MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: 2017 is almost over what do you expect in 2020

Resurrecting this old 2017 thread for the hell of it.

Actually because Frank Palazzolo achieved the impossible that was never expected and now the game is in working shape although without audio, but that is better than a game that is not in working condition in MAME.

>> - Green Beret (from Irem - incomplete dump )

>Only one has ever been seen, there was a 2nd possible one, but apparently the owner
>trashed it because they thought it was just the (worthless) Konami game of the same
>name. Probably never going to happen, there are probably none left.

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Frank Palazzolo
2020-02-24

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/be9d7f11bb3fa6cfd68820b1497ea5064c5249e7

m10: Add support for missing greenber ROM gb7

hap 2020-02-25

Machines promoted to working

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Green Beret (Irem) [Frank Palazzolo]

src/mame/drivers/m10.cpp

GAME( 1980, greenber, 0, m15, greenber, m10_state, empty_init, ROT270, "Irem", "Green Beret (Irem)", MACHINE_NO_SOUND | MACHINE_IMPERFECT_COLORS | MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE )

I never saw nor played actual game way back then, but the game had been mentioned on occasion on forums over the past 20 years so I was curious what the game play looks like.

Read Haze's tweets about Irem Green Beret and watch videoclip of gameplay.

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https://twitter.com/MameHaze/status/1232733364781752320

Frank Palazzolo discovered that he had a PCB of IREM's 1980 Green Beret in his basement. The MAME set has had a bad ROM since it was added around 20 years ago (board, like pretty much all early IREM was faulty) I'd given up hope of another being found.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4_BmiyYh4

David Haywood

Frank Palazzolo discovered that he had a copy of IREM's Green Beret in his basement with a different bad ROM to the MAME set. Dumping means a complete set now exists. I'd actually given up any hope of this one turning up due to it sharing its name with the much more common and popular Konami title from 5 years later; everybody I'd tracked down with one thought it was just a broken bootleg board of the Konami game and had scrapped it (these early IREM PCBs are notorious for using ROMs that fail, there's a high chance that every single one has at least one bad / partially bad ROM at this point) No sound yet as it's all discrete like so many early games, but Frank said he'd trace out the sound circuits and record some samples.

https://twitter.com/MameHaze/status/1232733667539267585

David Haywood

Whenever a game shares its name with a much more popular game locating it is difficult, and misidentification happens far too often. Combine that with the high failure rate of the ROMs IREM used in the early 80s and the situation was dire. We're very, very lucky here.

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I am looking forward to what Frank details regarding the discrete/analog audio sound effects that Irem Green Beret generates and will be curious what the audio sounds are like.

Edited by gregf (02/27/20 09:12 AM)