Face Off (Japan)

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Face Off (Japan) | 1988

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Units produced: Namco
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 4
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Face Off (Japan) VGMuseum Game Endings
Face Off (Japan) on CAESAR
Face Off (Japan) high score and replay at MARP
Face Off (Japan) on datObase

MAME folder name: faceoff

Display: raster 288x224 @ 60.61Hz (60.61 pixclock)
Sound: 2 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver namcos1.c:
Roms:

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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* 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:
Face Off (c) 1988 Namco.

A 4-player overhead-view hockey game, featuring 8 countries :
1. U.S.S.R.
2. CANADA
3. SWEDEN
4. CZEKOSLOVAKIA
5. U.S.A.
6. FINLAND
7. FRANCE
8. JAPAN

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 1 hardware
Game ID : FO

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sub CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
MCU: HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz), Namco advanced 8-channel stereo WSG, stereo DAC

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 24-bit RGB palette

Players : 2
Control : Double 8-way joysticks
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1988.

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Namco Video Game Graffiti Vol.6 - VDR-5301) on 04/10/1989.

- STAFF -

Programmed by: Takashi Fukawa
Music composed by : Yoshinori Kawamoto, Kazuo Noguchi

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=799&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 4112 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Period Time
00010000 4113 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Period Time (2/2)
00000001 4112 00000000 FFFFFFFF Finish Period Now!
00010001 4113 00000000 FFFFFFFF Finish Period Now! (2/2)
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000901 4128 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL1
00000000 4128 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL1
00000000 4128 00000010 FFFFFFFF Score always = 10 PL1
00000001 4128 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score = 0 Now! PL1
00000001 4128 00000010 FFFFFFFF Score = 10 Now! PL1
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000901 412C 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL2
00000000 412C 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL2
00000000 412C 00000010 FFFFFFFF Score always = 10 PL2
00000001 412C 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score = 0 Now! PL2
00000001 412C 00000010 FFFFFFFF Score = 10 Now! PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file