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SAR - Search And Rescue (World)

 
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SAR - Search And Rescue (World)

| 1989
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Developer: SNK
Controls/Input Device: Control(dial), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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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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* FB Alpha

* JFF

* 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:
SAR - Search and Rescue (c) 1989 SNK.

When a pioneer spaceship vanishes mysteriously. An investigation reveals that the spaceship crashed near a ravine due to unknown circumstances. Now two SAR (Search and Rescue) operatives are on a mission to find out what happened, and eliminate the alien threat.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : A8007 'BH'

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : dial
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1989 in Japan.

This was SNK's last game to use rotary joysticks.

Despite the game having an 1989 copyright, SAR - Search and Rescue was actually released sometime in 1990. A few months after SAR's release, SNK began to focus on the Neo-Geo hardware.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

- STAFF -

Producer : Yanbaru
Graphic designers : Sick Of, U-Rakuchou, Chagera No2, Marochie, Tulip Nao
Music composer : Hinjakun
Boss : Eikichi Kawasaki
Programmers : Takoguti Kamen 001, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo
Hardware engineer : Crasher H.T.

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sony PSP (2011, "SNK Arcade Classic 0")

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2314&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
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