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WEC Le Mans 24

 
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WEC Le Mans 24

| 1986
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Developer: Konami
Controls/Input Device: Control(stick), Buttons(4)
Number of Players: 1
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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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
WEC Le Mans 24 (c) 1986 Konami.

A demanding yet superb sprite-scaling racing game from Konami, based on the annual 'WEC Le Mans 24' race; a grueling event that, as its name suggests, takes place over a 24-hour period.

The width of Le Mans' racetrack never varied and remained a constant 3 lanes wide. The track itself was incredibly demanding and contact with either a rival racer or one of the many track-side objects would send the player's vehicle flying dramatically through the air, costing valuable seconds in time.

- TECHNICAL -

[Upright model]

Game ID : GX602

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), Konami K007232 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels

Players : 1
Control : Steering wheel
Buttons : 3 (ACCELERATE, BRAKE, GEAR)

- TRIVIA -

WEC Le Mans 24 was released in November 1986.

WEC Le Mans 24 was developed by Technostar/Coreland and Alpha Denshi. The hardware was developed and sold by Konami. After developing this video game, 'Technostar' was bought out by Coreland.

Also released as :
"WEC Le Mans 24 [Mini Spin model]"
"WEC Le Mans 24 [Big Spin model]"

WEC Le Mans was released the same year as Sega's seminal "Out Run" and tends to be unfairly overlooked in the annuls of video game history. The sprite-scaling and use of color is superb with the game-play being tight and responsive - if a little on the difficult side. Le Mans asked rather more of the player than Out Run, adopting more of a 'simulation' approach to its game-play - but patient and skillful players found their efforts suitably rewarded.

Reflecting real-life motor-racing sponsorship, Le Man's racetrack is lined with billboards advertising recognized cigarette brands, such as 'Gitanes' and 'Lucky Strike'.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'HHH'.

Apollon Music released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Original Sound of WEC Le Mans 24 - KHY-1018) in cassette format on August 21, 1987. Also released the soundtrack album in CD format (Original Sound of WEC Le Mans 24 - BY12-5028) on December 16, 1988.

- SERIES -

1. WEC Le Mans 24 (1986)
2. Racin' Force (1994)

- PORTS -

* Computers :
Amstrad CPC [EU] (1988)
Commodore C64 [US] [EU] (1988)
Sinclair ZX Spectrum [EU] (1988)
Commodore C64 [EU] (1990, "100% Dynamite")
Sinclair ZX Spectrum [EU] (1990, "100% Dynamite")

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=21214&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
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00010000 4040A 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time (2/2)
20800000 08C36 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 1CFFC 00000060 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/2) 1st = Obstacle, 2nd = Car
20800000 08AE2 00000060 FFFFFFFF No Speed Down Out of Course
00000000 4041E 0000004D FFFFFFFF Always Normal Speed
00000001 4041E 0000004D FFFFFFFF Normal Speed Now! Use this with an Activation Key for best effect
00000000 4041E 0000007F FFFFFFFF Always Max Speed
00000001 4041E 0000007F FFFFFFFF Max Speed Now! Use this with an Activation Key for best effect
00000001 40409 00000004 FFFFFFFF Make this the last lap Now!

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