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Tank Battalion

  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. Samples list
  12. Serie
  13. Categories
  14. MAMEinfo
  15. History
  16. High scores
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Game infos

Description Tank Battalion
Name tankbatt
Manufacturer Namco
Year 1980
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 11 KB
Romset file 6 files
Romset zip 8 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Maze

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 yes
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 4 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 bct1-1.l3 256 d17518bc f3b0deffa586808bc59e9a24ec1699c54ebe84cc proms 0 good no
arcade tb1-1.1a 2048 278a0b8c 11ea8fe8401b3cd986616a30a759c0ac1a5ce73b maincpu 0 good no
arcade tb1-2.1b 2048 e0923370 8d3dbea877bed9f9c267d8002dc180f6eb1e5a8f maincpu 800 good no
arcade tb1-3.1c 2048 85005ea4 91583081803a5ef600fb90bee34be9edd87f157e maincpu 1000 good no
arcade tb1-4.1d 2048 3dfb5bcf aa24bf74f4d5dc81baf3843196c837e0b731077b maincpu 1800 good no
arcade tb1-5.2k 2048 aabd4fb1 5cff659b531d0f1b6faa503f7c06045c3a209a84 gfx1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M6502 maincpu cpu 1000000
Samples samples audio
Speaker mono audio

Samples list

name
engine1
engine2
explode1
fire

Serie

Serie : Tank Battalion
  1. Tank Battalion (1980)
  2. Tank Battalion (bootleg) (1980)
  3. Tank Battalion (Jpn) (1984)
  4. Tank Battalion (Euro) (1984)
  5. Vs. Battle City (1985)
  6. Tank Battalion (Pineapple) (1989)
  7. Tank Force (US, 2 Players) (1991)
  8. Tank Force (US, 4 Players) (1991)
  9. Tank Force (Japan) (1991)
  10. Tank Battalion (Jpn) (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Brad Oliver]


Artwork available

Samples required


Bugs:

- Tank Battalion is missing the insert coin "ding" and the tank rumbling sound seems off. sxevious (ID 03090)


WIP:

- 0.160: Osso added save state support to Tank Battalion.

- 0.146u3: Mr. CAST, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clone Tank Battalion (bootleg). Removed no dump flag in MAME for PROM that was thought to be missing. The part number as been identified and verified as a socketed 1K RAM.

- 0.143u3: Added 'Unused' dipswitch.

- 22nd October 2009: Smitdogg - Andrew Welburn dumped the prom from Tank Battallion and made some sound samples (attached).

- 0.133u1: Angelo Salese did the following changes to the Tank Battalion: Cleaned-up the irq / NMI firing and fixed irq acks. Cleaned-up the memory map. Added coin counter, coin lockouts and added a second coin chute. Documented some unclear I/Os. Flagged the game as GAME_IMPERFECT_SOUND since it uses samples instead of proper discrete sound emulation. Fixed maincpu rom loading. Added 2nd coin slot.

- 18th August 2008: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for Tank Battalion from btribble.

- 0.125u1: Andrew Gardner merged memory maps for Tank Battalion.

- 0.123u2: Changed palettesize to 512 colors.

- 18th February 2007: Mr. Do - Zorg finished his vector of Tank Battalion bezel.

- 0.108u1: Added new color prom (bct1-1.l3 - Fujitsu MB7052). Fixed rom names.

- 0.31: Brad Oliver added 'Tank Battalion' (Namco 1980). Known issues: The 'moving' tank rumble noise seems to keep playing a second too long. Sample support is all a crapshoot. I have no idea how it really works. TODO: Resistor values on the color prom need to be verified.

- 28th February 1998: LBO - Fixed the coin interrupts. Fixed the color issues, should be 100% if I guessed at the resistor values properly. Fixed the 2nd player cocktail joystick, had the polarity reversed. Hacked the sound sample triggers so they work better.

- 7th March 1997: Virtu-Al dumped Tank Battalion.


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History


Arcade Video game published 39 years ago:

Tank Battalion (c) 1980 Namco, Limited.

Tank Battalion is a multi-directional shooter arcade video game.

The player, controlling a tank, must destroy 20 enemy tanks in each level, which enter the playfield from the top of the screen. The enemy tanks attempt to destroy the player's base (represented on the map as an eagle), as well as the player's tank. A level is completed when the player destroys all 20 enemy tanks, but the game ends if the player's base is destroyed or the player loses all his lives.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : TB

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry

Screen Orientation : Vertical
Video Resolution : 256 x 224 Pixels
Screen Refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 512

Players : 2
Control : 4-Way Joystick
Buttons : 1
=> Fire

- TRIVIA -

Tank Battalion was released in October 1980.

Tank Battalion was licensed for manufacture in the United States by Game Plan, Inc.

A Tank Battalion unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Jekyll & Hyde... Together Again'.

- SERIES -

1. Tank Battalion (1980)
2. Vs. Battle City (1985)
3. Tank Force (1991)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Emerson Arcadia 2001 [US] (1982) "Tanks A Lot" [Model 1007]

* COMPUTERS:
[JP] MSX (1984)
[JP] Sharp X68000 (1989) by Pineapple
[JP] Sharp X68000 (L. Sound)
Sord-M5 [JP]
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [JP] (nov.28, 1997) "Namco History Vol.2"

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2830&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gnu____________________________34.960
lorddraakh_____________________24.180
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