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Mad Crasher

  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 Mad Crasher
Name madcrash
Manufacturer SNK
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .036b02
Romset size 131 KB
Romset file 19 files
Romset zip 43 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
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 288 216 60 3870720 288 0 288 224 8 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade m1-prom.j5 1024 07678443 267951886d8b031dd633dc4823d9bd862a585437 proms 800 good no
arcade m2-prom.j4 1024 9fc325af a180662f168ba001376f25f5d9205cb119c1ffee proms 400 good no
arcade m3-prom.j3 1024 d19e8a91 b21fbdb8ed8d0b27c3ec78cf2e115624f69c67e0 proms 0 good no
arcade p1 8192 2dcd036d 4da42ab1e502fff57f5d5787df406289538fa484 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade p10 8192 6eb8a87c 375377df22b331175aaf1f9eb8d8ad83e8e146f6 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade p11 8192 67174956 65a921176294212971c748932a9010f45e1fb499 fg_tiles 0 good no
arcade p12 8192 085094c1 5c5599d1ed7f8a717ada54bbd28383a22e09a8fe bg_tiles 0 good no
arcade p13 8192 48c4ade0 3628abb4f425b8c9d8659c8e4082735168b0f3e9 tx_tiles 0 good no
arcade p14 8192 07e807bc f651d3a5394ced8e0a1b2be3aa52b3e5a5d84c37 sp16_tiles 4000 good no
arcade p15 8192 a74149d4 e8011a8d4d1a98a0ffe67fc28ea9fa192ca80321 sp16_tiles 2000 good no
arcade p16 8192 6153611a b352f92b233761122f74830e46913cc4df800259 sp16_tiles 0 good no
arcade p2 8192 cc30ae8b ffedc747b9e0b616a163ff8bb1def318e522585b audiocpu 2000 good no
arcade p3 8192 e3c8c2cb b3e39eacd2609ff0fa0f511bff0fc83e6b3970d4 sub 8000 good no
arcade p4 8192 5664d699 5bfa57a0f8d718d522003da6513a70d7ca3a87a3 sub 0 good no
arcade p5 8192 dea2865a 0807281e35159ee29fbe2d1aa087b57804f1a14f sub 2000 good no
arcade p6 8192 e25a9b9c 26853611e3898907239e15f1a00f62290889f89b sub 4000 good no
arcade p7 8192 55b14a36 7d5566a6ba285af92ddf560efda60a79f1da84c2 sub 6000 good no
arcade p8 8192 ecb2fdc9 7dd79fbbe286a9f18ed2cae45b1bfab765e549a1 maincpu 0 good no
arcade p9 8192 0a87df26 327710452bdc5dbb931abc853957225814f224c5 maincpu 2000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 2000000
SNK Wave wave audio 8000000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b2 [Phil Stroffolino, Carlos A. Lozano]

0.36b1 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.135u1: Andrew Welburn and David Haywood added clone Mad Crusher (Japan).

- 12th November 2009: Smitdogg - Andrew Welburn dumped Mad Crusher (Japanese version of Mad Crasher).

- 0.127u3: Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.127u2: Nicola Salmoria merged driver with SNK, with all resulting fixes (removed hacks, correct shadows, scroll offsets etc). Fixed palette decoding of early SNK games (Mad Crasher). The least significan bits were assigned incorrectly. Fixed emulation of the "SNK Wave" custom sound and made it into a proper sound core. Fixed sp16_tiles rom loading. Replaced Namco sound with SNK Wave (8MHz). Changed visible area to 288x216 and VSync to 60Hz.

- 0.124u2: Added 'Scroll Speed' dipswitch.

- 0.93: Added clock parameter to Namco sound (31250 Hz).

- 0.72: Acho A. Tang fixed Mad Crasher bad background, sound effects and foreground priority. Changed visible area to 256x216.

- 0.63: Changed cpu1 roms to 'GOOD'. Mad Crasher fails the ROM test, but ROMs are verified to be good.

- 0.59: Added dipswitches 'Unused SW 1-0', 'Bonus Life', 'Bonus Life Occurence', 'Unused SW 2-6' and 'Unknown SW 2-7'.

- 23rd January 2002: Smitdogg submitted a fix for the Mad Crasher dipswitch settings.

- 0.57: Changed cpu1 roms ($0, 2000, 4000) to 'ROM NEEDS REDUMP'.

- 0.37b12: Changed VSync to 60.606060Hz.

- 26th July 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in an update to Marvin's Maze, Mad Crasher and Vanguard II with improved sound.

- 23rd July 1999: Phil Stroffolino sent in a driver for Mad Crasher.

- 0.36b2: Phil Stroffolino added 'Mad Crasher' (SNK 1984).

- 0.36b1: Added (Testdriver) Mad Crasher.


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Mad Crasher (c) 1984 SNK.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : A2005

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 3.36 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz), Namco (@ 31.25 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 216 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette Colors : 288

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

- TRIVIA -

Releases in December 1984. This is the first 3-D isometric game from SNK.

Known in Japan as "Mad Crusher".

Jack Gale holds the official record for this game with 844,988 points.

Default highscore table :
NO. SCORE INIT.
1. 10000 SNK
2. 10000 SNK
3. 10000 SNK
4. 10000 SNK
5. 10000 SNK

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

lorddraakh____________________139.580
gerhard_schindler_____________120.856
olivier________________________82.536
nicky634_______________________64.476
didyeah________________________27.638
hulkiii________________________17.538