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FixEight (Europe)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Serie
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
Download fixeight.zip (4.75 MB)
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Game infos

Description FixEight (Europe)
Name fixeight
Manufacturer Toaplan
Year 1992
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 3P sim
Added to MAME .074u2
Romset size 4.75 MB
Romset file 5 files
Romset zip 2 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
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 yes
Input tilt yes
Input players 3
Input buttons
Input coins 3

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 59.637405 6750000 432 0 320 262 0 240

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade fixeight.nv 128 02e925d0 5839d10aceff84916ea99e9c6afcdc90eef7468b eeprom 0 good no
arcade tp-026-1 524288 f7b1746a 0bbea6f111b818bc9b9b2060af4fe900f37cf7f9 maincpu 0 good no
arcade tp-026-2 262144 85063f1f 1bf4d77494de421c98f6273b9876e60d827a6826 oki 0 good no
arcade tp-026-3 2097152 e5578d98 280d2b716d955e767d311fc9596823852435b6d7 gp9001 0 good no
arcade tp-026-4 2097152 b760cb53 bc9c5e49e45cdda0f774be0038aa4deb21d4d285 gp9001 200000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 16000000
OKI6295 oki audio 1000000
Speaker mono audio
V25 audiocpu cpu 16000000
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3375000

Serie

Serie : Out Zone
  1. Out Zone (1990)
  2. Out Zone (old set) (1990)
  3. Out Zone (older set) (1990)
  4. Out Zone (oldest set) (1990)
  5. Out Zone (harder) (1990)
  6. FixEight (Europe) (1992)
  7. FixEight (Southeast Asia) (1992)
  8. FixEight (Southeast Asia, Taito license) (1992)
  9. FixEight (Korea, bootleg) (1992)
  10. FixEight (Hong Kong) (1992)
  11. FixEight (Hong Kong, Taito license) (1992)
  12. FixEight (Japan) (1992)
  13. FixEight (Japan, Taito license) (1992)
  14. FixEight (Korea) (1992)
  15. FixEight (Korea, Taito license) (1992)
  16. FixEight (Europe, Taito license) (1992)
  17. FixEight (Taiwan) (1992)
  18. FixEight (Taiwan, Taito license) (1992)
  19. FixEight (USA) (1992)
  20. FixEight (USA, Taito license) (1992)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.74u2 [Quench]

0.36RC1 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.150: In FixEight the old dumped EEPROM does not work on a PCB, which would explain why we couldn't make it work in MAME (tested by Tormod) [David Haywood]. Removed 93c45.u21 EEPROM.

- 0.141u4: ROM banking cleanup [Alex Jackson]: Added a device address map for the OKI in clone FixEight (Korea, bootleg) and stopped misusing the bank system for memory that isn't actually bankswitched. Changed VSync to 59.410646 Hz.

- 0.141u1: Added clones FixEight (Europe, Taito license), (Hong Kong), (Hong Kong, Taito license), (Japan), (Japan, Taito license), (Korea), (Korea, Taito license), (Southeast Asia), (Southeast Asia, Taito license), (Taiwan), (Taiwan, Taito license), (USA) and (USA, Taito license). Roberto Zandona added several opcodes to FixEight (Europe). Alex Jackson found a few more FixEight (Europe) opcodes, by matching code in the interrupt routines with Batsugun. Alex Jackson corrected FixEight V25 address map (the YM2151 and OKI6295 are at a different location than the other games). Decrypted all used opcodes and added EEPROMS for all countries; now the sound works [Andrew Jackson, David Haywood, Roberto Zandona]. David Haywood hooked up EEPROM and cleaned up the inputport for FixEight (no dips). Added NVRAM fixeight.nv. Changed parent description to 'FixEight (Europe)' and clone (bootleg) to 'FixEight (Korea, bootleg)'. Renamed (fixeightb) to (fixeightbl).

- 22nd January 2011: Roberto Zandona - It required a lot more work is in the process of decoding the opcode without the presence of references in other games (kbash, dogyuun and vfife batsugun) and for the presence of an EEPROM. In the end, thanks to the joint work of myself, Haze in AWJ, we were able to implement the sound. The result so far has been the need to create a clone of the game for each supported country (I'm 14). This is because 'the EEPROM for each game is different and although generated by the code of the game, you can not activate that code without soldering in PCB (this is the lack of DSWs and Jumpers). In the event that through the values in the EEPROM is possible to vary other parameters of the game over the country, the implementation is incorrect. If there would be two alternatives: add dump of EEPROM that you can be sure of its presence in the arcade, or implement some system that can reprogram the EEPROM (for example, simulating the presence of jumpers on PCB). We'll see. For now be satisfied with the sound.

- 0.139u2: David Haywood fixed FixEight (bootleg) graphic glitches.

- 0.135u1: David Haywood cleaned up Toaplan2 V25 support. Added V25 (16 MHz) CPU2.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (fixeighb) to (fixeightb).

- 0.127u2: Brian Troha moved FixEight bootleg PCB layout down by the roms like the other layouts in the driver.

- 0.122u5: Corrado Tomaselli verified/corrected frequencies and OKI6295 pin 7 in FixEight. Changed VSync to 59Hz.

- 0.113u2: Changed VSync to 59.410646 Hz.

- 0.112: Stephane Humbert fixed Toaplan 2 driver to add controls for player 3 in FixEight (main set still remains unplayable).

- 0.105u4: Fixed input in FixEight and clone. Removed 'Flip Screen' dipswitch in clone FixEight (bootleg).

- 0.88: Quench fixed OKI banking in FixEight bootleg. Changed MSM6295 clock speed to 7575 Hz in FixEight. Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 10MHz in FixEight (bootleg), MSM6295 to 5303 Hz and VSync to 60Hz.

- 0.87u2: Tomasz Slanina added clone FixEight (bootleg). Turn on invunerability dipswitch to see an intro!

- 27th September 2004: Guru - A very interesting Fix Eight bootleg arrived from eBay.

- 0.74u2: Added FixEight (Toaplan 1992).

- 0.36RC1: Quench added (Testdriver) FixEight. Not working. Sound MCU (type unknown) dump is missing.


LEVELS: 7


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History


Arcade Video game published 27 years ago:

FixEight (c) 1992 Toaplan Company, Limited.

A vertically scrolling shoot'em up from Toaplan.

- TECHNICAL -

Board Number : TP-026

Main CPU : Motorola 68000
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151, OKI6295

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

- TRIVIA -

FixEight was released in July 1992.

This game is known in Japan as "FixEight - Jigoku no Eiyuu Densetsu" (translates from Japanese as 'Legend of Hell's Hero').

- SERIES -

1. Out Zone [TP-018] (1990)
2. Fixeight [TP-026] (1992)

- STAFF -

Music composed by : Toshiaki Tomizawa

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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