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February 2, 2014 Haze Categories: General News. 8 Comments on Aaarghcadia

Yesterday marked the final Unigame meeting, there were less boards available to dump this time around, but one that did get dumped was the often mentioned ‘Aaargh’ by Arcadia Systems.

This game is slightly unusual in that it doesn’t use the Arcadia bios, the rom board plugs straight into the Amiga motherboard meaning it can’t be used in a multi-game setup. Other than that it’s a similar deal to the rest, same type of encryption, similar memory mappings, the same I/O etc. It took a little bit of time to figure out (mainly because I hadn’t realised it didn’t work on a multi-game setup) but with everything hooked up it appears to play fine.

This just leaves ‘Pool’ and ‘Rockford’ in the list of ‘known but undumped’ titles in the Arcadia driver. Hopefully they’ll surface one day.

Thanks to Unigame for allowing this to be dumped


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Guesting some of those doesn’t use BIOS. Have you try run a few of those games without a BIOS? Maybe that is a option to pick to run from. Just wondering.

I’m so psyched to see this game! I haven’t been this pumped up about a new MAME entry in a very long time. Never knew there was an Arcade release, and was only familiar with playing it on a Tandy 1000 back in the mid-late 80’s.

Felt like a “true” sequel/spinoff to Rampage to me back then, and absolutely love knowing this exists as an Arcade title and seeing it in MAME.

Thank you to all involved parties!

Would this happen to be the secret you were keeping, Haze? :)

Incredibly happy to hear this news.
Emulating the arcade version this game is a huge deal to me.
I never got to play the home versions, but I clearly remember seeing the arcade version reviewed in at least 2 UK computer magazines (C&VG & either Your Sinclair or Sinclair User).
At the time I became fairly obsessed with playing the arcade version, but it never turned up in any of the spots I knew of back then.
So you guys have basically made a distant dream of mine from more than a quarter of a decade ago finally become a reality.
So gigantic thanks to all involved, I & many others really do appreciate the awesome work that you put in.

awesome to have this dumped and emulated

huge thanks both to Unigame and to you!

no.. this has never been a secret.

This was always my most wanted dump of the Arcadia releases, real cool game that really benefits being played in the arcade format rather than loading it up on an Amiga.

Thanks to everyone involved.

Finally, im so pleased ! thanks haze allowing to play this at home.
Got the Original Amiga version back from 1988, great times, I always lamented the lack of coop from the port although the box screenshots showed it ..

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