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Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) | 1986

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Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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SoundMix: Stereo

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Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) on mameworld
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) VGMuseum Game Endings
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) on MAWS
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) on CAESAR
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) high score and replay at MARP
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) on Progetto EMMA
Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan) on romkeeper

MAME folder name: jackalj

Display: raster 240x224 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 2 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver jackal.c:
Roms:

Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 roms order.

- 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.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* JFF

* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 484 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry: Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com

Tokushu Butai Jackal (c) 1986 Konami.


1 or 2 players operate a jeep and must battle their way through a huge, vertically scrolling battlefield. Their mission is to save PoWs and deliver them to the nearest helicopter pad so they can be flown to safety. The hostages are trapped in enemy buildings and PoW camps, which must be destroyed in order to release the prisoners. The jeep can only carry up to a maximum of eight PoWs, the current amount being carried is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.


The jeep is armed with a machine gun and a grenade thrower, the latter of which can be powered-up into a missile launcher. As well as huge numbers of enemy troops and static gun emplacements, the players must also contend with enemy jeeps, tanks, boats, submarines and planes. The final part of the game takes place in the enemy stronghold and the game ends when the final enemy gun emplacements are destroyed.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : GX631


Main CPU : (2x) M6809

Sound Chips : YM2151


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 512


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in October 1986.


The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Special Force Jackal'.


This game is known outside Japan as "Jackal" and is known in US as "Top Gunner".


Default high-score table (score ranking) :

1ST 20000 --- M.O

2ND 15000 --- H.O

3RD 10000 --- H.T

4TH 5000 --- M.T

5TH 1000 --- K.M


Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Konamic Game Freaks : Konami Kukeiha Club - 28XA-135) on 25/03/1987.


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In "Top Gunner", the jeep has an American flag flying next to the cannon and the sound effects are slightly different.


- PORTS -


* Consoles :

Nintendo Famicom (1988)

Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1988, "Final Commando - Akai Yousai")


* Computers :

Commodore C64 (1987)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1988)

Amstrad CPC (1988)


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 1478 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 0B06 00000001 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1
00000000 0AFD 00000004 FFFFFFFF Always Full Power Ups PL1
00000001 0AFC 00000008 FFFFFFFF Get 8 rescued prisoners PL1
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 14B8 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 0B7E 00000001 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2
00000000 0B75 00000004 FFFFFFFF Always Full Power Ups PL2
00000001 0B74 00000008 FFFFFFFF Get 8 rescued prisoners PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file