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Tank Busters

  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 Tank Busters
Name tankbust
Manufacturer Valadon Automation
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .060
Romset size 169 KB
Romset file 18 files
Romset zip 67 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Maze

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 4

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 90 no 320 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade a-b3-1.bin 8192 b0f56102 4f427c3bd6131b7cba42a0e24a69bd1b6a1b0a3c sub 0 good no
arcade a-d5-2.bin 8192 0bbf3fdb 035c2db6eca701be690042e006c0d07c90d752f1 gfx1 0 good no
arcade a-d6-3.bin 8192 4398dc21 3b23433d0c9daa554ad6615af2fdec715e4e3794 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade a-d7-4.bin 8192 aca197fc 03ecd94b84a31389539074079ed7f2a500e588ab gfx1 4000 good no
arcade a-d8-5.bin 8192 1e6edc17 4dbc91938c999348bcbd5f960fc3bb49f3174059 gfx1 6000 good no
arcade a-s4-6.bin 16384 8ebe7317 bc45d530ad6335312c9c3efdcedf7acd2cdeeb55 maincpu 0 good no
arcade a-s5_7.bin 16384 dd4800ca 73a6caa029c27fb45217f9372d9541c6fe206f08 maincpu 12000 good no
arcade a-s6-8.bin 16384 f8801238 fd3abe18542660a8c31dc316012a99d48c9bb5aa maincpu 16000 good no
arcade a-s7-9.bin 8192 047aee33 62ee776c403b228e065baa9218f32597951ca935 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade a-s8-10.bin 16384 9e826faa 6a252428c69133d3e9d7a9938140d5ae37fb0c7d maincpu 18000 good no
arcade b-m4-11.bin 16384 eb88ee1f 60ec2d77186c196a27278b0639cbfa838986e2e2 gfx2 0 good no
arcade b-m5-12.bin 16384 4c65f399 72db15884f346c001d3b86cb33e3f6d339eedb56 gfx2 4000 good no
arcade b-m6-13.bin 16384 a5baa413 dc772042706c3a92594ee8422aafed77375c0632 gfx2 8000 good no
arcade b-r3-14.bin 8192 4310a815 bf58a7a8d3f82fcaa0c46d9ebb13cac1231b80ad gfx3 0 good no
arcade tb-prom.1s8 32 dfaa086c f534aedddd18addd0833a3a28a4297689c4a46ac proms 0 good no
arcade tb-prom.2r8 32 ec50d674 64c8961eca33b23e14b7383eb7e64fcac8772ee7 proms 20 good no
arcade tb-prom.3p8 32 3e70eafd b200350a3f6c166228706734419dd3ef1207eeef proms 40 good no
arcade tb-prom.4k8 32 624f40d2 8421f1d774afc72e0817d41edae74a2837021a5f proms 60 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay2 audio 894886
Speaker mono audio
Z80 sub cpu 3579545

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.60 [Jarek Burczynski]


Artwork available


TEST MODE:

- Hold down P1+P2 START and reset game to enter test mode.


Bugs:

- Game speed issue. Kold666 (ID 04135)

- A small red line (shot graphic) gets stuck on the screen sometimes. Smitdogg (ID 00968)

- [possible] Driving in reverse and shoot, the explosion partially appears on the opposite side of the screen. Smitdogg (ID 01175)


WIP:

- 0.160: Andrew Gardner replaced set_base() with set_entry() in Tank Busters. Osso added save state support to Tank Busters.

- 0.140u3: Corrado Tomaselli changed Tank Busters clocks to PCB verified levels. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 7159090 Hz, Z80 CPU2 to 3579545 Hz and the 2x AY-3-8910A to 894886 Hz.

- 0.125u1: Andrew Gardner merged memory maps for Tank Busters.

- 9th September 2007: Mr. Do - Some more instruction cards for more games courtesty of Tormod: Tank Busters.

- 22nd February 2005: Guru - Tank Busters for redump and hardware analysis just arrived.

- 0.60: Jarek Burczynski added 'Tank Busters' (Valadon Automation 1985). TODO: Verify colors: prom to output mapping is unknown, resistor values are guess. Remove the 'some_changing_input' hack (see below). From time to time the game just hangs.

- 4th April 2002: Jarek Burczynski sent in a driver for Tank Busters, but it might have imperfect colors.

- 25th April 1998: Dumped Tank Busters.


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Your task is to destroy all enemy bases: Bunkers, Big Guns and Machine Guns.

- Don't forget to fill up at the FUEL SERVICE station before fuel gets to "ZERO".


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History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Tank Busters (c) 1985 Valadon Automation.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 128

Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in April 1985.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

bald_bull______________________46.660
gnu____________________________29.160
furohon________________________12.400
hulkiii_________________________8.460