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Raiden

| 1990
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Developer: Seibu Kaihatsu
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Raiden VGMuseum Game Endings
Raiden on CAESAR
Raiden high score and replay at MARP
Raiden 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:
Raiden (c) 1990 Seibu Kaihatsu.

In the year 2090, Earth has suddenly become the target of deranged aliens. Following the invasion, a new cutting-edge weapon, the Raiden Supersonic Attack Fighter, based on the destroyed alien craft, is created for humanity's hope for survival.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) V30 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2048

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

- TRIVIA -

Raiden was released in April 1990.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Thunder and Lightning'.

Raiden is the name of a Japanese WWI Fighter, the Mitsubishi J2M Raiden.

Licensed to Fabtek for US distribution, to Liang HWA Electronics for Taiwan distribution, to I.B.L. Corporation for Korea distribution and to Wah Yan Electronics for Hong Kong distribution.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Raiden Densetsu - PCCB-00047) on 05/12/1990.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Items list:
- Red beacon: Gives the Vulcan firepower to the player who obtains it.
- Blue beacon: Gives the Laser firepower to the player who obtains it.
- M: Gives the Nuclear missile sub-weapon to the player who obtains it.
- H: Gives the Homing missile sub-weapon to the player who obtains it.
- 1-UP: Gives the player who obtains it an extra life stock.
- P: Maximizes the players current weapon sets to full power.
- B: Increases bomb stock by one.
- Medal: Gives a score of 300 points.
- Miclus: Seibu Kaihatsu's dragon mascot appears in Raiden and it's series, giving a score of 3,000.
- Fairy: A small humanoid creature that gives whoever obtains it 10,000 points.

- SERIES -

1. Raiden (1990)
2. Raiden II (1993)
3. Raiden DX (1994)
4. Raiden II NEW (1996)
5. Raiden Fighters (1996)
6. Raiden Fighters 2 - Operation Hell Dive (1997)
7. Raiden Fighters Jet (1998)
8. Raiden Fighters 2 - 2000 Operation Hell Dive (2000)
9. Raiden III (2005)
10. Raiden IV (2006)

- STAFF -

Producer : H. Hamada
Game design : Tetsuya Kawaguchi (as 'T. Kawaguchi')
Programmers : K. Kondo, Tetsuya Kawaguchi (as 'T. Kawaguchi'), S. Mori
Graphic design : T. Wada, M. Komazawa, T. Matsuzawa, H. Matsuo
Music & SFX : Akira Satoh (as 'A. Sato')
Hardware design : Y. Segawa

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
NEC PC-Engine (1991)
Sega Mega Drive (1991, "Raiden Trad")
Nintendo Super Famicom (1991, "Raiden Densetsu")
Nintendo Super Famicom (1992, "Raiden Trad")
PC Engine Super CD-ROM (04/1992, "Super Raiden")
Atari Jaguar (1994)
Sony PlayStation (1995, "The Raiden Project")
Atari Lynx (1997)
Sony PlayStation (2002, "MajorWave Series")

* Computers :
FM Towns PC (1991, "Raiden Densetsu")
PC [MS-DOS, CD-ROM]

* Others :
Google Play (December 2012) Raiden Legacy
Apple App Store (December 2012) Raiden Legacy

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2163&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
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00000000 0BE3 00000006 FFFFFFFF Infinite Bombs PL1
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00000000 0D43 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Laser PL1
00000000 0D44 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Missile PL1
00000000 0D45 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Homing PL1
00000000 123C 00000000 00000010 Rapid Fire PL1
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
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00000001 0C01 00000008 FFFFFFFF Get Max Normal weapon Now!PL2
00000001 0C03 00000008 FFFFFFFF Get Max Laser weapon Now! PL2
00000001 0C05 00000004 FFFFFFFF Get Max Rocket weapon Now!PL2
00000001 0C07 00000004 FFFFFFFF Get Max Missile weaponNow!PL2
00000000 0D52 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Vulcan PL2
00000000 0D53 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Laser PL2
00000000 0D54 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Missile PL2
00000000 0D55 00000000 FFFFFFFF Infinite Homing PL2
00000000 12AC 00000000 00000010 Rapid Fire PL2

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