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Battle Rangers (World) | 1988

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Units produced: Data East Corporation
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 2
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Battle Rangers (World) VGMuseum Game Endings
Battle Rangers (World) on CAESAR
Battle Rangers (World) high score and replay at MARP
Battle Rangers (World) on datObase

MAME folder name: battlera

Display: raster 256x232 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 2 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver battlera.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:
Battle Rangers (c) 1988 Data East.

In this shoot'em up, 2 lone commandos take on an entire army with guns, knives, fists and whatever else might be laying around.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 7.159066 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 7.159066 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), OKI MSM5205 (@ 384 Khz), HuC6280 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 232 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 512

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Even if the titlescreen of the game show a 1988 copyright, Battle Rangers was released to the public in February 1989.

This game is known in US as "Bloody Wolf" and in Japan as "Narazumo Sentou Butai - Bloody Wolf".

- STAFF -

Game designer: Yoshiaki Honda
Game programmers: Takaaki Inoue, Souichi Akiyama
Graphic designers: Shinji Noda, Masanori Tokoro, Takahide Koizumi, Mix Man, Dot Man
Sound team: Azusa Hara (AZUSA), Hiroaki Yoshida (MARO), Tatsuya, Hitomi, Shuji Segawa
Hardware: Tomotaka Osada

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] [EU] (June 29, 2007) [PA6P] TurboGrafx version
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] [AU] (August 10, 2007) TurboGrafx version

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=207&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
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00000000 1F0805 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1
00000000 1F0820 00000080 00000080 Invincibility PL1
00010000 1F0825 00000010 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1 (2/2)
00000000 1F081A 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Grenades PL1
00000000 1F0819 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Ammo PL1
00000000 1F0200 00000000 00000010 Rapid Fire PL1
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon 1 PL1
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00010000 1F0817 00000002 FFFFFFFF Shot Gun
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon 2 PL1
00010000 1F0818 00000003 FFFFFFFF Grenade
00010000 1F0818 00000004 FFFFFFFF Flamethrower
00010000 1F0818 00000005 FFFFFFFF FlushGrenade
60000000 000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 1F085D 00000002 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 1F084D 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2
00000000 1F0868 00000080 00000080 Invincibility PL2
00010000 1F086D 00000010 FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2 (2/2)
00000000 1F0862 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Grenades PL2
00000000 1F0861 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Ammo PL2
00000000 1F0204 00000000 00000010 Rapid Fire PL2
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon 1 PL2
00010000 1F085F 00000000 FFFFFFFF Normal Gun
00010000 1F085F 00000001 FFFFFFFF Bazooka
00010000 1F085F 00000002 FFFFFFFF Shot Gun
62000000 000000 00000000 00000000 Select Weapon 2 PL2
00010000 1F0860 00000003 FFFFFFFF Grenade
00010000 1F0860 00000004 FFFFFFFF Flamethrower
00010000 1F0860 00000005 FFFFFFFF FlushGrenade

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file