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Sky Adventure (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 Sky Adventure (World)
Name skyadvnt
Manufacturer Alpha Denshi Co.
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b14
Romset size 2.5 MB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 960 B
Language English
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 yes
Input tilt no
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 90 no 256 224 60.191409 6000000 394 0 256 253 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade alpha.mcu 4096 mcu 0 nodump no
arcade sa.3 65536 3d0b32e0 b845dc7b887f16dd010b9d43860b6af334995199 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade sa.4 65536 c2e3c30c 43e1b489d879950bce3568433a4781377c3eebe7 audiocpu 30000 good no
arcade sa.5 65536 11cdb868 6cd9c7952b4789e819272cbe0623f3e6f607b7eb audiocpu 50000 good no
arcade sa.6 32768 237d93fd 4c65169e4ce6a9be229410bbfd9b823060a829d7 audiocpu 70000 good no
arcade sa.7 32768 ea26e9c5 13cb5a5955c813cd48f98f62f045a4cbc61806a1 gfx1 0 good no
arcade sa1.bin 131072 c2b23080 d72430ae43137e3ecbaa327f37e4f3f028690a83 maincpu 0 good no
arcade sa2.bin 131072 06074e72 363b468fad5de0637baf8bb7b92798bfb81a07c5 maincpu 1 good no
arcade sachr0 524288 e281b204 50a041c701970013b84826d67c8002ccd291bfdd gfx2 1 good no
arcade sachr1 524288 e734dccd 24258dd5994f1b14600fc354b0ab36f870967afc gfx2 140000 good no
arcade sachr2 524288 504b07ae ba74f74c1cb04dd1ab4acf518099605ec9c71f94 gfx2 a0000 good no
arcade sachr3 524288 a986b8d5 e8e2f3e0f85b9565243eab7dc8606168811f41e4 gfx2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
M68000 maincpu cpu 10000000
Speaker speaker audio
YM2203 ym1 audio 3000000
YM2413 ym2 audio 3579545
Z80 audiocpu cpu 7159090

Serie

Serie : Sky Adventure
  1. Sky Adventure (World) (1989)
  2. Sky Adventure (Japan) (1989)
  3. Sky Adventure (US) (1989)
  4. Ghost Pilots (NGM-020 ~ NGH-020) (1991)
  5. Ghost Pilots (NGM-020 ~ NGH-020) (1991)
  6. Ghost Pilots (NGH-020, US) (1991)
  7. Ghost Pilots (NGH-020, US) (1991)
  8. Ghost Pilots (Jpn) (1995)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b8 [Bryan McPhail]

0.36b1 [Bryan McPhail]


WIP:

- 0.182: Increased buttons usable from 2 to 3 in Sky Adventure and clones which matches port test in service mode as well as matching information in the conversion manual [Tafoid].

- 0.133u1: Renamed (skyadvnu) to (skyadvntu) and (skyadvnj) to (skyadvntj).

- 0.128u6: Phil Bennett reduced all Alpha68k YM2413 clocks from 8MHz to 3.579545MHz.

- 0.61: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.

- 0.59: Acho A. Tang fixed sprite position and priority. Fixed missaligned lines appeard more than once every stage.

- 18th March 2002: Acho A. Tang submitted a massive update for the Alpha68k driver, fixing a few graphics problems in Sky Adventure and Time Soldiers, and making Paddle Mania, Super Stingray and Kyros playable.

- 0.37b14: Added clone Sky Adventure (Japan). Changed parent description to 'Sky Adventure (World)'.

- 0.37b8: Bryan McPhail added Sky Adventure (Japan). Renamed (skyadvnt) to (skyadvnu).

- 10th September 2000: Bryan McPhail added the original Sky Adventure romset to the Alpha68k driver.

- 3rd September 2000: Guru - Dumped Sky Adventure (original version by Alpha Denshi).

- 0.37b2: Changed description to 'Sky Adventure (US)'.

- 0.36b1: Bryan McPhail added 'Sky Adventure' (SNK 1989).

- 17th July 1999: Bryan McPhail sent in drivers for Time Soldiers, Sky Soldiers, Sky Adventure and Gang Wars.

- 6th June 1999: Bryan McPhail has gotten a nice new shiny computer science degree, and for a nice celebration he almost finished some drivers. Here are some pics of Gang Wars, Gold Medalist, Sky Adventure, Sky Soldiers and Time Soldiers, but don't expect to see these before 0.36b1.


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Sky Adventure (c) 1989 Alpha Denshi Company, Limited.

A vertically scrolling shoot-em-up.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : SA

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 7.15909 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), YM2413 (@ 8 Mhz), DAC

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

- TRIVIA -

Sky Adventure was released in November 1989.

- SERIES -

1. Sky Adventure (1989)
2. Ghost Pilots [Model NGM-020] (1991)

- STAFF -

System programmer : Eizi Fukathu
Main programmer : Hiroyuki Ryu
Programmer : Hideo Kamoda
Hardware : Shinichi Tamura
Designer : Kenichi Sakanishi
Music : Tambourine Yuka
Sound : Hiroaki Simizu
Producer : Akira Usizawa

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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