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Solvalou (Japan)

| 1991
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Developer: Namco
Controls/Input Device: Control(stick), Buttons(4)
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)


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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:
Solvalou (c) 1991 Namco.

A great sequel, with a first-person 3-D viewpoint.

You be once again the pilot of mighty combat aircraft 'Solvalou' this time under a first-person view, through the perspective of the pilot and armed with the classic weaponry the forward-firing gun for aerial targets, and the bombs to destroying ground-based targets.

Your pilot skills will be tested! destroy's all the air and ground enemies and dodge all his attacks, to reach the end and destroy the giant mothership 'Andor Genesis' to restore peace in the planet.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 21 hardware
Game ID : SV

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 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)

Players : 1
Control : stick
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Solvalou was released in December 1991 in Japan.

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Namco Video Game Graffiti Vol.8 - VICL-8074) on April 21, 1993.

- SERIES -

1. Xevious (1982, Arcade)
2. Super Xevious (1984, Arcade)
3. Vs. Super Xevious - Ganpu no Nazo (1986, Arcade)
4. Solvalou (1991, Arcade)
5. Xevious 3D/G (1995, Arcade)
6. Xevious Arrangement (1995, Arcade): part of "Namco Classics Collection Vol.1"
7. Xevious Resurrection (2010, PS3/PSN): part of "Namco Museum.comm"

- STAFF -

Music composition by : Hiroyuki Kawada

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console Arcade] [JP] (March 26, 2009)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2497&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 907F38 00000007 FFFFFFFF Infinite Shields

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