stratof: MAME ROM Information. History:
Raiga - Strato Fighter (c) 1991 Tecmo.
A horizontal scrolling shooter.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 9.216 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) YM2203 (@ 4 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.575 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Released in February 1991 in Japan.
The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Thunder Fang - Strato Fighter'.
The 3rd level music is a cover of Emerson Lake & Palmer's 'Tarkus (Eruption)' from the 1971 album. The game song is called 'Kartus'.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Raiga - PCCB-00063) on 21/05/1991.
- UPDATES -
The US version is slightly different, it has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.
- STAFF -
Game designer : Uchinar
Hardware : Yoshida San
Software : Kuma, HB.M
Character designers : Naoyuki, Kouji Miyazato, Mamoru Touma, Strong Shima, Murasaki, A. Haruno, Kena, Chi Quia, B.F.R, Grz-Zoo, T. Miyazato
Sound composers : Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki), M. Tanaka
Special effects : Jhon Pee
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Tecmo Classic Arcade")
- SOURCES -
Game's ROM.
MAME Info:
0.66 [?]
0.64 [Nicola Salmoria]
TODO:
* Protection NEC D8749
WIP:
- 0.133u1: Changed VSync to 59.17 Hz.
- 0.132u3: Mamesick fixed messed up sound in 'Raiga - Strato Fighter'.
- 8th June 2009: Guru - Raiga/Strato Fighter (1991 Tecmo, for MCU decapping) arrived. Thanks to Gp-Lee.
- 0.124u1: Aaron Giles fixed broken colors on sprites.
- 0.123u3: Zsolt Vasvari and David Haywood fixed crash in Raiga.
- 0.110u4: Mamesick fixed sound in Raiga (sound ADDRESS_MAPs).
- 0.78u5: Fixed Raiga sound (0.78u2 memory rewrite).
- 0.71: Leon van Rooij improved graphics in Strato Fighter. Changed MSM6295 clock speed to 7575 Hz and palettesize to 4096 colors.
- 3rd July 2003: Leon van Rooij fixed most of the blending effects in Raiga - Strato Fighter.
- 0.70u5: Improvements and fixes to Raiga-Strato Fighter [David Haywood, Guru, Leon van Rooij]. There are still some graphics problems (priority, incomplete alpha blending effects, bad tiles).
- 28th June 2003: David Haywood simulated enough of the protection in Raiga - Strato Fighter for the game to be fully playable, but it's lacking some graphics effects.
- 0.66: Added Raiga - Strato Fighter (US). Changed M68000 CPU1 clock speed to 9216000 Hz.
- 20th February 2003: Guru - Received a Strato Fighter PCB for trojaning from R. Belmont.
- 0.64: Nicola Salmoria added Raiga - Strato Fighter (Japan) (Tecmo 1991).
- 22nd January 2003: Nicola Salmoria fixed the sprites in Raiga - Strato Fighter, but it's still not playable.
- 21st January 2003: Nicola Salmoria added Raiga - Strato Fighter to the Ninja Gaiden driver but it suffers from unemulated protection and is not playable.
LEVELS: 6 (must be finished twice)
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
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Romset: 2560 kb / 9 files / 702.8 zip
MAME XML Output:
   | <game name="stratof" sourcefile="gaiden.c"> |
   |    | <description>Raiga - Strato Fighter (US)</description> |
   |    | <year>1991</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>Tecmo</manufacturer> |
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   |    | <rom name="a-4b.3" size="65536" crc="18655c95" sha1="8357e0520565a201bb930cadffc759463931ec41" region="audiocpu" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <rom name="a-6v.mcu" size="4096" status="nodump" region="mcu" offset="0"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="a-4a.4" size="131072" crc="ef9acdcf" sha1="8d62a666843f0cb22e8926ae18a961052d4f9ed5" region="oki" offset="0"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="9216000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="ym1" name="YM2203" clock="4000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="ym2" name="YM2203" clock="4000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="oki" name="OKI6295" clock="1000000"/> |
   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="256" height="224" refresh="59.170000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="1"/> |
   |    | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW" mask="15"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="5 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="4"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="10"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/3 Credits" value="8"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="15" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/4 Credits" value="12"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="14"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="7"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/5 Credits" value="6"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="11"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="3"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/5 Credits" value="13"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="5"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/7 Credits" value="9"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW" mask="240"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="5 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="64"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="160"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/2 Credits" value="32"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/3 Credits" value="128"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="240" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/4 Credits" value="192"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="224"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="112"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/5 Credits" value="96"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="176"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="48"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/5 Credits" value="208"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="80"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/7 Credits" value="144"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW" mask="768"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="50k 200k" value="768" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="100k 300k" value="256"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="50k only" value="512"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="None" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW" mask="3072"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="3" value="3072" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="4" value="1024"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="5" value="2048"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW" mask="12288"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="12288"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="4096" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="8192"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="16384"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16384" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW" mask="32768"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32768"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="imperfect" savestate="supported" palettesize="4096"/> |
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