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Thundercade / Twin Formation

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

Description Thundercade / Twin Formation
Name tndrcade
Manufacturer Seta (Taito license)
Year 1987
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b01
Romset size 2.63 MB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 787 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

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 no
Input tilt yes
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 270 no 384 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ua0-1.u16 131072 fa906626 a1d28328afa8dda98dd20f3f5a19c0dbf2ebaf36 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade ua0-10.u12 262144 aa7b6757 9157cc930760c846cce95e18bf38e7ea241f7a8e gfx1 0 good no
arcade ua0-11.u13 262144 11eaf931 ba1dfc4b0f87b1bbdc6c2e36deaecda2b4655d57 gfx1 40000 good no
arcade ua0-12.u14 262144 00b5381c 6fc3138dd0e2b3f99872b1f0d177094df5bed39d gfx1 80000 good no
arcade ua0-13.u15 262144 8f9a0ed3 61315312fdb2fe090cd8e99a1ce3ecba46b466e9 gfx1 c0000 good no
arcade ua0-2.u17 131072 e96194b1 c5084d06a2e4f7ba3112be1ccc314f7d712bb45e maincpu 1 good no
arcade ua0-3.u18 131072 0a7b1c41 ede14ac08d7e63972c21fd2d0717276e73153f18 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade ua0-4.u19 131072 73bd63eb 5d410d2a77f1c3c4c37a9fe1e56019335891fe67 maincpu 0 good no
arcade ua0-6.u8 262144 14ecc7bb 920983f5086462f8f06dc9cf7bebffeeb7187977 gfx1 100000 good no
arcade ua0-7.u9 262144 ff1a4e68 d732df7d139995814969a603c9c4e9f8b068b1a3 gfx1 140000 good no
arcade ua0-8.u10 262144 936e1884 9ad495b88e124d08a7141611ed1897b6e2abd412 gfx1 180000 good no
arcade ua0-9.u11 262144 e812371c b0e1e0c143da743bf9f7b48d657594e76f4970ed gfx1 1c0000 good no
arcade ua10-5.u24 131072 8eff6122 1adc1643018e612df85643014b78525106478889 sub 4000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M65C02 sub cpu 2000000
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2203 ym1 audio 4000000
YM3812 ym2 audio 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b1 [Luca Elia]


WIP:

- 0.143u2: Brian Troha implemented coin mode 1 & 2 for Thundercade / Twin Formation.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (tndrcadj) to (tndrcadej).

- 0.130u2: Phil Bennett fixed music problems in Thundercade.

- 0.122u2: Brian Troha added Guru's README info for Thundercade. Fixed rom names. Changed YM2203 clock speed to 4MHz.

- 29th December 2007: Guru - Thundercade... useless, it matches the existing US set exactly. I measured and corrected some clocks for MAME though.

- 21st December 2007: Guru - A huge box arrived today. That 19.75kg box looks mighty impressive, although I'm not sure that all of it is going to be useful. Some could be alt. versions but most don't work so I'll need to dump all of these before I can tell exactly what they are. It contains Thundercade (Taito, Romstar USA License, original) and others. Thanks to Tingoes for sending these out.

- 0.67: Changed description of clone (Japan) to 'Tokusyu Butai U.A.G. (Japan)'.

- 0.65: Fixed YM2203/YM3812 sound in Thundercade.

- 0.37b9: Stereo support in Thundercade.

- 0.37b5: Added clone 'Tokusyu Butai UAG (Japan)'. Changed parent description to 'Thundercade / Twin Formation'. Added missing gf1 roms. Replaced the 2x AY-8910 with YM2203 (2MHz) and YM3812 (4MHz). Changed M65C02 CPU2 clock speed to 2MHz and visible area to 224x384. Added dipswitches 'Allow Continue', 'Licensed To' and 'Coin A/B'.

- 6th July 2000: Luca Elia added Thundercade, Caliber 50, Dragon Unit and Blandia to the Seta driver.

- 0.37b1: Luca Elia added 'Thundercade' (Seta 1988).

- 1st April 2000: Guru - Dumped Thundercade (Seta).

- 2nd May 1999: Ernesto Corvi sent in a very preliminary Thundercade driver (just to fix some quirks in the debugger).


LEVELS: 1


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History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Thundercade / Twin Formation (c) 1987 Taito Corp.

Export version. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese version entry; "Tokushu Butai U.A.G.".

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : UA-0

- TRIVIA -

Thundercade was released in October 1987.

It has a dip switch that let the operator change the game name to 'Twin Formation'.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[US] Nintendo NES (jul.1989) [Model NES-UD]

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=2897&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

gillou______________________1.283.700
animexbox74___________________214.600
foxmulder_____________________174.000