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Turtles

  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 Turtles
Name turtles
Manufacturer Konami (Stern Electronics license)
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .006
Romset size 33 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 15 B
Language English
Evaluation 90 to 100 (Best Games)
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 768 224 60.606061 18432000 1152 0 768 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade turt_snd.5c 4096 f0c30f9a 5621f336e9be8acf986a34bbb8855ed5d45c28ef audiocpu 0 good no
arcade turt_snd.5d 4096 af5fc43c 8a49c55feba094b07380615cf0b6f0878c25a260 audiocpu 1000 good no
arcade turt_vid.2c 4096 ec5e61fb 3ca89800fda7a7e61f54d71d5302908be2706def maincpu 0 good no
arcade turt_vid.2e 4096 fd10821e af74602bf2454eb8f3b9bb5c425e2476feeecd69 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade turt_vid.2f 4096 ddcfc5fa 2af9383e5a289c2d7fbe6cf5e5b1519c352afbab maincpu 2000 good no
arcade turt_vid.2h 4096 9e71696c 3dcdf5dc601c875fc9d8b9a46e3ef588e7478e0d maincpu 3000 good no
arcade turt_vid.2j 4096 fcd49fef bb1e91b2e6d4b5a861bf37907ef6b198328d8d83 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade turt_vid.5f 2048 c3ffd655 dee51d77be262a2944488e381541c10a2b6e5d83 gfx1 800 good no
arcade turt_vid.5h 2048 e5999d52 bc3f52cf6c6e19dfd2dacd1e8c9128f437e995fc gfx1 0 good no
arcade turtles.clr 32 f3ef02dd 09fd795170d7d30f101d579f57553da5ff3800ab proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.1 audio 1789772
DISCRETE konami audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1789772

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.06 [Nicola Salmoria, Robert Anschuetz, Alan J. Mccormick]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.176: Osso moved clone Turpin (bootleg on Scramble hardware) from Scramble to Galaxian driver and added preliminary sound. Tempo is way to high.

- 0.175: Robbbert fixed regression (AM_MIRROR ->0x47c0) in Turtles.

- 16th April 2011: Mr. Do - Added new Turtles bezel with instructions cards, scanned by TrevEB and vectorized by Zorg.

- 0.124u1: Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors. Removed 2x 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.124: RansAckeR fixed cannot coin up in either slot.

- 0.123u2: RansAckeR simplified some control definitions in Amidar driver. Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.119: David Haywood added clone Turpin (bootleg on Scramble hardware).

- 26th August 2006: Mr. Do - Added Turtles bezel from MAME.net and Mean Arena. Some of these decent stuff are so-so; some are REALLY good.

- 7th July 2005: f205v dumped Turpin (bootleg on Scramble hardware).

- 0.37b16: Changed palettesize from 40 to 106 colors.

- 0.37b15: Changed VSync to 60.606060Hz. Changed palettesize from 32 to 40 colors.

- 0.34b3: John Dondzila added clone '600'. Known issues: Colors might be wrong in 600.

- 0.34b1: Added color prom.

- 0.29: Valerio Verrando added high score saving to Turtles.

- 0.28: Thanks to Gary Walton, fixed sprite placement in Turtles.

- 0.24: Nicola Salmoria added clone Turpin (Sega 1981). Also parent and clone colors are 100% correct now.

- 0.22: Fixed credit bugs in Turtles. REMEMBER TO DELETE THE PREVIOUS .DSW FILES OTHERWISE THE GAMES WON'T WORK PROPERLY!

- 0.21: Thank to Virtu-Al (Alan J. McCormick), Turtles now has 100% correct colors.

- 0.15: Sound support in Turtles [Nicola Salmoria]. All these require -frameskip 1 on my 486/100. I have no idea how accurate the tempo and pitch is. If you can compare it with a real machine, please let me know what's wrong.

- 0.06: Nicola Salmoria added 'Turtles' (Stern 1981). Game is playable with wrong colors and no sound. Control: Arrows = Move around and CTRL = Bomb. This runs on the same hardware as Amidar. Known issues: What do the dipswitches do? I'm obviously missing something, becasue the game plays in unlimited lives mode.

- 31st December 1996: Virtu-Al dumped Turtles.


LEVELS: 9


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* FB Alpha

* Sparcade

* VAntAGE


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Turtles (c) 1981 Stern Electronics.

Export release. Game developed by Konami as '600'. See original "600 [Model GX353]" for more information about the game itself.

Differences between Turtles and 600:
1) In Turtles you're playing against other bugs/turtles. In 600 you're up against race cars.
2) In Turtles you grab each KidTurtle and bring them home. In 600 you must grab up all KidTurtles before the exit appears.
3) In Turtles you must grab bombs from the center when they appear, in 600 you're given a certain amount of energy, which each bomb uses.
4) The wall graphics are a bit more blocky in 600. Also, the cut scenes in between racks in 600 only show one ladder, with the turtle climbing alone.

- TECHNICAL -

Turtles came in an upright cabinet. This game used the standard 'Stern' cabinet that most Stern titles used, sideart was often just a painted 'Stern' logo on these. The marquee, monitor bezel, and control panel overlay all feature delightful cartoon turtle graphics in a very distinct style. The control panel has a single ball-top 4-Way joystick mounted in the center, with bomb buttons way off to each side.

- TRIVIA -

Turtles was released in December 1981.

Konami originally wrote this game but it was licensed to Stern for US and European distribution), and only a limited number of games were made bearing the 600 name. Konami also licensed this title to Sega as well, which they released under the name "Turpin".

Entex Industries released a board game based on this video game (same name) in 1982 : It's each player's goal to rescue as many cute little turtlettes as possible and bring them safely back to the home pond. But watch out for the evil beetles because they're out to get you!

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Entex AdventureVision (1982)
Emerson Arcadia 2001 (1982) "Turtles Turpin"
G7000 Videopac

* OTHERS:
VFD handheld game (1982) released by Entex : Play against the computer, or head to head with another player. This game has a headphone jack, volume control, and a knob that will speed up the gameplay. Pretty cool features for an old 80's handheld game!

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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