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Laser | 1980

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Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 1
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Laser VGMuseum Game Endings
Laser on CAESAR
Laser high score and replay at MARP
Laser on datObase

MAME folder name: laser

Display: raster 260x224 @ 59.54Hz (59.54 pixclock)
Sound: 1 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver 8080bw.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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


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

History.dat entry:
Astro Laser (c) 1980 Leisure Time Electronics.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SN76477 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 1
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- UPDATES -

Unlike "Space Laser" :
* The ships moving horizontally across the screen are not always solid but flash on and off.
* This game is one or two player.
* Was designed for a cocktail cabinet.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1351&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 202B 00000000 FFFFFFFF Enemy Can't Shoot
00000000 2008 000000FF FFFFFFFF Laser is always long
00000000 201A 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 2008 00000064 FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel PL1
00000000 201B 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 202B 00000040 FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel PL2
00010000 202E 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel PL2 (2/2)

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file