0.145u4 [Augusto Garcia, Silvio Finotti, Marcello Mancini, Haze & hap]
WIP:
- 0.148u5: hap changed description to 'Fantastic (Galaga conversion on Galaxian hardware)'.
- 0.147u2: hap fixed Fantastic sound frequency (2x AY-3-8912A to 3072000 Hz) from PCB recording, same as maincpu freq.
- 0.146u4: Marcello Mancini fixed Fantastic colors with a redumped prom.
- 0.145u5: David Haywood and hap fixed missing sprites and bullets in Fantastic - Game now playable.
- 0.145u4: Added Fantastic (Taito do Brasil 198?).
- 8th March 2012: Taito do Brazil (the Brazilian Taito division) seem to have been something of an oddity. While no official Japanese release of Taito games contained any strings relating to the Brazil they would import games, modify them, and occasional write their own using what hardware they had available. Effectively they worked completely independently of the rest of Taito. Some of their output appears to be little more than bootleg quality (hacked strings) while other work is more interesting. I don't know how much Taito actually knew about when it came to their Brazlian operations, but I suspect not much. Previously a game called "Galactica - Batalha Espacial" was emulated, this was a remake of Galaxian on Space Invaders hardware. Attempting to go one better it appears they also remade Galaga and released it on Galaxian hardware (technically Moon Cresta, but they're so close it doesn't matter) For whatever reason they decided to call their creation 'Fantastic'. So far I've managed to get it into test mode. The rom has a slight block scramble to it, making things annoying. Given that the board also has issues (See YouTube video) I'm having to cross my fingers that the ROMs are actually good although I see no obvious signs to indicate otherwise just yet, however I'm not convinced the PROM is a good dump because using a standard Moon Cresta / Galaxian decode you get a bunch of pastel colours. Note, I don't actually see any Taito strings in the ROM or graphics, but they could be non-ascii encoded. Edit: Got it ingame, bit glitchy tho, and unplayable, probably the rom descramble isn't quite right. Edit2: Fixed some of the rom scrambling, enemy formations are now correct. gfx banking is wrong, sound is wrong, star scrolling is wrong, bullets are wrong but you can now move about and shoot things. I think some of the wiremods on the board make it act more like a Galaga board than a Moon Cresta / Galaxian one. Thanks to Augusto Garcia, Silvio Finotti & Marcello Mancini for sourcing + dumping this one.
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
Recommended Games (Galaxian):
Galaxian
Ghostmuncher Galaxian
Moon Alien Part 2
Galaga
Namco Classic Collection Vol.1 (Galaga)
Tenkomori Shooting (Galaga)
Ms. Pac-Man/Galaga - 20th Anniversary Class of 1981 Reunion
Pac-Man - 25th Anniversary Edition (Galaga)
Galaga '88
Gaplus
Andromeda
Astro Fighter
Super Astro Fighter (DECO Cassette)
Galaxia
Cosmic Alien
Astro Wars
Destroyer (Cidelsa)
Galactica
Mad Alien
UniWar S
4 Fun in 1 (Galaxian)
Defend the Terra Attack on the Red UFO
Fantastic (Galaga conversion on Galaxian hardware)
Cosmo Gang the Video
Space Bomber
