0.35b12 [Manuel Abadia, Phil Stroffolino]
Bugs:
- combatsc, combascj, combasct, bootcamp, bootcampa: Wrong priority in the drill instructor screen. izius (ID 06259)
- combatscb: Graphic issues on the "players" screen as scrolling problems on 1st stage. qapo (ID 00400)
- combatsc, combatscj, combatsct: The text "Player 1 (Nick)" or "CPU (Joe)" disappear. RansAckeR (ID 00185)
WIP:
- 0.183: Mark Combat School trackball and Boot Camp clones as MACHINE_NOT_WORKING [Angelo Salese].
- 0.182: Angelo Salese fixed score line is not flipped with screen in Combat School an clones.
- 0.178: SCREEN_RAW_PARAMS for Combat School. Fixed text tilemap char select enable and opacity in Combat School. This fixed the two rows of garbage blocks at the top of the screen in the 2nd firing range stage [Angelo Salese]. Changed VSync to 59.185606 Hz.
- 0.160: Chaneman added Boot Camp (set 2). Changed description of clone 'Boot Camp' to 'Boot Camp (set 1)'.
- 0.146u4: Angelo Salese removed a sound kludge in Combat School. Added sound ROM bankswitch to clone (bootleg).
- 0.142u3: Angelo Salese hooked up proper sound program in Combat School (bootleg).
- 0.139u2: Roberto Zandona fixed Combat School (bootleg) offset and priorities. This fixed the experiences various graphics glitches and crashes on level 3.
- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli added device versions of all the Konami custom ICs currently emulated in machine\konamiic.c and video\konamiic.c. Updated Combat School driver to use the new code. Renamed (combasc) to (combatsc), (combasct) to (combatsct), (combascj) to (combatscj) and (combascb) to (combatscb).
- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in Combat School.
- 0.126u4: Fabio Priuli added DIP locations to Combat School.
- 0.126u3: Fabio Priuli fixed missing graphics in clone Combat School (bootleg).
- 0.122u8: Zsolt Vasvari removed colortables from Combat School and a number of other drivers, as part of a larger move to phase out old-style colortables. Changed palettesize to 2048 colors.
- 0.122u7: Changed HD6309 CPU1 clock speed to 12MHz.
- 0.106u12: MASH added pld ($0 - ampal16l8.e7) to Combat School (joystick).
- 0.73: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 3579545 Hz and YM2203 to 3MHz.
- 26th August 2003: Jarek Burczynski and Acho A. Tang fixed the YM2203 clock frequency in Combat School.
- 0.72u1: Acho A. Tang fixed Combat School (trackball) and (Japan trackball) from crashing.
- 11th August 2003: Acho A. Tang fixed the trackball sets of Combat School from crashing.
- 0.72: Acho A. Tang added a kludge for Combat School music pitch and tempo. Might be an fm.c bug, being investigated by Jarek. Changed YM2203 clock speed to 2.5MHz.
- 23rd June 2002: Acho A. Tang fixed a few graphics glitches in Combat School.
- 0.36: Changed HD6309 CPU1 clock speed to 3MHz.
- 0.36RC2: Nicola Salmoria emulated the protection in Combat School.
- 0.36b5: Nicola Salmoria added clone Combat School (Japan trackball). Changed parent description to 'Combat School (joystick)' and clone (trackball version) to 'Combat School (trackball)'. Added (Japan trackball) gfx1/2 roms to Combat School (joystick) and clones (trackball) and Boot Camp.
- 11th September 1999: Nicola added a Japan romset to the Combat School driver.
- 0.36b4: Added missing gfx1/2 roms and proms ($0, 100 - sprites and chars lookup table).
- 0.36b1: Manuel Abadia added clones Combat School (trackball version) and Boot Camp. Both not working. Changed parent description to 'Combat School (joystick version)'.
- 12th July 1999: Manuel Abadia added two new Combat School romsets.
- 0.35b12: Manuel Abadia and Phil Stroffolino added 'Combat School' (Konami 1988) and clone (bootleg). TODO: Fix colors of frontmost layer and hook up sound in bootleg (the current sound is a hack, making use of the Konami ROMset).
- 30th April 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a Combat School driver by him and Manuel Abadia.
ARCADE RELEASE: Combat School (Konami) - 1987/May/29
LEVELS: 8
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Combat School
Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:
Combat School (c) 1987 Konami.
Combat School is multi-event combat-themed sports game for one or two players, similar in gameplay style to Konami's earlier Track and Field games. Players must compete in a series of boot-camp style events under the watchful eye of the strict drill instructor, with the ultimate aim of completed all events and graduating as a full soldier.
The game is composed of seven training events, each of which must be completed within a set time to progress to the next. If players only narrowly miss out on qualifying in an event, they must complete a set number of chin-ups as punishment. If they manage this within the time limit, they can progress to the next event. This only occurs once per round, however.
The events are as follows:
* Obstacle Course
A side-scrolling event in which players must reach the end of the stage within the allotted time, navigating jump-walls and monkey-bars in the process. Losing to the CPU or another player is fine as long as players cross the finish line within the allotted time.
* Firing Range No. 1
Players must shoot as many targets as possible within the allotted time. If played against a second player, the one who shoots the most targets wins the event.
* Iron Man Race
Similar to the obstacle course but viewed from above. Players must reach the finish line while avoiding puddles, rocks and other obstacles. In the latter half of the event players must cross a lake by either swimming or rowing a boat. As with the obstacle course, losing to the opponent is fine as long as the finish line is crossed within the allotted time.
* Firing Range No. 2
Same as the first one, but now with moving targets.
* Arm Wrestling
The two recruits are pitted against each other in a match of strength and stamina. This is more of a bonus stage than an actual test as the player is not penalized for losing.
* Firing Range No. 3
The third and final shooting range stage. As well as standard targets, penalty targets also feature. If players shoot a target showing a silhouette of the drill instructor, they will be penalized.
* Fighting
The player faces off against his instructor in hand-to-hand combat. There is no chin-up punishment available in this event and if the player loses the fight, the game ends. If played with a second player, the two players must fight each other and only the victor is allowed to graduate.
Once all seven events are completed, the player graduates from basic training and is sent on a mission to rescue the U.S. President from armed terrorists. In this final side-scrolling stage the player must fight off terrorists using all the skills acquired during their training.
There is no continue feature for the mission stage and - apart from the final hand-to-hand fight with the terrorist leader - the player dies from a single hit.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : GX611
Main CPU : HD6309 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : trackball
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Attack, [B] Jump/Shoot
- TRIVIA -
Combat School was released in May 1987.
This game is known in US as "Boot Camp".
A bootleg of this game was released in 1988 by Datsu.
- PORTS -
* COMPUTERS:
[EU] Commodore C64 (1987)
[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1987)
[EU] Amstrad CPC (1987)
- CONTRIBUTE -
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