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Road Blaster (Data East LD)

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

Description Road Blaster (Data East LD)
Name rblaster
Manufacturer Data East
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .132u5
Romset size 72 KB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 26 B
Language English
Genre Driving

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary
Driver emulation preliminary
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
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 704 480 59.940057 28636362 910 0 704 525 44 524

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 00.bin 8192 084d6ae2 f49eb2d53bad5af88a12535ba628c9decce690ff maincpu e000 good no
arcade 01.bin 8192 e4733c49 357f46a80273f8a365d16cddf5e2caaeeacaf4ad maincpu c000 good no
arcade 02.bin 8192 6c20335d b28e80f112553af8e3fba9ebbfc10d1f56396ac1 audiocpu e000 good no
arcade 03.bin 8192 d1ff5ffb 29df207e225e3b0477d5566d256198310d6ae526 gfx1 0 good no
arcade 04.bin 8192 da2c84d9 3452b0e2a45fa771e226c3a3668afbf3ceb0ec11 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade 05.bin 8192 4608b516 44af4be84a0b807ea0813ce86376a4b6fd927e5a gfx1 8000 good no
arcade 06.bin 8192 d1ff5ffb 29df207e225e3b0477d5566d256198310d6ae526 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade 07.bin 8192 da2c84d9 3452b0e2a45fa771e226c3a3668afbf3ceb0ec11 gfx1 6000 good no
arcade 08.bin 8192 4608b516 44af4be84a0b807ea0813ce86376a4b6fd927e5a gfx1 a000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 1500000
M6502 audiocpu cpu 4000000
Sony LDP-1000 laserdisc audio
Speaker rspeaker audio

Disks list

name md5 sha1 merge region index status optional
rblaster 1563ea907d461592e17646848fdf2dce904bba32 laserdisc 0 good no

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.132u5 [Angelo Salese]


LaserDisc required


WIP:

- 0.146u5: Added Road Blaster LaserDisc image. Added inputs, sound, graphics and fixed colors to Road Blaster HW [Angelo Salese]. Added 8-way Joystick, 3x buttons and 2x coin slots. Added dipswitches 3x 'DSWA' and 'Service Mode'.

- 0.144u6: Replaced 'Laserdisc Analog' sound with 'Pioneer LD-V1000'.

- 0.143u4: Changed VSync to 59.940057 Hz.

- 0.143: Re-added Z80 (2.5MHz) CPU3.

- 0.142u3: Removed Z80 CPU3.

- 0.132u5: Angelo Salese added 'Road Blaster (Data East LD)' (Data East 1985).


Other Emulators:

* DAPHNE



LaserDisc: 38.6 GB (Compressed: 12.7)

History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Road Blaster (c) 1985 Data East Corp.

Your mission is to seek out a gang of bikers who attacked and killed your wife. You are behind the wheel of a supped-up sports car, weaving in and out of traffic and other obstacles while in pursuit of the bikers.

- TECHNICAL -

This game uses a laser disc.

Film Produced by Toei Animation Co., Ltd.

- TRIVIA -

Road Blaster was released in August 1985.

The player's car makes a cameo in "Double Dragon" as soon as the garage door opens in the beginning of the game.

- STAFF -

Game Staff
Producer & Director : Yoshihisa Kishimoto (Yoshi Kishimoto)
Programmers : Shintaro Kuma
Sound Programmers : Hironobu Mohre, Masa Yoshihara
Engineers : Takatoshi Kato, Junichi Nabe

Picture Staff
Producer : Shuichi Sato, Tadao Okubo
Co-Producer : Kenkichi Matsushita
Director : Hideki Takayama
Chief key Animato r: Yoshinobu Inano
Background Design : Yoshiyuki Yamamoto
Animators : Baik Nam Yeul, Shinichi Imaguma, Shigeo Matoba, Kim Dae Jung, Kaoru Shinbo
Xerox & Paint : Yoshihiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Okada
Camera : Toshiharu Takei
Editor : Shinichi Fukumitsu
Music Director : Michael K. Nakamura
Sound Effects Editor : Kenichi Mori

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sega Mega-CD [JP] (dec.18, 1992) "Road Blaster FX [Model T-32124]"
Sega Mega-CD [EU] (1993) "Road Avenger [Model 4603-50]"
[US] Sega CD (1993) "Road Avenger [Model T-6207]"
[JP] Sega Saturn (oct.20, 1995) "Interactive Movie Action - Thunder Storm & Road Blaster [Model SLPS-00094~5]"
[JP] Sony PlayStation (oct.20, 1995) "Interactive Movie Action - Thunder Storm LX-3 & Road Blaster [Model T-20701G]"

* COMPUTERS:
[JP] MSX (1986) by Nippon Victor)
PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] [JP] (may.4, 2009)
[JP] Sharp X68000 (may.4, 2009)

* OTHERS:
Pioneer LaserActive [US] (1995) "Road Prosecutor [Model PEASU1033]"
Pioneer LaserActive [JP] (jan.25, 1995) "Road Blaster [Model PEASJ1033]"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (jan.15, 2011) "Road Blaster [Model 338399795]"
Apple iPhone/iPod [US] (mar.16, 2011) "Road Blaster HD [Model 418262266]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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