MAWS - showing resource: alcon

title	Alcon
set name	alcon
manufacturer	Taito America Corp.
year	1986
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status	preliminary
driver source	slapfght.c
snapshots	MW: in game \| parent / CT: in game \| title \| parent / PS: in game \| title \| parent zoom
rating	70.4% after 39 votes
parent	Slap Fight (set 1)
other clones	Slap Fight (bootleg) Slap Fight (English bootleg) Slap Fight (Japan bootleg) Slap Fight (set 2)

colour emulation	good
palette	256
display type	raster
orientation	vertical
resolution	240x280
frequency	60.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

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

cpu	Z80 @ 6MHz
cpu	Z80 @ 3MHz
audio	AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz
audio	AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz

version added

.035rc1

last change(s)

none since version .53

roms

name	size	crc	set	flags	sha1
00	32768	2ba82d60	alcon		b37659aa18a3f96a3cc7fa93db2439f36487b8c8
01	32768	18bb2f12	alcon		7c16d4bbb8b5e22f227aff170e5e6326c5968968
sf_r05.bin	8192	87f4705a	slapfigh		a90d5644ce268f3321047a4f96df96ac294d2f1b
68705.bin	2048		slapfigh	no dump
04	8192	31003483	alcon		7014ceb6313ac5a3d2dcb735643dfd8bfabaa185
03	8192	404152c0	alcon		d05bc9baa1f336475fffc2f19f1018e9f0547f10
sf_r06.bin	32768	b6358305	slapfigh		c7bb4236a75ec6b88f011bc30f8fb9a718e2ca3e
sf_r09.bin	32768	e92d9d60	slapfigh		2554617e0e6615ca8c85a49299a4a0e762478339
sf_r08.bin	32768	5faeeea3	slapfigh		696fba24bcf1f3a7e914a4403854da5eededaf7f
sf_r07.bin	32768	974e2ea9	slapfigh		3840550fc3a833828dad8f3e300d2ea583d69ce7
sf_r03.bin	32768	8545d397	slapfigh		9a1fd5bfd8fb830b8e46643c08eef32ba968fc23
sf_r01.bin	32768	b1b7b925	slapfigh		199b0b52bbeb384211171eca5c50a1c0ebf6826f
sf_r04.bin	32768	422d946b	slapfigh		c251ef9597a11ec8de39be4fcbddaba84e649ef2
sf_r02.bin	32768	587113ae	slapfigh		90abe961494a1af7c87693a419fbabf7a58a5dee
sf_col21.bin	256	a0efaf99	slapfigh		5df01663480acad1f89abab8662d437617a66d1c
sf_col20.bin	256	a56d57e5	slapfigh		bfbd0db52b23fe1b4994e05103be3d412c1c013e
sf_col19.bin	256	5cbf9fbf	slapfigh		abfa58fa4e44ebc56f2e0fac9bcc36164c845fa3

cabinet	alcon.png slapfigh.png
marquee	alcon.png
control panel	slapfigh.png
flyer	alcon.png

info

0.33b2 [Keith Wilkins]

TODO:

Dump 68705 MCU. Only the bootlegs are working.

WIP:

0.123u1: Corrado Tomaselli corrected the clocks in Slap Fight. Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 3MHz.
0.104u9: David Haywood added clone Slap Fight (set 2) - dump labeled Alcon, but GFX in tile roms clearly read Slap Fight.
0.104u8: David Haywood added clone Slap Fight (bootleg).
12th September 2005: Guru - Slap Fight with a 68705 MCU arrived. Thanks to Tingoes.
16th April 2005: Guru - Alcon (with 68705P5, unfortunatley it's protected!) arrived. Thanks to the good boys at the Italian MAME Forum.
0.35RC1: Marco Cassili added clone Alcon. Not working due to protection.
0.34b4: Sebastien Chevalier improved music tempo in Slap Fight.
0.34b1: Christoff Feldtmann improved gfx in Slap Fight.
0.33b7: Keith Wilkins accurated colors in Slap Fight. Renamed (slapboot) to (slapbtjp) and (slpboota) to (slapbtuk).
0.33b2: Keith Wilkins added Slap Fight (Taito 1986) (preliminary) and clones (Japanese Bootleg) and (English Bootleg). Due to protection, the original version doesn't work. Scrolling is jerky. Music tempo is too slow. Use one of the bootlegs instead. The three games are identical, only the 1st CPU EPROM is different which shows up in the boot message, one if Japanese domestic and the other is English. The proms which MAY be the original slapfight ones currently give a hardware error and fail to boot.

LEVELS: 1 (endless)

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Romset: 347 kb / 17 files / 148 zip

history

Alcon (c) 1986 Toaplan.

Vertical scrolling shoot-em-up. Shoot ground targets and collect stars which can be exchanged for various power-ups. Fly over hi-tech landscape. Features end of level bosses, good sound and graphics.

- TECHNICAL -

Board Number : M6100186A

Prom Stickers : A77

Main CPU : (2x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 240 x 280 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1986.

Licensed to Taito for manufacture and distribution.

This game is known outside US as "Slap Fight".

'ALCON' stands for 'Allied League of Cosmic Nations'.

Gary Hatt holds the record for this game with 838,050 points on April 25, 1987.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Weapon descriptions :

Speed - This will increase your flying speed.

Shot - Normal forward fire.

Side - Right and left fire.

Wing - Double, triple and quadruple fire power.

Bomb - Wide range fire

Laser - Long range fire.

H. Mis - Homing missiles.

Shield - Indestructible against 3 hits.

* Super Power-Up : Insert your coin(s) and select one player mode. When you begin the game, do not press the fire button and do not kill anything. Try lasting as long as possible avoiding the ennmies' bullets. Your ship will eventually be destroyed and when you resume, you will have all power-ups and weapons. The longer you lasted before being destroyed, the further in the game you'll resume.

- STAFF -

Sound composer : Masahiro Yuge
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=alcon&page=detail&id=55&o=2

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 arcade-history.com
view in GameFAQs
view in KLOV
view in KLOV
view in System16
view in System16
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
view in VGMuseum Gamepics

cheats

code	comments
00000000:C189:00000005:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives
20800000:6959:00000018:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility:Doesn't give your wings Invincibility so use the 'Always have Full Wings' cheat for that!
00000000:C18F:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Always have One Star
00000000:C1DE:00000040:FFFFFFFF	Always have Side Arms
00000000:C1DC:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Always have Full Wings
00010000:C209:00000082:FFFFFFFF	Always have Full Wings (2/3)
00010000:C219:00000082:FFFFFFFF	Always have Full Wings (3/3)
00000000:C190:00000082:FFFFFFFF	Always have Shield
00010000:C1BF:00000007:FFFFFFFF	Always have Shield (2/2)
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000	Select Weapon
00010000:C1D7:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Bomb
00018000:C1DD:00000005:FFFFFFFF	Bomb (2/2)
00010000:C1D7:00000002:FFFFFFFF	Laser
00018000:C1DD:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Laser (2/2)
00010000:C1D7:00000003:FFFFFFFF	H Mis
00018000:C1DD:00000007:FFFFFFFF	H Mis (2/2)
00000001:C18F:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Now have One Star
00000001:C18F:00000002:FFFFFFFF	Now have Two Stars
00000001:C18F:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Now have Three Stars
00000001:C18F:00000004:FFFFFFFF	Now have Four Stars
00000001:C18F:00000005:FFFFFFFF	Now have Five Stars
00000001:C18F:00000006:FFFFFFFF	Now have Six Stars
00000001:C18F:00000007:FFFFFFFF	Now have Seven Stars
00000001:C18F:00000008:FFFFFFFF	Now have Eight Stars
00000000:C1D9:00000028:FFFFFFFF	Rapid Fire - Shot
00000000:C1DA:00000028:FFFFFFFF	Rapid Fire - Side Shot