Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)
Lunar Rescue is a combination 2-D simple flight simulator and 2-Dimensional shooter. You start the game by floating within your mother ship. You then either must release your lander or after a pre-determined period of time, the mother ship will forcibly eject it. You first have to navigate through six rows of asteroids to make it to one of the landing platforms. You have six platforms initially but each landing will eliminate one since there is one platform per astronaut you have to rescue. On your return trip up, the screen changes and now you have saucers trying to destroy you with laser fire. Again, you will either have three or six rows of saucers depending if there are meteors in the area. You then must successfully land in the docking bay of the mother ship to get credit for a successful rescue of one astronaut.
Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)
Télécharger Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)
Contents of the ROM :
Technical
CPU
- maincpu 8080 (@ 1 Mhz)
Display
- Orientation Tate
- Resolution 255 x 224
- Frequency 59.541985 Hz
Controlers
- Number of players 2
- Number of buttons 1
- Kind of controler joy (2 ways)
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Scoring for Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)
Large Saucer : 30 points
Small Saucer: 50 points
Platform : 50, 100, 150 points
Each man rescued has an increasing value until stage four where it is at its maximum. The values are :
Stage 1 : 50 points
Stage 2 : 100 points
Stage 3 : 150 points
Stage 4 : 300 points
Every stage after stage 4 is 300 points.
Fuel remaining is added to your score (i.e. if you have 560 Fuel left, then add 560 points to your score) at the end of a wave.
Small Saucer: 50 points
Platform : 50, 100, 150 points
Each man rescued has an increasing value until stage four where it is at its maximum. The values are :
Stage 1 : 50 points
Stage 2 : 100 points
Stage 3 : 150 points
Stage 4 : 300 points
Every stage after stage 4 is 300 points.
Fuel remaining is added to your score (i.e. if you have 560 Fuel left, then add 560 points to your score) at the end of a wave.
Tips on Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)
* When you start the game, your lander will be sitting in the docking bay of the mother ship. You can release your lander by pressing the firing button or wait until the mother ship forcibly ejects you. It's better to do it yourself lest the mother ship ejects you on top of an asteroid.
* Fuel is a precious commodity in this game, use it sparingly. You only have 800 units of fuel to rescue 6 men. If you burn all your fuel off on the first rescue, you will have nothing to fall back on for the other 5.
* When you leave the mother ship, try to navigate through the asteroids without using any fuel. Since your lander doesn't accelerate during the fall, you will be going at a constant speed down. Try to maneuver between the rocks to land on a platform. You also don't need to decelerate when landing, you just land.
* Try to knock out the harder platforms first. This mean that this is land on the harder to reach ones first on the sides. A good strategy is to get the right hand-one first, then the two left-hand ones, then finish by landing on the three in the middle.
* If you must use fuel, use quick bursts to get into position to land on a platform. Fuel burns up very quickly in this game so some quick shots to the thrusters should keep you out of trouble. Keep in mind, as the waves progress, the asteroids move faster and become more numerous.
* Once you've landed, the little guy will run over and get in your lander. The screen will then change and you will see 3 to 6 rows of saucers blocking your path. Again, as the waves progress, the saucers and meteors get faster and more numerous. There are a couple of different strategies for this section :
1) If you only see 3 lower rows of saucers, look to the upper right or left corner. More then likely, some meteors will be coming diagonally down to the opposite corner. The best solution is to quickly blast a path through the saucers and get above the meteors trajectory.
2) If you see 6 rows of saucers, then you need to blast a path through them to get to your mother ship. Keep in mind that the fire button acts as a dual fire/thrust button. When you fire, you accelerate yourself up just a bit. In other words, no point blank shooting or you may end up taking out the saucer with your lander. When you have cleared a path, use the fire button to get yourself quickly above the saucers.
* The saucers firing just drop their shots on you. Because of their numbers, you may find yourself surrounded by enemy fire. The best solution is again to blast a path through them. Once a saucer is destroyed, it doesn't come back. Also keep in mind that you can only have one shot on the screen at a time.
* Once you get 1 row from the bottom of the mother ship, it will stop and open its docking bay door. If you are too far away, you will fail to dock with the mother ship and get destroyed by the top of the screen. If you hit the side of the mother ship, the man you are rescuing will unfortunately fall from your lander to his death to the planet below. Plan out the best strategy to make sure that you stay in the middle so you can catch the mother ship with minimal effort.
* Fuel is a precious commodity in this game, use it sparingly. You only have 800 units of fuel to rescue 6 men. If you burn all your fuel off on the first rescue, you will have nothing to fall back on for the other 5.
* When you leave the mother ship, try to navigate through the asteroids without using any fuel. Since your lander doesn't accelerate during the fall, you will be going at a constant speed down. Try to maneuver between the rocks to land on a platform. You also don't need to decelerate when landing, you just land.
* Try to knock out the harder platforms first. This mean that this is land on the harder to reach ones first on the sides. A good strategy is to get the right hand-one first, then the two left-hand ones, then finish by landing on the three in the middle.
* If you must use fuel, use quick bursts to get into position to land on a platform. Fuel burns up very quickly in this game so some quick shots to the thrusters should keep you out of trouble. Keep in mind, as the waves progress, the asteroids move faster and become more numerous.
* Once you've landed, the little guy will run over and get in your lander. The screen will then change and you will see 3 to 6 rows of saucers blocking your path. Again, as the waves progress, the saucers and meteors get faster and more numerous. There are a couple of different strategies for this section :
1) If you only see 3 lower rows of saucers, look to the upper right or left corner. More then likely, some meteors will be coming diagonally down to the opposite corner. The best solution is to quickly blast a path through the saucers and get above the meteors trajectory.
2) If you see 6 rows of saucers, then you need to blast a path through them to get to your mother ship. Keep in mind that the fire button acts as a dual fire/thrust button. When you fire, you accelerate yourself up just a bit. In other words, no point blank shooting or you may end up taking out the saucer with your lander. When you have cleared a path, use the fire button to get yourself quickly above the saucers.
* The saucers firing just drop their shots on you. Because of their numbers, you may find yourself surrounded by enemy fire. The best solution is again to blast a path through them. Once a saucer is destroyed, it doesn't come back. Also keep in mind that you can only have one shot on the screen at a time.
* Once you get 1 row from the bottom of the mother ship, it will stop and open its docking bay door. If you are too far away, you will fail to dock with the mother ship and get destroyed by the top of the screen. If you hit the side of the mother ship, the man you are rescuing will unfortunately fall from your lander to his death to the planet below. Plan out the best strategy to make sure that you stay in the middle so you can catch the mother ship with minimal effort.
Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue) and M.A.M.E.
0.08 [Nicola Salmoria, Michael Strutts]
Artwork available
Samples required
NOTE:
- A free credit is awarded on the first docking of the first game.
WIP:
- 0.147u2: Changed description of clone 'Destination Earth' to 'Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)'.
- 0.146u5: Moon Lander color proms verified correct [Smitdogg, The Dumping Union].
- 0.146u1: hap added placeholder colormap roms to clone Moon Lander.
- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - Thanks to some great photos as Derek's Basement Arcade, I added in instruction cards to the bezels for Lunar Rescue.
- 2nd May 2009: Mr. Do - Antny did an awesome job on the really flaky Lunar Rescue artwork, which we had courtesy of the BYOAC/CAG artwork.
- 0.125u9: Gyrovision and David Haywood added clone Moon Lander (bootleg of Lunar Rescue).
- 0.123u1: RansAckeR added DIP locations for Lunar Rescue. Changed 'Unknown' to 'Unused' dipswitches.
- 0.113u2: Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz, visible area to 224x260 and VSync to 59.541985 Hz.
- 0.109u1: Robert correct samples being used in Lunar Rescue and clones. Replaced SN76477 sound with Speaker sound. Added samples (alienexplosion, rescueshipexplosion, beamgun, thrust, bonus2, bonus3.wav, shootingstar, stepl and steph.wav).
- 0.107: David Haywood added clone Lunar Rescue (Model Racing bootleg).
- 18th March 2006: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Lunar Rescue (Model Racing bootleg).
- 0.61: Changed palettesize back to 8 colors.
- 0.58: Changed palettesize from 8 to 32770 colors.
- 0.37b1: Added SN76477 sound (samples 0.wav and 10 - 18.wav are no longer needed).
- 0.36RC2: Zsolt Vasvari fixed colors in Lunar Rescue. Added color prom. Changed palettesize to 8 colors.
- 0.35b3: Changed description of clone 'Galaxy Rescue (bootleg?)' to 'Galaxy Rescue'.
- 0.34b8: David Winter added clone Galaxy Rescue (bootleg?).
- 0.25: Valerio Verrando fixed the Space Invaders driver to include high score saving and 100% arcade-perfect colors for Lunar Rescue; since some bootleg machines did not use this colorful overlay, Destination Earth retains the Space Invaders color scheme. Game is playable with accurate colors and sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Fire and T = Activate Tilt. Known issues: A free credit is awarded on the first docking of the first game.
- 0.08: Nicola Salmoria added Lunar Rescue (Taito 1979) and clone Destination Earth (bootleg 1979).
Other Emulators:
* AAE
* HiVE
* Laser
* Retrocade
* Sparcade
* Tickle
* VAntAGE
Romset: 13 kb / 7 files / 9.48 zip
Artwork available
Samples required
NOTE:
- A free credit is awarded on the first docking of the first game.
WIP:
- 0.147u2: Changed description of clone 'Destination Earth' to 'Destination Earth (bootleg of Lunar Rescue)'.
- 0.146u5: Moon Lander color proms verified correct [Smitdogg, The Dumping Union].
- 0.146u1: hap added placeholder colormap roms to clone Moon Lander.
- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - Thanks to some great photos as Derek's Basement Arcade, I added in instruction cards to the bezels for Lunar Rescue.
- 2nd May 2009: Mr. Do - Antny did an awesome job on the really flaky Lunar Rescue artwork, which we had courtesy of the BYOAC/CAG artwork.
- 0.125u9: Gyrovision and David Haywood added clone Moon Lander (bootleg of Lunar Rescue).
- 0.123u1: RansAckeR added DIP locations for Lunar Rescue. Changed 'Unknown' to 'Unused' dipswitches.
- 0.113u2: Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz, visible area to 224x260 and VSync to 59.541985 Hz.
- 0.109u1: Robert correct samples being used in Lunar Rescue and clones. Replaced SN76477 sound with Speaker sound. Added samples (alienexplosion, rescueshipexplosion, beamgun, thrust, bonus2, bonus3.wav, shootingstar, stepl and steph.wav).
- 0.107: David Haywood added clone Lunar Rescue (Model Racing bootleg).
- 18th March 2006: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Lunar Rescue (Model Racing bootleg).
- 0.61: Changed palettesize back to 8 colors.
- 0.58: Changed palettesize from 8 to 32770 colors.
- 0.37b1: Added SN76477 sound (samples 0.wav and 10 - 18.wav are no longer needed).
- 0.36RC2: Zsolt Vasvari fixed colors in Lunar Rescue. Added color prom. Changed palettesize to 8 colors.
- 0.35b3: Changed description of clone 'Galaxy Rescue (bootleg?)' to 'Galaxy Rescue'.
- 0.34b8: David Winter added clone Galaxy Rescue (bootleg?).
- 0.25: Valerio Verrando fixed the Space Invaders driver to include high score saving and 100% arcade-perfect colors for Lunar Rescue; since some bootleg machines did not use this colorful overlay, Destination Earth retains the Space Invaders color scheme. Game is playable with accurate colors and sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Fire and T = Activate Tilt. Known issues: A free credit is awarded on the first docking of the first game.
- 0.08: Nicola Salmoria added Lunar Rescue (Taito 1979) and clone Destination Earth (bootleg 1979).
Other Emulators:
* AAE
* HiVE
* Laser
* Retrocade
* Sparcade
* Tickle
* VAntAGE
Romset: 13 kb / 7 files / 9.48 zip
