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Aqua Rush (AQ1/VER.A)

| 1999

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Developer: Namco
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 4
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Aqua Rush (AQ1/VER.A) VGMuseum Game Endings
Aqua Rush (AQ1/VER.A) on CAESAR
Aqua Rush (AQ1/VER.A) high score and replay at MARP
Aqua Rush (AQ1/VER.A) 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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip

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

History.dat entry:
Aqua Rush (c) 1999 Namco.

An upside down tetris type game, where you can elongate any of the 3 xxx points separately on a block to connect that certain block without any gaps. The game is quite addictive but gets very tough after the first few levels.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 12 hardware
Game ID : AQ

Main CPU : PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz), H8/3002 (@ 14.7456 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C352 (@ 14.7456 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 640 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 65536

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 6

- TRIVIA -

Released in October 1999.

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AQ1/VER.A1
* Software version : AQ1/VER.A1 (Japan)
* Build date : 13:32:33, OCT 12 1999

- STAFF -

Director : Eiji Yoshida
Programmer : Yasumichi Donishi
Visual director : Taro Okamoto
Sea creatures designer : Kanako Iwasaki
Stage designer : Hiroko Noguchi
Effect designer : Fuminori Isuchiya
Title logo & graphic designer : Syunichi Yoshida
BGM composer : Akitaka Tohyama
BGM compose help : Yoshihito Yano
BGM & SE composer : Satoru Kosaki
Game tuning : Yasuki Nakabayashi
Debug & Assist : Masanao Kukoda, Makoto Kiyokawa, Takashi Kohara, Takeharu Konodu
Supervisors : Katsuo Nakamura, Hajime Nakatani
Producer : Toshio Natsui

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Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
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Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file