Hammer Away PROTO found!

[CIT]

What a find! You guys really struck gold. Thanks for the effort to conserve this, the game looks really cool; especially dig the dramatic attract mode, hehe.

[DoomsDave]

Great work guys, I love hearing about stuff like this. The game actually looks pretty good too.

[plasticxo]

Another amazing lost shmup story. You guys are the Indiana Jones of STGs.

Is this a game nobody ever heard of before or was it referenced somewhere as a lost shmup ?

[CIT]

As mentioned in this thread, it's been in MAME's undumped games list for a while, albeit with screenshots from a different version.

[rtw]

Did anybody else notice that HAMMER is built from the initials of the individuals listed on the "curtain" ?

[plasticxo]

As mentioned in this thread, it's been in MAME's undumped games list for a while, albeit with screenshots from a different version.

Oh thanks, sorry I did not get it.

[CIT]

Did anybody else notice that HAMMER is built from the initials of the individuals listed on the "curtain" ?

Cool find! I thought the title might be a reference to the game lacking autofire or something.

[_rm_]

i already visited the place in the past, around 2 years ago, but this time we had 6 eyes looking around and we checked every box and every cabinet.

this was a small op but the board came from an old and big (back in the day) op. They are already closed though...

Would it be okay in asking which city was this found?

Lisbon's district.

[_rm_]

Did anybody else notice that HAMMER is built from the initials of the individuals listed on the "curtain" ?

yup, i noticed but have no clue if it is game related or just an inside joke, like the Devs names or something.

[Imhotep]

some Infos about Megasoft / Santos:

http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Megasoft

[IseeThings]

wrote a bit on my site about it
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2014/11/0 ... hiyo-miho/

along with some additional emulation shots

hopefully makes the credit clear enough, if anybody wants me to correct anything just let me know.

[_rm_]

wrote a bit on my site about it
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2014/11/0 ... hiyo-miho/

along with some additional emulation shots

hopefully makes the credit clear enough, if anybody wants me to correct anything just let me know.

great reading material mate
i forgot to mention that even on real hardware the rom test fails. it test a couple of roms (some show as good other as bad) but then it simply "hangs" forever, you have to reset the game.

[IseeThings]

wrote a bit on my site about it
http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2014/11/0 ... hiyo-miho/

along with some additional emulation shots

hopefully makes the credit clear enough, if anybody wants me to correct anything just let me know.

great reading material mate
i forgot to mention that even on real hardware the rom test fails. it test a couple of roms (some show as good other as bad) but then it simply "hangs" forever, you have to reset the game.

yeah, same, all 4 roms fail (hardware can't read the gfx roms, so can only test the program) some rams pass quickly, then some others take a very long time (it does actually finish if you leave it for long enough!)

[ZacharyB]

Sounds like you guys saved this from the brink of extinction.

[cave hermit]

Great find guys! You guys are some real arcadeologists! (kill me)

Looking forward to seeing playable in MAME sometime in the future

I wonder why this never got released...

[dink]

This game is pure quality, been playing it quite a bit. Makes me wonder if its really a prototype or a location test as Ed Oscuro mentioned.

- FBA hippie

[Pretas]

I wonder why this never got released...

Like so many other canceled arcade games, it failed at location tests.

[Xyga]

Thumbs up for another great discovery guys !

How 'complete' is it ? (or feels)

[dink]

Its fully complete, I would even say its release-quality.

Thumbs up for another great discovery guys !

How 'complete' is it ? (or feels)

[Xyga]

De puta madre !

[_rm_]

It looks fully complete to me too, but i found something odd (could only play once until now, no time...) and would like to hear your input on this:

On the last level, when the images starts to "speed up" during the scene where the big plane takes off, i died once. After that, you respawn and go to the beginning of the landing track, but the screen is always at "normal speed" and the big plane is left behind. After this, you go for like 2 or 3 minutes with preety much nothing going on until you leave that track an enter the jungle area again and that's it, end of game and loop 2.

Did you experienced this?

[Macaw]

Is anyone able to share a build of mame with the game supported?

[DEL]

Macaw wrote:

Is anyone able to share a build of mame with the game supported?

The Handsome man has a good question.

[Ed Oscuro]

STGT-Next: New Games Edition

Can you feel it?

[Turrican]

Here's our GOTY

[BPzeBanshee]

Macaw wrote:

Is anyone able to share a build of mame with the game supported?

The Handsome man has a good question.

Here's one I made earlier. Also supports Noodlesoup Futanari Interracial version, just transplant the roms accordingly.

[cave hermit]

Also supports Noodlesoup Futanari Interracial version

Am I missing some sort of in-joke?

[BPzeBanshee]

Sorry, might've missed something when using Google Translate.

Here's a picture Dr Hazemeister made earlier (might not be safe for work):

[dink]

It looks fully complete to me too, but i found something odd (could only play once until now, no time...) and would like to hear your input on this:

On the last level, when the images starts to "speed up" during the scene where the big plane takes off, i died once. After that, you respawn and go to the beginning of the landing track, but the screen is always at "normal speed" and the big plane is left behind. After this, you go for like 2 or 3 minutes with preety much nothing going on until you leave that track an enter the jungle area again and that's it, end of game and loop 2.

Did you experienced this?

D'oh! I didn't get that far yet, I'll reply when I do

[Zeether]

This game feels like proto-Under Defeat with the left/right angling and the ground shots.