0.53 [Al Kossow]
0.31 [Darren Olafson]
Artwork available
NOTE:
- Clone Stratovox has better speech.
WIP:
- 0.183: Andrew Welburn added clone Speak & Help. Note: Sounds are inaccurate and needs some emulation attention to sound as shown in video referenced in driver.
- 0.178: MASH added clone Stratovox (set 2). Changed description of clone Stratovox to 'Stratovox (set 1)'.
- 17th February 2013: 3D ARCADE - More great models from Jibmums! "Project Taito II" represents the slightly earlier US Taito cabinet - Stratovox etc.
- 0.141u4: Siftware added clone Speak & Rescue (bootleg).
- 0.133u1: Renamed (stratvob) to (stratvoxb) and (spacech2) to (spacecho2).
- 0.129: Roberto Fresca added clone Space Echo (set 2). Changed description of clone 'Space Echo' to 'Space Echo (set 1)'.
- 14th May 2008: f205v and Corrado Tomaselli dumped Space Echo (set 2), board note: "space echo pt II logic board is entirely different to the space echo part I and care must therefore be taken to ensure correct logic board is fitted in exchange".
- 0.112u4: Zsolt Vasvari, Derrick Renaud and Jarek Burczynski added SN76477 noise RNG polynomial. Zsolt Vasvari fixed SN76477 sound in Speak & Rescue and clones.
- 0.110u2: Brian Troha added clone Stratovox (bootleg).
- 12th November 2006: Mr. Do - Stratovox artwork has been "optimized" by Ad_Enuff; much smaller file size (up to 80%) with no loss in quality.
- 26th August 2006: Mr. Do - Added Stratovox bezel from MAME.net and Mean Arena. Some of these decent stuff are so-so; some are REALLY good.
- 18th May 2002: MASH added clone ROMs to Mach Rider, Mega Zone and Stratovox.
- 0.57: Added clone Space Echo (bootleg 1980). Added 'Bonus Life' dipswitch. Removed 2nd coin slot.
- 16th August 2001: InsideOutBoy added Space Echo to the Route 16 driver.
- 0.53: Changed clone 'Speak & Rescue' to parent. Removed Stratovox (bootleg), it was identical to Stratovox (Taito license) with copyright notice removed.
- 0.36RC1: Juergen Buchmueller added SN76477 sound to Stratovox. Samples are no longer needed.
- 11th February 2000: Juergen Buchmueller added preliminary SN76477 analog/digital sound chip emulation to Stratovox and clone Speak & Rescue.
- 0.35b11: Nicola Salmoria added clone Stratovox (bootleg).
- 0.35b10: Changed visible area to 256x256.
- 0.34b1: Al Kossow added clone Speak & Rescue (Sun Electronics 1980). Added proms ($0, 100 - top and bottom bitmap), the upper 128 bytes are 0's, used by the hardware to blank the display.
- 0.31: Darren Olafson added 'Stratovox' (Taito 1980). Note: Route 16 and Stratovox use identical hardware with the following exceptions: Stratovox has a DAC for voice and a SN76477 for the player explosion and bonus ship sound effects.
LEVELS: 1 (endless)
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* FB Alpha
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Arcade Video game published 39 years ago:
Speak & Rescue (c) 1980 Sun Electronics.
A space shooter game.
The alien spaceships comes to planet earth, invasion has been established, hurry up help and avoid the human abduction destroying with the defense moon spaceship, all the hordes of aliens.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 2.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz), SN76477 (@ 1.25 Mhz), DAC (@ 1.25 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 256 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8
Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Speak & Rescue was released in May 1980.
This game is known under Taito license as "Stratovox".
This game was the first game to have synthesized voices and is the very first release from Sun Electronics. Sun Electronics was a player in the early 80's arcade market. They only made a few game before changing their name to Sun Corporation. Then in 1988 they once again underwent a change of name to Sunsoft.
A bootleg of this game is known as "Space Echo".
- SCORING -
Yellow saucer : 50 points
Red saucer : 100 points
Saucer with human : ??? points
Bonus at end of round : 100 points per human not captured
- CONTRIBUTE -
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