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Wild Western (set 1)

  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 Wild Western (set 1)
Name wwestern
Manufacturer Taito Corporation
Year 1982
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .025
Romset size 57 KB
Romset file 15 files
Romset zip 29 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 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 yes
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
doublejoy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 256 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ww01.bin 4096 bfe10753 468cf5a2f7232b5faf4a371aee2c83196fc486a5 maincpu 0 good no
arcade ww02d.bin 4096 20579e90 be250b4b89d1742b4cffd108c32497a0db428335 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade ww03d.bin 4096 0e65be37 5e672c6a33d9b68752c27465fd6172304de55d2d maincpu 2000 good no
arcade ww04d.bin 4096 b3565a31 a42a7989530108aa198d77e1369d5b2ca6c69907 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade ww05d.bin 4096 089f3d89 aa8c9868ebc593eb1cd9af4d41e1aa0cbb8fb316 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade ww06d.bin 4096 c81c9736 43dfdcd93f30a99ffb22d4d5fc9bc886276ab69c maincpu 5000 good no
arcade ww07.bin 4096 1937cc17 fcec4b6dafd631dd2b33db5852b5ae9412910527 maincpu 6000 good no
arcade ww08.bin 4096 041a5a1c c4006dc4915c6107a3f2e41534521385ba6c306c gfx1 0 good no
arcade ww09.bin 4096 07982ac5 4ff76a53cb7af9ccf084513ee66c73bf16826959 gfx1 1000 good no
arcade ww10.bin 4096 f32ae203 3455f99403246ce4483c3b6e954ebe6d93725ec3 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade ww11.bin 4096 7ff1431f 945d7f58bd8855f046693eea7791c164bd1d7a3d gfx1 3000 good no
arcade ww12.bin 4096 be1b563a 447e1c982eea6198b99095e26aa5fec4e9ae1e54 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade ww13.bin 4096 092cd9e5 56059bf41bb4ccf0f88cea679fdffc061e19f76e gfx1 5000 good no
arcade ww14.bin 4096 23776870 b15fe4f0fabd0939d87fe8c04c7edf74bbd6a23b audiocpu 0 good no
arcade ww17 256 93447d2b d29f4a56a06ac809b4b9efa8aa9d1f246250e3a2 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
AY-3-8910A ay4 audio 1500000
DISCRETE dacvol audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.25 [Nicola Salmoria]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - I found the instruction card for Wild Western in the BYOAC / CAG Artwork.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (wwester1) to (wwestern1).

- 0.122u3: Atari Ace fixed save state in Wild Western (wwestern0115u1yel).

- 24th December 2006: Mr. Do - hanks to the loan by Vintage Arcade Superstore and vectorization by Zorg, we have Wild Western bezel.

- 0.103u3: Nicola Salmoria fixed the Wild Western bonus screen, where the horse would not scroll into view.

- 0.36b3: Added 'High Score Table' dipswitch.

- 0.36b2: Zsolt Vasvari hacked protection in Wild Western, fixed bonus game and added second button to jump onto the train. Added 2nd player button.

- 0.36b1: Zsolt Vasvari fixed Wild Western - Game now playable. Added Taito SJ sprite-sprite collision detection and other improvements to in the Taito SJ games. Added clone Wild Western (set 2). Changed input to Double 8-way Joystick with 1x button. Fixed cpu1 rom ($4000) and dipswitches. Added layer prom ww17.

- 22nd July 1999: Zsolt Vasvari added the missing button to Wild Western.

- 15th July 1999: Zsolt Vasvari fixed Wild Western graphics priorities and input ports.

- 12th July 1999: Zsolt Vasvari added sprite-sprite collision check into the old Taito games, and fixed Wild Western crashes.

- 0.31: Known issues: Probably due to copy protection, the game is not playable and resets often.

- 0.29: The hardware of the Taito games (Elevator Action, Jungle King, Wild Western, Front Line) is emulated more faithfully. Playfield priority is accurate in Jungle King, however this broke Wild Western - strange. Front Line works. Merged all the drivers into Taito driver [Nicola Salmoria].

- 0.27: Elevator Action, Jungle King and Wild Western now use the same Taito video hardware driver.

- 0.25: Nicola Salmoria added 'Wild Western' (Taito 1982). Not playable yet.


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Cheyenne

Wanted

Wild Gunman (PlayChoice-10)

Gun.Smoke

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Sunset Riders (bootleg of Megadrive version)

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Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa

Lethal Enforcers II: Gun Fighters

Shooting Star

Charlie Ninja

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Rapid Fire (Western)

Johnny Nero Action Hero

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History


Arcade Video game published 37 years ago:

Wild Western (c) 1982 Taito.

A sheriff on horseback must protect a train, located in the center of the screen, from groups of bandits. Players must avoid running into obstacles, getting shot, or allowing three bandits to board the train. A bonus game is played between rounds.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "Taito SJ System" hardware.
Board Number : WW070001
Prom Stickers : WW8..14

Players: 2
Control: Joystick 8-Way (controls movement), 8-Way rotary knob + push. (controls shooting)
Buttons: 1 (jump)

- TRIVIA -

Wild Western was released in May 1982.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

INSTRUCTIONS:

When a bandit gets on the train, use the Action button to get on the train to attack him. You can't shoot bandits who are on the train.

When an obstacle approaches while you are on the train, press the Action button to duck.

To get off the train, press the Action button when your horse is near.

If you are hit by enemy gunfire, or if you run into cacti, rocks or the train, you will lose a life.

The game ends when all lives are lost or three bandits get on the train.

After completing a stage, hit the coin tossed in the air and receive double bonus points.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[US] Atari 2600 : Release cancelled
Colecovision [US] : Unreleased prototype
Intellivision [US] : Release cancelled
[JP] Sony PS2 (aug.25, 2005) "Taito Memories Gekan [Model SLPM-66092]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [AU] (mar.30, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2"
[EU] Sony PS2 (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
[US] Sony PS2 (may.16, 2007) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLUS-21349]"

* COMPUTERS:
FM-7 [JP] (1983)
NEC PC-8801 [JP] (1983)
Sharp MZ-2000 [JP]
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (mar.31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (jul.10, 2007) "Taito Legends 2"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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