : Harumi Fujita
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.34b5 [?]
Neo-Geo (Artwork available)
WIP:
- 0.144u4: Johnboy identified product codes for Blazing Star.
- 0.79u2: Added new gfx3 roms.
- 0.56: Fixed music crashes in "boss 2" battle of Blazing Star, and at the beginning of level 3.
- 0.34RC2: Added new 128k cpu2 rom and sound roms.
- 0.34b7: Changed description to 'Blazing Star'.
- 0.34b5: Added 'Pulstar 2 - Blazing Star' (Yumekobo 1998).
LEVELS: 7
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Romset: 44288 kb / 14 files / 20.2 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Blazing Star</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Yumekobo</manufacturer> |
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| | | <biosset name="euro-s1" description="Europe MVS (Ver. 1)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="us" description="US MVS (Ver. 2?)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="us-e" description="US MVS (Ver. 1)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="asia" description="Asia MVS (Ver. 3)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="japan" description="Japan MVS (Ver. 3)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="japan-s2" description="Japan MVS (Ver. 2)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="japan-s1" description="Japan MVS (Ver. 1)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="mv1c" description="NEO-MVH MV1C"/> |
| | | <biosset name="japan-j3" description="Japan MVS (J3)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="japan-hotel" description="Custom Japanese Hotel"/> |
| | | <biosset name="uni-bios_2_3" description="Universe Bios (Hack, Ver. 2.3)"/> |
| | | <biosset name="uni-bios_2_3o" description="Universe Bios (Hack, Ver. 2.3, older?)"/> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2610" clock="8000000"/> |
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| | | <input players="2" buttons="4" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Test Switch" tag="IN0" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin Chutes?" tag="IN0" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1?" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2?" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Autofire (in some games)" tag="IN0" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="COMM Setting (Cabinet No.)" tag="IN0" mask="24"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1" value="24" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="COMM Setting (Link Enable)" tag="IN0" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Free Play" tag="IN0" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Freeze" tag="IN0" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="0"/> |
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