0.141u1 [Luca Elia, Bicycle Repairman]
Bugs:
- Cannot move in "shooting game". Tafoid (ID 05635)
WIP:
- 0.179: Changed description to 'X-Plan (Ver. 101)'.
- 0.151: Make X-Plan behave in almost the same odd way as .149. This fixed game hangs up on boot [Carl].
- 0.141u2: Luca Elia fixed rogue tiles in X-Plan. Removed 2nd coin slot. Added 'Pinout' dipswitch and Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'. Changed description to 'X-Plan (Ver. 1.01)'.
- 0.141u1: Luca Elia added 'X-Plan (Alpha 101)' (Subsino 2006).
- 9th January 2011: Luca Elia - X-Plan is an unusual shoot'em up / poker combo by Subsino that uses airplaines in place of cards. The shooter is little more than a playable mock-up, and can be swapped in at the press of a button by the operator, "for urgent operation" as the manual states. "Please install those buttons at the secret area, where is most safe and operate easily". It runs on Bishjan hardware, i.e. uses the second installment of Subsino's tilemap chips. But I had to add support for dynamic tile sizes, and slightly fix the row scroll handling. There are some issues with the graphics still, as some rogue tiles are left on screen from time to time. The weird mirroring of video RAM, or the hacky IRQ emulation of the AM188-EM CPU may be the cause. Thanks to Bicycle Repair Man.
- 3rd January 2011: Smitdogg - Bicycle Repairman informed me that he has dumped the worst shump game ever created. He sounded strangely proud of this and has challenged all other dumpers to find a worse one. It's actually inside of a gambling game by Subsino called X-Plan. Basically, here is the lowdown on this game. For years, operators in sketchy establishments have found ways to run illegal gambling machines and have rigged them to transform into regular arcade games when needed when they are inspected or cops show up. It's sometimes triggered by a remote control even. Subsino basically made the process less of a pain in the ass for them, you no longer have to have the machine switch to another PCB. You can set the board to load up as this shmup or do a key combo that makes it switch into it from the gambler.
