Balloon Bomber

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Balloon Bomber | 1980

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Units produced: Taito
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(1)
Number of Players: 2
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MAME folder name: ballbomb

Display: raster 260x224 @ 59.54Hz (59.54 pixclock)
Sound: 1 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver 8080bw.c:
Roms:

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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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


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

History.dat entry:
Balloon Bomber (c) 1980 Taito.

Shoot and destroy balloon bombs dropped from a bi-plane.

- TECHNICAL -

CPU Board Number : AA017757
Audio/IO Board Number : CV070005
ROM Board Number : AA017756A
Prom Stickers : TN01-09

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 1.9968 Mhz)
Sound Chips : SN76477 (@ 1.9968 Mhz), Discrete circuitry

Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Balloon Bomber was released in March 1980.

Also released as a cocktail model. In Japan, the cocktail version is known as "T.T Balloon Bomber".

- SCORING -

Balloon: 50 pts.
Bomb & Balloon attached: 100 pts.
Bomb dropped from Ballon: 150 pts.
Bomb dropped from plane: 50 pts.

Mystery points are scored when you make 3 hits in succession.

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Sony PlayStation 2 [JP] (August 25, 2005) "Taito Memories Gekan [Model SLPM-66092]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [AU] (March 30, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [EU] (March 31, 2006) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLES-53852]"
Sony PlayStation 2 [US] (May 16, 2007) "Taito Legends 2 [Model SLUS-21349]"

* Handhelds :
Sony PSP [AS] (January 3, 2006) "Taito Memories Pocket [Model UCAS-40040]"
Sony PSP [JP] (January 5, 2006) "Taito Memories Pocket [Model ULJM-05076]"
Sony PSP [KO] (February 10, 2006) "Taito Memories Pocket"
Sony PSP [EU] (October 6, 2006) "Taito Legends Power-Up [Model ULES-00473]"
Sony PSP [AU] (November 9, 2006) "Taito Legends Power-Up [Model ULES-00473]"
Sony PSP [US] (May 17, 2007) "Taito Legends Power-Up [Model ULUS-10208]"

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=174&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 20E7 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
20800000 0CC8 000000C3 FFFFFFFF Invincibility
20910000 0D1C 00000D1E FFFFFFFF Invincibility (2/3) 1st = Bomb, 2nd = Pit (Right)
20910000 0D39 00000D3B FFFFFFFF Invincibility (3/3) Pit (Left)
20800100 1480 00000009 FFFFFFFF Select Bullet Speed
20800000 0D1F 00000004 FFFFFFFF Moving Speed Up
20810000 0D3C 000000FC FFFFFFFF Moving Speed Up (2/2)
00000000 2083 000000C8 FFFFFFFF Stop bombs falling freely
00000000 2015 00000000 FFFFFFFF Rapid Fire
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 2127 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 2227 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file