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Tank Force (US, 2 Players)

  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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Tank Force (US, 2 Players)
Name tankfrce
Manufacturer Namco
Year 1991
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .036b14
Romset size 1.88 MB
Romset file 16 files
Romset zip 607 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 yes
Input tilt no
Input players 2
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 288 224 60.606061 6144000 384 73 361 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cus64-64a1.mcu 4096 ffb5c0bd 7a38c0cc2553c627f4ec507fb6e807cf7d537c02 mcu 0 good no
arcade tf1_chr0.bin 131072 9e91794e e873ed31fafae02a3c3d9127801a13f67cbdb5f4 gfx2 0 good no
arcade tf1_chr1.bin 131072 76e1bc56 f95e4100cad29a8972e4f435b4f9ee3cdc4f4504 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade tf1_chr2.bin 131072 fcb645d9 afedb4c6c1b02444ddb1757ac9808df1b94de2d8 gfx2 40000 good no
arcade tf1_chr3.bin 131072 a8dbf080 115f3b21e0546000076c3c4d588e5bdcc4cf50d5 gfx2 60000 good no
arcade tf1_chr4.bin 131072 51fedc8c 4a0c337fe614ebf66ee0fc3cfb05cad51a048fcf gfx2 80000 good no
arcade tf1_chr5.bin 131072 e6c6609a 0c05cdd6b1dc4f082b9ac0e4de252c3d72392bb0 gfx2 a0000 good no
arcade tf1_chr8.bin 131072 7d53b31e 7e4b5fc92f7956477392f1e14c6edfc0cada2be0 gfx1 0 good no
arcade tf1_obj0.bin 131072 4bedd51a fedb972986efe5ff3bd6c75fa16f22f8267ee0b7 gfx3 0 good no
arcade tf1_obj1.bin 131072 df674d6d 65935c2d6072228fcb2fbca8808fc921db9e0ddd gfx3 20000 good no
arcade tf1_prg0.bin 131072 2ae4b9eb 569d2754398b4276cf78a3dd038b5884778dc82e user1 0 good no
arcade tf1_prg1.bin 131072 4a8bb251 1df46ccf0ad7260398b7965e3825e936ba357062 user1 80000 good no
arcade tf1_snd0.bin 131072 4d9cf7aa de51b9b36e9a530a7f3c35672ec72c19b607af04 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade tf1_voi0.bin 131072 f542676a 38d54db0807c58152bd120c393bf63b68754e8ff voice 0 good no
arcade tf1_voi1.bin 131072 615d09cd 0aecf7ca6b65ddfcdcf74f8d412169ec800ba3a3 voice 20000 good no
arcade tf1prg7.bin 131072 2ec28a87 91d2c1efbe156982beab24e437852d1c79dab412 user1 380000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac1 audio
HD63701 mcu cpu 6144000
M6809 audiocpu cpu 1536000
Namco CUS30 namco audio 12000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579580

Serie

Serie : Tank Battalion
  1. Tank Battalion (1980)
  2. Tank Battalion (bootleg) (1980)
  3. Tank Battalion (Jpn) (1984)
  4. Tank Battalion (Euro) (1984)
  5. Vs. Battle City (1985)
  6. Tank Battalion (Pineapple) (1989)
  7. Tank Force (US, 2 Players) (1991)
  8. Tank Force (US, 4 Players) (1991)
  9. Tank Force (Japan) (1991)
  10. Tank Battalion (Jpn) (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b14 [Vernon C. Brooks]

0.36b4 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.178: Changed description to 'Tank Force (US, 2 Players)' and clone (US, 4 Player) to 'Tank Force (US, 4 Players)'.

- 0.146u5: Inputs were switched so that Player 2 was no longer assigned to Player 3 and vise versa in clone Tank Force (US, 4 Player) [Tafoid].

- 0.133u1: Renamed (tankfrc4) to (tankfrce4) and (tankfrcj) to (tankfrcej).

- 0.131u1: sxevious and David Haywood fixed player controls in clone Tank Force (US, 4 Player) (thanks to a tip posted by sxevious).

- 0.125u6: Some progress on clone Tank Force (US, 4 Player) inputs [David Haywood].

- 0.125u5: Brian Troha added clone Tank Force (US, 4 Player). Changed parent description to 'Tank Force (US, 2 Player)'.

- 3rd June 2008: Tirino73 dumped Tank Force (US, 4 players). This romfile comes from a standard Namco System1 PCB. Note: This was a failed conversion attempt, since inputs on jamma connector don't work (only coin, mapped as follows: Player 1 coin 1 -> coin 1, player 2 coin 2 -> coin 2, player 3 coin 3 -> start 1, player 4 coin 4 -> start 2) so in game setting mode you can't change anything and then you can't play. The system is ok (tested by burning the 2 players version), so the original design for this game version uses extra hardware for 4 players input management.

- 0.36b14: Vernon C. Brooks added 'Tank Force (US)' (Namco 1991) and clone (Japan).

- 29th December 1999: Vernon C. Brooks got Tank Force (Namco System 1) partially working but it has wrong colors.

- 0.36b4: Added (Testdriver) Tank Force (Japan).


LEVELS: 36


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History


Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Tank Force (c) 1991 Namco.

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 1 hardware
Game ID : TF

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sub CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
MCU : HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.57958), Namco advanced 8-channel stereo WSG, stereo DAC

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 288 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 24-bit RGB palette

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 1 (FIRE)

- TRIVIA -

Released in December 1991.

The round 17 is an illustration of "Pac-Man".

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Namco Video Game Graffiti Vol.9 - VICL-8089) on 22/09/1993.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.

- SERIES -

1. Tank Battalion (1980)
2. Vs. Battle City (1985)
3. Tank Force (1991)

- STAFF -

Producers : Masaya Nakamura, K. Sawano
Director : Wan Wan
Game designers : Mr. Demo, Y. Kounoe
Programmer : Boku
Graphic designers : Mr. Demo, Mita Chan
Music composer : John
Adviser : Devil, S. Shimizu

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2832&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gnu___________________________357.000
lorddraakh____________________344.900
mike_myers____________________115.100
dark_kariya___________________105.600
foxmulder______________________45.300
nicky634_______________________40.900