Mame game : dpatrol : Desert Patrol [TTL]

Game infos

Description Desert Patrol [TTL]

Name dpatrol

Manufacturer Project Support Engineering

Year 1977

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players ???

Added to MAME .156

Romset size 3 KB

Romset file 4 files

Romset zip 1 B

Language English

Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Clones

dpatrola : Desert Patrol (set 2) [TTL] (1977)

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary

Driver emulation preliminary

Driver color good

Driver sound preliminary

Driver graphic good

Driver cocktail

Driver protection

Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no

Input tilt no

Input players 0

Input buttons

Input coins

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	858	525	29.97003	13500000	858	0	858	525	0	525

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	bd1.d2	1024	e4c8e4ab	0b989ca9369139f212dcea1d1461998f20057db8	roms	0	good	no
arcade	bd1.e2	1024	256b3320	712573e3d9625a84c54bbe2e3edafb8879a14b2e	roms	400	good	no
arcade	bd2.h7	32			roms	c00	nodump	no
arcade	bd2.l1	512	4ddcc237	6bfad6a8bf8387e93c0bb1a04b647690b3701d54	roms	a00	good	no
arcade	bd2.l4	512	bc87c648	c4709d155aa50cc87146abd152a11de618cfd64c	roms	800	good	no
arcade	bd3.d1	128			roms	c20	nodump	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
Netlist CPU Device	maincpu	cpu	1000000000

0.156 [Dave Widel, gregf]

WIP:

- 0.172: Added rom bd2.l1 from clone (set 2) to Desert Patrol [TTL].

- 0.170: Blinddog1, Paul Swan and gregf added clone Desert Patrol (set 2) [TTL].

- 0.156: Added 'Desert Patrol [TTL]' (Project Support Engineering 1977). Skeleton driver for the PSE Desert Patrol, so to document the dumped PROMs [Dave Widel, gregf]. Minor fix [Fabio Priuli].

- 28th January 2007: Mr. Do - Addy cleaned up Desert Patrol artwork for gregf.

- 3rd August 2006: Dave Widel - I've been working on dumping GregF's Desert Patrol board and I was able to pull the image data out of one of the roms. Unfortunately the other image rom seems to be dead, I've been unable as of yet to coax any info out of it. It uses discrete logic instead of a CPU, there's no hope of this being emulated for a very long time so don't get your hopes up of seeing this thing in action.

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History

Arcade Video game published 42 years ago:

Desert Patrol (c) 1977 Project Support Engineering.

One of 3 shooting-type gun games produced by PSE using similar hardware.

Desert Patrol is a timer based, single player game. Players shoot at various aircraft targets flying on screen from left to right or right to left with a mounted machine gun on the control panel. The objective is to successfully shoot down various aircraft targets consisting of planes, jets, and a helicopter within an allotted amount of time. The time setting is operator adjustable with a pot for speeding up or slowing down of how fast the time counts down to zero.

If an aircraft is successfully hit, a figure then appears on the screen as a parachuting pilot. Players have to avoid hitting the pilot or else points are deducted from point total and also the ability to shoot gun is disabled for a few seconds. This is the penalty for shooting down a parachuting pilot.

If player shoots down the parachuting pilot, the parachute disappears and the pilot then immediately plummets to the ground at a fast rate. When that happens, a scream sound effect is played as pilot plummets to the ground. The machine gun is then disabled for a few seconds as a form of a penalty for shooting at the parchuting pilot.

- TECHNICAL -

The machine gun has a recoil action when pressing the fire button and shakes around when firing.

The game is non-cpu, but uses roms and proms to store game data, game screen images and a scream sound effect.

The scream sound effect is stored in a ROM chip and is the only audio sound effect for Desert Patrol that is stored in a rom. The audio pcb uses discrete components to generate remaining sound effects and also to control how scream sound effect is played.

Desert Patrol uses an amber plexiglass overlay to provide color to images and some status text to give meaning to the on-screen numbers. The overlay is seated inside the cab, near the bottom of cab and just above the monitor.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Desert Patrol [TTL]