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Power Drive

  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 Power Drive
Name powerdrv
Manufacturer Bally Midway
Year 1986
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 3P sim
Added to MAME .036b06
Romset size 480 KB
Romset file 12 files
Romset zip 179 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Driving

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 3
Input buttons
Input coins 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
only_buttons no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 480 30

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade pdrv14b.bin 16384 12ee7fc2 aca7b20efa8b0e2217691fd8de6adf68a2048331 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade pdrv15a.bin 16384 b858b5a8 da622bde13c7156a826d658e176feccf18f33a4b gfx1 0 good no
arcade pdrv3b.bin 32768 d870b704 300d6ff3c92a45f5c4f28c171280174924aecb6c maincpu 0 good no
arcade pdrv4e.bin 65536 de400335 49438bc7c2ba236dcbd4ddc3c985460887dcf110 gfx2 30000 good no
arcade pdrv5b.bin 32768 fa0544ad 55a9cf8c8648761443e4a5a3b214f4d6236cbaff maincpu 8000 good no
arcade pdrv5e.bin 65536 4cb4780e e1fad431257d9ec5e35175e4dc09d21e36ba1fa0 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade pdrv6e.bin 65536 1a1f7f81 d66ff3ef3855e086e665531aef0e079842c48fcb gfx2 10000 good no
arcade pdrv8e.bin 65536 dd3a2adc 0792591eb55603c809d08ee622ecb2c9f5731038 gfx2 0 good no
arcade power_drive_snd_u17.u17 32768 c41de6e4 0391afd96ee80dd1d4a34e661e5df1e01fbbd57a sg:cpu 1 good no
arcade power_drive_snd_u18.u18 32768 cae14c70 04e92f1f144cc8ff13a09a3d38aa65ac05c41c0b sg:cpu 10001 good no
arcade power_drive_snd_u7.u7 32768 78713e78 11382c024536f743e051ba208ae02d0f5e07cf5e sg:cpu 0 good no
arcade power_drive_snd_u8.u8 32768 15714036 77ca5f703eb7f146e13d9c01f4427f6aaa31df39 sg:cpu 10000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AD7533 sg:dac audio
M68000 sg:cpu cpu 8000000
Midway Sounds Good Sound Board sg audio
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 5000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b6 [Aaron Giles]

0.34b8 [Testdriver]


Bugs:

- The cars etc. sprites show up after the 2/4wd display, Sled pulling: In the beginning the sled shows up in the right side of the screen. Jumping: The ramp flickers. RansAckeR (ID 00188)


WIP:

- 0.151: Minor Power Drive doc update / rom label correction [Brian Troha].

- 0.145u7: Added 'Midway Sounds Good Sound Board' sound and left/right Speaker.

- 0.98u1: Aaron Giles fixed sound sync with various sound boards, allowing for kludges to be removed from Power Drive. Removed 4th coin slot.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize from 128 to 64 colors.

- 0.36b7: Changed 68000 CPU2 clock speed to 8MHz.

- 0.36b6: Aaron Giles added 'Power Drive' (Bally Midway 1986).

- 23rd September 1999: Aaron Giles sent in an MCR update with support for Power Drive, Turbo Tag, Spy Hunter 2, Blasted, Arch Rivals, Tri-Sports and Pigskin 621AD and also tons of cleanup.

- 0.34b8: Added (Testdriver) Power Drive.

- 19th September 1998: Dumped Power Drive (Version 2 - 12/02/86).


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History


Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Power Drive (c) 1986 Bally Midway.

Side-view 'Monster Truck' button-slapping game.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
[No. 0E68]

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette colors : 64

Players : 3
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1986.

This game was designed to appeal to "Track & Field" players.

Tim Uyeda holds the official record for this game with 170,900 points.

- STAFF -

Concept By : John Kubik
Programmer : Jeff Nauman
Designed By : Scott Morrison, Sharon Perry, Jeff Nauman
Video Graphics By : Sharon Perry, Scott Morrison
Sounds By : Neil Falconer
Menu By : Tom DiDomenico
Cabinet Design By : Walter Godlewski
Cabinet Art By : Tony Ramunni
Hardware Design By : Cary Mednick, Bob Ploussard
Controls Designed By : George Kolomayets
Technical Support By : Dan Stern, Wayne Stone, Sue Lohse, Joe Ketza, Bob Libbe, Jim Belt

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2024&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

dark_kariya____________________72.000
hulkiii________________________41.100