hippodrm: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Hippodrome (c) 1989 Data East USA.
The brave knight takes on a slew of medieval opponents. Money won during fights can be used to purchase fighter upgrades.
The game has 9 different selectable colosseums, each with a different opponent to face:
Pandemonium: Cawnus the Lamia Noble
Gehenna: Gran the Gargoyle
Tarterus: Norfolk the Lizard Man
Gadsheim: Sharon the Armor Dragon
Archeron: Daldnoa the Scorpion Man
Elysium: Solomon the Wizard
Twin Paradises: Charry Steve The Assassins
Abyss: Pon the Giant
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), HuC6280 (@ 1.342325 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.757 Khz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.41 Hz
Palette colors : 1024
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
This game is known in Japan as "Fighting Fantasy".
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (G.S.M. Data East 1 - D25B1002) on 21/06/1989.
- STAFF -
Game designers : Marcy Eiko, Dotman
Hardware : Darkness K.K
Programmers : Susan, Vince Y., TAC. H
Sounds : Azusa Hara (AZUSA), Hiroaki Yoshida (MARO), Hitomi Komatsu, Hiroyuki
Voices : Torba RR, Yuzi. S, Joe Kaminkow, Steve Walton
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Nec Turbo Grafx 16 (1993)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.31 [Bryan McPhail]
Artwork available
WIP:
- 0.143u8: Kanikani fixed DIPSW in clones Fighting Fantasy.
- 15th May 2011: Mr. Do - Everyone say hi to Mikonos, from Zona Arcade. In just the past week, he's already fixed up Hippodrome from the BYOAC / CAG artwork (scanned and provided). Hopefully, he plans to stick around for awhile.
- 0.136u2: Changed HuC6280 CPU3 clock speed to 1342329 Hz and OKI6295 to 1MHz.
- 0.135u3: f205v added clone Fighting Fantasy (bootleg with 68705), not working.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (ffantasa) to (ffantasya).
- 28th March 2006: f205v dumped Fighting Fantasy (bootleg with 68705).
- 21st April 2006: Roberto Fresca - Fixed 'Difficulty' dipswitches in Hippodrome. Changed "Enemy Power on Continue" options from "ON / OFF" to "3 Dots / 2 Dots" (dots left in the enemy power on continue).
- 24th April 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed a bug which caused clone Fighting Fantasy to freeze.
- 0.37b14: Added clone Fighting Fantasy (Japan revision 2). Renamed (ffantasy) to (ffantasa).
- 24th March 2001: Bryan McPhail added another version of clone Fighting Fantasy to the Dec0 driver.
- 0.37b6: Added new gfx4 roms for Hippodrome (US).
- 4th April 2000: Karl Stenerud fixed a 6280 disassembler bug and he fixed the longstanding bug in C 68k core which caused Hippodrome to crash.
- 0.36RC2: Exchanged ffantasy gfx1 roms ($0, 10000) with hippodrm.
- 13th March 2000: Guru - Dumped Fighting Fantasy (Alt).
- 23rd April 1999: Bryan McPhail updated the Hu6280 core and the Hippodrome and clone Fighting Fantasy drivers. Those two games now work fully.
- 0.35b12: Byan McPhail emulated the protection in Hippodrome, which is now working 100%. Added H6280 (1342325 Hz) CPU3 and changed M6502 CPU2 clock speed to 1.5MHz.
- 23rd April 1999: Bryan McPhail updated the Hu6280 core and the Hippodrome & Fighting Fantasy drivers. Those two games now work fully.
- 0.35b9: Changed description to 'Hippodrome (US)' and clone to 'Fighting Fantasy (Japan)'.
- 0.34b3: Dani Portillo added high score saving to Hippodrome.
- 0.33b6: Marco Cassili added clone Fighting Fantasy.
- 0.33b5: Games which use the dynamic palette system and no longer need 16-bit modes. The new code is also used by drivers which were previously doing the palette reduction by themselves, but couldn't handle well color cycling and fades: Bad Dudes, Robocop, Hippodrome, Heavy Barrel, Sly Spy and Midnight Resistance [Nicola Salmoria].
- 0.31: Bryan McPhail added Hippodrome (Data East 1989). Preliminary, missing scroll field and the game crashes if you fight 'Serpent' enemy. Maybe only with sound on?.
- 7th March 1998: Dumped Hippodrome (US).
LEVELS: 8
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
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Romset: 1312 kb / 25 files / 483.9 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Hippodrome (US)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Data East USA</manufacturer> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="10000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="M6502" clock="1500000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="sub" name="HuC6280" clock="1342329"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ym1" name="YM2203" clock="1500000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ym2" name="YM3812" clock="3000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="oki" name="OKI6295" clock="1000000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="256" height="240" refresh="57.392103" pixclock="5000000" htotal="330" hbend="0" hbstart="256" vtotal="264" vbend="8" vbstart="248" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="5" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW" mask="768"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1" value="256"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="768" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="512"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW" mask="3072"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="2048"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="3072" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="1024"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Player & Enemy Energy" tag="DSW" mask="12288"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Very Low" value="4096"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Low" value="8192"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Medium" value="12288" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="High" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Enemy Power Decrease on Continue" tag="DSW" mask="16384"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Dots" value="16384" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Dots" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="32768"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32768" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="1024"/> |
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