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title Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 1)
set name aerofgtb
manufacturer Video System Co.
year 1992
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status good
driver source aerofgt.c
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rating

66.4% after 27 votes
 
parent Aero Fighters
other clones Aero Fighters (bootleg set 1)
Aero Fighters (bootleg set 2)
Aero Fighters (Turbo Force hardware set 2)
Sonic Wings (Japan)
display
colour emulation good
palette 1024
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x320
frequency 60.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu 68000 @ 10MHz
cpu Z80 @ 4MHz
audio YM2610 @ 8MHz
data
version added .035b08
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
v2  262144  5c9de9f0  aerofgtb    93b62c59f0bc052c6fdbd5aae292a7ab2122dfd1 
v1  262144  89c1dcf4  aerofgtb    41401d63049c140e4254dc791022d85c44271390 
v3  131072  cbb18cf4  aerofgtb    7119a7536cf710660ff06d1e7d2879c79ef12b3d 
it-19-03  524288  85eba1a4  aerofgtb    5691a95d6359fdab29be0d615066370c2b856c0a 
it-19-02  524288  4f57f8ba  aerofgtb    aaad548e9a7490dfd48a975135716225f416b6f6 
it-19-04  524288  3b329c1f  aerofgtb    279cb32d69ce1e71f42cfad93d395794a3e92bc6 
it-19-05  524288  02b525af  aerofgtb    07f23d15938dfbdc4f0977ba1463a06090569026 
g27  262144  4d89cbc8  aerofgtb    93f248f3dc1a15c32d14a147b37d5d660d0e4337 
g26  262144  8072c1d2  aerofgtb    c14634f5f2686cf616f415d9ea4a0c6490054beb 
it-19-01  262144  6d42723d  aerofgt    57c59234e9925430a4c687733682efed06d7eed1 
it-19-06  1048576  cdbbdb1d  aerofgt    067c816545f246ff1fd4c821d70df1e7eb47938c 
cabinet art
cabinet aerofgt.png aerofgt.png
marquee aerofgt.png
control panel aerofgt.png
flyer aerofgt.png
PCB aerofgt.png
additional information
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 -
  1. Aero Fighters (1992)
  2. Aero Fighters 2 (1994)
  3. Aero Fighters 3 (1995)
  4. Sonic Wings Limited (1996)
  5. Aero Fighters Assault (1997, Nintendo 64)
  6. - 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.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=aero-fighters&page=detail&id=35&o=2
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code comments
00000000:C8B91:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00010000:C8B93:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits (2/2):For player 2 when "Coin Slot" Dip Switch set to "Individual"
60000000:00000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:C60DD:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:C06C0:00000010:00000010  Invincibility PL1
00000000:C60DF:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Smart Bombs PL1
62000000:00000:00000000:00000000  Select Fire Power PL1
00010000:C60E1:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Maximum Fire Power PL1
00010000:C60E1:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Absurd Fire Power PL1
60000000:00000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:C61DD:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:C0720:00000010:00000010  Invincibility PL2
00000000:C61DF:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Smart Bombs PL2
62000000:00000:00000000:00000000  Select Fire Power PL2
00010000:C61E1:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Maximum Fire Power PL2
00010000:C61E1:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Absurd Fire Power PL2
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