Mame game : skysmash : Sky Smasher

Game infos

Description Sky Smasher

Name skysmash

Manufacturer Nihon System

Year 1990

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .055

Romset size 2.31 MB

Romset file 10 files

Romset zip 662 B

Language English

Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)

Genre Shooter

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
joy	8					no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	270	no	256	224	59.39

Dipswitchs

Allow Continue
- No
- Yes
Bonus Life
- 120K 200K+
- 200K
- 200K+
- 250K+
Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/1 Credit
Coin B
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
Coin Mode
- Mode 1
- Mode 2
Coinage
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/2 Credits
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/1 Credit
- 5 Coins/3 Credits
- 6 Coins/1 Credit
- 8 Coins/3 Credits
- Free Play
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Normal
- Very Hard
Lives
- 2
- 3
- 5
- Infinite
Starting Coin
- Normal
- x2
Unused
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	rom1	131072	e69986f6	de38bf2d5638cb40740882e1abccf7928e43a5a6	oki	0	good	no
arcade	rom10	524288	1bbcda5d	63915221f70a7dfda6a4d8ac7f5c663c9316610a	gfx3	0	good	no
arcade	rom2	65536	75b194cf	6aaf36cdab06c0aa5328f5176557387a5d3f7d26	audiocpu	0	good	no
arcade	rom3	65536	fbb241be	cd94c328891538bbd8c062d90a47ddf3d7d05bb0	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	rom4	65536	ad3cde81	2bd0c707e5b67d3699a743d989cb5384cbe37ff7	gfx1	10000	good	no
arcade	rom5	131072	867f9897	7751f9d03d71bd5db0b82bda6e4d5231a30c1ad0	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	rom6	131072	e9c1d308	d7032345b91f87de64ad09ffea49e39b755cac44	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	rom7	131072	d209db4d	1cf85d39d12e92c1b97f7e5a148f3ad56cdca963	maincpu	40000	good	no
arcade	rom8	131072	d3646728	898606be662214d2ba99e9a3e3cc0c7e7609a719	maincpu	40001	good	no
arcade	rom9	1048576	b0a5eecf	9e8191c7ae4a32dc16aebc37fa942afc531eddd4	gfx2	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	10000000
OKI6295	oki	audio	1000000
Speaker	mono	audio
YM3812	ymsnd	audio	3579545
Z80	audiocpu	cpu	3579545

0.55 [David Graves]

SETUP:

- Like some other Seibu hardware games, hold P1 right at boot to view DIP descriptions.

WIP:

- 0.161: RafTacker fixed typo from Blood Bros save state addition.

- 0.145u8: Brian Troha added minor documentation about accessing the built-in DSW setting page for games in Blood Bros driver. Also minor whitespace clean up for alignment.

- 0.133u1: Corrado Tomaselli verified/changed VSync to 59.39 Hz in Blood Bros driver.

- 0.125u3: Added 'Coinage' dipswitch.

- 0.124u1: Blood Brothers driver improvements to DIP locations and coin modes. Added notes for 'bloodbra' [RansAckeR, Stephane Humbert]. Added dipswitches 'Coin A/B' and 2x 'Unknown'.

- 0.123u1: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 1MHz.

- 0.79u2: Removed 'Unused' and 'Unknown' dipswitch.

- 0.62: Removed 3rd button. Changed 'Unknown' dipswitch to 'Unused'.

- 20th September 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitches and inputs in the Blood Brothers driver.

- 0.55: David Graves added 'Sky Smasher' (Nihon System 1990).

- 28th August 2001: David Graves added Sky Smasher to the Blood Bros driver.

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History

Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Sky Smasher (c) 1990 Nihon System.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1990.

- STAFF -

Developed by TAD Corporation.

Game Designer: Iwao Fushiki
Main Programmer: Takayuki Sadahiro
Programming Support: Akira Sakuma

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Sky Smasher