Delta Race - mystery vector game identified! (sorry last post had wrong subject)

Finally the mystery of 'Delta Race' discovered! (for me anyway :-) )

A few years ago I was in a country shed and there was a grey cockpit
with what I now know to be all the correct Omega Race artwork and
shape, etc.
But, when trying to work out what this empty cockpit was later (it had
been converted and stripped inside), I remembered it as "Delta Race".
Nobody on the Vectorlist had heard of this game and the closest
game given the look of the cabinet was Omega Race.
The owner was positive is was a vector game.

So I figured I had mistaken the name that was part of the cabinet
artwork.

But today when looking through some boards I got from the same shed,
(thanks Paul Sommers!) I picked up what I thought was an L shaped
Space Invaders board, but on closer inspection it had 2 Z80's,
, a battery and 2 AD561 DAC's. Obviously a vector game!

Some digging on the net and it is a perfect match for a Midway
Omega Race board.

But now the good bit:
The first program ROM J7 was different to the others and was marked 'DELTA'.
Hooray I wasn't insane :-)

So I read in all the ROMS, repackaged them and ran it in MAME.
It is called "DELTA RACE".
Some inspection and play of the only rom that
is different to the Omega Race set ( J7, a 2732 ) shows that it
looks like only the naming was changed, and the copyright notice
also. I didn't do a big test but I think the gameplay is the same.
OMEGA changed to DELTA, OMEGAN changed to DELTAN and
the copyright notice to C P LEISURE ALLIED.

Leisure and Allied Industries were the largest arcade company in Australia
in the eighties, importing many machines and making some of their own
in repackaged cabinets, etc.
Obviously they had this custom job done for the Australian market.

If you'd like to have a play with DELTA RACE, here is the single ROM,
and also the DELTA RACE set repackaged as Omega Race naming for MAME.

http://www.laserarcade.com/marc/Omega_Race_-_Delta_Race_Alternative_J7_ROM.zip
http://www.laserarcade.com/marc/Omega_Race_-_Delta_Race_Full_ROM_Set.zip

I used MAME32 and it complained about the different ROM, but if you
right click on the game and then select "Play Omega Race" it will force
it to run the rom set anyway.

Have fun!

Cheers,

Marc Alexander

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Received on Sat Jan 18 03:53:21 2003