1943 Game System: MAME Cheat Category: Hint Game Company: Unknown Game Category: Unknown Hint, Cheat, Walkthrough:   1943 ==== (KROOL:) To get an energy tank you can shoot POW's through their cycle (shotgun, 3-way, auto, shell) 3 to 4 times and it will eventually turn to a fuel tank. Can be seen in replay game a bit. In a 2 player game, you can equally balance out fuel by flying over each other for a few seconds. Handy if someone's dying and the other isn't. There are hidden bonus point objects in clouds and water, some are on ships. they consist of the standard capcom bonus sprites : the cow (cash cow usually!), skin of water(?), strawberry and the Colloseum. No elephant though...or that other green thing...There are hidden bonuses if you kill a boss quickly, it will fly out of the final big explosion, just shoot it. It looks like old capcom sprites. The same as the psx street fighter collection save sprite on your memory card. another one is a drone from exed exes. Are there more? There is a laser weapon that pops up every 10 or so games at random stages. It moves to random points over the screen and stays in that position for about 1-2 seconds. it does this for about 30 seconds so be quick. It's worth it. (ROBERT SCHMITZ):On most every board, holding down combinations of joystick/Button A/Button B before the board starts will give you a weapon. (On a few boards this gives you a 'laser' which is a fantastic weapon After level one, when the game is adding you bonuses on, if you hold down fire and a) have the shot gun, your weapon will be made into the most powerful shot gun with 90 seconds remaining b) don't have the shot gun, you either will or won't get the same as the above (we never managed to work out the criteria for getting it before the arcade got rid of the game). Also if one player gets the laser and has full energy, player 2 can line his pane up with the player with the laser (as if to borrow energy) and he will get the laser as well. This is VERY useful if you are lucky enough to get the laser before the very last ship (which is hard indeed). (ROGER:) The following codes should be used when you begin the stage. You should use the code when your tank is filling up. To make sure the code works, use it before filling up the tank or before you get the bonus (when you see "Round 1 Clear! Bonus 5000...."). Also, hold the buttons and the direction together until the plane flies again. There is still no guarantee that you can get a weapon, but this should be almost perfect. Number - Direction. Check keypad on keyboard as reference. A - Fire button B - Flash button Stage 1 Player 2 Player Weapon 1 2 A Small Shot Gun 2 A B Big Shot Gun 3 9AB 2B Laser 4 1B 7 Big Shot Gun 5 A 8 Auto/3-Way(?) 6 4 6B Auto 7 7 2 3-Way 8 4AB AB Auto 9 3AB 3AB Laser 10 9B 3 Shell 11 7 6A Auto 12 6AB 9AB Auto 13 8 2 Auto 14 7AB 6AB Laser (*) 15 3A 2A Auto 16 6A 9A Auto (*) means only one player can get the laser. It means one code is wrong. Do it first to see which player is right. Then check the wrong one with all directions plus AB buttons. (Yes! It takes a looooong time!) After level one, when the game is adding your bonuses on, if you hold down fire and: a) have the shot gun, your weapon will be made into the most powerful shot gun with 90 seconds remaining, or b) don't have the shot gun, you either will or won't get the same as the above (we never managed to work out the criteria for getting it before the arcade got rid of the game). Also, if one player gets the laser and has full energy, player 2 can line his plane up with the player with the laser (as if to borrow energy) and he will get the laser as well. This is VERY useful if you are lucky enough to get the laser before the very last ship (which is hard indeed). The '100% accuracy' bonus refers NOT to how many planes you down during the round, but rather how many of the guns on the enemy aircraft carriers you get. For this reason, it's best to ignore the planes and concentrate on the ships - that's where the big points are. It's possible to shoot one of the ships just before your plane dives in to battle the fleet, and that you can capture the flames that erupt from it. Does anyone know what purpose this serves? At some points in the background there are "shootable" patches which will yield a bonus when shot enough. They can be recognized by the sparks which will occur when your bullets hit them. One such bonus is on level one: it is on the lowest part of the second cloud bank to the left after the last large plane of the level appears. It appears as a cow. The cow bonus is worth 20,000 points, and on the first level, it's followed by a strange object that looks like a dragonfly moving right to left across the screen. Shooting the dragonfly yields an additional 10,000 point bonus. The cow and dragonfly bonuses also appear on other rounds; the cow can sometimes be seen on the deck of a carrier! There's a bonus shaped like a spinning cat (!). When collected, it upgrades your weapon to a laser. The "star" bonus gives you 5,000 points when caught. It may also increase the capacity of your fuel gauge by eight units (mine went from 64 to 72 units), but I haven't confirmed whether or not this bonus is actually what causes the increase. It's possible to shoot one of the ships just before your plane dives in to battle the fleet, and that you can capture the flames that erupt from it. This reportedly gives a points bonus as well (does anyone know how many?) This has been reported on level 2, but may exist on other levels as well: Sometimes an astronaut will emerge from the side of the final (boss) ship and walk off the screen. Shoot it for 100,000 points! If you get the "propeller" power-up (it looks like a propeller over a circle), your energy level will be fully replenished. There is also another shootable area which appears after the first ship in the first level, in the water above it. Still another bonus is shaped like an pine cone or acorn. When you fly over a certain spot, the pine cone shows up and is worth 2,000 points. When the boss ship explodes, the control center breaks into 4 pieces. The pieces are worth 10,000 points each if shot. AMIDAR (KAPTAIN:) To find out the path to take for the bonus, just PAUSE the game and work out the route :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Source: MAME v0.33 Strategy Guide - Compiled by Phanatik URL: http://members.tripod.com/~phanatik/index.html