MAWS - showing resource: moonwar

title	Moonwar
set name	moonwar
manufacturer	Stern
year	1981
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Flying (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	galdrvr.c
snapshots	MW: in game / CT: in game \| title / Mr. Do: artwork / PS: in game \| title \| scores zoom
rating	70.9% after 22 votes
clones	Moonwar (older)

colour emulation	good
palette	32
display type	raster
orientation	vertical
resolution	224x768
frequency	60.606061Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

players	2
nplayers	2P alt
controls	dial
buttons	3
coin slots	2

cpu	Z80 @ 3.072MHz
cpu	Z80 @ 1.78975MHz
audio	AY-3-8910A @ 1.78975MHz
audio	AY-3-8910A @ 1.78975MHz
audio	Discrete

version added

.034b01

last change(s)

none since version .53

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
mw2.2c	4096	7c11b4d9	moonwar	a27bdff6ce728647ec811df843ac235c32c293d6
mw2.2e	4096	1b6362be	moonwar	2fbd95869146adcc0c8be1df653251fda8849e8e
mw2.2f	4096	4fd8ba4b	moonwar	3da784267a96d05f66b00626a22cb3f06211d202
mw2.2h	4096	56879f0d	moonwar	d1e9932863aebc5761e71fca8d24f3c400e1250d
mw2.5c	2048	c26231eb	moonwar	5b19edfaefe1a535059311d067ea53405879d627
mw2.5d	2048	bb48a646	moonwar	cf51202d16b03bbed12ff24501be68683f28c992
mw2.5f	2048	c5fa1aa0	moonwar	6c6b5b2ce5de278ff436d3e7252ece5b086cc41d
mw2.5h	2048	a6ccc652	moonwar	286b3dc1f3a7da3ac66664e774b441ef075745f1
mw2.clr	32	99614c6c	moonwar	f068985f3c5e0cd88551a02c32f9baeabfd50241

cabinet	moonwar.png
marquee	moonwar.png
control panel	moonwar.png
flyer	moonwar.png
PCB	moonwar.png

info

0.34b1 [Brad Oliver]

WIP:

0.125u5: Couriersud moved Moonwar and clone Moonwar (older) to the Galaxian driver. Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors.
0.109: Changed palettesize to 99 colors (32 for characters, 64 for stars, 2 for bullets and 1 for bg).
0.53: Changed palettesize from 100 to 98 colors.
0.37b16: Changed description to 'Moonwar'. Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.
0.37b12: Changed description from 'Moon War II' to 'Moon War'. Renamed (moonwar2) to (moonwar) and (monwar2a) to (moonwara).
0.34b6: Nicola Salmoria added clone Moon War II (set 2). Input ports are wrong in (set 2).
0.34b1: Brad Oliver added Moon War II (Stern 1981).

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Romset: 25 kb / 9 files / 15.8 zip

history

Moonwar (c) 1981 Stern Electronics.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Sound Chips : (2x) AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 99

Players : 2

Control : dial

Buttons : 3

=> [A] FIRE, [B] WARP DRIVE, [C] SHIELDS

- TRIVIA -

Tracy Miller holds the official record for this game with 83,830 points.

- SCORING -

Satellite : 100 pts.

Fighter : 150 pts.

Bomber : 200 pts.

Strafer : 300 pts.

Tracer : 500 pts.

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Machine's picture.

Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=moonwar&page=detail&id=1671&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 GameFAQs
view in KLOV

cheats

code	comments
00000000:8744:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives
00000000:8758:00000099:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Fuel
00000000:875A:00000099:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Shields
20800000:0F05:000000C3:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility
20810000:173A:00000018:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility (2/2):Part 1 most collisons, Part 2 bullets