moonqsr: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Moon Quasar (c) 1980 Nichibutsu.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Tone generator and discrete circuits
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 98
Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Released in October 1980.
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.07 [Nicola Salmoria, Mike Coates, Robert Anschuetz]
WIP:
- 0.34b1: Added color prom.
- 0.28: Merged mooncrst, moonqsr and scramble vidhrdw into the new Galaxian driver [Nicola Salmoria].
- 0.25: Robert Anschuetz provided infos about how to enable a shot sample with Moon Quasar, Moon Cresta, Galaxian and clones.
- 0.21: Fixed a bug in all games with starbackground: using a frameskip > 0 introduced slowdowns. Now the speed remains unchanged.
- 0.18: Nicola Salmoria added some lousy noise to Moon Quasar.
- 0.15: Nicola Salmoria added high score saving to Moon Quasar.
- 0.12: Gary Walton confirms that the colors in Moon Cresta and Moon Quasar are 100% accurate. Very good!
- 0.09: Thanks to Gary Walton, Moon Quasar dipswitches now are correctly described in the dipswitch menu [Nicola Salmoria].
- 0.08: Added Moon Quasar (Nichibutsu 1980). Game is playable with wrong colors and limited sound. Control: Arrows = Move around and CTRL = Fire. Fixed graphics in Moon Quasar (yes it does run, but you need the correct ROMs). Moon Quasar runs on a modified Moon Cresta board. Known issues: Only one sound channel is emulated, and I'm not sure it's correct. What do the dip switches do?
- 0.07: Added some support for Moon Quasar, but it doesn't work [Nicola Salmoria]. Since the ROMs are encrypted, I don't know if this is due to wrong decryption, bad ROM, or wrong driver (I'm using the Moon Cresta one). I think that either MQ3 (which maps at 1000-17ff) is bad, or it uses a different encryption. Thanks to Mike Coates for the information on the Moon Quasar encryption scheme.
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* FB Alpha
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Romset: 25 kb / 13 files / 16.3 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="moonqsr" sourcefile="galdrvr.c"> |
| | | <description>Moon Quasar</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Nichibutsu</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="mq1" size="2048" crc="132c13ec" sha1="d95166b025442f184e44a70312fb3b4f6366f324" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq2" size="2048" crc="c8eb74f1" sha1="4efa85c40349852da47a0f725ae06873efe4ce1c" region="maincpu" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq3" size="2048" crc="33965a89" sha1="92912cea76a472d9b709c664d9818844a07fcc32" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq4" size="2048" crc="a3861d17" sha1="d7037d93b7838ccdd9a6a1a1476571cfa869fca1" region="maincpu" offset="1800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq5" size="2048" crc="8bcf9c67" sha1="7af0d9308d20c52675301acf5d1a5d62358352a6" region="maincpu" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq6" size="2048" crc="5750cda9" sha1="17c2bc38037833fdb8923d4a2262264386ef916b" region="maincpu" offset="2800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq7" size="2048" crc="78d7fe5b" sha1="4085562a0af94c65dad2a3550409727e597c0d5b" region="maincpu" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mq8" size="2048" crc="4919eed5" sha1="526aaedd25e0f7c525eb7c66519218ae09b0407e" region="maincpu" offset="3800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mqb" size="2048" crc="b55ec806" sha1="fb52e53dfa3ae9dec162622d22de9cfdb0b5f9d6" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="mqd" size="2048" crc="9e7d0e13" sha1="18951080d307ac13344f89745f671595e26d282c" region="gfx1" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mqa" size="2048" crc="66eee0db" sha1="eeb08efd226e15e248999558240488ffd0e39688" region="gfx1" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="mqc" size="2048" crc="a6db5b0d" sha1="476e197df047e991d2ea3c1fad92c799510f1647" region="gfx1" offset="1800"/> |
| | | <rom name="vid_e6.bin" size="32" crc="0b878b54" sha1="3667aca564ebfef5b88d7f74fabbd16dd23183b4" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="Z80" clock="3072000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="discrete" name="DISCRETE"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="90" width="768" height="224" refresh="60.606061" pixclock="18432000" htotal="1152" hbend="0" hbstart="768" vtotal="264" vbend="16" vbstart="240" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="1" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="IN0" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="32"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="IN1" mask="192"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Medium" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="128"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="192"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="IN2" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="3"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="IN2" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Free Play" value="12"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="32"/> |
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