game
icon
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
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rating

65.5% after 18 votes
 
display
colour emulation good
palette 64
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 512x480
frequency 30.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 3
nplayers 3P sim
controls double 8 way joystick
buttons 0
coin slots 3
hardware
cpu Z80 @ 5MHz
cpu 68000 @ 8MHz
audio DAC
data
version added .056
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
pro-0.3b  32768  3ad94aa2  stargrds    1e17ac70fddee1f3d0dd71172e15a7a256168a70 
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 
cabinet art
control panel stargrds.png
additional information
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
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
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