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Driving Force (Pac-Man conversion)

 
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Driving Force (Pac-Man conversion)

| 1984
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Developer: Shinkai Inc. (Magic Eletronics Inc. licence)
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 1
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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 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.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Driving Force (c) 1984 Magic Electronics.

An early chase-view racing game.

- TECHNICAL -

* "Pac-Man" conversion :

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SN76496 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 16

Players : 1
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 2

* "Galaxian" conversion :

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Tone generator, discrete circuits

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 64

Players : 1
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Developed by Shinkai, Inc.

This game was marketed as an inexpensive substitute for Pole Position II.

A bootleg was released in 1985, as "Driving Force (Elsys Software)".

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=715&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 1D76 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 1D7A 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
20800000 24BB 0000001B FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20910000 415C 00001E1B FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/2) 1st = Car, 2nd = Wall

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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