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Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette) (US)

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

Description Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette) (US)
Name csuperas
Manufacturer Data East Corporation
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .037b13
Romset size 33 KB
Romset file 2 files
Romset zip 15 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

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 no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no
stick 16 240 100 10 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 256 240 57.444853 6000000 384 0 256 272 8 248

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cassmcu.1c 1024 a6df18fd cassmcu.1c 1f9ea47e372d31767c936c15852b43df2b0ee8ff mcu 0 good no
arcade csuperas.cas 32768 fabcd07f 4070c668ad6725f0710cf7fe6df0d5f80272a449 cassette 0 good no
arcade de-0061.pro 32 e09ae5de 7dec067d0739a6dad2607132641b66880a5b7751 dongle 0 good no
arcade dsp-3_p0-a.m9 a0 2048 2541e34b dsp-3_p0-a.m9 4f983513dbae1350c83a433dea77a4465748b9c6 maincpu f000 good no
arcade dsp-3_p0-b.m9 b0 2048 b67a91d9 dsp-3_p0-b.m9 681c040be0f0ed1ba0a50161b36d0ad8e1c8c5cb maincpu f000 good no
arcade dsp-3_p1-.l9 b0 2048 3bfff5f3 dsp-3_p1-.l9 4e9437cb1b76d64da6b37f01bd6e879fb399e8ce maincpu f800 good no
arcade dsp-3_p3-.e5 b0 32 539a5a64 dsp-3_p3-.e5 7b7d3cc58ac6f95242240c97046e770d2fd20c96 proms 0 good no
arcade dsp-3_p5-.m4 b0 32 e52089a0 dsp-3_p5-.m4 d85c17809b089c6977ee9571f976af6f107fd4d3 proms 40 good no
arcade rms-3_p2-.c9 b0 1024 6c4a891f rms-3_p2-.c9 5c00cf8b1accfdbb1d61e9b3f6db1594dfbc608b audiocpu fc00 good no
arcade rms-3_p4-.f6 b0 32 9014c0fd rms-3_p4-.f6 7405d39a5f4fcad821448ddaf6bd4e27c0c9e145 proms 20 good no
arcade v0a-.7e a 4096 3d33ac34 v0a-.7e 909d59e7a993affd10224402b4370e82a5f5545c maincpu f000 good no
arcade v0b-.7e b 4096 23d929b7 v0b-.7e 063f83020ba3d6f43ab8471f95ca919767b93aa4 maincpu f000 good no
arcade v1-.5a b0 2048 b66b2c2a v1-.5a 0097f38beb4872e735e560148052e258a26b08fd audiocpu f800 good no
arcade v2.3m b0 32 238fdb40 v2.3m b88e8fabb82092105c3828154608ea067acbf2e5 proms 0 good no
arcade v3.3j b0 32 51eef657 v3.3j eaedce5caf55624ad6ae706aedf82c5717c60f1f proms 40 good no
arcade v4.10d b0 32 3b5836b4 v4.10d b630bb277d9ec09d46ef26b944014dd6165b35d8 proms 20 good no

BIOS set

name description default
a Bios A (Japan) yes
a0 Bios A (Japan, older) yes
b Bios B (USA) yes
b0 Bios B (USA, older) yes

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 1500000
DECO 222 maincpu cpu 750000
I8041 mcu cpu 6000000
M6502 audiocpu cpu 500000
Speaker mono audio

Serie

Serie : Astro Fighter
  1. Astro Battle (set 1) (1979)
  2. Astro Battle (set 2) (1979)
  3. Astro Combat (newer, CB) (1979)
  4. Astro Combat (older, PZ) (1979)
  5. Astro Fire (1979)
  6. Astro Fighter (set 1) (1979)
  7. Astro Fighter (set 2) (1979)
  8. Astro Fighter (set 3) (1979)
  9. Super Star Battle (1979)
  10. Star Fighter (bootleg of Astro Fighter) (1979)
  11. Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette) (US) (1981)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b13 [Juergen Buchmueller, Al Kossow]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.179: Changed description to 'Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette) (US)'.

- 0.148: Super Astro Fighter expects to be able to read back data written to paletteram. This fixed game colors went completely. Fixed also scrolling in Super Astro Fighter (the background is only used for the title screen) [David Haywood].

- 0.145u1: Changed description to 'Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette)'.

- 0.133u1: Added dipswitches 'Type of Tape', 'Lives', 'Bonus Life', 'Alien Craft Movement' and 'Country Code'.

- 0.116: ShimaPong fixed missing colors in Super Astro Fighter.

- 0.88u2: Changed description to 'Super Astro Fighter (Cassette)'.

- 0.37b13: Juergen Buchmueller added 'Cassette: Super Astro Fighter' (Data East 1981).

- 9th February 2001: Juergen Buchmueller sent in the first version of the DECO Cassette system driver, supporting Lock 'n Chase, Treasure Island, Super Astro Fighter, Astro Fantasia, Lucky Poker, Pro Golf and Mission X. The rest are either not yet dumped or use protection that has not been cracked yet.

- 8th February 2001: Juergen Buchmueller managed to fix some 8x41 emulation bugs and got a few DECO Cassette system games running: Super Astro Fighter, Pro Golf and Mission X (the last one with wrong colors though). Accurate to the original, the games need 1 - 2 minutes to load from the simulated tape. Also many thanks to Al Kossow for his incredible work on preserving this system that was near extinction.


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History


DECO cass. published 38 years ago:

Super Astro Fighter (c) 1981 Data East Corp.

Super Astro Fighter is a great 2-D, space shooter game featuring new graphics and sounds. Once again the player has the mission to protect the various sectors from the hoards of invading aliens UFOs. Armed with your super astro fighter spaceship, you must ensure to destroy all the invaders. You will have to defeat waves of alien spaceships in order to later confront the boss alien ship the 'space master' to destroy and dock with it to refuel and keep the mission.

- TECHNICAL -

This video game runs on the "DECO Cassette System" Hardware.

Cartridge ID : Model DT-109

- TRIVIA -

Super Astro Fighter was released in May 1981. It was known as the 9th video game made for this system (Cassette No. 09).

- SERIES -

1. Astro Fighter [Upright model] (1979)
2. Super Astro Fighter [Model DT-109] (1981)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

bald_bull______________________19.900
fordie__________________________9.120
gerhard_schindler_______________8.690