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Cosmic Alien (version II)

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

Description Cosmic Alien (version II)
Name cosmica
Manufacturer Universal
Year 1979
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .033b05
Romset size 17 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 10 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
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 1

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 2 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 256 192 60 3932160 256 0 256 256 32 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 8.k3 1024 acbd4e98 d33fe8bdc77bb18a3ffb369ea692210d1b890771 user2 0 good no
arcade 9.e2 1024 ea4ee931 d0a4afda4b493efb40286c2d67bf56a2a8b8da9d user1 0 good no
arcade ii-1.e3 2048 535ee0c5 3ec3056b7fabe07ef49a9179114aa74be44a943e maincpu 0 good no
arcade ii-2.e4 2048 ed3cf8f7 6ba1d98d82400519e844b950cb2fb1274c06d89a maincpu 800 good no
arcade ii-3.e5 2048 6a111e5e 593be409bc969cece2ff88623e53c166b4dc43cd maincpu 1000 good no
arcade ii-4.e6 2048 c9b5ca2a 3384b98954b6bc9a64e753b95757f61ce1d3c52e maincpu 1800 good no
arcade ii-5.e7 2048 43666d68 e44492360a77d93aeaaaa0f38f4ac19732998559 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade ii-6.n1 2048 431e866c b007cd3cc856360a0247bd78bb49d173f5cef321 gfx1 800 good no
arcade ii-7.n2 2048 aa6c6079 af4ab73e9e1c189290b26bf42adb511d5a347df9 gfx1 0 good no
arcade u7910.d9 32 dfb60f19 d510327ff3492f098659c551f7245835f61a2959 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Samples samples audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 1802666

Samples list

name
backgr
coin
divea
diveb1
diveb2
diveb3
diveb4
diveb5
diveb6
extend
fire
loudexp
smallexp

Serie

Serie : Cosmic Monsters
  1. Cosmic Alien (version II) (1979)
  2. Cosmic Alien (first version) (1979)
  3. Cosmic Alien (early version II?) (1979)
  4. Cosmic Guerilla (1979)
  5. Cosmic Monsters 2 (1979)
  6. Cosmic Monsters (version II) (1979)
  7. Cosmic Conflict (Euro, Alt) (1980)
  8. Devil Zone (1980)
  9. Devil Zone (easier) (1980)
  10. Space Panic (version E) (1980)
  11. Space Panic (set 2) (1980)
  12. Space Panic (set 3) (1980)
  13. Zero Hour (set 1) (1980)
  14. Zero Hour (set 2) (1980)
  15. Cosmic Avenger (1981)
  16. Cosmic Avenger (1982)
  17. Cosmic Avenger (ColecoVision Conversion) (1982)
  18. Panic Button (1983)
  19. Space Panic (1983)
  20. Joshi Ryou Panic (1983)
  21. Panic! (USA) (1994)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.33b5 [Lee Taylor]


Samples required


WIP:

- 0.141u3: hap fixed incorrect sprite colors for alien formations in Cosmic Alien.

- 0.135u3: Lord Nightmare fixed cosmica2 romset rom split and names to match romset as described in PCBinfo, which it matches (except for one rom which PCBinfo is probably wrong about). The romset uses a different rom daughterboard to the other cosmica romsets, and different sized roms. Changed description of clone (bootleg or hack?) to 'Cosmic Alien (early version II?)'.

- 0.135u1: Andrew Welburn and Lord Nightmare added clone Cosmic Alien (first version). Lord Nightmare marked Cosmic Alien colors as wrong, added TODO to the driver for fixing colors. Added new XTAL value and switched driver to use it. Changed parent description to 'Cosmic Alien (version II)'. Fixed rom names.

- 12th November 2009: Smitdogg - Andrew Welburn dumped an alt set of Cosmic Alien.

- 0.128u1: T. Bellm added samples support to Cosmic Alien. Added Samples (backgr, extend, divea, diveb1-6, fire, loudexp, smallexp and coin.wav) and DAC sound.

- 0.122u8: Changed palettesize to 72 colors.

- 0.68: Changed Z80 CPU clock speed to 1802666 Hz and swapped gfx1 roms ($0, 800).

- 26th November 2002: Zsolt Vasvari added starfield emulation to Cosmic Alien.

- 0.36RC2: Added clone Cosmic Alien (older).

- 0.36b15: Zsolt Vasvari fixed colors in Cosmic Alien. Added user2 rom (starfield generator).

- 21st January 2000: Zsolt Vasvari fixed some problems in Cosmic Alien.

- 0.35b2: Changed visible area to 192x256 (8 colors). Added prom ($0) and user1 color map prom ($0).

- 0.34RC1: Howie Cohen added high score saving to Cosmic Alien.

- 0.33b5: Lee Taylor added 'Cosmic Alien' (Universal 1979).

- 22nd March 1997 / 11th April 1998: Malcor dumped Cosmic Alien by UNIVERSAL (1979).


LEVELS: 99 (endless)


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History


Arcade Video game published 39 years ago:

Cosmic Alien (c) 1980 Universal.

An early vertical space shoot'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : 7910

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.802666 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 192 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 8

Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Cosmic Alien was released in January 1980.

Justin Baxter holds the official record for this game with 502,950 points on April 1, 2012.

- SERIES -

Cosmic Series

1. Cosmic Monsters [Upright model] (1979)
2. Cosmic Monsters 2 (1979)
3. Cosmic Guerilla (1979)
4. Cosmic Alien (1980)
5. Devil Zone (1980)
6. Zero Hour (1980)
7. Space Panic (1980)
8. Cosmic Avenger (1981)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=505&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

lex_cz________________________243.780
kernzy_________________________95.510
germax_________________________59.030
gerhard_schindler______________47.060
foxmulder_______________________7.760
hulkiii_________________________7.750
didyeah_________________________3.100