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Crater Raider

 
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Crater Raider

| 1984
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Developer: Bally Midway
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 1
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Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* FB Alpha

* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.
History.dat entry:
Crater Raider (c) 1984 Bally Midway.

The player is a tank trying to rescue hostages on worlds with lots of craters (that the player can descend into). Rescuing all hostages, while avoiding (or destroying) other tanks and UFOs advances the player to the next level.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware
[No. 0A57]

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 480 x 480 pixels
Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz
Palette colors : 68

Players : 2
Control : Dial
Buttons : 3

- STAFF -

PROGRAMMED BY: TOM DIDOMENICO
GRAPHICS BY: SHARON PERRY
SOUNDS BY: MARK BARTLOW

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=524&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 F4F3 00000004 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 F4F4 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00000000 F4F1 00000080 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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