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Beast Busters (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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Beast Busters (World)
Name bbusters
Manufacturer SNK
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 3P sim
Added to MAME .061
Romset size 6.94 MB
Romset file 23 files
Romset zip 2 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

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

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 3
Input buttons
Input coins 6

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
lightgun 0 255 25 10 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 60 7864320 512 0 256 256 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade bb-1.e6 65536 4360f2ee 4c6b212f59389bdf4388893d2030493b110ac087 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade bb-10.l9 131072 490c0d9b 567c25a6d96407259c64061d674305e4117d9fa4 gfx1 0 good no
arcade bb-2.k8 131072 20141805 0958579681bda81bcf48d020a14bc147c1e575f1 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade bb-3.k10 131072 04da1820 0b6e06adf9c181d7aef28f781efbdd2c225fe81e maincpu 0 good no
arcade bb-4.k11 131072 d482e0e9 e56ca92965e8954b613ba4b0e3975e3a12840c30 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade bb-5.k12 131072 777e0611 b7ac0c6ea3738d560a5be75aed286821de918808 maincpu 1 good no
arcade bb-6.e7 65536 61f3de03 736f9634fe054ea68a2aa90a743bd0dc320f23c9 user1 0 good no
arcade bb-7.h7 65536 61f3de03 736f9634fe054ea68a2aa90a743bd0dc320f23c9 user1 0 good no
arcade bb-8.a14 65536 61f3de03 736f9634fe054ea68a2aa90a743bd0dc320f23c9 user1 0 good no
arcade bb-9.c14 65536 61f3de03 736f9634fe054ea68a2aa90a743bd0dc320f23c9 user1 0 good no
arcade bb-back1.m4 524288 b5445313 3c99b557b2af30ff0fbc8a7dc6c40448c4f327db gfx4 0 good no
arcade bb-back2.m6 524288 8be996f6 1e2c56f4c24793f806d7b366b92edc03145ae94c gfx5 0 good no
arcade bb-f11.m16 524288 39fdf9c0 80392947e3a1831c3ee80139f6f3bdc3bafa4f0d gfx2 0 good no
arcade bb-f12.m13 524288 69ee046b 5c0435f1ce76b584fa8d154d7617d73c7ab5f62f gfx2 80000 good no
arcade bb-f13.m12 524288 f5ef840e dd0f630c52076e0d330f47931e68a3ae9a401078 gfx2 100000 good no
arcade bb-f14.m11 524288 1a7df3bb 1f27a528e6f89fe56a7342c4f1ff733da0a09327 gfx2 180000 good no
arcade bb-f21.l10 524288 530f595b 820898693b878c4423de9c244f943d39ea69515e gfx3 0 good no
arcade bb-f22.l12 524288 889c562e d19172d6515ab9793c98de75d6e41687e61a408d gfx3 80000 good no
arcade bb-f23.l13 524288 c89fe0da 92be860a7191e7473c42aa2da981eda873219d3d gfx3 100000 good no
arcade bb-f24.l15 524288 e0d81359 2213c17651b6c023a456447f352b0739439f913a gfx3 180000 good no
arcade bb-pcma.l5 524288 44cd5bfe 26a612191a0aa614c090203485aba17c99c763ee ymsnd 0 good no
arcade bb-pcmb.l3 524288 c8d5dd53 0f7e94532cc14852ca12c1b792e5479667af899e ymsnd.deltat 0 good no
arcade bbusters-eeprom.bin 256 a52ebd66 de04db6f1510700c61bf152799452a80220ae87c eeprom 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Serie

Serie : Beast Busters
  1. Blockbusters (1985)
  2. Blockbusters (1985)
  3. Beast Busters (World) (1989)
  4. Beast Busters (Japan, Version 2) (1989)
  5. Beast Busters (US, Version 3) (1989)
  6. Beast Busters (US, Version 2) (1989)
  7. Beast Busters 2nd Nightmare (1998)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.61 [Bryan McPhail]


WIP:

- 0.173: ShouTime added clone Beast Busters (Japan, Version 2). Fixed some missing gfx in Beast Busters / Mechanized Attack [dink].

- 0.163: Jets & Layer added clone Beast Busters (US, Version 3). Brian Troha renamed (bbustersu) to (bbustersua).

- 0.160: Added save state support Beast Busters driver [Osso].

- 0.139u3: Aaron Giles moved the old hard-coded EEPROM data out into a file in Beast Busters.

- 0.137u4: Howard Casto added new output handling functions and hooked up outputs for Beast Busters.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (bbusteru) to (bbustersu).

- 0.128u4: Brian Hargrove added clone Beast Busters (US, Version 2). Changed parent description to 'Beast Busters (World)'. David Haywood tweaked gun handling in Beast Busters a bit, by halving the precision of the guns to 7-bit they can be calibrated more easily, maybe the originals were like this. Added also a default EEPROM with them calibrated in a 'reasonable' way for MAME. Sound is pretty awful on this, maybe the sound ROMs should be checked? Adjusted volume balance slightly.

- 0.128u2: Mamesick updated the Beast Buster driver that fixes the service mode issues (the game freezed at a black screen after you calibrated the guns and wanted to exit).

- 0.126u2: Aaron Giles merged memory maps in Beast Buster.

- 0.124: Zsolt Vasvari fixed sprite wrapping in Beast Busters, this is used on the gun calibration screen, at least. The game still hangs on a black screen after service mode is turned off. Even exiting MAME and restarting doesn't fix it, so it's probably a EEPROM issue.

- 0.123u6: RansAckeR added DIP locations to Beast Busters. Also added note regarding correct gun calibration.

- 0.86u4: Inigo Luja fixed DIPs in Beast Buster.

- 0.85u3: Added coin slots 5 and 6.

- 0.61: Bryan McPhail added 'Beast Busters (World ?)' (SNK 1989).

- 3rd June 2002: Bryan McPhail sent in a driver for Beast Busters and Mechanized Attack.


LEVELS: 7


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Beast Busters (c) 1989 SNK.

A city has been invaded by the undead, you as any of three soldiers must shoot & blast your way out or you'll become tonight's main course in this frantic first person shooter! Features excellent graphics and lots of challenge! No one knows how it happened but one thing is for sure, we'll risk our lives... and have lots of fun!

- TECHNICAL -

Cabinet dimensions : 74'' (187,5cm) high x 35'' (90cm) wide x 47'' (115,5cm) deep.

Top Board Number : A9003-1
Middle Board Number : A9003-2
Bottom Board Number : A9003-3
Prom stickers : BB

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 2048

Players : 3
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Beast Busters was released in November 1989 in Japan.

One famous owner of a Beast Busters cabinet was American pop singer, Michael Jackson (1958-2009), who would often take the cabinet on tour with him via cargo plane.

A Beast Busters unit appears in the 1998 movie 'The Replacement Killers'.

Soundtrack releases:
Beast Busters / SNK [Pony Canyon / Scitron - PCCB-00036 - Jul 21, 1990]

- SERIES -

1. Beast Busters (1989)
2. Beast Busters - Second Nightmare (1999)
3. Dark Arms - Beast Busters (1999, SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color)
4. BEAST BUSTERS - feat.KOF (2014, Google Play)

- STAFF -

President: Eikichi Kawasaki
Producer & Director: Hamachi. Papa
Designers: Mitsuzo.I, Ken, Muromoto, Sakai, Mioshi, Maeda, Fujiwara
Main programmer: Mr. SNK 25
Assistant programmer: Murano
Sound creators: Tarkun, Masahiko Hataya (Papaya)
Hard creator: Ebara

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Atari ST (1990)
Commodore Amiga (1990)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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