game
icon
title Vs. Gradius
set name vsgradus
manufacturer Konami
year 1986
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Horizontal (hof)
driver status good
driver source vsnes.c
snapshots MW: in game / CT: in game | title / Mr. Do: artwork ( 1 ) / PS: in game | title
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rating

71.2% after 41 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 512
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu N2A03 @ 1.789772MHz
audio N2A03 @ 1.789772MHz
audio DAC
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data
version added .037b11
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
prg.u7  65536  d99a2087  vsgradus    b26efe78798453a903921723f3c9ac69f579b7d2 
chr.u4  65536  23cf2fc3  vsgradus    0a3f48aec529b92abc261952e632af7ff766b1ef 
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cabinet art
marquee vsgradus.png
control panel vsgradus.png
flyer vsgradus.png
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additional information
info 0.37b11 [Howie Cohen]

WIP:
  • 0.66: Added dipswitches 'Bonus' and 'Demo Sounds'.
  • 0.60: Added dipswitches 'Coinage', 'Lives' and 'Difficulty'.
  • 0.37b11: Howie Cohen added VS Gradius (Konami 1986).
  • 6th January 2001: Howie Cohen fixed several bugs in the VSNES driver and added RBI Baseball, VS Baseball and VS Mahjong.
  • 1st January 2001: Howie Cohen finally submitted the long awaited VSNES driver, with most of the games having correct colors and sound.
LEVELS: 7

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Romset: 128 kb / 2 files / 47.6 zip
history Vs. Gradius (c) 12/1986 Konami.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : N2A03 (@ 1.789772 Mhz)

Sound Chips : N2A03 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), DAC (@ 1.789772 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 64


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Licensed to Nintendo.


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.



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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:01A3:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00000000:0046:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Shields
20800000:B5C9:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
20910000:B692:00001090:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (2/4):1st = Enemy, 2nd = Fire
20910000:B6CE:00001090:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (3/4):Tentacle in Stage 5
20910000:B70D:0000B70F:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (4/4):Scenery
00000101:0040:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Select Speed Up Speed:Don't go too high!
00200000:03A6:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire
20800000:B502:00000060:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Penetrable Shot
20810000:B736:00000011:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Penetrable Shot (2/2)
20A00000:B567:00FA564C:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open:5000 pts & 1UP appears automatically
20810000:B592:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (02/10):1st = jmp $FA56, 2nd = bcs $B581 -> bcs $B593
20910000:FA56:000027C9:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (03/10):cmp #$27
20910000:FA58:000003D0:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (04/10):bne $FA5D
20A10000:FA5A:00B5884C:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (05/10):jmp $B588
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20910000:FA5F:000003D0:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (07/10):bne $FA64
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20A10000:FA64:000460BE:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (09/10):ldx $0460,y
20A10000:FA67:00B56A4C:FFFFFFFF  Auto Secret Items Open (10/10):jmp $B56A
00000000:0040:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Always have a Good Speed Up
00000000:0045:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Always have Full Options
00000000:0041:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always have Missile
00000000:0044:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always have Laser:You can't have Double then
00000000:0044:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Always have Double:You can't have Laser then
00000001:0040:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Get a Good Speed Up Now!
00000001:0045:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Get Full Options Now!
00000001:0041:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Get Missile Now!
00000001:0044:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Get Laser Now!:You can't have Double then
00000001:0044:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Get Double Now!:You can't have Laser then
00000001:0042:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Light Up Speed Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Light Up Missile Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Light Up Double Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Light Up Laser Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Light Up Option Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Light Up ? Button Now!
00000001:0042:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No button lit Now!
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:0020:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:0021:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
20800000:F47F:0000002B:FFFFFFFF  Skip ROM Check:It's better to use together with Pre-Enable
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