0.71u2 [Jarek Burczynski]
Artwork available
TODO:
* Graphics leave trails
WIP:
- 0.178: Rom name corrections [Brian Troha].
- 0.155: Osso fixed Great Guns save state crash.
- 0.151: Angelo Salese fixed ROM GFX banking in Great Guns. Added video banking, fixes Great Guns ranking screen. Fixed rom names.
- 0.136u4: Fabio Priuli added driver_data struct and save states to Mazer Blazer driver.
- 0.131u3: Angelo Salese cleaned-up the Mazer Blazer driver. Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 3579545 Hz and the 2x AY-3-8910A to 1789772 Hz.
- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in the Mazer Blazer driver.
- 0.130u2: Demoted Great Guns to have the GAME_NOT_WORKING flag.
- 12th November 2006: Mr. Do - We have Great Guns bezel, thanks to scans by Aaron Giles and cleanup by Ad_Enuff.
- 0.106u1: Changed Light gun input to Stick.
- 0.71u2: Jarek Burczynski added 'Great Guns' (Stern 1983). TODO: Figure out what really should happen during VCU test in Great Guns (patched out at the moment, btw. Mazer Blazer doesn't test VCU). Known issues: Sprites leave trails. Sprites should be transparent (color 0x0f). Screen flickers heavily in Great Guns (double buffer issue?).
- 11th July 2003: Jarek Burczynski added another graphics mode to the Mazer Blazer and Great Guns driver, making Great Guns playable although with some graphics glitches, but Mazer Blazer is not very playable because of missing collision detection.
- 20th January 2003: Jarek Burczynski sent in a work-in-progress driver for Mazer Blazer and Great Guns, they have a variety of problems with graphics and sound.
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Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:
Great Guns (c) 1983 Stern Electronics.
Great Guns is a 1- or 2-player game presenting an attractively scenic and sharply defined series of target racks which generates competitive challenge for the players. Features a variety of target scenes (a total of 9 tantalizing scenes are possible depending on the players skill in shooting).
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 3.5795 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 2
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 4
- TRIVIA -
Great guns has a 'Skill Return' feature which will return player's coin or token in obtaining a pre-set score (adjustable).
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
Hint, Play With A friend! : When two players play, a bonus of additional bullets is awarded each player.
- STAFF -
Designed by Brian Pocklacki, Joseph Joos, Gordon Morison
- CONTRIBUTE -
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