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Minefield

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

Description Minefield
Name minefld
Manufacturer Stern Electronics
Year 1983
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .030
Romset size 33 KB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 16 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
doublejoy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 256 224 60.606061

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ma15c 2048 8bef736b c5c7ce9c40e6fe60a4914b6bbd646ba6853c9043 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade ma15d 2048 f67b3f97 bb15f95eab6594508b5c02af60ed9fff3abd23ee audiocpu 800 good no
arcade ma15f 2048 9f703006 95c1368b6a3e0cea6fa9406155d3b8d1eb9477f4 gfx1 0 good no
arcade ma15h 2048 ed0dccb1 f1554aa5a4d3a70936645e784a94305f642670df gfx1 800 good no
arcade ma22c 4096 1367a035 25e415743a4cbe573a00b81155f6292592e32cdd maincpu 0 good no
arcade ma22e 4096 68946d21 62f4501c6d2e8615b1f176e6cea9a75c912de23e maincpu 1000 good no
arcade ma22f 4096 7663aee5 eacb2283e0555176629a96e9b607f0477927d84c maincpu 2000 good no
arcade ma22h 4096 9787475d 161c6f35cc2ce2a88bcc2e9626ccfe1f5e099f28 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade ma22j 4096 2ceceb54 c7385ce876582515f6b9a529e0101032056e14e7 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade ma22l 4096 85138fc9 b3f2e483150583d2b4daf6a8a308a7f47a0e4f1b maincpu 5000 good no
arcade minefld.clr 32 1877368e 5850e03debe572f72abd91c756c0f8613018a962 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 1789750
Speaker mono audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1789750

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.30 [Mike Balfour, Nicola Salmoria]


TEST MODE:

- Press 1 + F3 to enter test mode.


WIP:

- 0.166: David Haywood and Guru added clone Minefield (The Logicshop, bootleg). Note: Code seems to run correctly now, map inputs and declare game to working.

- 0.140u3: hap fixed missing sound in Minefield.

- 24th September 2010: 3D ARCADE - New Stern 3D cabinet model for Minefield.

- 0.139u2: Phil Bennett fixed Minefield hangs at Post.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize to 354 colors.

- 0.37b16: Fixed gfx1 roms addresses and palettesize to 226 colors.

- 0.31: Mike Coates added gradient filled background in Minefield. Al Kossow added accurate colors to Minefield (apart from the background which is approximate). Known issues: Colors are accurate apart from the background, which is an approximation. Separate controls for player 2 in cocktail mode are not supported.

- 0.30: Mike Balfour and Nicola Salmoria added 'Minefield' (Stern 1983).


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Minefield (c) 1983 Stern Electronics.

A horizontal tank shooter game, with great atmosphere Parallax scrolling background.

The mid-day heat is rapidly becoming unbearable as the supply helicopter lowers your battle tank on to edge of the desert. You have a whole day's travelling ahead, 90 miles across the seemingly endless desert, until you reach the target of your mission - the enemy's desert fortress. Only after you have managed to destroy it, will it be safe for the transport helicopter to collect you and send you on another full-scale mission.

Unfortunately, the going across the desert is not easy. Your tank has run out of super-missiles and you must replenish your armoury from the stockpiles on the way. If you don't collect enough you will not be able to destroy the forts and the enemy base, which is so well protected you need three missile hits to put it out of action. However, you have unlimited supplies of shells for your heavy duty gun that can fire in all directions.

To add to your diffículties, the enemy have buried deadly mines all over the desert floor which you must avoid at all costs, or lose a tank. Once you are on your way, the enemy, knowing of your mission, keep sending all manner of war machines to try and stop your journey. You must take action against them all, and avoid their bombs. After 60 miles of hazardous travel night arrives, and the enemy use this opportunity to try and confuse you by sending a varied mixture of attackers under cover of darkness, Beware, some of them are robot controlled and will try and crash into your tank.

Good luck in your mission-the reward is high. A spare tank every 30.000 points and a chance to record our initials on the tank coomander's roll of honour.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 354

Players : 2
Control : Double 8-way joysticks
Buttons : 1

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by : Chris Oberth

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

sawys__________________________43.870
didyeah________________________27.360
hulkiii________________________11.170