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Sarge

  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 Sarge
Name sarge
Manufacturer Bally Midway
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .030
Romset size 224 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 76 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

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 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
doublejoy vertical2 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 0066-313bx-xxqx.4g.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade 0066-314bx-xxqx.6h.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade 0066-315bx-xxqx.5g.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade 0066-316bx-xxqx.5h.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade a59a26axlaxhd.3j.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade a59a26axlbxhd.2j.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade a59a26axlcxhd.13j.bin 1 pals 0 nodump no
arcade cpu_3b.bin 32768 da31a58f 29b97caf61f8f59042519a6b501cd1d15099dd59 maincpu 0 good no
arcade cpu_5b.bin 32768 6800e746 018c2b622b3654530ebc2c299b3f745777163d4b maincpu 8000 good no
arcade spr_4e.bin 32768 c382267d 6b459e9ec7948a529b5308357851a0bede085aef gfx2 18000 good no
arcade spr_5e.bin 32768 c832375c dfb7782b13e1e959e0ecd5da771cd38962f6952b gfx2 10000 good no
arcade spr_6e.bin 32768 7cc6fb28 5fe24d5114551b4a4bf303cd612da332555c0f93 gfx2 8000 good no
arcade spr_8e.bin 32768 93fac29d 3d144208eca3b5377689e69da4505187a3d20d4f gfx2 0 good no
arcade tcs_u4.bin 8192 6ca6faf3 4647e633dd11f55a65c3acf81adeb3af93624991 tcs:cpu e000 good no
arcade tcs_u5.bin 8192 a894ef8a 7f53927fc185fff8ba1b1747f0d565e089d879e6 tcs:cpu c000 good no
arcade til_14b.bin 8192 8449eb45 6cc43639998d55fe7ffac7e9b091d35ea169e048 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade til_15a.bin 8192 685001b8 300abd808efe5b44b022082eebc591c7c255697c gfx1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AD7533 tcs:dac audio
M6809E tcs:cpu cpu 8000000
Midway Turbo Cheap Squeak Sound Board tcs audio
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 5000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.30 [Brad Oliver, Aaron Giles]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.148u2: Replaced M6809 CPU2 with M6809E.

- 0.147u2: Small update on Sarge DIPs [hap]. Added 2x 'Unused' and 3x 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.145u7: Added 'Midway Turbo Chip Squeak Sound Board' sound and left/right Speaker.

- 6th September 2010: Mr. Do - Sarge is complete, thanks to Kiltron for cleaning, and to TrevEB for acquiring the bezel.

- 0.122u6: Replaced M6809 CPU3 with M6809E (8MHz).

- 0.98u1: Changed M6809 CPU2 clock speed to 2MHz. Changed to double 8-way joystick.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize from 128 to 64 colors.

- 0.30: Brad Oliver and Aaron Giles added 'Sarge' (Bally Midway 1985). Nicola Salmoria added alternate controls in Sarge, they are available only when the -cheat option is specified.

- 30th September 1997: Clay Cowgill dumped Sarge.


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Insert coin and press Switch button to enter battle.

- Destroy all enemy vehicles to earn a promotion Bonus.

- All surviving armies advance to the next battle.

- Push switch button to change vehicles. Tank and Helicopter weapons: Pull Trigger for ground grenades. Hit Thumb button for Air Assault.


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* Retrocade


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History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Sarge (c) 1985 Bally Midway.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
[No. 0B88]

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC

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

Players : 2
Control : Double 2-way joystick (Vertical)
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in October 1985.

Considered by some to be the grandfather of all real-time video battle-games, Sarge was the first coin-op game to give players the ability to deploy multiple vehicles against common adversaries and, of course, each other.

Sarge is also probably the first real 'start-to-finish' design collaboration between artist/animator Brian Colin and programmer Jeff Nauman.

From Brian Colin, Lead Artist on Sarge : "The realistically depicted female soldier featured in the game generated so much interest when it was first introduced that, part-way through it's production run, we slipped a hidden player incentive. With the machine's internal DIP switches set a certain way, players who achieved a rank of Colonel were greeted with a winking, sexy GI Jane wearing little more than a smile.
The DIP switches should be set as follows : 0011000100.
To see if the switches are set correctly, look at the girl at the start of the game. If she is wearing a low-cut T-shirt, then the 'hidden player incentive' is on.".

- STAFF -

Software : Jeff Nauman
Artists : Brian Colin, Sharon Perry
Sounds : Bob Libbe, Neil Falconer
Hardware : Cary Mednick, Steve Ackerman
Mechanical : John Kubik
Added support : Jim Belt

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Atari 7800 (unreleased prototype)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fok999_________________________23.075
hulkiii_________________________7.667