Flash Point (Arcade)

Flash Point is an unlicensed Tetris variant released only in Japan. Unlike Tetris, which is usually a pure survival, your goal is to eliminate all golden blocks from the field. Strangely, this game names its only game play as "Ojama Mode", but there's a reason for it...

Normal Mode
Add the following cheat in your MAME to enable mode select screen (works with both fpoint and fpoint1):  maincpu.ow@0045BE=4E71 maincpu.ow@0045C0=4E71

Alternatively, you can skip to Normal Mode without using the mode select screen:  maincpu.ob@0045B4=60

Unlike "Ojama Mode", you start with an empty field. Like Sega's Tetris, the goal is to survive as long as possible.

Mode Select Screen
The unused music (#90) plays here. The default cursor position is Ojama Mode.

Differences From "Ojama Mode"

 * Delayed Auto Shift (DAS) is much longer than Ojama Mode.
 * No DAS for soft dropping the piece. The piece starts to fall as soon as you move the lever down.
 * You can earn points from clearing lines. The line scoring is same as Sega's Tetris:
 * Single: 100 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
 * Double: 400 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
 * Triple: 900 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
 * Tetris: 2000 * ((Level / 2) + 1)
 * The instruction demo map from Sega's Tetris is used for the "How To Play" screen. However, there are no separate input data for it, so the demo player will end up dying.

High-Score List
Normal Mode uses different high-score list than Ojama Mode, and can partially be restored by the following cheat:  maincpu.ow@00990E=EC0A maincpu.mw@009D76=9D94 This cheat forces the Ojama Mode ranking screen to load Normal Mode's high scores instead.

The default high scores for Normal Mode are as follows:

Unused Music
Sound #90, the default music in the sound test, is not used during normal gameplay. It is used in the disabled Mode Select screen, though.