MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Bazooka game and PSE status nearly ten years later.

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Nearly ten years. Hard to believe.

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Bazooka game? gregf?
01/02/11

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

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I was scanning old documents and I came across an article on the repair of a coinop called "Bazooka". I've attached the article for your reading pleasure.

I get the impression that this game is non cpu, but what do you think?

Does anyone have info on this game?
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Now that Robbbert's post is nearly ten years since first posted, it is worth the time to mention of what has happened since this was first posted.

When Robbbert first posted this, the Bazooka rom set was simply floating around like a couple other non-cpu rom sets as odd files not yet supported in MAME. A pdf file of PSE's Game Tree was online as well.

After couriersud was able to get a non-cpu game (Pong) supported in mid spring 2012, a lot more had happened. A lot of roms and proms of non-cpu games being supported/documented in MAME source code. The roms of PSE games of both Bazooka and Desert Patrol were added and some of the roms functions were described in the pse.cpp source file including Knights in Armor. Manual scans of Knights in Armor provided by pong in 2017.

The roms for PSE Game Tree were eventually added by Andy Welburn in either 2017 or 2018 so that meant Game Tree was first PSE brand rom using game that has a chance of being emulated.

Within the last year or so paperwork (logic schematics as well) for both Desert Patrol and Bazooka have been online since Desert Patrol had some initial preliminary emulation several months earlier. The schematics for Bazooka shows a 3 board multiple pcb setup similar to Desert Patrol and Game Tree.

Bazooka, Desert Patrol, and Game Tree have a fighting chance of being emulated/preserved. Only game I ever played in arcades was Desert Patrol since that was my favorite PSE brand game.

As for remaining other PSE brand games: nothing yet for Maneater (no roms or paperwork) and for Knights in Armor, I do have logic schematics that need to be taken to ARC for scanning to PDF file and upload pdf file. Knights in Armor pcb uses two roms. They aren't in MAME source, but hopefully backed up /preserved by this time and maybe added to MAME source eventually. I need to do get a particular rom dumped from a Desert Patrol pcb to get Desert Patrol audio data rom preserved.

It is nice to know some of these PSE games have a chance of being emulated compared to ten years earlier even though it may be a while before any are fully emulated.