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Dr. Toppel's Adventure (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 Dr. Toppel's Adventure (World)
Name drtoppel
Manufacturer Kaneko / Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1987
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .068
Romset size 1.19 MB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 378 B
Language English
Evaluation 90 to 100 (Best Games)
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 yes
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 90 no 256 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade b06-10.pal16l8a.d9.jed 4096 pal 0 nodump no
arcade b06-11.pal16l8a.d6.jed 4096 pal 1000 nodump no
arcade b06-12.pal16l8a.c3.jed 4096 pal 2000 nodump no
arcade b06-13.pal16l8a.c2.jed 4096 pal 3000 nodump no
arcade b06__14.1g 2048 28907072 21c7017af8a8ceb8e43d7e798f48518b136fd45c mcu 0 good no
arcade b19-01.23c1000.13a 131072 a7e8a0c1 a2f017ae5b6472d4202f126d0247b3fe4b1321d1 gfx1 0 good no
arcade b19-02.23c1000.12a 131072 790ae654 5fd6b89918e1539e00c918959b96d2a9394c8abe gfx1 20000 good no
arcade b19-03.23c1000.10a 131072 495c4c5a a23b512cda4c0c535df5508a52faebe401c1797d gfx1 40000 good no
arcade b19-04.23c1000.8a 131072 647007a0 10ec35a15091967038bb26fb116c47d730f69edc gfx1 60000 good no
arcade b19-05.23c1000.7a 131072 49f2b1a5 5e98bb421afaa02471ad02213ea6ca23ff2f0e27 gfx1 80000 good no
arcade b19-06.23c1000.5a 131072 2d39f1d0 2aa89a5cc7f026c8db9922b183319ff66ac4a071 gfx1 a0000 good no
arcade b19-07.23c1000.4a 131072 8bb06f41 a0c182d473317f2cdb31bdf39a2593c032002305 gfx1 c0000 good no
arcade b19-08.23c1000.2a 131072 3584b491 d0aca90708be241bbd3a1097220a85083337a4bc gfx1 e0000 good no
arcade b19-12.am27s29.16f 512 5754e9d8 8c7d29e22c90b1f72929b95675dc15e431aae044 proms 200 good no
arcade b19-13.am27s29.15f 512 6a547980 c82f8dfad028565b4b4e5be1167f2f290c929090 proms 0 good no
arcade b19__09.11c 65536 3e654f82 d9e351d82546b08eb7887ea1d976fa97a259db6e maincpu 0 good no
arcade b19__10.9c 65536 7e72fd25 6035e4db75e6dc57b13bb6e92217d1c2d0ffdfd2 maincpu 10000 good no
arcade b19__15.3e 65536 37a0d3fb f65fb9382af5f5b09725c39b660c5138b3912f53 sub 0 baddump no

Chips list

name tag type clock
I8742 mcu cpu 6000000
Speaker speaker audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 3000000
Z80 sub cpu 6000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.68 [?]

0.36b10 [Quench]


NOTE:

- The board was not in great condition it was sent in a pizza box.


WIP:

- 0.181: Added Taito M-Chip M-001 dump for Extermination. Also works for Dr. Toppel's Adventure and Plump Pop [CAPS0ff]. Added missing PALs as undumped and fixed some rom labels [Lord Nightmare]. Added I8742 (6MHz) CPU3.

- 0.146u4: Fixed maincpu rom address to $10000.

- 0.143u8: Kanikani added DIP locations to Dr. Toppel's Adventure.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (drtopplu) to (drtoppelu) and (drtopplj) to (drtoppelj).

- 0.128u1: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.

- 0.114u4: Fixed rom names.

- 0.68: Added Dr. Toppel's Adventure (World) and clone (US). Changed 'Dr. Toppel Tankentai (Japan)' to clone 'Dr. Toppel's Tankentai (Japan)'. Renamed (drtoppel) to (drtopplj).

- 0.67: Changed description to 'Dr. Toppel Tankentai (Japan)'.

- 0.55: Fixed incorrect colors in Dr. Toppel.

- 0.36b11: Changed description to 'Dr. Toppel's Tankentai (Japan)'.

- 0.36b10: Quench added 'Dr. Toppel Tankentai (Japan)' (Taito 1987).

- 20th November 1999: Quench added Dr. Toppel's Adventure to the TNZS driver.

- 18th November 1999: Nicola Salmoria added Dr. Toppel to the TNZS driver, but it's not yet working correctly.


LEVELS: 7


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History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Dr. Toppel's Adventure (c) 1987 Taito.

A cutesy vertically scrolling shoot'em up where you play as a cute green creature.

- TECHNICAL -

Prom Sticker : B19

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Even if titlescreen says 1987, Dr. Toppel's Adventure was released in March 1988 in US.

Developed by Kaneko.

This game is known in Japan as "Dr. Toppel's Tankentai".

- STAFF -

Directed by : K. Sanbe
Written by : Sakai
Production supervisor : M. Sakaguchi
Programmers : H. Satoh, K. Oikawa, F. Komori, T. Katoh, H. Saigusa, S. Igarashi
Graphic designers : Hakkai, Nono, Vap, N. Nenko, I. Minori, H. Onijust
Graphic editors : H. Saigusa, H. Haruna
Supervising sound editor : Hisayoshi Ogura, H. Matsubara, H. Maekawa, S. Aizawa
Game designer : H. Onijust

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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