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Cosmic Guerilla

  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. Samples list
  12. Serie
  13. Categories
  14. MAMEinfo
  15. History
  16. High scores
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Game infos

Description Cosmic Guerilla
Name cosmicg
Manufacturer Universal
Year 1979
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .035b02
Romset size 9 KB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 7 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 imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail preliminary
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 1

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 2 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 256 192 60 3932160 256 0 256 256 32 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cosmicg1.bin 1024 e1b9f894 bab7fd9b3db145a889542653191905b6efc5ce75 maincpu 0 good no
arcade cosmicg2.bin 1024 35c75346 4e50eaa0b50ab04802dc63992ad2600c227301ad maincpu 400 good no
arcade cosmicg3.bin 1024 82a49b48 4cf9f684f3eb18b99a88ca879bb7083b1334f0cc maincpu 800 good no
arcade cosmicg4.bin 1024 1c1c934c 011b2b3ec4d31869fda13a3654c7bc51f3ce4dc2 maincpu c00 good no
arcade cosmicg5.bin 1024 b1c00fbf 136267f75e2d5b445695cabef4538f986e6f1b10 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade cosmicg6.bin 1024 f03454ce 32c87f369475c7154fe3243d2c7be4a25444e530 maincpu 1400 good no
arcade cosmicg7.bin 1024 f33ebae7 915bca53d5356e12c94ec765103ceced7306d1dd maincpu 1800 good no
arcade cosmicg8.bin 1024 472e4990 d5797b9d89446aa6533f7515e6a5fc8368d82f91 maincpu 1c00 good no
arcade cosmicg9.bin 1024 689c2c96 ddfdc3fd29c56fdebd3b1c3443a7c39f567d5355 user1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
1-Bit DAC dac audio
Samples samples audio
Speaker speaker audio
TMS9980A maincpu cpu 1228500

Samples list

name
cg_att
cg_chnc
cg_dest
cg_ext
cg_gotb
cg_gotm
cg_gun
cg_m0
cg_m1
cg_m2
cg_m3
cg_m4
cg_m5
cg_m6
cg_m7

Serie

Serie : Cosmic Monsters
  1. Cosmic Alien (version II) (1979)
  2. Cosmic Alien (first version) (1979)
  3. Cosmic Alien (early version II?) (1979)
  4. Cosmic Guerilla (1979)
  5. Cosmic Monsters 2 (1979)
  6. Cosmic Monsters (version II) (1979)
  7. Cosmic Conflict (Euro, Alt) (1980)
  8. Devil Zone (1980)
  9. Devil Zone (easier) (1980)
  10. Space Panic (version E) (1980)
  11. Space Panic (set 2) (1980)
  12. Space Panic (set 3) (1980)
  13. Zero Hour (set 1) (1980)
  14. Zero Hour (set 2) (1980)
  15. Cosmic Avenger (1981)
  16. Cosmic Avenger (1982)
  17. Cosmic Avenger (ColecoVision Conversion) (1982)
  18. Panic Button (1983)
  19. Space Panic (1983)
  20. Joshi Ryou Panic (1983)
  21. Panic! (USA) (1994)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b2 [Mike Coates]


Artwork available

Samples required


Bugs:

- Demonstration stops at end of 2nd loop. Tafoid (ID 05237)


WIP:

- 0.151: Using new TMS9980 implementation in Cosmic Guerilla [Michael Zapf]. Replaced TMS9980AL/TMS9981L CPU with TMS9980A.

- 0.150: Angel Maestre added clone Cosmic Guerilla (Spanish bootleg).

- 28th May 2012: Mr. Do - Antny added a bezel for Cosmic Guerilla, scanned by TrevEB.

- 23rd February 2000: Mike Coates fixed Cosmic Guerrilla.

- 0.36b13: Replaced TMS9900 CPU with TMS9980A/TMS9981.

- 0.36b11: Raphael Nabet made some changes to the TMS9900 emulation that completely screw up Cosmic Guerilla.

- 0.35b13: Added sample (CG_GOTB.wav).

- 0.35b3: Samples support in Cosmic Guerilla [Mike Coates]. Added DAC sound and Samples (cg_m0 - cg_m7, cg_att, cg_chnc, cg_ext, cg_dest, cg_gun and cg_gotm.wav).

- 0.35b2: Mike Coates and Andy Jones added 'Cosmic Guerilla' (Universal 1979).


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History


Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Cosmic Guerilla (c) 1979 Universal.

For some reason you have 2 of your ships placed in the middle of the playing field and aliens all around them. Luckily, they're protected by 5 rows of barriers and you're on the bottom, doing your job to protect them.

- TECHNICAL -

This game had great cabinet artwork, a white base, with purple, yellow and black overlaid artwork. It shows a horned demon and lots of swirls. Most interestingly, this has to be the only game to have a politically incorrect slogan plastered on the side -- SUPER VIOLENCE!. The artwork on the sides (and front) was varnished or lacquered, which gives it a shiny and incredibly strong coat, protecting it from scratches and any kind of fading! The control panel had backlit 1- and 2-player info panels. Insert one coin, '1 player' lit up; insert two and '2 player' lit up. This looks real nice on the brushed chrome control panel.

Game ID : 7907

Main CPU : TMS9980A/TMS9981 (@ 1.2285 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Samples, DAC

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 192 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 16

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in November 1979.

According to Replay Magazine, Cosmic Guerilla brings that unique world of Japanese cartoonists onto a TV game via a deal with the famous cartoonist Shotaro Ishimori. Ishimori was a pioneering manga/anime artist. It is not know if his art was used in the game itself, on the cabinet, or both.

- SCORING -

Enemy on sides : 20 points
Bonus ships : 50-200 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)

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1983, "Cosmic Guerilla", Crystal Computing)
BBC B (1983, "Cosmic Kidnap", Superior Software)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

sawys___________________________8.050
fordie__________________________3.710
foxmulder_______________________2.910
thegamer________________________2.020
nicky634________________________1.720
hulkiii___________________________570