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Star Guards

  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
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Star Guards
Name stargrds
Manufacturer Bally Midway
Year 1987
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 3P sim
Added to MAME .056
Romset size 448 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 120 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

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 yes
Input players 3
Input buttons
Input coins 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
doublejoy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 480 30

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade bg-0.15a 32768 ecfaef3e 145b0543552e678ef441e4a20afe80cd21e43cf6 gfx1 0 good no
arcade bg-1.14b 32768 2c75569d 13808ff0fdb413a4ac6ddef1422b86c118277899 gfx1 8000 good no
arcade fg-0.8e 65536 22797aaa 806ea29f8a43f104d3154322f492e7fa053da751 gfx2 0 good no
arcade fg-1.6e 65536 413fa119 cb609db2e6694a5bb563afd6b28c19afe65a8487 gfx2 10000 good no
arcade fg-2.5e 65536 7036cfe6 7778c5a8bf457ba0c1fa0e17978709e1f7ccb8a5 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade fg-3.4e 65536 cc5cc003 afe8a0b0542c6f98de9386a07d6586af7de6bdf6 gfx2 30000 good no
arcade pro-0.3b 32768 3ad94aa2 1e17ac70fddee1f3d0dd71172e15a7a256168a70 maincpu 0 good no
arcade pro-1.5b 32768 dba428b0 72efa2f02e95f05a5503ced136fbdf3fcdf57554 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade snd0.u7 32768 7755a493 a888fba45a2a31de5b3082bfc5ccef94dafc4d16 sg:cpu 0 good no
arcade snd1.u17 32768 d98d14ae 51dbb97655ab8a389ca67f0e796ab57894f5bb32 sg:cpu 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AD7533 sg:dac audio
M68000 sg:cpu cpu 8000000
Midway Sounds Good Sound Board sg audio
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 5000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.56 [Aaron Giles]


WIP:

- 0.145u7: Added 'Midway Sounds Good Sound Board' sound and left/right Speaker.

- 0.127u8: Couriersud fixed duplicated inputs in Star Guards.

- 0.98u1: Aaron Giles fixed sound sync with various sound boards, allowing for kludges to be removed from Star Guards.

- 0.56: Aaron Giles added 'Star Guards' (Bally Midway 1987).

- 9th October 2001: Aaron Giles added Star Guards to the MCR3 driver and did some other cleanups and bugfixes.


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Collect energy to stay strong.

- Destroy the most squad leaders to gain control of a star.

- Gain control of four stars to earn new weapon.

- Use button when lit to activate weapon.

- Left Joystick moves. Right Joystick fires.

- Fly togehter to explore the star sector.


LEVELS: 73 (endless)


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History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Star Guards (c) 1987 Bally Midway.

- TECHNICAL -

Game No. 0E89

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 64

Players : 3
Control : Double 8-way joysticks

- TRIVIA -

Released in March 1987.

- STAFF -

Programmed by : Edward March Jr.
Screen graphics by : Scott Morrison
Special animation by : Robert Beech
Sounds by : Bob Libbe, Michael Bartlow
Cabinet art by : Paul Niemeyer
Support by : Dan Stern, Jim Belt, Bob Ploussard

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2617&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fok999_________________________40.800
animexbox74____________________11.400
hulkiii________________________11.100