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Fire One

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

Description Fire One
Name fireone
Manufacturer Exidy
Year 1979
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .035b03
Romset size 29 KB
Romset file 16 files
Romset zip 22 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Sound infos

Sound_channels 0

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound preliminary
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 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
paddle 0 63 50 1 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 59.824356 5000000 319 0 256 262 32 256

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade fo-ic07.1b 2048 b90baae1 c7dedf38e5a1977234f1f745a7aa443f6bf7db52 maincpu 6000 good no
arcade fo-ic08.2b 2048 5839e2ff 9d8a17c5b64cdf5bf222f4dbca48f0210b18e403 maincpu 5000 good no
arcade fo-ic09.3b 2048 1c076b1b 874c09c81e90e1be869902057b7359e71f77db52 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade fo-ic10.4b 2048 27a7b2c0 7a8c70e565bdcb6e085e4d283f41c92758640055 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade fo-ic11.5b 2048 721930a1 826245ffbd399056a74ccd14cd2bd4acd2fb2d24 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade fo-ic12.6b 2048 ac7783d9 8bcfcc5d3126382f4ec8904e0435de0931abc41e maincpu 1000 good no
arcade fo-ic13.7b 2048 f927f086 509db84d781dd2d5aaefd561539738f0db7c4ca5 maincpu 0 good no
arcade fo-ic18.1c 2048 771ee5ba 6577e219386de594dbde8a54d5f5f9657419061a maincpu 6800 good no
arcade fo-ic19.2c 2048 9fd85e11 f8264357a63f757bc58f3703e60e219d67d0d081 maincpu 5800 good no
arcade fo-ic20.3c 2048 b4ac6e71 4731dd6865929b8c9c33cbe4cf1dde23046d6914 maincpu 4800 good no
arcade fo-ic21.4c 2048 b142c857 609fbd0c0b5833807fd606284c26ad7cb7e4d742 maincpu 3800 good no
arcade fo-ic22.5c 2048 f0c965b4 ffe96e636720325d9a40b729128730446b74435b maincpu 2800 good no
arcade fo-ic23.6c 2048 15c74ee7 0adb87c2471ecbbd18d10579043765ce877dbde7 maincpu 1800 good no
arcade fo-ic24.7c 2048 0d2d8723 e9bb2092ce7786016f15e42916ad48ef12735e9c maincpu 800 good no
arcade prom-1.7a 32 ae1f4acd 1d502b61db73cf6a4ac3d235455a5c464f12652a proms 0 good no
arcade prom-2.8a 32 9b713924 943ad55d232f7bb99886a9a273dd14a1e1533491 proms 20 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Z80 maincpu cpu 2500000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b3 [Olivier Galibert]


TODO:

* Add sound/samples


NOTE:

- The original ROM images for Fire One (c) 1979 Exidy have been made available for free, non-commercial use. Authorization from H.R. Kaufmann, president of Xidy.


WIP:

- 0.134u4: TrevEB added 2x N82S123 proms (DRAM addressing) to Fire One.

- 0.37b4: Aaron Giles greatly improved Star Fire / Fire One. Changed visible area to 256x224.

- 2nd June 2000: Aaron Giles sent in a Star Fire / Fire One update, fixing more of the graphics glitches, and he sent in an Exidy sound system update.

- 0.35b3: Olivier Galibert added 'Fire One' (Exidy 1979).

- 9th February 1999: Here is a (real) story what true emulator freaks can do to help preserving old arcade games, and to document the arcade games' history. The fellow who dumped the roms of Fire One had to drive 5 hours (each way) to get the board from a leaky garage which had been used by cats as a litter box. Half of the EPROMs had corroded pins and the smell was probably very disgusting (Maybe he should mail the board to IDSA *evil grin* - http://www.idsa.org/. He got the roms dumped, and then the newest addition to MAME team, Olivier Galibert, started furiously working on the game. As a nice side effect, Star Fire also works much better (with trails though). Still no sound in either of these games, and it seems very unlikely that the samples could be extracted from that non-functioning board...


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History


Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Fire One! (c) 1979 Exidy.

Fire One! was a player-versus-player or player-versus-computer submarine showdown.

The primary objective of the game is to find and destroy the enemy's submarine, while avoiding the enemy's torpedoes. Through your virtual periscope you are free to launch one of your 8 torpedoes to take out any of the enemy's various ships for extra points. It takes some time to reload each torpedo tube, so you must be judicious in how you plan your attacks.

In addition to being able to control the left/right rotation of your periscope, the game also features a submerge button which you can use to temporarily hide from the enemy. Holding this button down keeps you hidden but also keeps you out of the action, allowing the enemy free reign over the seas.

- TECHNICAL -

The cabinet was split into two halves, with each player controlling their first-person submarine perspective on their half of the screen.

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2.5 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : paddle
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Fire One was released in November 1979 in USA.

Licensed to Sega for Japan market.

Hidden messages can be found in ROM chip f0-1c10.4b:
HI DAVE
I HOPE
YOU ARE WELL

HI TED
THE FORCE
IS WITH US!

HI SUSAN
HAVE A NICE DAY

HI SUBODH
WASH YOUR MOUTH!

- STAFF -

Produced by Technical Music.

Directed by: Ted Michon
Written by: David Rolfe
Animation by: Susan Ogg
Music by: J.J. Mallory

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
[US] Commodore C64 [EU] (1983)
Atari 800 (1983)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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