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Moonwar

  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
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Game infos

Description Moonwar
Name moonwar
Manufacturer Stern Electronics
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .034b01
Romset size 25 KB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 15 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 no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 255 25 4 yes

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 768 224 60.606061 18432000 1152 0 768 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mw2.2c 4096 7c11b4d9 a27bdff6ce728647ec811df843ac235c32c293d6 maincpu 0 good no
arcade mw2.2e 4096 1b6362be 2fbd95869146adcc0c8be1df653251fda8849e8e maincpu 1000 good no
arcade mw2.2f 4096 4fd8ba4b 3da784267a96d05f66b00626a22cb3f06211d202 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade mw2.2h 4096 56879f0d d1e9932863aebc5761e71fca8d24f3c400e1250d maincpu 3000 good no
arcade mw2.5c 2048 c26231eb 5b19edfaefe1a535059311d067ea53405879d627 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade mw2.5d 2048 bb48a646 cf51202d16b03bbed12ff24501be68683f28c992 audiocpu 800 good no
arcade mw2.5f 2048 c5fa1aa0 6c6b5b2ce5de278ff436d3e7252ece5b086cc41d gfx1 0 good no
arcade mw2.5h 2048 a6ccc652 286b3dc1f3a7da3ac66664e774b441ef075745f1 gfx1 800 good no
arcade mw2.clr 32 99614c6c f068985f3c5e0cd88551a02c32f9baeabfd50241 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.1 audio 1789772
DISCRETE konami audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1789772

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.34b1 [Brad Oliver]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.137u2: Stephane Humbert fixed dipswitches and inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) in Moonwar and clone.

- 0.137u1: Lord Nightmare imported the same implementation of Moon War proto's spinner to moon war 2; works much more smoothly now. Fixed very minor occasional glitches in moonwar/moonwara spinners caused by IPT_DIAL crossing the 0x00<->0xFF border. Added conditional Hyperflip button to Moonwar, only seems present in upright mode? (in cocktail mode the same input is used by player 2 for a different button).

- 1st December 2008: Mr. Do - Addy continues his hot streak. First, we have Moon War bezel, an early game from Stern.

- 0.125u5: Couriersud moved Moonwar and clone Moonwar (older) to the Galaxian driver. Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors.

- 0.109: Changed palettesize to 99 colors (32 for characters, 64 for stars, 2 for bullets and 1 for bg).

- 0.65: Removed 3rd player.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize from 100 to 98 colors.

- 0.37b16: Changed description to 'Moonwar' and clone (set 2) to 'Moonwar (older)'. Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.

- 0.37b12: Changed parent and clone descriptions to 'Moon War'. Renamed (moonwar2) to (moonwar) and (monwar2a) to (moonwara).

- 0.34b6: Nicola Salmoria added clone Moon War II (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Moon War II (set 1)'. Known issues: Input ports are wrong in (set 2).

- 0.34b1: Brad Oliver added 'Moon War II' (Stern 1981).


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* FB Alpha

* VAntAGE


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Moonwar (c) 1981 Stern Electronics.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 99

Players : 2
Control : dial
Buttons : 3
=> [A] FIRE, [B] WARP DRIVE, [C] SHIELDS

- TRIVIA -

Tracy Miller holds the official record for this game with 83,830 points.

- SCORING -

Satellite : 100 pts.
Fighter : 150 pts.
Bomber : 200 pts.
Strafer : 300 pts.
Tracer : 500 pts.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1671&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

sawys___________________________4.040
didyeah_________________________1.550
hulkiii___________________________900