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Re: Question about discrete for MAME
08/02/11 10:24 AM



> As for emulating Tank, two hurdles specifically concerning Tank. The roms are a
> custom type rom and required someone (MAMEdev member?) visiting a university library
> (iirc) and getting a book from 1970s era in order to find out what the exact chip was
> that stores the game rom data so a specific adapter could be made to dump roms from a
> Tank pcb.
>
> I am pretty sure Tank rom(s) may have already been dumped a few times earlier by
> some of the repair shops in order to repair Tank cabs or cocktail tables. But that
> stuff probably isn't online these days compared to Naomi hardware titles.
>
> Besides the hurdle of dumping Tank rom(s), is the fact that Tank uses 2 pcbs while
> Fun Games' Tankers (a clone of Tank) uses 3 pcbs. The number of pcbs used in a
> non-cpu game presents a huge, emulation speed challenge.

I have a couple of Tank boards. I thought someone has already dumped those ROMs? If not and I can get the adapter info I can dump them (or 'it' I think there's only 1)







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