Hammer Away PROTO found!
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Hammer Away PROTO found!
Me and a couple of friends discovered this lost Sega tate Shmup.
My friend opened a thread @Neo Geo http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthrea ... ost3807827"
Feel free to ask any questions
FIRST EVER video recorded of the actual game -
PS - My nickname on other forums is _rm_
PPS - I've inserted the youtube link wrong,please help me out
My friend opened a thread @Neo Geo http://www.neo-geo.com/forums/showthrea ... ost3807827"
Feel free to ask any questions
FIRST EVER video recorded of the actual game -
PS - My nickname on other forums is _rm_
PPS - I've inserted the youtube link wrong,please help me out
Last edited by FrancoB on November 2nd, 2014, 11:37 am, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Fixed YT link. You just need to paste the code after the v= in the url into the [youtube] tags.
Reason: Fixed YT link. You just need to paste the code after the v= in the url into the [youtube] tags.
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Yup. I already ended 1st loop, after that you get back to the start, don't know yet how many loops it has.emphatic wrote:Cool, is it fully working?
I've just recoreded a video with gameplay, should be online soon.
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
So, is it a three button game? Air to air, air to ground and smart bomb?
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Amazing that this sort of stuff is still found, and thanks a lot for getting it into MAME eventually!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Exactly like that.emphatic wrote:So, is it a three button game? Air to air, air to ground and smart bomb?
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
The roms were already released to the MAME team, when they will become public is beyond us right now. i know that the information will also be published at Haze's blog - http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/"arcnl wrote:Amazing that this sort of stuff is still found, and thanks a lot for getting it into MAME eventually!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Very nice!
Q: Was it encrypted?
Q: Any pics of the pcb/romboard/cpu?
Q: Where was this found!? Amazing find!
Q: Was it encrypted?
Q: Any pics of the pcb/romboard/cpu?
Q: Where was this found!? Amazing find!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
There's a link on the first post. Check it out.Asure wrote:Very nice!
Q: Was it encrypted?
Q: Any pics of the pcb/romboard/cpu?
Q: Where was this found!? Amazing find!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
it had no encryption, since this is an unreleased game i guess it never reached that state.Asure wrote:Very nice!
Q: Was it encrypted?
Q: Any pics of the pcb/romboard/cpu?
Q: Where was this found!? Amazing find!
Casebres aka 1up posted a couple pics in the thread on the 1st post link. I'm on the mobile phone right know, can't repost the puctures...
It was found in an old Arcade warehouse here in Portugal
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Can anyone hazard a guess as to why a Japanese language prototype board was found in a random warehouse in Portugal?
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
The humble shooting game. Like bacon, is there anything it can't do?
Awesome story and find!
Awesome story and find!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
Here are the picture taken by casebres
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I'm so glad this has been dumped. Great job!
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
With a name like that it can't possibly have autofire.
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Re: Hammer Away PROTO found!
But it does,lol.theman wrote:With a name like that it can't possibly have autofire.
"B" button, the ground attack, has autofire always enabled.