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Road Fighter (set 1)

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

Description Road Fighter (set 1)
Name roadf
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 137 KB
Romset file 16 files
Romset zip 68 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Driving

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 no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

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 90 no 256 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade a09_c29.bin 256 5b3b5f2a e83556fba6d50ad20dff6e19bd300ba0c30cc6e2 proms 120 good no
arcade a12_d24.bin 8192 2d82c930 fea26c00ad3acb1f44a5fdc79a7dd8ddce17d317 gfx2 4000 good no
arcade a14_e26.bin 16384 f5c738e2 9f10be775791dee9801b1167f838a9110084842d gfx2 0 good no
arcade a17_d10.bin 8192 c33c927e f1a8522e3bfc3a07bb42408d2937a4129e4c3fee audiocpu 0 good no
arcade c03_c27.bin 32 45d5e352 0f4d358aaffcb68193247090e82f093752730518 proms 0 good no
arcade c12_d20.bin 8192 5e0cf994 c81274d809c685ccf24108f56a4fa54146d4f493 gfx2 a000 good no
arcade c14_e22.bin 16384 fbcfbeb9 e5a938fc2fe2378d836dfe8ba516994cd5cf0bb5 gfx2 6000 good no
arcade g05_g01.bin 8192 e2492a06 e03895b83f1529dd7bb20e1380cb60c7606db3e4 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade g07_f02.bin 8192 0bf75165 d3d16d63ca15c8f6b05c37b4e37e41785334ffff maincpu 6000 good no
arcade g09_g03.bin 8192 dde401f8 aa1810290c14d15d14e2f82a6780fc82d06d437b maincpu 8000 good no
arcade g11_f04.bin 8192 b1283c77 3fdd8d97cdd8a0b7c12db6797ed17f730425f337 maincpu a000 good no
arcade g13_f05.bin 8192 0ad4d796 44335c769341b3e10bb92556c0718884fd4b5d20 maincpu c000 good no
arcade g15_f06.bin 8192 fa42e0ed 408d365183fd95e54695a17abbba87d729546d7c maincpu e000 good no
arcade g19_e18.bin 16384 490685ff 5ca0aa3771d60688671aae196f10f9feecb15106 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade j12_c28.bin 256 2955e01f b0652d177a45571edc5978143d4023e7b173b383 proms 20 good no
arcade j19_e14.bin 16384 16d2bcff 37c63faaaca43909bfb1e2ccb370efe4b276d8a9 gfx1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
KONAMI-1 maincpu cpu 1536000
SN76496 snsnd audio 1789772
Speaker speaker audio
Track And Field Audio trackfld_audio audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3579545

Serie

Serie : Road Fighter
  1. Road Fighter (set 1) (1984)
  2. Road Fighter (set 2) (1984)
  3. Road Fighter (set 3, conversion hack on Hyper Sports PCB) (1984)
  4. Midnight Run: Road Fighters 2 (EAA, Euro v1.11) (1995)
  5. Midnight Run: Road Fighters 2 (AAA, Asia v1.10) (1995)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Nicola Salmoria]


WIP:

- 0.180: f205v added clone Road Fighter (set 3, conversion hack on Hyper Sports PCB).

- 0.164: Replaced M6809 CPU1 with KONAMI-1.

- 0.153: Road Fighter has no VLM5030 speech on his board [MASH]. Removed VLM5030 speech.

- 0.140u2: Atari Ace take some driver_device classes of hyperspt/sbasketb/trackfld/yiear (common code in audio\trackfld.c and audio\hyprolyb.c) that cover multiple drivers and split them so that each driver gets their own driver_device class. In most cases, these drivers got entangled because of audio/mcu code that was shared between multiple drivers. Added 'Track And Field Audio' sound.

- 0.135u3: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to the HyperSports driver.

- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in the HyperSports driver.

- 0.130u3: Fabio Priuli removed Road Fighter COIN4 (neither used by the game nor present in service mode). Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.130u2: Tafoid verified dipswitches and added DIP locations for Road Fighter. Adjusted defaults to match the manual.

- 0.123u1: Fixed gfx1/2 rom loading. Changed palettesize to 512 colors.

- 0.122u5: Changed M6809 CPU1 clock speed to 1536000 Hz and VLM5030 to 3579545 Hz.

- 0.72u1: Changed aspect ratio to 3:4.

- 0.71: Changed aspect ratio to 4:3.

- 0.35b1: Howie Cohen added high score saving to Road Fighter.

- 0.34b7: Nicola Salmoria added clone Road Fighter (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Road Fighter (set 1)'.

- 0.34b1: Added color proms ($0, 20, 120).

- 0.33b7: Paul Swan added accurate colors to Road Fighter. Fixed gfx1 rom loading.

- 0.31: Nicola Salmoria added 'Road Fighter' (Konami 1984).

- 14th October 1997: Dumped Road Fighter (set 1).


ARCADE RELEASE: Road Fighter (Konami) - 1984/Dec/07


LEVELS: 6


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Road Fighter (c) 1984 Konami.

Road Fighter is an exhilarating, high-speed scrolling racing game.

A unique characteristic of Road Fighter is the fact that bumping into an enemy car does not count as a miss. The counter-steering technique required to 'straighten' your car after bumping into an enemy provided a new level of racing game fun to fans.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX461

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC, SN76496 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), Sanyo VLM5030 (@ 3.58 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 [Low, High]

- TRIVIA -

Road Fighter was released in December 1984 and is the first car racing game from Konami.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Do not miss the bonus car : As you proceed in the game, the difficulty level increases. You will make more misses and will lose fuel quickly. If you spot a bonus car, make sure to run into it, even if it requires you to slow down in the process.

* Get used to counter-steering : Driving without bumping into the enemy is extremely difficult. If you do bump into them, learn to stay calm and counter-steer!

* Secret bonuses : They are all hard to obtain, but they are worth the try! Keep on driving for a certain amount of time without bumping into the enemy -- Konamiman, a train, or an airplane will appear and give you bonus points.

* Run into bonus cars without missing any -- more bonus points.

* Make it to the goal without bumping into any enemy -- 10,000 bonus points.

- SERIES -

1. Road Fighter (1984)
2. Midnight Run - Road Fighter 2 (1995)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Nintendo Famicom (jul.11, 1985) "Road Fighter [Model RC801]"
[EU] Nintendo NES (june.18, 1992)
[JP] Sony PlayStation (may.13, 1999) "Konami 80's Arcade Gallery [Model SLPM-86228]"
[US] Sony PlayStation (nov.30, 1999) "Konami Arcade Classics [Model SLUS-00945]"

* HANDHELDS:
[JP] Nintendo DS (mar.15, 2007) "Konami Arcade Collection [Model NTR-A5KJ-JPN]"
[US] Nintendo DS (mar.27, 2007) "Konami Classic Series - Arcade Hits [Model NTR-ACXE-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo DS (oct.26, 2007) "Konami Arcade Classics [Model NTR-ACXP-EUR]"
[AU] Nintendo DS (oct.29, 2007) "Konami Arcade Classics"

* COMPUTERS:
MSX [EU] [JP] (aug.1985) "Road Fighter [Model RC730]"
Spectravideo

* OTHERS:
Arcade [US] [EU] [AU] [KO] (nov.1998) "Konami 80's AC Special"
Arcade [JP] (nov.1998, "Konami 80's Arcade Gallery")
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (sept.20, 2010) [Model 391286922]

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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