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title Storm Blade (US)
set name stmblade
manufacturer Visco
year 1996
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status imperfect
driver source ssv.c
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rating

69.7% after 55 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 32768
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 240x352
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu V60 @ 16MHz
audio ES5506 @ 16MHz
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data
version added .061
last change(s) none
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
sb-pd0.u26  1048576  91c4fbf7  stmblade    68e57ea2a9756a95a81c6688905352d631e9f2de 
s-blade.u37  524288  a6a42cc7  stmblade    4bff79ff03b81a7ed96d3ad285242580146976be 
s-blade.u33  524288  16104ca6  stmblade    63835051c358dce33d92974d1de911b98835a3d9 
sb-a0.u41  2097152  2a327b51  stmblade    fb1e92b7f740a80cb0c977e106d0c4bfee092dad 
sb-a1.u35  2097152  246f6f28  stmblade    09171f04452fbcf9e3333c135288fd6e5b8244f7 
sb-a2.u32  524288  2049acf3  stmblade    3982b4650921da0563336060887767627f8679ab 
sb-b0.u25  2097152  b3aa3e68  stmblade    990be5925b6c8c0d0e83ca9064425d93853fe206 
sb-b1.u21  2097152  e95b38e7  stmblade    9256f027e4c496e3bf96ecb65c0f3e69791e2755 
sb-b2.u18  524288  d080e620  stmblade    a262b42214c09fccb8f4878d8566e2acd87dbd23 
sb-c0.u11  2097152  825dd8f1  stmblade    39d32f54c97e21f92598442f05fd91ae2403a0d2 
sb-c1.u7  2097152  744afcd7  stmblade    db716a1a2ad5864ebdb4865430cb637fb94ed34f 
sb-c2.u4  524288  fd1d2a92  stmblade    957a8a52b79e252c7f1a4b6383107ae609dce5ef 
sb-snd0.u22  2097152  4efd605b  stmblade    9c97be105c923c7db847d9b9aea37025edb685a0 
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additional information
info 0.61 [Brian Troha]

WIP:
  • 0.139u3: Robiza fixed graphical corruption on left side of screen beginining stage 3 in Storm Blade.
  • 15th May 2005: Luca Elia - I finally got around to implementing proper shadows in SSV driver, replacing the hack that was there instead. The difference is most noticeable in Storm Blade. The way shadows work is this: The frame buffer is filled with 16 bit pens, that are indexes into the palette (i.e. the actual rgb colors), from the previously drawn, "normal" tiles. When a "shadowing" tile is drawn, it does not overwrite the contents of the frame buffer, but instead replaces the top bits of the pens there with the low bits of its pens. This results in a shift of the affected pixels from one section to another of the game's palette. The game has to just divide the palette into increasingly dark chunks of the same base colors. Some games do highlights this way, while Storm Blade again exploits the mechanism to cross-fade between graphics, which now works.
  • 0.68: Changed visible area to 240x344.
  • 26th January 2003: Brian Troha fixed various problems in the SSV driver, including sprite and tile offsets in Storm Blade.
  • 0.62: Changed visible area to 238x244.
  • 0.61: Brian Troha added Storm Blade (US) (Visco 1996).
  • 22nd May 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitches and inputs in Storm Blade, and Brian Troha fixed the screen size in it.
  • 21st May 2002: Brian Troha added Storm Blade to the SSV driver, and David Haywood fixed the graphics in it.
LEVELS: 6 (restarts once)

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Romset: 17920 kb / 13 files / 7.00 zip
history Storm Blade (c) 1996 Visco.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : V60 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound Chips : ES5506 (@ 16 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 240 x 344 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32768


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* Auto Fire : At the title screen, hold B and press Start, then choose any plane with the A button.


- STAFF -
  • Programmers : Nadu.S, N Joy and Cu, Manaby The Gambler
  • Graphic designers : Wep, Zero Nyan, Oda, Yayopin, Skip, Jack, Tuna, Hase Meg, Yukopon
  • Character designer : Tajiman
  • Music composer : Light Link Music
  • Producer : Tetsuo Akiyama
  • Director : Don Gabacho, Mr. Doo
  • * CAST :
  • Lucky : Shinichiro Miki
  • Alex : Kiyoyuki Yanada
  • Camel : Keiko Onodera
  • Kamikaze : Mahito Tsujimura
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=storm-blade&page=detail&id=2638&o=2
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