Mame game : batsugun : Batsugun

Game infos

Description Batsugun

Name batsugun

Manufacturer Toaplan

Year 1993

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .101u3

Romset size 6.75 MB

Romset file 9 files

Romset zip 2 B

Language English

Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)

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 yes

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	320	240	59.637405	6750000	432	0	320	262	0	240

Configuration

name	tag	mask
Region Name Europe Value 144 Default yes Name Europe (Taito Corp.) Value 128 Default no Name Hong Kong Value 48 Default no Name Hong Kong (Taito Corp.) Value 32 Default no Name Japan Value 240 Default no Name Japan (Taito Corp.) Value 208 Default no Name Korea Value 16 Default no Name Korea (Unite Trading) Value 0 Default no Name Southeast Asia Value 112 Default no Name Southeast Asia (Taito Corp.) Value 96 Default no Name Taiwan Value 80 Default no Name Taiwan (Taito Corp.) Value 64 Default no Name USA Value 176 Default no Name USA (Taito Corp.) Value 160 Default no	JMPR	240

Dipswitchs

Allow Continue
- No
- Yes
Bonus Life
- 1000k only
- 1500k only
- 500k and every 600k
- None
Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
Continue Price
- Discount
- Normal
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Normal
- Very Hard
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Invulnerability (Cheat)
- Off
- On
Lives
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 5
Service Mode
- Off
- On
Test Switch
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	tp030_1a.bin	524288	cb1d4554	ef31f24d77e1c13bdf5558a04a6253e2e3e6a790	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	tp030_2.bin	262144	276146f5	bf11d1f6782cefcad77d52af4f7e6054a8f93440	oki	0	good	no
arcade	tp030_3h.bin	1048576	ed75730b	341f0f728144a049486d996c9bb14078578c6879	gp9001	100000	good	no
arcade	tp030_3l.bin	1048576	3024b793	e161db940f069279356fca2c5bf2753f07773705	gp9001	0	good	no
arcade	tp030_4h.bin	1048576	d482948b	31be7dc5cff072403b783bf203b9805ffcad7284	gp9001	300000	good	no
arcade	tp030_4l.bin	1048576	fedb9861	4b0917056bd359b21935358c6bcc729262be6417	gp9001	200000	good	no
arcade	tp030_5.bin	1048576	bcf5ba05	40f98888a29cdd30cda5dfb60fdc667c69b0fdb0	gp9001_1	0	good	no
arcade	tp030_6.bin	1048576	0666fecd	aa8f921fc51590b5b05bbe0b0ad0cce5ff359c64	gp9001_1	100000	good	no
arcade	tp030_u19_gal16v8b-15.bin	279	f71669e8	ec1fbe04605fee864af4b01f001af227938c9f21	plds	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	16000000
OKI6295	oki	audio	4000000
Speaker	mono	audio
V25	audiocpu	cpu	16000000
YM2151	ymsnd	audio	3375000

0.141u1 [Parodier]

0.36RC2 [Quench]

Artwork available

WIP:

- 0.172: Alex Cmaylo added clone Batsugun (Korean PCB). Different code revision, no idea what's actually changed as one small change in these things shifts a lot of code and jump addresses around.

- 0.153: Quench added pld ($0 - tp030_u19_gal16v8b-15.bin) to Batsugun.

- 0.144: Added 3rd button.

- 0.141u4: Alex Jackson added button 3 to clone Batsugun (Special Ver.). It's a full auto fire button like Cave games have. The service mode input test doesn't show it, presumably because Toaplan didn't bother to update the service mode code from the original version of the game. Changed description of clone (Special Ver.) to 'Batsugun - Special Version'.

- 0.141u2: Alex Jackson removed excessive CPU interleaving from Batsugun, left over from when I was initially hooking up the V25.

- 0.141u1: Alex Jackson fixed missing music and some sound effects in Batsugun. Changed (set 2) to parent 'Batsugun' and (set 1) to clone 'Batsugun (older set)'. Renamed (batsugun) to (batsuguna) and (batsuguna) to (batsugun).

- 0.139u3: David Haywood fixed incorrect VDP mixing in Batsugun.

- 0.139u2: David Haywood fixed Toaplan2 VDP mixing in Batsugun. This fixed the tiles/tiles and tiles/sprites priorities problems. Removed 2nd screen.

- 0.139u1: Added dual screen output.

- 0.138u3: David Haywood improved V25 logging for Batsugun.

- 0.138u2: Roberto Zandona fixed layer-layer priorities in Batsugun; sprite-sprite priorities are wrong.

- 0.138u1: David Haywood reworked Toaplan2 rendering to render tilemaps / sprites in a single pass, should be more accurate to hardware. Note, this further breaks the mixing in Batsugun and Dogyuun because the previous hacks can no longer work with the new rendering code. These games have been demoted to NOT_WORKING status until a better solution is found; they never worked properly anyway due to the extent of the video hacks needed to support them. Fixed ending and credits text and some graphics garbage at level one start and first boss in Batsugun. Roberto Zandona fixed sprite-sprite priorities in Batsugun and Dogyuun.

- 0.135u1: David Haywood cleaned up Toaplan2 V25 support, enabled Batsugun V25 (16 MHz) CPU and added decryption table info for the other games. Improved the V25S memory map in Batsugun, now CPUs starts to communicate properly, needs to find & implement the irq that clears the RAM flag and decrypt the relative opcodes in that.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (batsugna) to (batsuguna) and (batugnsp) to (batsugunsp).

- 0.130u3: Roberto Zandona fixed a sprite problem at the level 4 boss of Batsugun.

- 0.124u3: David Haywood made some changes to the 'V25' code in Toaplan 2 driver. Batsugun does upload what looks to be the entire program, unencrypted. If enabled it runs to the point of waiting for interrupts, however, for those it looks like it needs a real V25 core with register banks etc.

- 24th September 2007: Mr. Do - Some more instruction cards courtesy of Tormod: Batsugun.

- 0.101u3: Parodier added clone Batsugun (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Batsugun (set 1)'.

- 0.88: Changed MSM6295 clock speed to 24242 Hz.

- 0.69u3: Changed description of clone (Special Ver.) to 'Batsugun (Special Ver.)'.

- 0.67: Changed description of clone 'Batsugun Special Ver.' to ''Batsugun (Special Ver.)'.

- 0.60: Angelo Salese fixed disappearing enemies in later levels of Batsugun.

- 26th April 2002: Angelo Salese submitted a fix for some tilemap priority bugs in Batsugun.

- 0.37b10: Fixed gfx1/2 rom loading. Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 20454 Hz.

- 0.37b9: Added new CPU1 rom to Batsugun and clone. Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 20000 Hz.

- 0.37b6: Quench added clone 'Batsugun Special Ver.'. Added OKI6295 (22050 Hz) and changed YM2151 clock speed to 3375000 Hz. Added 'Territory' dipswitch.

- 0.36: Replaced the 2MB gfx1 roms with 1MB.

- 0.36RC2: Quench added 'Batsugun' (Toaplan 1993).

- 12th March 2000: Quench sent in a Toaplan2 update with support for Ghox, V-Five, Dogyuun and Batsugun.

LEVELS: 5

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History

Arcade Video game published 26 years ago:

Batsugun (c) 1993 Toaplan.

A vertically scrolling shoot'em up game. As is the standard with most arcade shooters, the player controls their ship with a joystick and two buttons. One button (Fire) shoots the main guns, and the other button (Bomb) releases a smart bomb that spreads huge energy balls all around the player's ship.

As enemies are destroyed, the player gains experience points that are separate from the score. For every 288 experience points gained, the main gun will 'level up', becoming much stronger. This is analogous to experience points and leveling up in role playing games. The weapon can only level up twice, so after it has achieved its maximum level, 288 experience points will grant the player an extra bomb.

The player can also grab P icons to increase the power of the current level gun. A maximum of five "P"s can be collected per experience level; getting more after this gives extra points instead.

Collecting B icons increases the number of bombs, to a maximum of 7.

Apart from destroying enemies, points can be gained from collecting golden V-shaped medals. After the level is finished, 3000 points are awarded for every small one, and 5000 points for every large one. If the player's ship is destroyed during a level, all medals collected are lost.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : TP-030

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.375 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 24.242 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
=> [A] Shot, [B] Bomb

- TRIVIA -

Batsugun was released in February 1993.

BATSUGUN means 'Preeminence', 'Predominace' or 'By far the best'.
BATSU means 'Dominant', 'Outstanding' or 'Excel'.
GUN is originaly 'Group' or 'Brigade', but also means 'Common Level'.
BATSU also means a cross (X) mark, so there's an X under the logo of Batsugun.

Licensed to Taito for world distribution and to Unite Trading for Korea.

This is the last shoot'em up and the first 'non-endless' game by Toaplan. A special version of Batsugun existed, originally it was only for the AOU show (Arcade Operators Union, an arcade game show held in Japan every year) and not for sale. After the Toaplan bankruptcy, the board started to appear on the second hand market.

Heralded by some as the first 'maniac shooter', Batsugun involved employees who would go on to form and work at Cave and continue to work in this subgenre. Batsugun saw an evolution in the use of complex bullet and enemy patterns and player fire power and hit-box.

The scoring trick on the fourth boss (destroy the two giant laser cannons, let the tanks appearing from the hangars fill the ramps and become red, bomb for 59,630 points a tank) was one source of inspiration for "Battle Garegga"'s gameplay.

Pony Canyon released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Batsugun - PCCB-00151) on 18/03/1994.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.

- STAFF -

Excecutive producer : Yuko Tataka
Programmers : Suki! Suki! Kohchan No-Make, Sigue Hayasato, Tsuneki Ikeda (Ikeda In Naeba), Yoshitatsu Sakai (the 3rd)
Graphic design : Yuko Tataka, Takeshi Kamamoto, Junya Inoue (Joker Jun)
Characters designed by : Junya Inoue (Joker Jun)
Musics composed by : Yoshitatsu Sakai (the 3rd)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Saturn (1996) "Batsugun [Model T-20605G]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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Batsugun