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Moon War (prototype on Frenzy hardware)

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

Description Moon War (prototype on Frenzy hardware)
Name moonwarp
Manufacturer Stern Electronics
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .111u1
Romset size 25 KB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 17 B
Language English
Genre Shooter

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 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 255 25 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 59.637405 5000000 320 0 256 262 32 256

Configuration

name tag mask
Monitor Type
Name Electrohome
Value 1
Default no
Name Wells-Gardner
Value 0
Default yes

MONITOR_TYPE
 1

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 1d.bin 4096 75470634 1a811fef39724fd227e06b694841d3dad5659622 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 3d.bin 4096 a9d046dc 88afccd09d2809cafd12dd40ab3be77e3707cfc5 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade 5c.bin 4096 a3d551ab a32352727b5475a6ec6c495c55f01ccd6e024f98 maincpu c000 good no
arcade 5d.bin 4096 bf671737 cdfae1eb8995c2251813cc5633fc809aa9e6a36f maincpu 2000 good no
arcade 6d.bin 4096 cef2d697 5c31c6e7002f0d944b3028d1b804480acf3af042 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade moonwar.1c.bin 2048 9e9a653f cf49a38ef343ace271ba1e5dde38bd8b9c0bd876 speech 0 good no
arcade moonwar.2c.bin 2048 73fd988d 08a2aeb4d87eee58e38e4e3f749a95f2308aceb0 speech 800 good no
arcade n82s123 po. e6 select decoder 32 4471ca5d ba8dca2ec076818f8ad8c17b15c77965e36fa05e proms 0 good no
arcade prom.6e 32 56bffba3 c8e24f6361c50bcb4c9d3f39cdaf4172c2a2b318 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Exidy SFX exidy audio
S14001A speech audio 19531
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 2500000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.111u1 [Lord Nightmare]


WIP:

- 0.138u2: Lord Nightmare and Stephane Humbert added 'Bonus Life' dipswitch to Moon War (prototype on Frenzy hardware). Removed 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.137u1: Team Europe, Volker Hann, David Haywood and Lord Nightmare fixed Moon War - Game now playable. Team Europe dumped the original Moon War. Lord Nightmare fixed spinner input in Moon War, added notes about spinner board, marked game as working. Fixed also very minor occasional glitches in Moon War spinners caused by IPT_DIAL crossing the 0x00<->0xFF border. Implemented many of the dipswitches for Moon War, cocktail/upright select is still missing, though I managed to trigger cocktail mode a few times by accident. Needs code study to see what it actually depends on. The p2 controls are separate in cocktail mode. Added dipswitches 'Hardware Tests', 'Spinner Direction', 'Cabinet', 'Difficulty', 'Coin 1/2/3' and 18x 'Unknown'.

- 14th March 2010: David Haywood - Moon War uses some kind of analog dial for rotation of the player ship, which I haven't quite managed to hook up correctly yet (i can only rotate in one direction). Other than that it can be played. My only concern is if there is a mismatch between the program roms and the speech roms, because the speech sometimes talks about 'Hyperflip' and I haven't worked out what it means yet (although I have warped from one side of the screen to the other sometimes, so it might just mean that).

- 13th March 2010: Smitdogg - Team Europe dumped the original Moon War running on Frenzy hardware. It was missing its sound roms but luckily those were dumped from another PCB a few years ago (which was missing its program and graphics roms). The dump looks to be complete now although there is a slight chance that the sound roms are mismatched/from an alternate revision.

- 0.129u4: Changed 'Custom' sound to 'Exidy SFX'.

- 0.115u3: Changed VSync to 59.637405 Hz.

- 0.113: Added prom ($0 - address decoder/rom select).

- 0.111u6: Changed description to 'Moon War (prototype on Frenzy hardware)'.

- 0.111u5: Added Custom sound. Removed Berzerk samples.

- 0.111u4: Added S14001A sound.

- 0.111u1: Lord Nightmare added 'Moonwar (prototype on Frenzy hardware)' (Stern 1982). The original / prototype version of Moon War appears to run on Frenzy hardware, however the only board found had been stripped for parts, leaving only the sound ROMs. The more common version of Moon War runs on modified Super Cobra hardware and is often called 'Moon War 2' because it is the second version, and many of the PCBs are labeled as such.


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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

bald_bull_______________________6.190
fordie__________________________6.165