Baryon Future Assault

This is a Semicom game from 1997, it runs on hardware which is very similar to their later release, Dream World, although in this case the sound hardware is inferior, it only has a single OKIM6295. (There seems to be game code to drive an additional one still present, but neither the chip, nor sample rom is on the PCB)

This, for a Korean shooter appears to be a rather ambitious project, lots going on, multiple weapon systems, upgrades, various rowscroll effects etc. Very uncommon for a Korean shooter.

The main weak point, is the sound, the sound hardware on the board isn’t very good at all, some of the graphics also look a bit rushed. Also using the laser weapon seems to require tapping the fire button at a ridiculous rate unless I’m missing something

Emulation might not be perfect yet, a few things still need verifying against the PCB before I submit. Also I’m primarily working in my own privately merged tree which means I can’t sync to the latest codebase until the various all.mak changes go in (which after much debate should be happening) so that could cause some delays too because that part is out of my hands.












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