0.35b4 [Darren Olafson]
WIP:
- 0.153: Changed VSync to 57.613169 Hz.
- 0.149u1: Alex Jackson and Guru fixed dipswitches and inputs (after verification of the M68000 and Z80 code) in Hellfire and clones. Replaced clone Hellfire (2P set, older) Z80 ROM with correct one from parent set. Added 'Test Switch' dipswitch. Changed description of clones (1P set) to 'Hellfire (1P set, older)', (2P set, first edition) to 'Hellfire (2P set, older)' and (1P set, alt) to 'Hellfire (1P set)'. Renamed (hellfire1) to (hellfire1a), (hellfire2) to (hellfire2a) and (hellfire3) to (hellfire1).
- 0.141u4: Changed description to 'Hellfire (2P set)' and clones (1P Ver.) to 'Hellfire (1P set)', (2P Ver., first edition) to 'Hellfire (2P set, first edition)' and (1P Ver., alt) to 'Hellfire (1P set, alt)'.
- 0.134u1: Stefan Lindberg added clone Hellfire (1P Ver., alt). Brian Troha corrected BRPOM name in Hellfire sets and added documentation of the type of BRPOM used.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (hellfir1) to (hellfire1) and (hellfir2) to (hellfire2).
- 0.110u2: Tirino73 added clone Hellfire (2P Ver., first edition). Changed parent description to 'Hellfire (2P Ver.)'.
- 8th November 2006: Tirino73 dumped Hellfire (2P Ver., first edition). This set comes from an original Toaplan PCB. I cannot know differences respect other sets because PCB is faulty.
- 0.61: Added clone Hellfire (1P Ver.).
- 0.35b13: Changed visible area to 320x240.
- 0.35b4: Darren Olafson added 'Hellfire' (Toaplan 1989).
- 23rd February 1999: Darren Olafson has added Hellfire to the Zero Wing driver.
- 14th February 1998: J-ROM dumped Hellfire (2P Ver.) (c)1989 TOAPLAN.
LEVELS: 6
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Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:
Hellfire (c) 1989 Taito Corp
Nice horizontal shoot'em up feature a selectable shooting direction.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID: TP-014
Prom Stickers: B90
Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 3.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.5 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Developed by Toaplan. Hellfire was released in April 1989 in Japan and USA.
Early version title is 'Captain Lancer'.
Polystar released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Tatsujin : Toaplan Game Music Scene One - H24X-10005) on 25/06/1989.
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
* Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.
- STAFF -
Music and Sound created by : Tatsuya Uemura
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Sega Mega Drive (1990, "Hellfire [T-25073]")
Nec PC-Engine CD-ROM² (1991, "Hellfire [NAPR-1017]")
- CONTRIBUTE -
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