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Armed Formation

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Armed Formation
Name armedf
Manufacturer Nichibutsu
Year 1988
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .138
Romset size 992 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 359 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status good
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt yes
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 320 240 57

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 01.3f 65536 816ff7c5 1013883f2389aba4b8f397aacc0d681807a31cd5 maincpu 1 good no
arcade 02.4f 65536 fa10c29d 9c772ff6f749a542248c2ca260ac3460ae4f0cc6 maincpu 20001 good no
arcade 06.3d 65536 0f9015e2 0dc9c2cda0220bb9d03048c0eac62bc512d30622 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 07.5d 65536 5b3144a5 98dd45049f242480c9ac0903fb38dfb2b8906be7 maincpu 20000 good no
arcade 09.11c 32768 5c6993d5 3991851e5c4d2b3d72c372afdfbb710796874c15 gfx1 0 good no
arcade af_03.rom 65536 bbe1fe2d f47be23c7564b106d636d49d5f1da47daecd31df maincpu 40001 good no
arcade af_04.rom 65536 44d3af4f 0c2cb54357c314e43cec6f959fe9d4a2c8bc8834 gfx2 0 good no
arcade af_05.rom 65536 92076cab f47424817373a6735da2b2049b53da5b38178cec gfx2 10000 good no
arcade af_08.rom 65536 d1d43600 1a473b4958a02a33c0a02e7e72a70a9ee0c68c50 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade af_10.rom 65536 c5eacb87 33af84b48fbda26729975b02cfb70f23c0bce6a2 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade af_11.rom 131072 b46c473c d8573225e2d8b133b3bdd4fa5a12d445c71d5e0e gfx4 0 good no
arcade af_12.rom 131072 23cb6bfe 34cb013827206bea71f5336b308ba92bee688506 gfx4 20000 good no
arcade af_13.rom 65536 136a58a3 5481e3ce404881a0470f8740f0de6e42283bedf2 gfx3 10000 good no
arcade af_14.rom 65536 8c5dc5a7 758140ddb9e60fb3950fe58bf53c7aea769a1a94 gfx3 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac2 audio
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker speaker audio
YM3812 ymsnd audio 4000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.138 [Takahiro Nogi]

0.35b11 [Carlos A. Lozano, Phil Stroffolino]


Bugs:

- armedf, armedff: Armed Formation(armedf) need rename to "Armed F". J.J.Boy (ID 05766)


WIP:

- 23rd April 2011: Angelo Salese - Discovered and implemented sprite color cycling effects in ArmedF driver. That's a RAM-based clut table that look-ups via a byte in the sprite defs. As you can see from the YT vids, it's used for doing neat effects such as explosions / bonus colors etc. in Terra Force. It's even more useful in Kodure Ookami, since it's used to differentiate the explosive red ninjas from the normal ones and in Armed Formation, that is used to make the sprites to be a lot less static.

- 0.141u1: hap fixed DAC chip playing Orchestra Hit Sample too low in Armed Formation.

- 0.138: Takahiro Nogi added Armed Formation. Changed 'Armed Formation' to clone 'Armed Formation (Fillmore license)'. Renamed (armedf) to (armedff).

- 0.124u3: Aaron Giles merged memory maps for Armed Formation drivers.

- 0.124u2: Improved sound balance in Armed Formation [MAMEPlus].

- 0.115u2: Fixed volume of the 2x DAC sound.

- 0.98u4: Added new cpu1 rom ($1) to clone (North America).

- 0.62: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitch to 'Unused'.

- 28th October 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitches in the Armed Formation driver.

- 0.37b8: Changed visible area to 240x320.

- 0.36b7: Changed VSync to 57Hz.

- 0.36b4: Changed visible area to 240x304.

- 0.35b11: Carlos A. Lozano and Phil Stroffolino added 'Armed Formation' (Nichibutsu 1988).

- 15th April 1999: Marco Cassili fixed the Armed Formation dips, and Jim Hernandez fixed the sound frequency.

- 13th April 1999: Carlos Alberto Lozano Baides sent in the Nichibutsu games Armed Formation and Terra Force drivers, which are pretty much working now.

- 28th March 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a tilemap update and a preliminary Armed Formation and Terra Force driver by Carlos and him.


LEVELS: 7


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History


Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:

Armed Formation (c) 1988 Nichibutsu.

A vertically scrolling shoot'em up.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips: YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), (2x) DAC (@ 4 Mhz)

Screen Orientation: Vertical
Video Resolution: 256 x 224 Pixels
Screen Refresh: 57.00 Hz
Palette Colors: 2048

Players: 2
Control: 8-Way Joystick
Buttons: 2
=> Shoot, Formation

- TRIVIA -

Armed Formation was released in August 1988.

Also licensed to Fillmore.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Armed F, Crazy Climber 2 - PCCB-00020) on February 21, 1990.

- STAFF -

Director: Takanori Tanaka
Planner: Tomoaki Kabayashi
Main Programmer: Shinya Okuda
Programmers: Osamu Tomiyama, Satoshi Fujiwara
Main Designers: Hisaya Tsutsui, Shinji Kubota
Designer: Takanori Tanaka
Musician: Takeshi Yoshida
Hard Enginner: Isao Shiki
Special Thanks: Hiroshi Kitabata

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] NEC PC-Engine (mar.23, 1990) "Armed Formation F [Model PV2004]"
[JP] Sony PS4 [PSN] (may.27, 2016) "Arcade Archives - Armed F [Model CUSA-04469]"
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] [US] (may.26, 2016) "Arcade Archives - Formation Armed F [Model CUSA-05184]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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