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Zero Hour | 1980

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Units produced: Universal
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 2
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Zero Hour VGMuseum Game Endings
Zero Hour on CAESAR
Zero Hour high score and replay at MARP
Zero Hour on datObase

MAME folder name: zerohour

Display: raster 240x192 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 0 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver redclash.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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* 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:
Zero Hour (c) 1980 Universal.

Maneuver your spaceship and destroy meteorites and enemy ships falling from the top of the screen. Shooting a red meteorite awards a quadruple score. After all enemy ships have been destroyed, a landing pad will appear where you must carefully land your ship. Bonus points are awarded for a successful landing.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : 8011

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 192 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 64

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1980.

- SCORING -

Meteorite (large) : 5 points.
Meteorite (middle) : 10 points.
Meteorite (small) : 15 points.
Enemy spaceship : 20 points.
Enemy missile : 3 points.

- SERIES -

Cosmic Series

1. Cosmic Monsters [Upright model] (1979)
2. Cosmic Monsters 2 (1979)
3. Cosmic Guerilla (1979)
4. Cosmic Alien (1980)
5. Devil Zone (1980)
6. Zero Hour (1980)
7. Space Panic (1980)
8. Cosmic Avenger (1981)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=3244&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
20800000 0E6E 00000000 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 162E 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/4)
20810000 1AF2 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/4)
20810000 1F4E 00000018 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (4/4)
00000000 304F 00000099 FFFFFFFF Always have Max Bonus
00010000 3050 00000099 FFFFFFFF Always have Max Bonus (2/2)
00000000 3039 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 3084 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file