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Sky Skipper

 
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Sky Skipper

| 1981
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Developer: Nintendo
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
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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* 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:
Sky Skipper (c) 1981 Nintendo.

The wonder kingdom is conquered by giant gorillas the player controls a hero pilot and your mission is to save the king and the royal family and his aides have been kidnaped and caged you must rescue and release them, dropping bombs on gorillas to knock them and catch with your plane all the characters, maneuvering through the maze stay alert to replenish your fuel tank and avoiding colliding with the environment to clear the stage.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 448 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 288

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

- TRIVIA -

Sky Skipper was released in August 1981 in Japan.

Some of clear stage tunes in the game sounds very similar like melodies of these contemporary games such: Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Pinball.

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Atari 2600 (1983)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2463&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 8FDA 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 81E2 0000006F FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel
20800000 273B 000000C3 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 3380 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/5) Part 1 "jp c"->"jp" Reduce loads of fuel when hit cloud/explosion & Part 2 "ret c"->"ret" for ground collision
20810000 1E06 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/5) "jr c"->"jr" for ape collision
20810000 168E 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (4/5) "jr z"->"jr" for ape shot collision altitude decrease
20810000 16A0 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (5/5) "jr z"->"jr" for cloud collision decrease
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 8413 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 8513 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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