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Fighting Hawk (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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Fighting Hawk (World)
Name fhawk
Manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1988
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .078
Romset size 1.81 MB
Romset file 6 files
Romset zip 447 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
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 b70-01.ic1 524288 fcdf67e2 08a6a04a45c4adb4f5b4b0b83e90b2e5fe5cb0b1 gfx1 0 good no
arcade b70-02.ic2 524288 35f7172e f257e9db470bb6dcca491b89cb666ef6d2546887 gfx1 80000 good no
arcade b70-03.ic2 524288 42d5a9b8 10714fe95c372cec12376e615a9abe213aff12bc maincpu 20000 good no
arcade b70-08.ic12 131072 4d795f48 58040d8ccbd0572cf6aef6ea9dd646b9338a03a0 slave 0 good no
arcade b70-09.ic31 65536 85cccaa2 5459cd8df9d94e1938008cfc17d4ebac98004bfc audiocpu 0 good no
arcade b70-11.ic3 131072 7d9f7583 d8fa7c66a81fb356fa9c72f377bfc31b1837eafb maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 3000000
Z80 slave cpu 4000000

Serie

Serie : Flying Shark
  1. Flyin' Shark (bootleg of Hishou Zame) (1987)
  2. Flying Shark (World) (1987)
  3. Flying Shark (UK) (1987)
  4. Flying Shark (bootleg with 8741) (1987)
  5. Hishou Zame (Japan) (1987)
  6. Sky Shark (US, set 1) (1987)
  7. Fighting Hawk (World) (1988)
  8. Fighting Hawk (Japan) (1988)
  9. Fire Shark (earlier) (1989)
  10. Same! Same! Same! (1P set) (1989)
  11. Same! Same! Same! (2P set) (1989)
  12. Sky Shark (USA, Rev. 0A) (1989)
  13. Fire Shark (1990)
  14. Fire Shark (Korea, set 1, easier) (1990)
  15. Fire Shark (Korea, set 2, harder) (1990)
  16. Same! Same! Same! (Jpn) (1990)
  17. Fire Shark (Euro) (1991)
  18. Hishouzame - Flying Shark (1991)
  19. Hishouzame / Flying Shark (1993)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.78 [Fabrice Arzeno]

0.36b4 [Olivier Galibert]


Bugs:

- fhawk, fhawkj: Rare sprites bug. Kekule (ID 03164)


WIP:

- 0.154: Mamesick removed Fighting Hawk irq hack, this fixed some sprites stuck over the background. David Haywood make Fighting Hawk run with perfect interleave, seems to fix some issues.

- 0.150: Brian Troha added IC locations to the Fighting Hawk sets.

- 0.146u4: Fixed maincpu rom address to $20000. This fixed a rare sprites bug (sprites stuck over the background) in Fighting Hawk.

- 0.122u2: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6665280 Hz, Z80 CPU3 to 4MHz and irq0_line_hold to 3, this fixes the slowdown problems.

- 0.78: Fabrice Arzeno added Fighting Hawk (World). Renamed (fhawk) to (fhawkj).

- 19th December 2003: Fabrice Arzeno added the world version of Fighting Hawk to the Taito L system driver.

- 0.37b11: Added dipswitches 'Difficulty' and 'Unused'.

- 0.37b6: Swapped cpu2/3 roms. Changed Z80 CPU1/3 clock speeds to 6MHz and Z80 CPU2 to 4MHz.

- 0.37b3: Added dipswitches 'Cabinet', 'Flip Screen', 'Demo Sounds' and 'Lives'.

- 0.36b4: Olivier Galibert added 'Fighting Hawk (Japan)' (Taito 1988).

- 26th August 1999: Olivier Galibert sent in a Taito system L driver with support for American Horseshoes, Cachat, Champion Wrestler, Fighting Hawk, Palamedes, Plotting, Puzznic and Raimais. None of them have sound though, and some have graphic bugs.

- 5th March 1999: Vixen dumped Fighting Hawk (Japan).


LEVELS: 6


Other Emulators:

* Raine


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History


Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:

Fighting Hawk (c) 1988 Taito.

The player controls his fighting plane 'Falcon' and fights against enemies in each round of grassy plain, iceberg, glacier, snowfield and city. His final aim is to shoot down the enemy's snowfield newest bomber 'Dragon Hat'.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito L System hardware
Prom Sticker : B70

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80
Sound Chips : YM2203

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

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1988, Fighting Hawk was released in March 1989 in Japan.

Many Japanese gamers expected this game was in the line of Toaplan's "Flying Shark". But the game played very differently from Toaplan's usual style. So, the game was a flop.

Fighting hawk's BGM and graphic engine were re-used in "Master of Weapon". Originally, Master of Weapon (at an early stage of development) was planned to be a sequel of Fighting Hawk.

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

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Stage selection screen : like many others games in the Taito library, this game has a hidden stage selection screen, here is the process :
1) During the boot of the machine, press the 'service' button.
2) "Service switch error" should appears, new press 1P START (x3) and the service button (x1).
3) Stage Selection screen should appears.

- SERIES -

1. Flying Shark [TP-027] (1987)
2. Fighting Hawk (1988)
3. Fire Shark! [TP-017] (1989)

- STAFF -

Sound composer: V. Ohashi (Pinch Panchi)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Sony PS2 (jan.25, 2007) "Taito Memories II Joukan [Model SLPM-66649]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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