Title: Pulstar

Manufacturer: Aicom

Year: 1995

Hardware:

NEO-GEO System

Main Processor: MC68000 (16-bit, 12 MHz)

Sound Hardware: Z80 (8-bit, 6 MHz); YM2610

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Description

Side-view shoot 'em up.

This game is a remarkable piece of engineering, it must have required top programming from Aicom, the company who developed "Pulstar", to acomplish such a graphic quality on the primitive neogeo hardware system. There is also a 1998 sequel called "Blazing Stars", wich has the same graphic quality.

This game should receive no less than a 100% mark for graphics on any review.

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Emulation Status

Emulators: NeoRageX; MAME

Playable: Yes

Sound: Yes

Benchmark system: Intel Celeron - 433 MHz; S3 GX2 4 Mb AGP Videocard; Soundblaster 16; Win98; NeoRageX v0.6b

Benchmark results: 60 fps with tripple buffer on, vsync off, no frameskip; full screen interlaced mode

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Screenshots

Screenshots from MAME emulator

pulstar-02.png (10400 bytes) pulstar-03.png (18214 bytes)

pulstar-01.png (9405 bytes) pulstar-04.png (23445 bytes)

pulstar-06.png (20208 bytes) pulstar-05.png (16868 bytes)

pulstar-07.png (16490 bytes) pulstar-09.png (17922 bytes)

pulstar-08.png (19273 bytes) pulstar-10.png (19219 bytes)

pulstar-12.png (17054 bytes) pulstar-14.png (18379 bytes)


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