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Ark Area

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Dipswitchs
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Serie
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Ark Area
Name arkarea
Manufacturer UPL
Year 1988
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .036b04
Romset size 608 KB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 161 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

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 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 0 no 256 192 59.61 3906600 256 0 256 256 32 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade arkarea.001 65536 09d11ab7 14f68e93e7173069f790493eafe9e1adc1a074cc gfx3 20000 good no
arcade arkarea.002 65536 051d3482 3ebef1a7280f52df6d5ee34e3d4e7567aac0c165 gfx3 10000 good no
arcade arkarea.003 65536 6f45a308 b6994fe1f50d5e9cf38d3efbd69a2c5f76f33c56 gfx3 0 good no
arcade arkarea.004 32768 69e36af2 2bccef8f396dcb5261af0140af04c95ee8ecae11 gfx1 0 good no
arcade arkarea.005 65536 9886004d 4050756af5c00ab1a368780fe091460fd9e2cb05 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade arkarea.006 65536 2c0567d6 f36a2a3ff487660f89470516617482331f008da0 gfx2 10000 good no
arcade arkarea.007 65536 d5684a27 4961e8a5df2510afb1ef3e937d0a5d52e91893a3 gfx2 0 good no
arcade arkarea.008 32768 1ce1b5b9 ab7755523d58736b124deb59779dedee870fd7d2 maincpu 0 good no
arcade arkarea.009 32768 db1c81d1 64a2f51c218d84c4eaeb8c5a5a3f0f4cdf5d174c maincpu 10000 good no
arcade arkarea.010 32768 5a460dae e64d3662bb074a528cd71061621c0dd3765928b6 maincpu 18000 good no
arcade arkarea.011 32768 63f022c9 414f52d2b9584f08285b261d1dafcc9e6e5e0c74 maincpu 20000 good no
arcade arkarea.012 32768 3c4c65d5 e11f840f8b1da0933a0a4342f5fa1a17f0d6d3e2 maincpu 28000 good no
arcade arkarea.013 32768 2d409d58 6344b43db5459691728c3f843b643c84ea71dd8e soundcpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 2203.2 audio 1500000
Z80 soundcpu cpu 5000000

Serie

Serie : Nova 2001
  1. Nova 2001 (Japan) (1983)
  2. Nova 2001 (Japan, hack?) (1983)
  3. Nova 2001 (US) (1983)
  4. Ark Area (1988)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b4 [Paolo Venturi]


WIP:

- 0.132: Tafoid and Fujix changed year to 1988 (Arcade TV Game List book).

- 0.131u2: Added 'Difficulty' dipswitch.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3 rom loading. Added dipswitches 'Coinage' and 'Flip Screen'.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.36RC1: Added dipswitches 'Coin A', 'Demo Sounds', 'Bonus Life' and 'Lives'.

- 0.36b9: Changed clock speed of the 2x YM2203 to 1.5MHz.

- 0.36b4: Paolo Venturi added 'Ark Area' (UPL 1988?).

- 31st August 1999: Gerald Vanderick added Ark Area to the Mutant Night driver.


LEVELS: 24


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* Raine


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Last Mission

Ark Area

History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Ark Area (c) 1987 UPL.

An overhead shoot'em up where you fight through 23 stages, battling 1 or 2 bosses at the end of each level

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : UPL-87007

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 192 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 768

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Ark Area was released in December 1987. It was a Japan-only release.

- SERIES -

1. Nova 2001 (1983)
2. Ark Area (1987)

- STAFF -

Staff : Tsutomu Fuzisawa, Hiropi, Mingma, Nihei, Nozawa

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sony PS4 [PSN] (jan.19, 2017) "Arcade Archives - Arc Area [Model CUSA-05978]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=105&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gerhard_schindler_____________943.900
dark_kariya___________________448.600
sawys_________________________247.400
hulkiii________________________26.900