game
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title Armed Formation
set name armedf
manufacturer Nichibutsu
year 1988
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status good
driver source armedf.c
snapshots MW: in game / CT: in game | title / EJ: in game / PS: in game | title | scores
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rating

64.5% after 23 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 2048
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 240x320
frequency 57.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu 68000 @ 8MHz
cpu Z80 @ 3.072MHz
audio YM3812 @ 4MHz
audio DAC
audio DAC
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data
version added .035b11
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
af_06.rom  65536  c5326603  armedf    135a8d96d792cf9b55e39e21160ee419be76d28a 
af_01.rom  65536  458e9542  armedf    22e4281eaac6b9b04af324cc96b5f3e4d1cefe43 
af_07.rom  65536  cc8517f5  armedf    93e4d3707a48551af89cadd0e016ddb65285a005 
af_02.rom  65536  214ef220  armedf    0c32349afc31fbcd825695679540a024f1e1acb2 
af_08.rom  65536  d1d43600  armedf    1a473b4958a02a33c0a02e7e72a70a9ee0c68c50 
af_03.rom  65536  bbe1fe2d  armedf    f47be23c7564b106d636d49d5f1da47daecd31df 
af_10.rom  65536  c5eacb87  armedf    33af84b48fbda26729975b02cfb70f23c0bce6a2 
af_09.rom  32768  7025e92d  armedf    e590682092c25bbfb674afeccbfc0e613c51d188 
af_04.rom  65536  44d3af4f  armedf    0c2cb54357c314e43cec6f959fe9d4a2c8bc8834 
af_05.rom  65536  92076cab  armedf    f47424817373a6735da2b2049b53da5b38178cec 
af_14.rom  65536  8c5dc5a7  armedf    758140ddb9e60fb3950fe58bf53c7aea769a1a94 
af_13.rom  65536  136a58a3  armedf    5481e3ce404881a0470f8740f0de6e42283bedf2 
af_11.rom  131072  b46c473c  armedf    d8573225e2d8b133b3bdd4fa5a12d445c71d5e0e 
af_12.rom  131072  23cb6bfe  armedf    34cb013827206bea71f5336b308ba92bee688506 
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cabinet art
flyer armedf.png
PCB armedf.png
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additional information
info 0.35b11 [Carlos A. Lozano, Phil Stroffolino]

Bugs:
  • DAC chip playing Orchestra Hit Sample too low. vidpro1 (ID 02080)
WIP:
  • 0.124u3: Aaron Giles merged memory maps for Armed Formation drivers.
  • 0.124u2: Improved sound balance in Armed Formation [MAMEPlus].
  • 0.115u2: Fixed volume of the 2x DAC sound.
  • 28th October 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitches in the Armed Formation driver.
  • 0.37b8: Changed visible area to 240x320.
  • 0.36b7: Changed VSync to 57Hz.
  • 0.36b4: Changed visible area to 240x304.
  • 0.35b11: Carlos A. Lozano and Phil Stroffolino added Armed Formation (Nichibutsu 1988).
  • 15th April 1999: Marco Cassili fixed the Armed Formation dips, and Jim Hernandez fixed the sound frequency.
  • 13th April 1999: Carlos Alberto Lozano Baides sent in the Nichibutsu games Armed Formation and Terra Force drivers, which are pretty much working now.
  • 28th March 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a tilemap update and a preliminary Armed Formation and Terra Force driver by Carlos and him.
LEVELS: 7

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Romset: 992 kb / 14 files / 383 zip
history Armed Formation (c) 1988 Fillmore / Nichibutsu.


A vertically scrolling shoot'em up.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 4 Mhz), (2x) DAC (@ 4 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels

Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz

Palette colors : 2048


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 3


- TRIVIA -


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Armed F, Crazy Climber 2 - PCCB-00020) on 21/02/1990.


- STAFF -
  • Director : Takanori Tanaka
  • Planner : Tomoaki Kabayashi
  • Main programmer : Shinya Okuda
  • Programmers : Osamu Tomiyama, Satoshi Fujiwara
  • Main designers : Hisaya Tsutsui, Shinji Kubota
  • Designer : Takanori Tanaka
  • Musician : Takeshi Yoshida
  • Hard enginner : Isao Shiki
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • NEC PC-Engine (1990)
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=armed-formation&page=detail&id=111&o=2
resource links view in MAWS
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view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
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view in MamEnd
view in VGMuseum Game Endings
view in VGMuseum Gamepics
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:611A6:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
20900000:06FBE:00004E75:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
20910000:09A14:00006066:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (2/2)
00000000:63C52:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite polymorphs:Get the F first
00000000:63C47:000000F8:FFFFFFFF  Infinite polymorph time
00000001:63C46:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No more morph time
00010001:63C47:00000001:FFFFFFFF  No more morph time (2/2)
00000000:63970:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Maximum speed
00000000:63C4A:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Maximum fire power
00200000:61001:00000000:00100010  Rapid Fire - Normal:Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00200000:61001:00000000:00100010  Rapid Fire - Special:Turn it OFF on the name entry screen
00010000:61108:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire - Special (2/5):Fighter - 1P
00010000:61128:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire - Special (3/5):Fighter - 2P
00010000:61529:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire - Special (4/5):Right Option
00010000:61569:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire - Special (5/5):Left Option
  These extra weapon cheats
  require you to have any
  extra weapon first!
00000000:63C48:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon always Laser
00000000:63C48:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon always Bomb
00000000:63C48:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon always Cutter
00000000:63C48:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon always Homing
00000001:63C48:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon = Laser Now!
00000001:63C48:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon = Bomb Now!
00000001:63C48:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon = Cutter Now!
00000001:63C48:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Extra weapon = Homing Now!
60000000:00000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:61106:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:61126:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
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