Air Combat (US)

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Air Combat (US)

| 1992

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Controls/Input Device: Control(stick), Buttons(6)
Number of Players: 2
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SoundMix: Stereo

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Manufacturer: Namco
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Air Combat (US) VGMuseum Game Endings
Air Combat (US) on MAWS
Air Combat (US) on CAESAR
Air Combat (US) high score and replay at MARP
Air Combat (US) on Progetto EMMA
Air Combat (US) on romkeeper
Air Combat (US) on datObase

MAME folder name: aircombu

Display: raster 496x480 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 2 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver namcos21.c:

Status: preliminary; Emulation: preliminary
Graphic: imperfect; Sound: good; Color: good
Palette size: 32768; Savestate: unsupported

Roms:

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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]

WIP:

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 roms order.

- 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.

LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)

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* JFF

* Raine

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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 484 zip

Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry: Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com

Air Combat (c) 1992 Namco.

A cockpit flying game from Namco that tries to simulate an F-16 like aircraft. The game mainly involves dog fighting and has three levels of play; Cadet, Captain and Ace.

- TECHNICAL -

Dimensions :

77,12in. (195,5cm) High

110,62in. (279,4cm) Deep

42,81in. (106,6cm)

Weight : 1041 lbs (471.5 kg)

Namco System 21 hardware

Game ID : AC

Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (@ 12.288 Mhz), M6809 (@ 3.072 Mhz), HD63705 (@ 2.048 Mhz), (2x) TMS32025 (@ 24 Mhz)

Sound Chips : C140 (@ 32 Khz), YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 496 x 480 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32768

Players : 2

Control : Throttle lever, 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1992, Air Combat was released in June 1993 in Japan.

Note : You never die in this game! Instead you eject from the aircraft giving you a non-violent ending.

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Namco Video Game Graffiti Vol.10 - VICL-40097, 40098) on 16/12/1993.

- SERIES -

1. Air Combat (1992)

2. Air Combat 22 (1995)

3. Ace Combat (1996, Sony PlayStation)

4. Ace Combat 2 (1997, Sony PlayStation)

5. Ace Combat 3 - Electrosphere (2000, Sony PlayStation)

6. Ace Combat 04 - Shattered Skies (2001, Sony PlayStation 2)

7. Ace Combat 5 (Sony PlayStation 2)

- STAFF -

Music composition by : Hiroyuki Kawada

- PORTS -

* Consoles :

Sony PlayStation (1995)

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Machine's picture.

Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 10012F 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00100000 10045A 00000E10 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00100000 10046A 0000270F FFFFFFFF Infinite Guns
00100000 100468 00000063 FFFFFFFF Infinite Missiles

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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