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Hard Hat

| 1982
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Developer: Exidy
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy4way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 1
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Hard Hat VGMuseum Game Endings
Hard Hat on CAESAR
Hard Hat high score and replay at MARP
Hard Hat on datObase
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)


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* 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:
Hard Hat (c) 1982 Exidy.

You are a carpenter and you are being chased by hammers and whirlwinds through a grid of scaffolding. You can move the scaffolding to move letters and spell EXIDY and HARD HAT.

- TECHNICAL -

The hardware is identical to another Exidy game, "Pepper II".

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 705.562 Khz)
Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 894.886 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 248 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8

Players : 1
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released in November 1982. It was taunted as the 'First Educational Coin-Op Game'.

- STAFF -

Designed & programmed by : Larry Hutcherson

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1086&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 01FC 00000089 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
00000000 0070 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 0071 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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