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Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 1)

  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. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 1)
Name ptblank
Manufacturer Namco
Year 1994
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .053
Romset size 16 MB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 4 B
Language English
Evaluation 90 to 100 (Best Games)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
lightgun 0 255 50 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 288 224 59.7 4504723 288 0 288 262 0 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade eeprom 2048 95760d0f 94ac5a261d9afc77c2a163a50950b0e86b1f8041 eeprom 0 good no
arcade gn1-chr0.8j 1048576 a5c61246 d1d9f286b93b5b9880160029c53384d13c08dd8a tile 0 good no
arcade gn1-chr1.9j 1048576 c8c59772 91de633a300e3b25a919579eaada5549640ab6f0 tile 100000 good no
arcade gn1-chr2.10j 1048576 dc96d999 d006a401762b57fef6716f56eb3a7edcb3d3c00e tile 200000 good no
arcade gn1-chr3.11j 1048576 4352c308 785c13df219dceac2f940519141665b630a29f86 tile 300000 good no
arcade gn1-sha0.5m 524288 86d4ff85 a71056b2bcbba50c834fe28269ebda9719df354a tilemask 0 good no
arcade gn1-spr0.5b 524288 71773811 e482784d9b9ebf8c2e4a2a3f6f6c4dc8304d2251 c75data 0 good no
arcade gn1-voi0.5j 2097152 05477eb7 f2eaacb5dbac06c37c56b9b131230c9cf6602221 c352 0 good no
arcade gn1obj0l.ic1 2097152 06722dc8 56fee4e17ed707fa6dbc6bad0d0281fc8cdf72d1 sprite 1 good no
arcade gn1obj0u.ic2 2097152 fcefc909 48c19b6032096dd80777aa6d5eb5f90463095cbe sprite 0 good no
arcade gn1obj1l.ic3 2097152 48468df7 c5fb9082c84ac2ffceb6f5f4cbc1d40047c55e3d sprite 400001 good no
arcade gn1obj1u.ic4 2097152 3109a071 4bb16df5a3aecdf37baf843edfc82952d46f5227 sprite 400000 good no
arcade gn2_mprlb.15b 524288 fe2d9425 51b166a629cbb522720d63720558816b496b6b76 maincpu 2 good no
arcade gn2_mprub.13b 524288 3bf4985a f559e0d5f55d23d886fe61bd7d5ca556acc7f87c maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
C352 c352 audio 24192000
C75 (M37702) mcu cpu 16128000
M68EC020 maincpu cpu 24192000
Speaker rspeaker audio

Serie

Serie : Point Blank
  1. Gun Bullet (Japan, GN1) (1994)
  2. Gun Bullet (World, GN3 Rev B) (1994)
  3. Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 1) (1994)
  4. Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 2) (1994)
  5. Point Blank (USA) (1998)
  6. Gunbarl (Japan, GNB4/VER.A) (1999)
  7. Point Blank 2 (GNB5/VER.A) (1999)
  8. Point Blank 2 (USA) (1999)
  9. Point Blank 2 (US, GNB3/VER.A) (1999)
  10. Point Blank 3 (Asia, GNN2 Ver.A) (2000)
  11. Point Blank 3 (USA) (2001)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.53 [?]

0.37b16 [Phil Stroffolino]


Bugs:

- Gun calibration error. MAMEBase (ID 02686)

- There's a vertical line of garbage on the door of the "Shoot 14 criminals" stage. Heihachi_73 (ID 01132)


WIP:

- 0.166: caius, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clone 'Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 2)' (Namco 1994). Changed parent description to 'Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B, set 1)'.

- 0.153: Added default EEPROM.

- 0.151: Documented how the Point Blank/Gun Bullet protection works [Guru, R. Belmont].

- 1st September 2010: Guru - I bought a couple of not working Point Blank PCBs with gun boards (that Smitdogg checked and re-dumped some time ago then sent here), which are now repaired and working fine. That should get my buddy at Jomac off my back for a while since they are very popular in arcades still and are often in need of repair.

- 0.138u2: Guru, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union replaced sound data rom for the Point Blank sets that was incorrectly dumped. The new dump has been verified on 3 different PCBs.

- 0.133u2: Brian Troha and Dumping Union added clone Gun Bullet (World, GN3 Rev B). Changed parent description to 'Point Blank (World, GN2 Rev B)' and clone 'Gun Bullet (Japan)' to 'Gun Bullet (Japan, GN1)'. Renamed (gunbulet) to (gunbuletj).

- 4th August 2009: Smitdogg - Thanks to Brian Troha we got an English version of Gun Bullet (World, GN3 Rev B).

- 0.127u4: R. Belmont changed Point Blank to use real C75 Namco NB-BIOS, read controls the real hardware way. Replaced pr1data.8k with C75.bin.

- 0.78u5: Phil Stroffolino hooked up a private (placeholder) implementation of zdrawgfx() for C355 sprite rendering, adding sprite-tilemap orthogonality for all games using that chip. This fixes problems with the "save Dr. Dan from the flaming torches" stage. The middle 2/3rds of the playing field block out the sprites.

- 0.70u4: Phil Stroffolino fixes the window registers in Namco NB-1 sprite drawing, this fixes the "Tank" stage of Point Blank.

- 20th March 2003: Phil Stroffolino fixed the gun handling in Point Blank / Gun Bullet.

- 0.61: Light gun support [Bryan McPhail].

- 0.53: Added Point Blank (Namco).

- 0.37b16: Phil Stroffolino added 'Gun Bullet (Japan)' (Namco 1994). Known issues: gunbulet needs force feedback.

- 16th June 2001: Phil Stroffolino sent in another Namco NB-1 driver update, adding gun controls but the support is not yet perfect.

- 13th June 2001: Phil Stroffolino sent in a preliminary Namco NB-1 driver which supports Gun Bullet, but controls aren't hooked up yet and graphics roms are corrupt.


LEVELS: 4 - 16 (4: training mode; 16: beginner, expert, very hard)


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Who Dunit

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Point Blank 3

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Zero Point

Zero Point 2

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History


Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Point Blank (c) 1994 Namco.

A challenging light gun game where players can select from a variety of target practice mini games.

Many games require skill and accuracy, such as shooting cardboard cutouts of criminals, a one-shot chance at hitting a leaf, aiming for a specific toy from a shelf, and shooting at objects that move across the screen or rush towards the player.

Your 'judgement' is based on your shooting accuracy in some games, and others require you to hit a certain number of targets within the given time.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System NB-1 hardware
Game ID : GN

Main CPU : Motorola 68EC020 (@ 24.192 Mhz), M37702 (@ 16.128 Mhz)
Sound Chips : C352 (@ 16.128 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released in October 1994.

This game is known in Japan as "Gun Bullet".

Julian Hicks holds the official record for this game with 135,730 points.

Soundtrack releases :
Gun Bullet / Namco Game Sound Express Vol.22 [Victor Entertainment - VICL-15046 - Sep 21, 1995]

- SERIES -

1. Point Blank (1994)
2. Point Blank 2 (1999)
3. Point Blank 3 (2001)

- STAFF -

Planning director : S. Tohyama
Game coordinator : Y. Kounoe
'Oyaji' programmer : Yasushi .O
Main programmer : S. Yamada
Programmer : Kenichi. T
CG designers : H.K, D. Onizuka
3-D designers : Shigemasa, Gonta
'Oyaji' Dotter : Norion5
Music & Sound FX : Takayuki Aihara, Ishikavan, Hiroto Sasaki (Saman)
Mechanical designers : Ohara, Inoue
System constructors : T. Inui, KJ-, Masayuki. K
Industrial designers : Tohru. Y, H. Shimane

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation (1998)
Sony PlayStation 2 (2002, "Gunvari Collection + Time Crisis")
Nintendo DS (2006, "Unou no Tatsujin Ganbare Trainer")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



mode: beginner

lorddraakh_____________________22.819


mode: expert

lorddraakh_____________________19.302


mode: training

lorddraakh_____________________31.882


mode: very-hard

lorddraakh_____________________11.437