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Battle Chopper

  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
Download bchopper.zip (1.44 MB)
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Game infos

Description Battle Chopper
Name bchopper
Manufacturer Irem
Year 1987
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .036b07
Romset size 1.44 MB
Romset file 23 files
Romset zip 591 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 1

Driver infos

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

Inputs infos

Input service yes
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 384 256 55.017606 8000000 512 64 448 284 0 256

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade b-a0-b.rom 65536 e46ed7bf 75abb5f40629f7c40a610a44e068b6c4e3a5126e gfx2 0 good no
arcade b-a1-b.rom 65536 590605ff fbb5c0cebd28b08d4ce39db4055d6343620e0f1c gfx2 10000 good no
arcade b-a2-b.rom 65536 f8158226 bb3a8686cd89bb8265b6b9e03682cc0bf6533793 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade b-a3-b.rom 65536 0f07b9b7 63dbec17097f07eb39299372b736fbbc1b11b65e gfx2 30000 good no
arcade b-b0-.rom 65536 b5b95776 4685b56071b916ce712c45f24da8068dd7e40ed1 gfx3 0 good no
arcade b-b1-.rom 65536 74ca16ee 7984bc9a0b46e1b4a8ecac7528d57606305aad73 gfx3 10000 good no
arcade b-b2-.rom 65536 b82cca04 c12b95be311205181b01d15021bcf9f01ed3e0a3 gfx3 20000 good no
arcade b-b3-.rom 65536 a7afc920 92c75463ada39184e731b82ef2883ae6f1f67482 gfx3 30000 good no
arcade bchopper_i8751.mcu 65536 mcu 0 nodump no
arcade c-00-a.rom 65536 f6e6e660 e066e5ed37719cf2b6fd36e0117f11325bb06f9c sprites 0 good no
arcade c-01-b.rom 65536 708cdd37 24f3fcd381422f0d75410c2af7a56744e3b4a699 sprites 10000 good no
arcade c-10-a.rom 65536 292c8520 c552090d295ee1c1ca611b0cddee356e509e2045 sprites 20000 good no
arcade c-11-b.rom 65536 20904cf3 71fe505f2da53c2eb445b7b758d257d6af42e6f1 sprites 30000 good no
arcade c-20-a.rom 65536 1ab50c23 43e2f11e5bbf157c47764e04e372f40ed68bab59 sprites 40000 good no
arcade c-21-b.rom 65536 c823d34c 47383214b6a60e0b1b70208b00c291f8ffed36bc sprites 50000 good no
arcade c-30-a.rom 65536 11f6c56b 39a2a674698b044c84fea65ae41a9e003a50b639 sprites 60000 good no
arcade c-31-b.rom 65536 23134ec5 43453f8a13b51310e04729dc828d391ca9c04da2 sprites 70000 good no
arcade c-h0-b.rom 65536 f2feab16 03ee874658e0f59957f8425e1ebf9c938737cc19 maincpu 1 good no
arcade c-h1-b.rom 65536 a995d64f 43eb2eb11e6875298a6ef2b18f0f5e587f1bba16 maincpu 20001 good no
arcade c-h3-b.rom 65536 ab9451ca ec0e0ad592d8b21bb4e6927a452e3b7964cda015 maincpu 60001 good no
arcade c-l0-b.rom 65536 9f887096 4f41ef29580fc026ea91d110ec6b2e6af83dbd9a maincpu 0 good no
arcade c-l1-b.rom 65536 41dda999 4d07a399aaf16bc37b5488e3e4bb60e78811a099 maincpu 20000 good no
arcade c-l3-b.rom 65536 11562221 a2f136a487fb6f30350e8d1e26c0729eb0686c7d maincpu 60000 good no
arcade c-v0-b.rom 65536 d0c27e58 fec76217cc0c04c723989c3ec127a2bd33d64c60 samples 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
Irem M72 Audio Custom m72 audio
Speaker speaker audio
V30 maincpu cpu 8000000
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579545
Z80 soundcpu cpu 3579545

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b7 [Nao]

0.36b6 [Testdriver]


Bugs:

- Clone mrheli: Game freezes in the first stage. EoceneMiacid (ID 06433)

- In the second stage, when the screen is invisible and when the screen scroll up, the status bar appear twice. Roberto Zandona (ID 00816)


WIP:

- 0.160: Use dumped MCU rom on clone Mr. HELI from unprotected MCU. Note, it does now write the 'for use in Japan' message to one of the tilemaps, but you don't currently see it, either due to timing or video emulation issues [Silvio Grazini]. Changed description of clone 'Mr. HELI no Daibouken' to 'Mr. HELI no Daibouken (Japan)'.

- 0.146u5: Changed description of clone 'Mr. HELI no Dai-Bouken' to 'Mr. HELI no Daibouken'.

- 0.37b10: Added dipswitches 'Demo Sounds', 'Bonus Life' and 'Difficulty'.

- 0.37b3: Added 'Weapons Cost' dipswitch.

- 0.36b9: Added dipswitches 'Lives', 'Coinage', 'Flip Screen', 'Cabinet', 'Coin Mode', 'Allow Continue' and 'Invulnerability'. Changed description of clone 'Mr. Heli' to 'Mr. HELI no Dai-Bouken'.

- 0.36b7: Nao added 'Battle Chopper' (Irem 1987) and clone Mr. Heli.

- 0.36b6: Nicola Salmoria added (Testdrivers) Battle Chopper and clone Mr. Heli.

- 12th August 1998: J-ROM dumped Mr. HELI no Dai-Bouken (c)1987 IREM.

- 27th March 1998: CaBBe dumped Battle Chopper.


LEVELS: 7


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

* M72


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History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Battle Chopper (c) 1987 Irem.

For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese version entry; "Mr. Heli no Daibouken".

- TRIVIA -

Battle Chopper was released in December 1987 outside Japan. It is known in Japan as "Mr. Heli no Daibouken".

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
[EU] Atari ST (1989) "Mr. Heli"
[US] Commodore C64 (1987)
[EU] Commodore C64 (1989) "Mr. Heli"
Sinclair ZX Spectrum [US] (1989) "Mr. Heli"
[EU] Commodore Amiga (1989) "Mr. Heli"
[EU] Amstrad CPC (1989) "Mr. Heli"
Gun Force II (c) 1994 Irem Corp.
PC [MS Windows, Online] [EU] (dec.9, 2011) "IREM Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
Apple MacIntosh [Online] [US] (aug.21, 2011) "Irem Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
PC [Desura] [US] (nov.2, 2013) "IREM Arcade Hits" by Plug In Digital

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=197&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

majygool______________________249.480
didyeah_______________________147.470
gerhard_schindler_____________109.200
foxmulder______________________64.510
sawys__________________________63.960
zarouk_________________________52.510
hulkiii________________________12.090