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Crater Raider

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Dipswitchs
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Crater Raider
Name crater
Manufacturer Bally Midway
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 220 KB
Romset file 22 files
Romset zip 62 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

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 yes
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 255 25 10 yes
joy vertical2 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 yes 480 480 30

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade crcpu.10d 8192 44ae4cbd 2188bf697f1b3fcbb2ad6cbd4d9098e3b8d56a95 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade crcpu.10g 4096 6fe53c8d ceb04916af42d58f3173e5986756a0db8be11999 gfx3 0 good no
arcade crcpu.3a 8192 9d73504a 23633ce43745c12b59916b85ca92a98e889b884e gfx1 0 good no
arcade crcpu.4a 8192 42a47dff cb936ac7ba3dd740c626a11bd6ee3c87dad4e311 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade crcpu.5a 8192 2fe4a6e1 329cf9f71b7cbf2a13a05f9cd3397d73c69da893 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade crcpu.6a 8192 d0659042 8f28155eb2725eaf6d1c410f76a88969541aeef3 gfx1 6000 good no
arcade crcpu.6d 8192 ad31f127 d03506570cd08bcdb39d7c6b9de4f9628c7373e9 maincpu 0 good no
arcade crcpu.7d 8192 3743c78f 05605041c7a5ef2a8271cc3dd1aae4c82c8797eb maincpu 2000 good no
arcade crcpu.8d 8192 c95f9088 2162c4ef2cc29857b10d64ec9e09ca6d086fa9e7 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade crcpu.9d 8192 a03c4b11 6a442a0828942dc51dbe0d3f19be855a52c12f39 maincpu 6000 good no
arcade crsnd1.a8 4096 90bf2c4c 7adfbf2251b5d46043d614554320e2fe544cc570 ssio:cpu 1000 good no
arcade crsnd2.a9 4096 3b8deef1 a14186a33a7b5ca07086ce44fb1c8c64900654d0 ssio:cpu 2000 good no
arcade crsnd3.a10 4096 05803453 1bba85e6494b4f67cea82d61e6cd341337bca998 ssio:cpu 3000 good no
arcade crsnd4.a7 4096 fd666cb5 257174266e264db8ac9af5f2296fd0a22847f85f ssio:cpu 0 good no
arcade crvid.a10 16384 7a22d6bc c7f97bdf13d52665e61d83b7a8f1621c6df0dbf2 gfx2 18000 good no
arcade crvid.a3 16384 2c2f5b29 f7c4caabd116d3f861e70c6740cd058479477da7 gfx2 4000 good no
arcade crvid.a4 16384 579a8e36 1053234b82877f0f8d1a2ce745b853899cfbcc22 gfx2 0 good no
arcade crvid.a5 16384 9bdec312 3a3b44d4f73aad1f0ab2591be479f8472583f20a gfx2 c000 good no
arcade crvid.a6 16384 5bf954e0 8ff9549a0b5d7e6ad4671c29bf04bb9c26a995ad gfx2 8000 good no
arcade crvid.a7 16384 9fa307d5 ec9ba9c372d62132f02e2a87ed5f602c360755e9 gfx2 14000 good no
arcade crvid.a8 16384 4b913498 8aa83fd6f60d6176a8781a906ba75c663ac3f3cb gfx2 10000 good no
arcade crvid.a9 16384 811f152d f9dee6f95d903a41890fe58bfc0528fecb1d6902 gfx2 1c000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ssio:ay1 audio 2000000
Midway SSIO Sound Board ssio audio
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 ssio:cpu cpu 2000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Aaron Giles]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.148: MASH fixed char color offset in Crater Raider (wrong since MAME 0.36b6).

- 0.145u7: Added 'Midway SSIO Sound Board' sound. Moved Sound Board prom 82s123.12d to midssio device set.

- 5th August 2007: Mr. Do - Crater Raider bezel, vectored by Jcroach and with color correction by Ad_Enuff.

- 0.98u3: Fixed gfx2 rom loading.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize from 132 to 68 colors.

- 0.33b7: Aaron Giles fixed colors in Crater Raider.

- 0.31: Aaron Giles added 'Crater Raider' (Bally Midway 1984).


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Rescue 2 survivors to complete mission.

- Go down a crater with a survivor to increase your bonus. Find the number of survivors indicated and transport from home base to collect your bonus.

- Go down a crater with a green flag to increase your shield power.

- First bonus TANK awarded at 3000 pts. Additional TANKS awarded at 15000, 50000, 100000, 150000, 200000 and 250000 pts.


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Crater Raider (c) 1984 Bally Midway.

The player is a tank trying to rescue hostages on worlds with lots of craters (that the player can descend into). Rescuing all hostages, while avoiding (or destroying) other tanks and UFOs advances the player to the next level.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
[No. 0A57]

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 480 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette colors : 68

Players : 2
Control : Dial
Buttons : 3

- STAFF -

PROGRAMMED BY: TOM DIDOMENICO
GRAPHICS BY: SHARON PERRY
SOUNDS BY: MARK BARTLOW

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gnu____________________________14.500
hulkiii_________________________1.950