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Air Inferno (US)

| 1990

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Controls/Input Device: Control(stick), Buttons(7)
Number of Players: 2
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SoundMix: Mono

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Air Inferno (US) on mameworld
Air Inferno (US) VGMuseum Game Endings
Air Inferno (US) on MAWS
Air Inferno (US) on CAESAR
Air Inferno (US) high score and replay at MARP
Air Inferno (US) on Progetto EMMA
Air Inferno (US) on romkeeper

MAME folder name: ainferno

Display: raster 512x400 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 1 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver taitoair.c:

Status: preliminary; Emulation: preliminary
Graphic: good; Sound: good; Color: good
Palette size: 8192; Savestate: unsupported

Roms:

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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]

WIP:

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 roms order.

- 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.

LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)

Other Emulators:

* JFF

* Raine

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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 484 zip

Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry: Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com

Air Inferno (c) 1990 Taito.

A helicopter rescue simulation game with quite good polygon-based graphics for its time.

- TECHNICAL -

Cockpit cabinet dimension : 68'' (171cm) Wide x 38'' (95cm) Deep x 56'' (140cm) High. Weight : 130 kg

Simulator cabinet dimension : 84'' (211cm) Wide x 54'' (135,5cm) Deep x 71'' (178,5cm) High. Weight : 330 kg

Taito Air System hardware

Board Number : M4300186A

Prom Stickers : C45

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 Mhz), Z80 (@ 4 Mhz), TMS32025 (@ 24 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 512 x 400 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 8192

Players : 2

Control : stick

Buttons : 7

- TRIVIA -

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Taito DJ Station : G.S.M. Taito 5 - PCCB-00037) on 21/08/1990.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different :

* 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen added.

* New Color GFX.

* New weapons and missiles.

- STAFF -

Chief : Toshiaki Tsukano

Game design : Tsukasa Fujita

- PORTS -

* Consoles :

Turbo Grafx 16 (1991)

* Computers :

PC

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Machine's picture.

Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 C0011 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00100000 C8FF0 0000EA5F FFFFFFFF Infinite Time

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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