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title Moon War (Moon Cresta bootleg)
set name mooncmw
manufacturer bootleg
year ????
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Gallery (hof)
driver status good
driver source galdrvr.c
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rating

58.5% after 16 votes
 
parent Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu)
other clones Eagle (set 1)
Eagle (set 2)
Eagle (set 3)
Fantazia (bootleg?)
Moon Cresta (bootleg set 1)
Moon Cresta (bootleg set 2)
Moon Cresta (bootleg set 3)
Moon Cresta (Galaxian hardware)
Moon Cresta (Gremlin)
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, old rev)
Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, unencrypted)
Space Dragon (Moon Cresta bootleg, set 1)
Space Dragon (Moon Cresta bootleg, set 2)
Space Thunderbird
Super Moon Cresta
display
colour emulation good
palette 32
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x768
frequency 60.606061Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 2 way joystick
buttons 1
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu Z80 @ 3.072MHz
audio Samples
data
version added .118u6
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
60.1x  2048  322859e6  mooncmw    292dccb66c38c8de837ec3ac10928d092494958e 
61.2x  2048  c249902d  mooncmw    0015461173fb991fd99c824e0eab054c3c17d0f1 
62.3x  2048  29a2b0ab  mooncmw    e9fc7161d0566e36307c45b7132e2262c0af4845 
63.4x  2048  4c6a5a6d  mooncmw    366516f63c9b5239e703e4dfb672659049ddbf44 
64.5x  2048  06d378a6  mooncmw    99dbe9fc7f95f8fdce86eb5c32bd1ca1bea0ca3c 
65.6x  2048  6e84a927  mooncmw    82e8e825d157c3c947a3a222bca059a735169c7d 
66.7x  2048  f23cd8ce  mooncmw    a77e7eca239de6a72a8cabed6444ae8efb9e40bd 
67.8x  2048  66da55d5  mooncmw    39e2f6107e77ee97860147f64b9673cd9a2ae612 
68.1h  4096  78663d86  mooncmw    8648a3e60259404a05ad58b1641190e5b33a24eb 
69.1k  4096  162c50d3  mooncmw    67d9c87782cf29c443590d7ad687fbeaa6218346 
prom-sn74s288n-71.6l  32  6a0c7d87  mooncrst    140335d85c67c75b65689d4e76d29863c209cf32 
cabinet art
additional information
info 0.09 [?]

0.05 [Nicola Salmoria, Robert Anschuetz]

NOTE:
  • Clone smooncrs: This set (unlike the other eight clones) does not make use of the keys for player 2. Not a bug, the game ALWAYS checks the inputs from player 1 (even in "cocktail" mode) due to game Z80 code at 0x2b1c and 0x3306. stephh (ID 01299)
Bugs:
  • Clones mooncrgx, mooncrsb, mooncrs2: The demo sequence is way out in left. Fujix (ID 00447)
  • Clones mooncmw, spcdraga, mooncrgx: Corrupt graphics on 3rd and 4th stages. Robbbert (ID 02072)
  • Clone mooncrgx: Sprite cutoff in cocktail mode incorrect. Robbbert (ID 02074)
  • Side-byside test. Gary Walton (01666)
  • Clone smooncrs: In cocktail mode you cant see player 2's shots and enemies bullets go in other direction then your ship but they seem to hit you anyway. Gmitra (ID 00451)
  • Clone smooncrs: From when you start the emulation to when you lose your 1st life, a strange insectoid rumbling noise is heard, does not occur in any of the other clones. Fever (ID 00449)
WIP:
  • 0.127u2: MikeDX fixed duplicated Cabinet dipsetting in clone Moon Cresta (Galaxian hardware).
  • 0.125u7: Couriersud fixed corrupted enemies in 3rd + 4th Wave.
  • 0.118u6: David Haywood added clone Moon War (Moon Cresta bootleg).
  • 0.118u1: Fixed dipswitches in clone Moon Cresta (bootleg set 3), Super Moon Cresta and Space Dragon.
  • 0.117u1: David Haywood added clones Space Dragon (Moon Cresta bootleg, set 1) and (Moon Cresta bootleg, set 2). The boards were marked 'Space Dragon' although this doesn't appear in the games.
  • 0.105u3: Brian Troha added clone Moon Cresta (bootleg set 3). All Moon Cresta versions use now prom mmi6331.6l (same CRC as l06_prom.bin).
  • 0.87u2: Chaneman added clone Eagle (set 3).
  • 22nd January 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added the color PROM to clone Fantazia.
  • 16th January 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the graphics in the later levels in clone Space Thunderbird.
  • 0.78u3: Added clone Space Thunderbird (Fortrek 1981?).
  • 11th January 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Space Thunderbird (an alternate version of Moon Cresta) to the Galaxian driver.
  • 0.61: MASH added clone Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, unencrypted).
  • 0.59: Added clone Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu, old rev).
  • 3rd March 2002: Guru added an alternative version of Moon Cresta to the Galaxians driver.
  • 22nd January 2000: Zsolt Vasvari fixed the speed of Moon Cresta.
  • 24th November 1999: Tatsuyuki Satoh added more accurate noise sound to the Moon Cresta sound emulation.
  • 23rd November 1999: Juergen Buchmueller fixed some problems with the new Moon Cresta sound emulation.
  • 22nd November 1999: Juergen Buchmueller modified the way in which mooncrst sound is generated.
  • 0.35: Added clone Super Moon Cresta.
  • 0.35b12: Zsolt Vasvari added clone Moon Cresta (bootleg set 2).
  • 27th April 1999: Zsolt Vasvari added an earlier Moon Cresta romset to the driver.
  • 0.35b11: Marco Cassili added clone Eagle (set 2).
  • 9th April 1999: Marco Cassili added an Eagle clone, a Zaxxon clone and a Mr. Do! Run Run clone.
  • 0.34b8: Barry Rodewald fixed clone Moon Cresta (bootleg on Galaxian hardware).
  • 0.33b7: Nicola Salmoria added clone Moon Cresta (bootleg on Galaxian hardware). Moon Cresta uses the original gfx ROMs, fixing graphics glitches on the title screen.
  • 0.33b5: Nicola Salmoria attempt at making the main Galaxian / Moon Cresta sound channel more accurate.
  • 0.31: Al Kossow added clone Eagle (Centuri 1980).
  • 0.29: Valerio Verrando added clone Moon Cresta (Gremlin).
  • 0.28: Merged mooncrst, moonqsr and scramble vidhrdw into the new Galaxian driver.
  • 0.27: Exchanged the infamous two sprite banks in Moon Cresta.
  • 0.25: Robert Anschuetz provided infos about how to enable a shot sample with Moon Quasar, Moon Cresta, Galaxian and clones. Found the meaning of SW1 in Moon Cresta (Thanks to Mikiya Yadohisa).
  • 0.19: Changed noise_length and noise_rate values in Moon Cresta audio driver, so now noise is much more noisier!
  • 0.18: Nicola added some lousy noise to Moon Cresta.
  • 0.16: Added clone Fantazia (bootleg). The highscore should show Gremlin logo. But probably available rom images are corrupted. Not playable yet!
  • 0.15: Hiscore save in Moon Cresta.
  • 0.12: Gary Walton confirms that the colors in Moon Cresta and Moon Quasar are 100% accurate. Very good!
  • 0.09: Added Moon Cresta (Nichibutsu). These ROMs are encrypted, and slightly different from the other version. This is very likely the version Chuck Cochems remembers (with aliens teleporting right in front of your ship). Nicola renamed the other version (which looks like a mix of the code from a bootleg version and the graphics from the Gremlin original version) "mooncrsb".
  • 0.06: Nicola Salmoria added star background in Galaxians & co. The way Nicola calculate it is probably not correct, anyway it looks reasonable.
  • 0.05: Nicola Salmoria added Moon Cresta (bootleg 1980) (wrong colors, limited sound). Only one sound channel is emulated and the game has no star background. Infos from Robert Anschuetz (Arcade emulator). Some info on Moon Cresta taken from Arcade Emulator by Robert Anschuetz.
LEVELS: 10 (endless)

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Romset: 25 kb / 13 files / 16.2 zip
history Moon War (c) 1981 Unknown.


- TRIVIA -


This game is a bootleg of "Moon Cresta".


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.



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cheats
cheats
code comments
20800000:2124:000000C9:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
20810000:257C:000000C3:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (2/2):1st = Object, 2nd = Docking
00100000:8230:00000999:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Docking Time
20800100:340B:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Select Bullet Speed
00000000:8234:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire
00000000:8140:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship:Best used with Invincibility, enable it as the full ship starts to move up the screen at the start of the game for the best effect
00010000:8143:000000C2:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship (2/6)
00010000:8145:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship (3/6)
00010000:8148:000000C8:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship (4/6)
00010000:814A:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship (5/6)
00010000:814D:000000D8:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Full Size Ship (6/6)
00000001:823C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish Current Round Now!:Use this with an activation key for best effect
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