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title	Star Guards
set name	stargrds
manufacturer	Bally Midway
year	1987
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Field (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	mcr3.c
snapshots	MW: in game / CT: in game \| title zoom
rating	65.5% after 18 votes

colour emulation	good
palette	64
display type	raster
orientation	horizontal
resolution	512x480
frequency	30.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

players	3
nplayers	3P sim
controls	double 8 way joystick
buttons	0
coin slots	3

cpu	Z80 @ 5MHz
cpu	68000 @ 8MHz
audio	DAC

version added

.056

last change(s)

none

roms

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pro-1.5b	32768	dba428b0	stargrds	72efa2f02e95f05a5503ced136fbdf3fcdf57554
snd0.u7	32768	7755a493	stargrds	a888fba45a2a31de5b3082bfc5ccef94dafc4d16
snd1.u17	32768	d98d14ae	stargrds	51dbb97655ab8a389ca67f0e796ab57894f5bb32
bg-0.15a	32768	ecfaef3e	stargrds	145b0543552e678ef441e4a20afe80cd21e43cf6
bg-1.14b	32768	2c75569d	stargrds	13808ff0fdb413a4ac6ddef1422b86c118277899
fg-0.8e	65536	22797aaa	stargrds	806ea29f8a43f104d3154322f492e7fa053da751
fg-1.6e	65536	413fa119	stargrds	cb609db2e6694a5bb563afd6b28c19afe65a8487
fg-2.5e	65536	7036cfe6	stargrds	7778c5a8bf457ba0c1fa0e17978709e1f7ccb8a5
fg-3.4e	65536	cc5cc003	stargrds	afe8a0b0542c6f98de9386a07d6586af7de6bdf6

control panel

stargrds.png

info

0.56 [Aaron Giles]

Bugs:

1 player start , Coin 1 and Tilt are mapped twice and in dip switches just wondering why service mode is mapped twice ?? (ID 01708)

WIP:

0.98u1: Aaron Giles did some major cleanup on the MCR drivers: Implemented Super Sound I/O interrupts properly, filled out all memory maps according to schematics, fixed sound sync with various sound boards, allowing for kludges to be removed from Power Drive and Star Guards, re-verified all connections from wiring diagrams and documented various lamp and driver boards from the games.
0.56: Aaron Giles added Star Guards (Bally Midway 1987).
9th October 2001: Aaron Giles added Star Guards to the MCR3 driver and did some other cleanups and bugfixes.

PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

Collect energy to stay strong.
Destroy the most squad leaders to gain control of a star.
Gain control of four stars to earn new weapon.
Use button when lit to activate weapon.
Left Joystick moves. Right Joystick fires.
Fly togehter to explore the star sector.

LEVELS: 73 (endless)

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Romset: 448 kb / 10 files / 129 zip

history

Star Guards (c) 03/1987 Bally Midway.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware

Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 64

Players : 3
Control : Double 8-way joysticks

- STAFF -

Programmed by : Edward March Jr.
Screen graphics by : Scott Morrison
Special animation by : Robert Beech
Sounds by : Bob Libbe, Michael Bartlow
Cabinet art by : Paul Niemeyer
Support by : Dan Stern, Jim Belt, Bob Ploussard

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

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
view in System16

cheats

code	comments
00000001:E61D:00000000:FFFFFFFF	Finish this Star Now!
00000000:E00E:00000063:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Energy PL1
00000000:E037:00000063:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Energy PL2
00000000:E060:00000063:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Energy PL3