0.138u1 [Stefan Lindberg]
0.29 [Mirko Buffoni, Paul Leaman, Nicola Salmoria]
Artwork available
TEST MODE:
- To access the unreachable tests (#4-7) in the Service Test, when starting up the machine after it has been set into Test Mode, hold down the left coin switch.
WIP:
- 0.175: Corrects long standing mislabeling of roms 04 & 05 of all sets [Brian Troha].
- 0.174: Test commit for the new gen_latch, which should substitute the soundlatch_* methods in driver_device [Osso].
- 0.171: Andrea Palazzetti added clone 1943: Midway Kaisen (bootleg).
- 0.168: caius and The Dumping Union added clone 1943: The Battle of Midway (US).
- 0.151: Improved 1943 protection emulation [Dave].
- 0.143u5: Foul added clone 1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan, Rev B). Changed description of clone (US) to '1943: The Battle of Midway (US, Rev C)'. Renamed (1943j) to (1943ja).
- 0.141u1: Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clone 1943: Battle of Midway (bootleg, hack of Japan set).
- 0.140: Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h usage from 1943 driver.
- 0.138u1: Stefan Lindberg added 1943: The Battle of Midway (Euro). Renamed (1943) to (1943u).
- 15th May 2010: Smitdogg - Stefan Lindberg dumped a hacked version of 1943.
- 0.137u2: Bill D. and The Dumping Union corrected rom names in 1943 and clone (Japan).
- 4th April 2010: Smitdogg - Bill D. dumped 1943 Rev.C (USA) and he dumped the PLDs in various old Capcom games.
- 0.136: Fabio Priuli fixed 1943 and clone crashed when starting service mode.
- 0.135u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct to 1943 driver.
- 0.129: MooglyGuy added savestate support to 1943 and clone.
- 0.126u4: Roberto Zandona added information to the 1943 video driver about priorities encoded in PROM.
- 0.123u4: Corrado Tomaselli changed/verified clocks in 1943.
- 0.122u8: RansAckeR made some minor improvements to 1943 DIPs. Zsolt Vasvari removed colortables from 1943 driver and a number of other drivers, as part of a larger move to phase out old-style colortables. Changed palettesize to 896 colors.
- 3rd September 2006: Mr. Do - Ad_Enuff optimized 1943 bezel. File sizes are now half of what they were (with no loss in quality).
- 0.108u2: Roberto Fresca added DIP locations to 1943.
- 0.88u1: Curt Coder converted 1943 to use tilemaps, cleaned up driver, merged memory maps and fixed inputs/dips based on manuals. Changed description to '1943: The Battle of Midway (US)' and clone (Japan) to '1943: Midway Kaisen (Japan)'.
- 22nd October 2001: William Kucharski sent in cocktail mode fixes for 1943 and Popeye.
- 25th August 2000: Zsolt Vasvari converted Fire Trap, '1943' and Gun Smoke to the tilemap system.
- 0.36RC2: Added prom ($a00, b00 - priority encoder/palette selector and video timing).
- 0.35RC2: Renamed (1943jap) to (1943j).
- 0.35b13: Changed description to '1943 - The Battle of Midway (US)' and clone (Japan) to '1943 - The Battle of Midway (Japan)'.
- 0.33b6: Changed description to '1943 (US)' and clone (Japanese) to '1943 (Japan)'.
- 0.33b4: Nicola Salmoria added clone 1943 (Japanese).
- 0.30: Jeff Johnson added high score saving to 1943.
- 0.29: Mirko Buffoni, Paul Leaman and Nicola Salmoria added '1943' (Capcom 1987). 1943 is almost identical to GunSmoke (one more scrolling playfield). We should merge the two drivers. Accurate colors in 1943 [Tim Lindquist, Nicola Salmoria]. Known issues: Colors in test mode are not correct, but the board the PROMs were read from does the same. The colors in the game seem to be correct. To be able to access items 4-7 in the test menu, you must keep 3 pressed while pressing F3.
LEVELS: 16
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Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:
1943 - The Battle of Midway (c) 1987 Capcom.
Export release. Game developed in Japan by Capcom. For more information, please see the original Japanese version entry: "1943 - Midway Kaisen".
- TRIVIA -
1943 - The Battle of Midway was released in June 1987 outside Japan. It is known in Japan as "1943 - Midway Kaisen" (translated from Japanese as '1943 - Midway Naval Battle').
Brian Chapel holds the record for this game with 2,947,360 points on June 23, 1988.
- SERIES -
1. 1942 (1984)
2. 1943 - Midway Kaisen (1987)
3. 1943 Kai - Midway Kaisen (1988)
4. 1941 - Counter Attack [B-Board 89625B-1] (1990)
5. 19XX - The War Against Destiny [Green Board] (1995)
6. 1944 - The Loop Master [Green Board] (2000)
7. 1942 - Joint Strike (2008, PSN/XBLA)
- PORTS -
Here is a list of ports released outside Japan and North America. To see ports released in Japan, see "1943 - Midway Kaisen". To see ports released in North America, see "1943 - The Battle of Midway [Conversion Kit]".
* CONSOLES:
[EU] Sony PlayStation (sept.3, 1999) "Capcom Generations 1 - Wings of Destiny [Capcom Generations Disc 1] [Model SLES-01881]"
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (nov.18, 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection"
[EU] Sony PS2 (nov.18, 2005) "Capcom Classics Collection [Model SLES-53661]"
Sony PlayStation 3 [PSN] [EU] (feb.20, 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [EU] (feb.20, 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] [AU] (feb.21, 2013) "Capcom Arcade Cabinet"
* HANDHELDS:
[EU] Sony PSP (nov.10, 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded [Model ULES-00377]"
[AU] Sony PSP (nov.16, 2006) "Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded"
* COMPUTERS:
[EU] Atari ST (1988)
Amstrad CPC [Tape] [EU] (1988)
Amstrad CPC [Disc] [EU] (1988)
[EU] Commodore C64 (1988)
[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1988)
[EU] Commodore Amiga (1989)
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