[MAME] FixEight (c)1992 Toaplan - with full sound emulation (and backgrounds)

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Published on January 22, 2011 9:34:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ijz3-7l_A4

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FixEight (1992)

Duration: 8:21

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Following on from Knuckle Bash, Dogyuun and V-Five, Robiza managed to decrypt the Sound CPU code for FixEight, which uses a different encryption table.

Previously only a bootleg was 'working' and that had vastly inferior sound hardware. (and a much lower CPU clock resulting in large slowdowns.

Unlike Toaplan's other games FixEight uses an EEPROM for settings / region selection, which caused a few additional issues

The Sound CPU in this instance also provides background data (they're contained scrambled in the program ROM, the V25 program descrambles them)

I don't think this is one of Toaplan's better games. It's meant as a followup to the excellent OutZone but the environments are too claustrophobic, and don't give you enough room to shoot. Coupled with some rather useless alternate weapons which just end up in a single direction, or simply hitting the level environment instead of your enemies and you have what can only be described as a frustrating experience. A Shame, because it's a very good looking game.

Note, the intro ONLY plays if the invincibility setting is set to ON. I don't know if this is because Toaplan decided to take the feature out of the game, or if there is another revision with this condition / bug fixed. The bootleg in MAME is the same.

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