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Ashura Blaster (World)

  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. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
Download ashura.zip (2.06 MB)
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Game infos

Description Ashura Blaster (World)
Name ashura
Manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .131
Romset size 2.06 MB
Romset file 8 files
Romset zip 868 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

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 yes
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 270 no 320 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c43-01 524288 db953f37 252591b676366d4828acb20c77aa9960ad9b367e ymsnd 0 good no
arcade c43-02 524288 105722ae 1de5d396d2a4d5948544082c471a15ca1b8e756c gfx1 0 good no
arcade c43-03 524288 426606ba 961ec0a9dc18044adae433337bfa89d951c5207c gfx1 80000 good no
arcade c43-12.30 131072 b08a4ba0 dad644bcaa240bf0d7393153ab0d0e9bf1d620b2 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade c43-13.31 131072 75b7d877 54ffb35fdc84c86a3187291e2f1862a1a9152812 maincpu 1 good no
arcade c43-14.49 131072 ede7f37d 3ed744885f2aaba5c4e6f4d77ed33d12f0290968 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade c43-15.50 131072 5d05d6c6 43bcf6dbfa982595154ebb2b478415b63dfcb7aa maincpu 0 good no
arcade c43-16 65536 cb26fce1 7cc60326455c7bb2ca543ddfd4002462cc079837 audiocpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.131 [Tirino73]

0.37b3 [Jarek Burczynski]


Bugs:

- The continue screen doesn't appear correctly. ponzicar (ID 01011)


WIP:

- 0.131: Tirino73 added Ashura Blaster (World). Renamed (ashura) to (ashuraj).

- 19th April 2009: Tirino73 dumped Ashura Blaster (World). This romset comes from an original PCB. Differences are: Booting notice (Jap vers.) and cycling FBI logo (US vers.) screens removed.Copyright string same as jap version. Like other versions, this game runs on the Taito B-System.

- 0.108u1: Fixed rom names.

- 0.106u3: Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.

- 0.37b4: Added clone Ashura Blaster (US). Added dipswitches 'Flip Screen', 'Difficulty' and 'Bonus Life'.

- 0.37b3: Jarek Burczynski added 'Ashura Blaster (Japan)' (Taito 1990).

- 26th May 2000: Jarek Burczynski added Ashura Blaster to the Taito-B driver.

- 14th February 1999: Vixen dumped Ashura Blaster (Japan).


LEVELS: 6 (endless)


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* FB Alpha

* Raine


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History


Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Ashura Blaster (c) 1990 Taito Corp.

A vertically scrolling shoot'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito B System Hardware
Prom Stickers : C43

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [1] Fire, [2] Bomb

- TRIVIA -

Ashura Blaster was released in March 1990.

Developed by Visco (in the 2nd stage, you can see 'Visco').

The kanji characters on the titlescreen read 'Ashura'. Ashura is a demon related to fighting.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'REX'.

- UPDATES -

The US version has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

In this game, there is no backfire from enemies, like in other similar shoot'em ups. So you do not have to worry to be hit, after you pass certain enemies.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=120&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

majygool____________________1.273.200
didyeah_______________________723.000
foxmulder_____________________590.900
sawys_________________________476.100
gnu___________________________423.200
cessna________________________338.700
zarouk________________________329.800
olivier_______________________292.800
nicky634______________________210.100
gatts47_______________________200.000
thegamer_______________________84.000
hulkiii________________________73.400
genekelly______________________54.700