Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2)
Galaxy Wars is a 2-D shooter where you are given three missiles to shoot at two rows of alien ships at the top. Miniature rock-like satellites move around the screen, ready to obliterate your missile at any moment, and the ships themselves shoot at you.
Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2)
Technical
CPU
- maincpu 8080 (@ 1 Mhz)
Chipset
- SN76477
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)
Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2) Screenshots
Clones of Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2)
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Scoring for Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2)
1st rack : 50 (side hit), 100 (bottom, towards the side) or 150 (near middle of bottom) points for each ship.
2nd rack : 100 (side hit), 200 (bottom, towards the side) or 250 (near middle of bottom) points for each ship.
3rd rack : 150 (side hit), 300 (bottom, towards the side) or 350 (near middle of bottom) points for each ship.
You can probably figure the scores for higher racks from the patterns here.
2nd rack : 100 (side hit), 200 (bottom, towards the side) or 250 (near middle of bottom) points for each ship.
3rd rack : 150 (side hit), 300 (bottom, towards the side) or 350 (near middle of bottom) points for each ship.
You can probably figure the scores for higher racks from the patterns here.
Galaxy Wars (Universal set 2) and M.A.M.E.
0.53 [MASH]
0.08 [Nicola Salmoria, Michael Strutts]
Artwork available
Samples required (Invaders)
WIP:
- 0.147u2: Changed description of clone 'Star Wars' to 'Star Wars (bootleg of Galaxy Wars)'.
- 0.141u4: hap dedicated Galaxy Wars cabs are not b/w but have color maps for now, use proms from another game and mark sets as bad dump/wrong colors. Replaced DISCRETE sound with Invaders samples (1. - 9.wav) and proms ($0, 400).
- 0.133u1: Renamed (galxwar2) to (galxwars2) and (galxwart) to (galxwarst).
- 0.114u2: Replaced Samples sound with Discrete.
- 0.111u4: Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz.
- 16th October 2006: Mr. Do - Bobby Tribble sent me a BUNCH of photographs. I worked on the easy ones first: Galaxy Wars bezel.
- 0.53: MASH added Galaxy Wars (Universal set 1) and clone (Universal set 2). Changed 'Galaxy Wars' to clone 'Galaxy Wars (Taito?)'. Renamed (galxwars) to (galxwart).
- 30th April 2001: MASH and David Haywood added another Galaxy Wars romset.
- 0.37b1: Added SN76477 sound (samples 0.wav and 10 - 18.wav are no longer needed).
- 0.36b11: Added clone Star Wars (bootleg 1979).
- 0.29: Valerio Verrando added high score saving to Galaxy Wars.
- 0.08: Nicola Salmoria added Galaxy Wars (Taito 1979).
Other Emulators:
* HiVE
* Laser
* VAntAGE
Romset: 8 kb / 8 files / 5.45 zip
0.08 [Nicola Salmoria, Michael Strutts]
Artwork available
Samples required (Invaders)
WIP:
- 0.147u2: Changed description of clone 'Star Wars' to 'Star Wars (bootleg of Galaxy Wars)'.
- 0.141u4: hap dedicated Galaxy Wars cabs are not b/w but have color maps for now, use proms from another game and mark sets as bad dump/wrong colors. Replaced DISCRETE sound with Invaders samples (1. - 9.wav) and proms ($0, 400).
- 0.133u1: Renamed (galxwar2) to (galxwars2) and (galxwart) to (galxwarst).
- 0.114u2: Replaced Samples sound with Discrete.
- 0.111u4: Changed 8080 CPU1 clock speed to 1996800 Hz.
- 16th October 2006: Mr. Do - Bobby Tribble sent me a BUNCH of photographs. I worked on the easy ones first: Galaxy Wars bezel.
- 0.53: MASH added Galaxy Wars (Universal set 1) and clone (Universal set 2). Changed 'Galaxy Wars' to clone 'Galaxy Wars (Taito?)'. Renamed (galxwars) to (galxwart).
- 30th April 2001: MASH and David Haywood added another Galaxy Wars romset.
- 0.37b1: Added SN76477 sound (samples 0.wav and 10 - 18.wav are no longer needed).
- 0.36b11: Added clone Star Wars (bootleg 1979).
- 0.29: Valerio Verrando added high score saving to Galaxy Wars.
- 0.08: Nicola Salmoria added Galaxy Wars (Taito 1979).
Other Emulators:
* HiVE
* Laser
* VAntAGE
Romset: 8 kb / 8 files / 5.45 zip
