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title Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (World)
set name airbustr
manufacturer Kaneko (Namco license)
year 1990
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Horizontal (hof)
driver status good
driver source airbustr.c
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rating

74.5% after 50 votes
 
clones Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (bootleg)
Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (Japan)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 768
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x224
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
audio YM2203 @ 3MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 3MHz
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data
version added .061
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
pr12.h19  131072  91362eb2  airbustr    cd85acfa6542af68dd1cad46f9426a95cfc9432e 
pr13.l15  131072  13b2257b  airbustr    325efa54e757a1f08caf81801930d61ea4e7b6d4 
pr-21.bin  131072  6e0a5df0  airbustr    616b7c7aaf52a9a55b63c60717c1866940635cd4 
pr-000.bin  524288  8ca68f0d  airbustr    d60389e7e63e9850bcddecb486558de1414f1276 
pr-001.bin  524288  7e6cb377  airbustr    005290f9f53a0c3a6a9d04486b16b7fd52cc94b6 
pr-02.bin  65536  6bbd5e46  airbustr    26563737f3f91ee0a056d35ce42217bb57d8a081 
pr-200.bin  262144  a4dd3390  airbustr    2d72b46b4979857f6b66489bebda9f48799f59cf 
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cabinet art
cabinet airbustr.png airbustr.png
marquee airbustr.png
flyer airbustr.png
PCB airbustr.png
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additional information
info 0.61 [MASH]

0.35b12 [Luca Elia]

WIP:
  • 0.123u6: Zsolt Vasvari fixed Air Buster bootleg from reseting because of the watchdog.
  • 0.117: David Haywood moved "Pandora" sprite chip implementation to its own file. Updated Snow Bros, Air Buster, DJ Boy and Heavy Unit to use ths new generic implementation.
  • 0.111u1: David Haywood added clone Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (bootleg) and removed rom patches in the Air Buster driver and hooked up watchdog instead.
  • 0.108u3: Roberto Fresca added PORT_DIPLOCATION to Air Buster. Added 3x 'Unused' dipswitches.
  • 0.103u2: Various improvements to the Air Buster driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]. This fixed the sprite display bug (airbustr37b9gre).
  • 0.89u2: Changed description to 'Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit'.
  • 0.84u5: RND fixed YM2203 and MSM6295 balance.
  • 0.61: MASH added Air Buster (World). Renamed (airbustr) to (airbustj).
  • 4th June 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitch settings in the Air Buster driver.
  • 0.55: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 18181 Hz.
  • 4th May 1999: Luca Elia fixed name entering in the Air Buster high score screen.
- 0.35b12: Luca Elia added Air Buster (Kaneko 1990). TODO: The bankswitching registers bits 4&5 are used (any Z80). What for ? Is the sub cpu / sound cpu communication status port (0e) correct ? Main cpu: port 01 ? Sub cpu: ports 0x28, 0x38 ? Plus it can probably cause a nmi to main cpu. Incomplete DSW's. Spriteram low 0x300 bytes (priority?).
  • 27th April 1999: Luca Elia sent in an Air Buster driver.
LEVELS: 6

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Romset: 1728 kb / 7 files / 674 zip
history Air Buster - Trouble Specialty (c) 1990 Kaneko.


A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up game.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : (3x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 3 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 768


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in January 1990.

Licensed to Namco.


The second level of Air Buster was clearly the inspiration for the 3rd level of 'Turrican 2'.


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Air Buster - PCCB-00025) on 21/04/1990.


- STAFF -
  • Software : S. Igarashi (To-y), H. Takeuchi (Tiny-Tomo)
  • Graphics : K. Matsuoka, N. Obana, T. Konakawa
  • Hardware : H. Mikami, H. Nagayoshi
  • Music composed by : Tatsuya Watanabe
  • Sound operate : S. Aizu
  • Test game : F. Komori, K. Niihara, T. Okamoto
  • Total coordinate : S. Igarashi (To-y)
  • General producer : Hiroshi Kaneko
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • Nec PC Engine (1990, "Aero Blasters")
  • Sega Mega Drive (1991, "Aero Blasters")
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Machine's picture.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=air-buster-trouble-specialty&page=detail&id=43&o=2
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:F000:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:F007:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:C840:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1
00000000:E667:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Maximum fire power PL1
00000000:E666:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always no extra weapons PL1
00000000:E666:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always have Side shot PL1
00000000:E666:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Always have Rear shot PL1
00000000:E666:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Always have 6-way PL1
00000000:E666:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Always have Powerball PL1
00000000:E666:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Always have B PL1
00000000:E666:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Always have R Missiles PL1
00000000:E666:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Always have G Missiles PL1
00000001:E666:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No extra weapon Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Get Side shot Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Get Rear shot Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Get 6-way Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Get Powerball Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Get B Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Get R Missiles Now! PL1
00000001:E666:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Get G Missiles Now! PL1
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:F008:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:C848:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2
00000000:E67B:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Maximum fire power PL2
00000000:E67A:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always no extra weapons PL2
00000000:E67A:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always have Side shot PL2
00000000:E67A:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Always have Rear shot PL2
00000000:E67A:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Always have 6-way PL2
00000000:E67A:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Always have Powerball PL2
00000000:E67A:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Always have B PL2
00000000:E67A:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Always have R Missiles PL2
00000000:E67A:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Always have G Missiles PL2
00000001:E67A:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No extra weapon Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Get Side shot Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Get Rear shot Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Get 6-way Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Get Powerball Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Get B Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Get R Missiles Now! PL2
00000001:E67A:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Get G Missiles Now! PL2
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