Mariner | 1981

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Developer: Amenip
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Mariner VGMuseum Game Endings
Mariner on CAESAR
Mariner high score and replay at MARP
Mariner on datObase

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:
Mariner (c) 1981 Amenip.

An old horizontally scrolling shoot'em up with a vertically scrolling background. The player has to guide a submarine armed with torpedoes and missiles through five levels while fighting different underwater terrors. At the end of each area the boss-submarine appears.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 114

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Mariner is known in US as "800 Fathoms".

When you run the game for the first time, all score ranking entries are set to 10000 pts.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1563&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 4002 00000063 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 4108 00000005 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 4105 000000FF FFFFFFFF Infinite Fuel
20800000 2047 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20810000 2113 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/3)
20810000 153B 000000C9 FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/3)

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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