Mame game : tdragon : Thunder Dragon (8th Jan. 1992, unprotected)

Game infos

Description Thunder Dragon (8th Jan. 1992, unprotected)

Name tdragon

Manufacturer NMK (Tecmo license)

Year 1991

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .123u6

Romset size 3.44 MB

Romset file 10 files

Romset zip 1 B

Language English

Genre Shooter

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
joy	8					no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	270	no	256	224	56.18

Dipswitchs

Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- Free Play
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- Free Play
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Hardest
- Normal
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Lives
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
Unused
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	91070.1	65536	bf493d74	6f8f5eff4b71fb6cabda10075cfa88a3f607859e	audiocpu	0	good	no
arcade	91070.10	256	e6ead349	6d81b1c0233580aa48f9718bade42d640e5ef3dd	proms	100	good	no
arcade	91070.2	524288	ecfea43e	d664dfa6698fec8e602523bdae16068f1ff6547b	oki2	0	good	no
arcade	91070.3	524288	ae6875a8	bfdb350b3d3fce2bead1ac60875beafe427765ed	oki1	0	good	no
arcade	91070.4	1048576	3eedc2fe	9f48986c231a8fbc07f2b39b2017d1e967b2ed3c	sprites	0	good	no
arcade	91070.5	1048576	d0bde826	3b74d5fc88a4a9329e101ee72f393608d327d816	bgtile	0	good	no
arcade	91070.6	131072	fe365920	7581931cb95cd5a8ed40e4f5385b533e3d19af22	fgtile	0	good	no
arcade	91070.9	256	cfdbb86c	588822f6308a860937349c9106c2b4b1a75823ec	proms	0	good	no
arcade	91070_68k.7	131072	6e154d8e	29baea24d670ab63149efe281de25cca15b7b863	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	91070_68k.8	131072	121c3ae7	b88446df3b177d40e0b59a481f8e4de212e3afbc	maincpu	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	8000000
OKI6295	oki2	audio	4000000
Speaker	mono	audio
TMP90840	nmk004:mcu	cpu	8000000
YM2203	ymsnd	audio	1500000

Serie

Serie : Thunder Dragon

Dengeki - Big Bang! (Jpn) (1989)
Thunder Dragon (8th Jan. 1992, unprotected) (1991)
Thunder Dragon (4th Jun. 1991, protected) (1991)
Thunder Dragon (bootleg) (1991)
Big Bang (9th Nov. 1993) (1993)
Thunder Dragon 2 (9th Nov. 1993) (1993)
Thunder Dragon 2 (1st Oct. 1993) (1993)
Big Bang (1996)
Big Bang Pro Wrestling (Jpn) (2000)

0.123u6 [Corrado Tomaselli]

0.37b13 [David Haywood]

TEST MODE:

- Press Player 2 buttons 1+2 during reset. "Ready?" will appear. Then press Player 1 button 2 14 (!) times.

WIP:

- 0.155: Added proper NMK004 internal rom [trap15]. Thunder Dragon parent was not protected, I've marked it as such and removed the protection sim from it [David Haywood]. Added TMP90840 (8MHz) CPU2. Changed parent description to 'Thunder Dragon (8th Jan. 1992, unprotected)' and clone (4th Jun. 1991) to 'Thunder Dragon (4th Jun. 1991, protected)'.

- 0.147u2: IQ_132 removed hack patch for clone Thunder Dragon (bootleg) and emulated protection instead.

- 0.133u1: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Thunder Dragon.

- 0.123u6: Corrado Tomaselli added Thunder Dragon (9th Jan. 1992). Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 8MHz. Changed 'Thunder Dragon' to clone 'Thunder Dragon (4th Jun. 1991)'. Renamed (tdragon) to (tdragon1).

- 17th March 2008: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Thunder Dragon (9th Jan. 1992).

- 0.106u3: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.

- 0.103u2: Added 'Demo Sounds' dipswitch.

- 0.95u6: Sonikos fixed dipswitches in Thunder Dragon. Removed 'Demo Sounds' and 15x 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.95u3: Angelo Salese and Nicola Salmoria updated Thunder Dragon - Game now playable. Added YM2203 (1.5MHz) sound and swapped sound1/2 roms.

- 7th April 2005: Angelo Salese - Completely simulated the protection of the original Thunder Dragon set, honestly I thought this was harder to simulate...

- 0.94u2: Added 2x OKI6295 (24242 Hz) sound and changed sound1 ($80000) to sound2 ($0).

- 15th December 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli - Some fixes to nmk16 driver. Added sprites priorities, still few problems with priority = 0 (see Thunder Dragon Level 2).

- 0.86u3: David Haywood ported the RAINE hack for Thunder Dragon to MAME. The hack can be downloaded extra.

- 0.72: Added dipswitches 'Difficulty' and 'Demo Sounds'.

- 0.62: Removed the 2x OKI6295 sound.

- 16th October 2002: R. Belmont added sound emulation to Thunder Dragon bootleg, Many Block and Task Force Harrier.

- 15th April 2001: Brad Oliver fixed Thunder Dragon bootleg ROM descrambler, which was broken in MacMAME.

- 0.37b13: David Haywood added 'Thunder Dragon' (NMK/Tecmo 1991) and clone (Bootleg).

- 3rd March 2001: David Haywood added Thunder Dragon to the Bombjack Twin driver. Marco Cassili partly fixed dipswitch settings in Thunder Dragon.

LEVELS: 7

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History

Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Thunder Dragon (c) 1991 NMK.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), (2x) OKI6295 (@ 24.242 Khz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in August 1991.

Licensed to Tecmo for distribution.

- UPDATES -

The bootleg version uses the "Raiden" (seibu) sound hardware (a Z80 @ 3.579545 Mhz), all musics from "Raiden" are present =).

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Secret Message : Reset game and hold down Player 2 buttons 1 and 2. If you did it fast enough, you will see the message 'Ready?'. If not try again. Press P1 Button 2(x14). If you did this correctly, you should see another message '4th June. 1991'. And you are in the test mode.

- SERIES -

1. Thunder Dragon (1991)
2. Thunder Dragon 2 (1993)

- STAFF -

Producer : Yukio Tomonari
Director : Yosuke Ono
Game designer : Merry Tamio
Programmer : Lieut. Col. Ore
Scenario writer : Ikezu Kenzi
Sound creator : Hide-Kaz
Graphic designers : Ikezu Kenzi, Giant Ama

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gnu___________________________420.800
foxmulder_____________________405.000
olivier_______________________379.200

Thunder Dragon (8th Jan. 1992, unprotected)