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Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (World)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (World)
Name airbustr
Manufacturer Kaneko (Namco license)
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .061
Romset size 1.69 MB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 641 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status good
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 57.4

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade i80c51 4096 mcu 0 nodump no
arcade pr-000.bin 524288 8ca68f0d d60389e7e63e9850bcddecb486558de1414f1276 gfx1 0 good no
arcade pr-001.bin 524288 7e6cb377 005290f9f53a0c3a6a9d04486b16b7fd52cc94b6 gfx2 0 good no
arcade pr-02.bin 65536 6bbd5e46 26563737f3f91ee0a056d35ce42217bb57d8a081 gfx2 80000 good no
arcade pr-200.bin 262144 a4dd3390 2d72b46b4979857f6b66489bebda9f48799f59cf oki 0 good no
arcade pr-21.bin 131072 6e0a5df0 616b7c7aaf52a9a55b63c60717c1866940635cd4 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade pr12.h19 131072 91362eb2 cd85acfa6542af68dd1cad46f9426a95cfc9432e master 0 good no
arcade pr13.l15 131072 13b2257b 325efa54e757a1f08caf81801930d61ea4e7b6d4 slave 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
OKI6295 oki audio 3000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 3000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 6000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.61 [MASH]

0.35b12 [Luca Elia]


WIP:

- 0.176: Simplified rom loading [Osso].

- 0.156: Corrado Tomaselli verified clocks/vsync for Air Buster. Changed VSync to 57.4 Hz.

- 0.149: Modernized Kaneko Pandora device [Osso].

- 0.146: Port changed regression fix [Miodrag Milanovic]. This fixed coin insert problem in Air Buster.

- 0.143u8: hap fixed jerky background scrolling in Air Buster and clones.

- 0.142u3: Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h dependancy and updated irqs accordingly for Air Buster.

- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct to Air Buster.

- 0.135u3: Fabio Priuli converted Kaneko Pandora sprite chip to be a MAME device and updated drivers accordingly.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (airbustj) to (airbustrj) and (airbusb) to (airbustrb).

- 0.131u2: Angelo Salese added MCU no-dump to Air Buster.

- 0.129u1: MooglyGuy added savestate support to Air Buster and clones.

- 0.123u6: Zsolt Vasvari fixed Air Buster bootleg from reseting because of the watchdog.

- 0.117: David Haywood moved "Pandora" sprite chip implementation to its own file. Updated Snow Bros, Air Buster, DJ Boy and Heavy Unit to use ths new generic implementation.

- 0.111u1: David Haywood added clone Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (bootleg). Removed rom patches in the Air Buster driver and hooked up watchdog instead.

- 16th December 2006: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (bootleg).

- 0.108u3: Roberto Fresca added DIP locations to Air Buster. Added 3x 'Unused' dipswitches.

- 0.103u2: Various improvements to the Air Buster driver [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]. This fixed the sprite display bug (airbustr37b9gre).

- 0.89u2: Changed parent and clone descriptions to 'Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit'. Removed 'Unused' dipswitches.

- 0.84u5: RND fixed YM2203 and MSM6295 balance.

- 0.61: MASH added Air Buster (World). Renamed (airbustr) to (airbustj).

- 4th June 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitch settings in the Air Buster driver.

- 0.55: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 18181 Hz.

- 4th May 1999: Luca Elia fixed name entering in the Air Buster high score screen.

- 0.35b12: Luca Elia added 'Air Buster' (Kaneko 1990). TODO: The bankswitching registers bits 4&5 are used (any Z80). What for ? Is the sub cpu / sound cpu communication status port (0e) correct ? Main cpu: port 01 ? Sub cpu: ports 0x28, 0x38 ? Plus it can probably cause a NMI to main cpu. Incomplete DSW's. Spriteram low 0x300 bytes (priority?).

- 27th April 1999: Luca Elia sent in an Air Buster driver.

- 19th December 1998: J-ROM dumped Air Buster: Trouble Specialty Raid Unit (Japan) (c)1990 KANEKO.


LEVELS: 6


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History


Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Air Buster - Trouble Specialty (c) 1990 Kaneko.

A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (3x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 3 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-Way Joystick
Buttons : 2
=> Shoot, Shoot

- TRIVIA -

Released in January 1990.
Licensed to Namco.

The second level of Air Buster was clearly the inspiration for the 3rd level of 'Turrican 2'.

Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Air Buster - PCCB-00025) on 21/04/1990.

- STAFF -

Software : S. Igarashi (To-y), H. Takeuchi (Tiny-Tomo)
Graphics : K. Matsuoka, N. Obana, T. Konakawa
Hardware : H. Mikami, H. Nagayoshi
Music composed by : Tatsuya Watanabe
Sound operate : S. Aizu
Test game : F. Komori, K. Niihara, T. Okamoto
Total coordinate : S. Igarashi (To-y)
General producer : Hiroshi Kaneko

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nec PC Engine [JP] (1990, "Aero Blasters")
Sega Mega Drive (1991, "Aero Blasters")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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