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P.O.W. - Prisoners of War (US)

 
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P.O.W. - Prisoners of War (US)

| 1988
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Developer: SNK
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 2
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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)


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* 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:
P.O.W. - Prisoners of War (c) 1988 SNK.

After breaking free from your cell in the POW camp, you must fight your way through the entire enemy army using your fists and whatever weapons you can find on dead soldiers.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : A7008 'DG'

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Released in August 1988.

This game is known in Japan as "Datsugoku - Prisoners of War" (translates from Japanese as 'Escaped Prisoners').

- STAFF -

Boss : Eikichi Kawasaki
Programmers : Konny, Regulus, Shoot Yamashita, Shochan
Designers : F. Kiyoshi, Suka Michi, Motti, Maeda, Tetsu, Wara2, Buri, Madaka
Sound : Tarkun, Yoko Osaka, Kenny

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Famicom (1989)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1910&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
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00000000 40039 00000079 FFFFFFFF Infinite Ammo PL1
00000000 40052 00000000 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1
00010000 40053 000000FF FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 (2/2)
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon PL1
00010022 40015 00000000 FFFFFFFF None
00010022 40015 00000001 FFFFFFFF Machine Gun
00010022 40015 00000003 FFFFFFFF Knife
60000000 00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 4009B 00000063 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 40096 0000001F FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2
00000000 40099 00000079 FFFFFFFF Infinite Ammo PL2
00000000 400B2 00000000 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2
00010000 400B3 000000FF FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 (2/2)
62000000 00000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon PL2
00010022 40075 00000000 FFFFFFFF None
00010022 40075 00000001 FFFFFFFF Machine Gun
00010022 40075 00000003 FFFFFFFF Knife

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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