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title	Aero Fighters
set name	aerofgt
manufacturer	Video System Co.
year	1992
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	aerofgt.c
snapshots	MW: in game / CT: in game \| title \| select / Mr. Do: artwork / EJ: in game zoom
rating	71.8% after 63 votes
clones	Aero Fighters (bootleg set 1) Aero Fighters (bootleg set 2) Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 1) Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 2) Sonic Wings (Japan)

colour emulation	good
palette	1024
display type	raster
orientation	vertical
resolution	224x320
frequency	60.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	stereo

players	2
nplayers	2P sim
controls	8 way joystick
buttons	2
coin slots	2

cpu	68000 @ 10MHz
cpu	Z80 @ 5MHz
audio	YM2610 @ 8MHz

version added

.035b02

last change(s)

none since version .53

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
1.u4	524288	6fdff0a2	aerofgt	7cc9529b426091027aa3e23586cb7d162376c0ff
2.153	131072	a1ef64ec	aerofgt	fa3e434738bf4e742ad68882c1e914100ce0f761
538a54.124	524288	4d2c4df2	aerofgt	f51c2b3135f0a921ac1a79e63d6878c03cb6254b
1538a54.124	524288	286d109e	aerofgt	3a5f3d2d89cf58f6ef15e4bd3f570b84e8e695b2
538a53.u9	1048576	630d8e0b	aerofgt	5a0c252ccd53c5199a695909d25ecb4e53dc15b9
534g8f.u18	524288	76ce0926	aerofgt	5ef4cec215d4dd600d8fcd1bd9a4c09081d59e33
it-19-01	262144	6d42723d	aerofgt	57c59234e9925430a4c687733682efed06d7eed1
it-19-06	1048576	cdbbdb1d	aerofgt	067c816545f246ff1fd4c821d70df1e7eb47938c

cabinet	aerofgt.png aerofgt.png
marquee	aerofgt.png
control panel	aerofgt.png
flyer	aerofgt.png
PCB	aerofgt.png

info

0.35b2 [Nicola Salmoria]

SERVICE MODE:

Keep P1 button 1 pressed during boot to have access to a wider range of options in service mode.

WIP:

0.124u4: Improvements to Aero Fighters (bootleg set 2) [Robiza]: Fixed BG1 and BG2 offset. Fixed sprites. Promoted to "working" (NO SOUND).
0.124u3: Robiza added clone Aero Fighters (bootleg set 2).
0.124u2: Aero Fighters (bootleg) improvements [Robiza]: Sprite offset are now correct. Split spriteram in two parts. Identified last sprite for the two parts and promoted to "working" (no sound).
0.124u1: Robiza fixed clone Aero Fighters (bootleg): Fixed spriteram3 (previous value was too high and in the "city" level some build disappear. Sprite gfx bank (previously some sprite appear right and some sprite was wrong). Fixed perfectly the sprite zoom. Removed multisprite support; in the bootleg aren't present.
0.122u1: Corrado Tomaselli modified the Aero Fighters sound Z80 to 5Mhz.
0.95u3: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Aero Fighters (bootleg).
0.37b5: Added clone Sonic Wings (Japan).
0.35b11: Nicola Salmoria added clone Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 2).
0.35b8: Nicola Salmoria added clone Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware). Replaced the 2x sound2 roms with a 1MB rom.
0.35b6: Nicola Salmoria added clone Sonic Wings (Video System 1992) (Testdriver). All roms apart from V1, V2 and V3 were soldered, Nicola uses the ones from aerofgt which are very likely different!
0.35b3: Nicola Salmoria added prite zoom support in Aero Fighters.
0.35b2: Nicola Salmoria added Aero Fighters (Video System Co. 1992). Issues: The plane in the attract mode animation is missing one wing. Actually it's there, but it's misplaced. The ship explosion in the attract mode animation is jagged at the four corners. This doesn't happen in the original. Both of the above might be caused by some hardware zoom support. There are graphics for different tiles (Sonic Wings, The Final War) but I haven't found a way to display them - different program, maybe.

LEVELS: 7

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Romset: 4480 kb / 8 files / 1.98 zip

history

Aero Fighters (c) 1992 Video System.

A superb vertically scrolling shoot-em-up in which the player chooses an ace fighter pilot from a selection of 4 countries (USA, Japan, Sweden and Britain) and takes to the skies to destroy enemy jets, boats, helicopters, gun emplacements and huge end-of-level bosses. Features colorful, detailed 2-D graphics and a good level of challenge.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (FIRE, SPECIAL WEAPON)

- TRIVIA -

This game is known in Japan as "Sonic Wings".

Red Rabbit from "Rabio Lepus" (also known as "Rabbit Punch") makes a cameo appearance in this game. Just check out Mao Mao's ending and you'll see it.

In Kowful's and T.B.'s joint ending, you can see plenty of "Turbo Force" arcade machines.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to Japanese characters.

Soundtrack album releases :
Sonic Wings (PCCB-00118) (21/04/93) [Pony Canyon/Scitron]

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

There's 6 different endings, depending on how you play.

- SERIES -

Aero Fighters (1992)
Aero Fighters 2 (1994)
Aero Fighters 3 (1995)
Sonic Wings Limited (1996)
Aero Fighters Assault (1997, Nintendo 64)

- STAFF -

Staff : Shin Nakamura, Ogawa Hyone, Armored Cruiser, Wataru Yamazaki, Alice Itoh, Tako Bekku, Neko ikeda, Hikihara, Manbow, H. Motono, K. Yamamotoya, H. Hino, You-Chan, M. Tsukada, Kazzo, Y. Fukuda, Y. Nakanishi, Naoki Itamura, Masato Arikawa, Soushi Hosoi, M. Sakakibara, Hironobu Urata

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Super Famicom (1993)

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.

resource links

view in MAWS
view in CAESAR
view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
view in arcade-history.com
view in GameFAQs
view in KLOV
view in MamEnd
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
view in VGMuseum Gamepics

cheats

code	comments
00000000:FF8B95:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
00010000:FF8B97:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits (2/2):For player 2 when "Coin Slot" Dip Switch set to "Individual"
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000
00000000:FF60DD:0000000A:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:FF06C0:00000010:00000010	Invincibility PL1
00000000:FF60DF:00000006:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Smart Bombs PL1
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000	Select Fire Power PL1
00010000:FF60E1:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Maximum Fire Power PL1
00010000:FF60E1:00000007:FFFFFFFF	Absurd Fire Power PL1
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000
00000000:FF61DD:0000000A:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:FF0720:00000010:00000010	Invincibility PL2
00000000:FF61DF:00000006:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Smart Bombs PL2
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000	Select Fire Power PL2
00010000:FF61E1:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Maximum Fire Power PL2
00010000:FF61E1:00000007:FFFFFFFF	Absurd Fire Power PL2