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title	Omega
set name	omega
manufacturer	bootleg?
year	????
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Gallery (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	galdrvr.c
snapshots	MW: in game \| parent / CT: in game \| title \| parent / PS: in game \| title \| scores \| parent zoom
rating	67.5% after 18 votes
parent	The End
other clones	The End (Stern)

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	2 way joystick
buttons	1
coin slots	2

cpu	Z80 @ 3.072MHz
audio	Samples

version added

.053

last change(s)

none since version .53

roms

name	size	crc	set	flags	sha1
omega1.bin	2048	fc2a096b	omega		071ff30060a1aa0a47ae6e88140b80caed00fc4e
omega2.bin	2048	ad100357	omega		7c5e82c25e65b4a390cf5607f15bf4df407f7f11
omega3.bin	2048	d7e3be79	omega		ffa228043c6c717bee8bbec16432dcfe2e348aef
omega4.bin	2048	42068171	omega		940ca30a5772940b8a437498d22c6121482b38e6
omega5.bin	2048	d8a93383	omega		5f60f127360b14206d4df638e528bf961049e37d
omega6.bin	2048	32a42f44	omega		94f458997ec279dce218a17b665fa8c46067e646
omega1h.bin	2048	527fd384	omega		92a384899d5acd2c689f637da16a0e2d11a9d9c6
omega1k.bin	2048	36de42c6	omega		6fd93d439e3b8eab62049f925d9e8f8deeda2ae3
6331-1j.86	32		omega	no dump

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

info

0.36b8 [Chackn]

0.15 [Ville Laitinen, Nicola Salmoria]

0.05 [Nicola Salmoria]

Bugs:

theend, theends: Right at the start of a game the mothership flickers for a brief moment. Follow-up by Tafoid in 0.115u3: theends (The End - Stern) also exhibits this bug.. if it is an original game bug. I'm not entirely sure. Frotz (ID 00252)

WIP:

0.124u1: Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors. Aaron Giles fixed screen is vertically offset in clone Omega.
0.53: Added clone Omega (bootleg?). Changed palettesize from 100 to 98 colors.
6th June 2001: Zsolt Vasvari added Omega to the Galaxian driver thanks to the help of Phil Murray.
0.36b8: Chackn added 'The End' (Konami 1980). Renamed (theend) to (theends).
25th October 1999: Chackn added another 'The End' romset.
0.33b4: Nicola Salmoria fixed The End hiscore save.
0.28: Mike Balfour added hiscore save in 'The End'.
0.15: Sound support in 'The End'.
0.12: Ville Laitinen pointed out that The End runs on Scramble hardware, so it now uses the same driver. He also fixed problems with the input controls and two players modes.
0.05: Nicola Salmoria added 'The End' (wrong colors, no sound). Nicola haven't yet had time to check what the various input bits and dipswitches do. Two players are not supported. The star background is probably not entirely accurate. Also, maybe it should be clipped at the top and bottom of the screen? Bullets are wrong.

Other Emulators:

Laser (?)
Retrocade
Sparcade
Tickle
VAntAGE

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Zero Hour

Altair

Astro Blaster

Black Hole

Challenger

Cosmos

Laser Battle

Moon Shuttle

Red Clash

Space Cruiser

Spiders

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Astro Chase (Max-A-Flex)

Azurian Attack

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Gyruss

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Saturn

Flower

Halley's Comet

Sky Fox

Romset: 21 kb / 11 files / 13.0 zip

history

Omega (c) 198?.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : Tone generator, discrete circuits

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 98

Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick

Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

This game is a bootleg of "The End".

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Machine's picture.

Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=omega&page=detail&id=1878&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 System16
view in System16
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
view in VGMuseum Gamepics
view in VGMuseum Gamepics
view in VGMuseum Gamepics

cheats

code	comments
00000000:4002:00000063:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
00000000:411D:00000006:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives
00000000:4116:00000030:FFFFFFFF	Eggs don't reappear
00000000:4200:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility
00000000:427C:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Autofire Mode "ON"