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title Hippodrome (US)
set name hippodrm
manufacturer Data East USA
year 1989
genre Fighter (hof)
category Fighter / Versus (hof)
driver status good
driver source dec0.c
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rating

67.3% after 35 votes
 
clones Fighting Fantasy (Japan revision 2)
Fighting Fantasy (Japan)
display
colour emulation good
palette 1024
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x240
frequency 57.410000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 5
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu 68000 @ 10MHz
cpu M6502 @ 1.5MHz
cpu HuC6280 @ 1.342325MHz
audio YM2203 @ 1.5MHz
audio YM3812 @ 3MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 1.023924MHz
data
version added .031
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
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ew05  65536  c76d65ec  hippodrm    620990acaf2fd7f3fbfe7135a17ac0195feb8330 
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ew11  65536  f2e007fc  hippodrm    da30ad3725b9bc4a07dbb1afa05f145c3574c84c 
ew06  65536  e4bb8199  hippodrm    49b5b45c7cd9c44f53d83ee2a156d9e9f8a53960 
ew07  65536  470b6989  hippodrm    16b292d8a3a54048bf29f0b4f41bb6ca049b347c 
ew17  65536  8c97c757  hippodrm    36fd807da9e144dfb29c8252e9450cc37ca2604f 
ew12  65536  a2d244bc  hippodrm    ff2391efc480f36a302650691f8a7a620b86d99a 
ew03  65536  b606924d  hippodrm    b759fcec10b333465cf5cd1b30987bf2d62186b2 
cabinet art
additional information
info 0.31 [Bryan McPhail]

WIP:
  • 21st April 2006: Roberto Fresca - Fixed 'Difficulty' dipswitches in Hippodrome. Changed "Enemy Power on Continue" options from "ON / OFF" to "3 Dots / 2 Dots" (dots left in the enemy power on continue).
  • 24th April 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed a bug which caused clone Fighting Fantasy to freeze.
  • 0.37b14: Added clone Fighting Fantasy (Japan revision 2). Renamed (ffantasy) to (ffantasa).
  • 24th March 2001: Bryan McPhail added another version of clone Fighting Fantasy to the Dec0 driver.
  • 0.37b6: Added new gfx4 roms for Hippodrome (US).
  • 4th April 2000: Karl Stenerud fixed a 6280 disassembler bug and he fixed the longstanding bug in C 68k core which caused Hippodrome to crash.
  • 0.36RC2: Exchanged ffantasy gfx1 roms ($0, 10000) with hippodrm.
  • 13th March 2000: Guru - Dumped Fighting Fantasy (Alt).
  • 23rd April 1999: Bryan McPhail updated the Hu6280 core and the Hippodrome and clone Fighting Fantasy drivers. Those two games now work fully.
  • 0.35b12: Byan McPhail emulated the protection in Hippodrome, which is now working 100%. Added H6280 (1342325 Hz) CPU3 and changed M6502 CPU2 clock speed to 1.5MHz.
  • 23rd April 1999: Bryan McPhail updated the Hu6280 core and the Hippodrome & Fighting Fantasy drivers. Those two games now work fully.
  • 0.34b3: Dani Portillo added hiscore save in Hippodrome.
  • 0.33b6: Marco Cassili added clone Fighting Fantasy.
  • 0.31: Bryan McPhail added Hippodrome (Data East 1989). Preliminary, missing scroll field and the game crashes if you fight 'Serpent' enemy. Maybe only with sound on?.
LEVELS: 8

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Romset: 1312 kb / 25 files / 498 zip
history Hippodrome (c) 1988 Data East.


The brave knight takes on a slew of medieval opponents. Money won during fights can be used to purchase fighter upgrades.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : 68000 (@ 10 Mhz), HuC6280 (@ 1.342325 Mhz)

Sound CPU : M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.757 Khz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 57.41 Hz

Palette colors : 1024


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in May 1988.


This game is known in Japan as "Fighting Fantasy".


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (G.S.M. Data East 1 - D25B1002) on 21/06/1989.


- UPDATES -


The US version had the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen in 1989.


- STAFF -
  • Game designers : Marcy Eiko, Dotman
  • Hardware : Darkness K.K
  • Programmers : Susan, Vince Y., TAC. H
  • Sounds : Azusa Hara (AZUSA), Hiroaki Yoshida (MARO), Hitomi Komatsu, Hiroyuki
  • Voices : Torba RR, Yuzi. S, Joe Kaminkow, Steve Walton
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • Nec Turbo Grafx 16 (1993)
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Machine's picture.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=hippodrome&page=detail&id=1127&o=2
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:FF87FD:00000059:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00010000:FF87FC:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/2)
00000001:FF87FD:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Stage Now!
00010001:FF87FC:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Stage Now! (2/2)
00000001:FF800D:00000008:FFFFFFFF  End the game next stage:Enable during play!
00000000:FF82F4:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always 1 hit to kill boss
00010000:FF8324:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Always 1 hit to kill boss (2/2)
00000001:FF82F4:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kill Boss with 1 hit Now!
00010001:FF8324:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kill Boss with 1 hit Now! (2/2)
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:FF805E:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:FF8032:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00010000:FF805C:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000001:FF8032:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1
20800000:013AB0:00000060:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1:Invincibility cheat ONLY works on VS CPU mode.
20910000:01D1CE:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1 (2/4)
20910000:01D26A:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1 (3/4)
20910000:01E2CA:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1 (4/4)
00000000:FF8052:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL1
00010000:FF8051:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL1 (2/3)
00010000:FF8050:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL1 (3/3)
00000000:FF805D:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Necklaces PL1
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000  These PL2 cheats are for a real player ONLY!!
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000  -----------------------------------------------
00000000:FF809E:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:FF8072:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00010000:FF809C:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000001:FF8072:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2
20800000:013AB0:00000060:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2:Invincibility cheat ONLY works on VS CPU mode.
20910000:01D4F8:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2 (2/4)
20910000:01D594:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2 (3/4)
20910000:01E42C:00004E71:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2 (4/4)
00000000:FF8092:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL2
00010000:FF8091:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL2 (2/3)
00010000:FF8090:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Gold PL2 (3/3)
00000000:FF809D:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Necklaces PL2
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