0.95u3 [David Haywood]
TODO:
* Dump or trojan the PIC16c57 sound CPU
NOTE:
- In Action Hollywood you can select 4 stages: Temples of Chaos, Excaliwood, Transilvania and Galaxy War.
WIP:
- 0.146u5: General cleanup and improved gfxdecodes in Kick Goal driver [David Haywood].
- 0.135u3: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to Kick Goal driver.
- 0.123u5: Changed PIC16C57 CPU2 clock speed to 4MHz.
- 0.123u4: Corrado Tomaselli changed/verified clocks and OKI6295 pin 7 in Action Hollywood. Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 1MHz.
- 0.122u6: Changed PIC16C57 CPU2 clock speed to 3MHz.
- 0.97u3: Quench added preliminary sound support for Action Hollywood. Added PIC16C57 (750000 Hz) CPU2 and OKI6295 (9090 Hz) sound, changed visible area to 352x240. David Haywood changed description to 'Action Hollywood'. Renamed (holywact) to (actionhw).
- 0.96u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed end-of-sprite list and flip screen in Hollywood Action.
- 0.95u6: David Haywood fixed 'Hollywood Action' video hardware - Game now playable. Changed visible area to 352x224.
- 23rd April 2005: David Haywood - I fixed Hollywood Action (or Action Hollywood?) and its now playable. There is no sound because its controlled by a protected PIC so the sample playing mechanism will have to be simulated as was done for Super Slam.
- 0.95u3: David Haywood added 'Hollywood Action' (TCH 1995).
- 19th March 2005: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Action Hollywood.
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Action Hollywood (Galaxy War)
Arcade Video game published 24 years ago:
Action Hollywood (c) 1995 TCH.
A platform game where players must walk around turning over all the squares while eliminating all the enemies in the process.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz), PIC16C57 (@ 750 Khz)
Sound Chips : OKI6295 (@ 9.09 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 3
- TRIVIA -
Action Hollywood was released in June 1995.
The game features several stolen elements:
* The company logo at the start clearly uses the Windows 3.1 shutdown chime.
* The attract screen's lion is a poor quality rendering of the iconic MGM lion.
* The musical jingle that plays if you select the Galaxy Wars stage is unmistakably the beginning of the Star Trek: The Next Generation theme.
* Several stage backgrounds in Transylvania are Doom textures.
* Almost every single sound effect seems to have been stolen from either Doom 2, Hexen, or Jazz Jackrabbit. While Doom and its sequel DID use a stock sound library as basis for many of their sounds, Action Hollywood specifically uses the Commander Keen pain sound used in Doom 2's super secret map, which is a giveaway as it was made in-house.
- STAFF -
Overkill Group, Proyesel 1995
Code : Marcos Hernandez
GFX-Art : Jose L. Sanchez
Game Design : Marcos Hernandez, Jose L. Sanchez, Xavi Artigas
Music SFX : Marcos Hernandez, Jose L. Sanchez, Xavi Artigas
Testers : Marcos Hernandez, Jose L. Sanchez
- CONTRIBUTE -
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