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Mariner

  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 Mariner
Name mariner
Manufacturer Amenip
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .035b01
Romset size 29 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 16 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 imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
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 90 no 256 224 60.606061

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade t4.6e 32 ca42b6dd d1e224e788e3dcf57249e72f03f9fe3fd71e6c12 proms 0 good no
arcade t5.7p 32 1bd88cff 8d1620386ef654d99c51e489c822eeb2e8a4fe76 user2 0 good no
arcade t6.6p 256 ad208ccc 66a4122e46467344a7f3ddcc953a5f7f451411fa user1 0 good no
arcade tm2.2k 4096 efe7ca28 496f8eb2ebc9edeed5b19d87f437f23bbeb2a007 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade tm3.2l 4096 027881a6 47953aa5140a157ade484341609d477510e8342b maincpu 2000 good no
arcade tm4.2m 4096 a0fde7dc ea6700520b1bd31e6c6bfac6f067bbf652676eef maincpu 3000 good no
arcade tm5.2p 4096 d7ebcb8e bddefdc5f04c2f940e08a6968fbd6f930d16b8e4 maincpu 6000 good no
arcade tm8.5f 4096 70ae611f 2686dc6d3910bd58b290d6296f30c552686709f5 gfx1 0 good no
arcade tm9.5h 4096 8e4e999e 195e6896ca2f3175137d8c92777ba32c41e835d3 gfx1 1000 good no
arcade tp1.2h 4096 dac1dfd0 57b9106bb7452640544ba0ab2d2ba290cccb45f0 maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.1 audio 1536000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 3072000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b1 [Zsolt Vasvari]


TODO:

* Complete sound (discret components)


WIP:

- 0.146u1: hap fixed missing sound in Mariner and clone (games have only one 8255).

- 0.145u8: Tafoid fixed crash before OK in Mariner and clone.

- 0.139u3: Changed AY-3-8910A clock speed to 1536000 Hz.

- 0.122u7: RansAckeR verified DIP locations from manuals for clone 800 Fathoms.

- 0.37b16: Changed palettesize from 112 to 114 colors.

- 0.37b2: Added clone 800 Fathoms. Added user1 and user2 prom ($0 - background color and char banking/star placement). Changed palettesize from 106 to 112 colors. Fixed rom names.

- 3rd May 2000: Zsolt Vasvari added another romset of Mariner to the driver.

- 0.35b2: Gerald Vanderick added accurate colors to Mariner. Added prom tm.t4 ($0) and changed palettesize to 106 colors.

- 0.35b1: Zsolt Vasvari added 'Mariner' (Amenip 1981). Known issues: GFX banking not figured out. Sound seems incomplete.

- 12th August 1998: Dumped Mariner.


LEVELS: 5


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Mariner (c) 1981 Amenip.

An old horizontally scrolling shoot'em up with a vertically scrolling background. The player has to guide a submarine armed with torpedoes and missiles through five levels while fighting different underwater terrors. At the end of each area the boss-submarine appears.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 114

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

- TRIVIA -

Mariner is known in US as "800 Fathoms".

When you run the game for the first time, all score ranking entries are set to 10000 pts.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1563&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

majygool_______________________87.800
sawys__________________________82.320
mike_gyver_____________________57.650
nicky634_______________________33.160