Hammer Away PROTO found!

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Because this game was never sold no one on earth, except Sega, can claim to own a legal copy. Therefor this game cannot be played by anyone without both committing piracy and violating MAME's terms of use. Please lock thread.
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And call the Cyber Police !
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to whom it may concern,

i saw that Hammer Away was added to MAME v156 that was reelased a few days ago.
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It's been around and playable from a number of svn releases before 0.156

Protip to finding a 'rom': check the available games list in Mame, you will notice the rom name is also diplayed.
Then just write a '.zip' at the end of the name when you google it.

Anyway it's just a matter of days before various download places update their hosted romsets.
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Quite a few already have. That being said, it's a rather mediocre game, imo. The different buttons for ground and air shots is more tedious than anything.
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I was excited to try it after seeing the screenshots and reading the info, then I played it...
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Yeah, not surprising it did not ship, really.
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ptoing wrote:The different buttons for ground and air shots is more tedious than anything.
Assign both to one button. Problem solved! 8)
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ptoing wrote:Quite a few already have. That being said, it's a rather mediocre game, imo.
B-b-but... it's a rare shmup!
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ratsflif wrote:I was excited to try it after seeing the screenshots and reading the info, then I played it...
Udderdude wrote:
ptoing wrote:The different buttons for ground and air shots is more tedious than anything.
Assign both to one button. Problem solved! 8)
I'll try that out, though.

Also, was I the only one who saw the stage opening cinematic and went "great, my MAME revision is broken?"
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So, uh... somehow Galloping Ghost Arcade got a copy of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDzLLRt1s3I
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There've already been a ton of conversions made, doesn't surprise me at all.
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Ya know what .. that's pretty cool. >_>
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"only at the galloping ghost arcade" ... :roll:
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dink wrote:"only at the galloping ghost arcade" ... :roll:
......Aaaannnnd my house :lol:
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Thanks again for bringing us this great game, I just looped it - that last level was intense! :)
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dink wrote:Thanks again for bringing us this great game, I just looped it - that last level was intense! :)
Our pleasure :wink:

By the way, did you lost any life in the "airport track" near the end and experienced that kind of bug i mentioned before?
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_rm_ wrote:Our pleasure :wink:

By the way, did you lost any life in the "airport track" near the end and experienced that kind of bug i mentioned before?
I'm very sorry..I feel terrible - I totally forgot about this. :|

So, here we go again :) I got to the last level and made a savestate and tried it a few times in a few different places, and it appears that the bug doesn't happen here. If I die, it starts out slow, but it slowly goes back to fast speed, and the plane goes off (up) the screen, then my ship speeds up and passes the plane - which stays about mid-screen for a bit, then the game continues as normal.

bye for now & best regards,
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