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Name: | Assault |
Console: | Playstation (PSX) |
Release Date: | 1988 |
Publisher: | Atari Games, Namco |
Genres: | Shooter, Shoot 'em up |
Assault is a multi-directional shooter arcade game, which was released by Namco in 1988 and licensed to Atari Games for US manufacture and distribution; it is the last Namco game that was licensed to them, even though their logo still appears on the Mejā Stadium scoreboard in World Stadium '89 Kaimakuban and '90. It runs upon Namco System 2 hardware - and was the first game to use sprite scaling and massive sprite rotation, rather than Japan-only Ordyne which was released later in the year.
There are two components for playing a psx Assault game on your PC. The first component is the emulation program which can imitate the psx OS and software.
The second component is the Assault game itself to play on the emulator.
Step 1: you can start by downloading a reliable and bug free emulator. We’d suggest Retroarch – it’s open source, fast and one of the most frequently updated.
Once you have finished downloading Retroarch, extract the downloaded .zip file to a location, for example your Desktop. After, double click the RetroArch-1.7.5-x86-setup.exe file in order to start the emulator.
Your emulator will now be ready to play Assault. But now you’ll need to find the correct ROMs online. A ROM is essentially a virtual version of the game that needs to be loaded into the emulator.
Step 2: return to Retroarch and hit File > Open. Navigate to the downloaded .exe file and double click it to open it. The game will now run on the emulator and you can play the game freely.
Tip: Saving games on an emulator functions a little differently. The integrated save system will not save your progress.
Instead, you’ll need to click File > Save State and then choose an empty slot. You can save your progress in whatever point you like within the game, not only on the official checkpoints offered by the game.
When playing in the future and you want to continue from your saved state, you can use File > Load State to load up the game from exactly where you last saved it.