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Discs of Tron (Upright alternate)

  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. History
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Game infos

Description Discs of Tron (Upright alternate)
Name dotrona
Manufacturer Bally Midway
Year 1983
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .063
Romset size 0 B
Romset file files
Romset zip 0 B
Language English
Genre Sports

Parent and clones

Parent dotron : Discs of Tron (Upright) (1983)

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

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 yes
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 128 50 10 yes
joy 8 no
trackball 0 255 100 10 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 yes 512 480 30

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade aloc-pg0.1c 16384 40d00195 e06a8097f02b9f445df0dd5c0ec13f9a0a1dcd8a maincpu 0 good no
arcade aloc-pg1.2c 16384 5a7d1300 8a1f088de9289cd902e72b55d3e72c3f07246778 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade aloc-pg1.4c 8192 5098faf4 9f861f99cb170513b68aee48bbfd60ee439d7fa9 maincpu c000 good no
arcade aloc-pg2.3c 16384 cb89c9be c773a68891fbf94808a2ee0036928c0c48d6673d maincpu 8000 good no
arcade asound0.a7 4096 7fb54293 6d538a3e48f98e269623850f1f6774848a89fd59 ssio:cpu 0 good no
arcade asound1.a8 4096 edef7326 5c9a64604252eea0628bf9d6221e8add82f66abe ssio:cpu 1000 good no
arcade loc-a.cp0 8192 b35f5374 loc-a.cp0 3f330ffde52ac57c02dfdf8e105aefcc10f87a0b gfx2 c000 good no
arcade loc-b.cp9 8192 565a5c48 loc-b.cp9 9dfafd58bd552bfda4e1799a175735ecc1369ba3 gfx2 e000 good no
arcade loc-bg1.5f 8192 bb2d7a5d loc-bg1.5f 8044be9ffca9520fd77e0da492147e553f9f7da3 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade loc-bg2.6f 8192 40167124 loc-bg2.6f 782c8192dd58a3f23ff2338452dd03206d79030a gfx1 0 good no
arcade loc-c.cp8 8192 ef45d146 loc-c.cp8 6cd83909b4376abce287e435a10e5bc25e18b265 gfx2 8000 good no
arcade loc-d.cp7 8192 5e8a3ef3 loc-d.cp7 74983c922eae1326ecd0ff14000851e0b424cc61 gfx2 a000 good no
arcade loc-e.cp6 8192 ce957f1a loc-e.cp6 24177a8dd6dcb377cf8aee7c7b47b26f29e77e20 gfx2 4000 good no
arcade loc-f.cp5 8192 d26053ce loc-f.cp5 b7fb3d1df9b80c056cf131574565addb529645e1 gfx2 6000 good no
arcade loc-g.cp4 8192 57a2b1ff loc-g.cp4 b97539ffd2f5fc8b86fc2f8f233cc26ba16f82ee gfx2 0 good no
arcade loc-h.cp3 8192 3bb4d475 loc-h.cp3 3795ba1640790041da51ebeac8517cc7d32e243e gfx2 2000 good no
arcade sound2.a9 4096 e8ef6519 sound2.a9 261b0463a73b403bc46df3e04f3d12173787d6e7 ssio:cpu 2000 good no
arcade sound3.a10 4096 6b5aeb02 sound3.a10 039d8d664f067bc0d085ad7730ef63dbd6dc387e ssio:cpu 3000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ssio:ay1 audio 2000000
Midway SSIO Sound Board ssio audio
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 ssio:cpu cpu 2000000

Serie

Serie : Tron
  1. Tron Deadly Discs (1982)
  2. Tron (8/9) (1982)
  3. Tron (6/25) (1982)
  4. Tron (6/17) (1982)
  5. Tron (6/15) (1982)
  6. Tron (Germany) (1982)
  7. Discs of Tron (Upright) (1983)
  8. Discs of Tron (Upright alternate) (1983)
  9. Discs of Tron (Environmental) (1983)
  10. Tron (Jpn) (1983)
  11. Tron (Fra) (1984)
  12. Tron (198?)
  13. Tron (2010)

Categories

History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Discs of Tron (c) 1983 Bally Midway.

As Tron, you fling discs at Sark in an attempt to knock him off his platform. Knocking off Sark will advance you to the next level. Other levels vary the level and number of platforms to jump between.

- TECHNICAL -

[Upright model] [No. 696]

The Upright model looses a lot of the bells and whistles of the Environmental model, including speech (see 'Updates' section for more information).

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2 Mhz), M6802 (@ 895 Khz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), Texas Instruments TMS5220 (@ 640 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette colors : 64

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick with a trigger, spinner knob, button

- TRIVIA -

Discs of Tron was released in March 1983.

Also released as "Discs of Tron [Environmental model]".

Discs of Tron was originally designed to be a part of the original "Tron" coin-op, but was cut out at the end and set aside for refinement and release as a stand-alone coin-op in its own right.

Discs of Tron is inspired by the short sequence in the movie (Tron, 1982 Disney) where the character Flynn beats another trapped program and eventually 'derezzes' him, and when Tron is introduced, beating four 'computer players' very early in the movie.

David Bagenski holds the official record for this game with 418,200 points on June 28, 1986.

A Discs of Tron 'prototype' machine was shown at the 2003 classic arcade games show 'California Extreme' in San Jose, California.

- UPDATES -

Upright version 1 :
* First release.

Environmental version :
* Additional PCB boards including sound, speech and light sequencer boards and relays.
* Different EPROM data for video & CPU.

Upright version 2 :
* Added points displaying for 'derezing a disc 2000' on the attract mode.
* Some changes on sound and input menu in Test mode.

- SCORING -

Smash Sark's disc : 100 points.
Smash Sark's energy disc : 200 points.
Smash Sark's chaser : 400 points.
Smash Sark's super chaser : 800 points.
Smash Sark's energy pellet : 600 points.
Graze Sark : 200 points.
Derez Sark : 1000 points.
Derez Sark's Platform : 2000 points.

- SERIES -

1. Tron (1982)
2. Discs of Tron (1983)
3. Tron 2.0 (2003, PC/MAC)
4. TRON (2010, iPhone/iPod)

- STAFF -

Designed and Programmed by : Robert Dinnerman (Bob)
Game Art and Animation : Brian Colin
Concept art : Earl Vickers
Cabinet Design : George Gomez
Hardware : Atish Ghosh
Group Manager : Bill Adams

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Microsoft XBOX 360 [XBLA] (feb.13, 2008)

* HANDHELDS:
[US] Nintendo Game Boy Advance (oct.20, 2004) "Tron 2.0 - Killer App [Model AGB-BTNE-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo Game Boy Advance (nov.12, 2004) "Tron 2.0 - Killer App [Model AGB-BTNP-EUR]"

* COMPUTERS:
Commodore C64 (19??)
[EU] Amstrad CPC (1990) "Disc"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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