MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: TurboSub part 2

> >> Most likely turbosub8 was the final release, so maybe? How do we know of the
> existence of the 27512 ROMs?
>
> The contributor’s statement from the pull request as shown. It makes me wonder if
> the specific rom chip hardware IC was erroneous at the time when TurboSub was first
> added.

> It will be ideal if this can be resolved in case all of the TurboSub versions are
> accounted for and then the crossing of fingers can begin once again regarding
> Bouncer.

This is what Chris reports on his website, and if anybody outside the developers would know I think he would:

http://www.turbosub.com/turbosubmain.html

"The older boardsets used 256K EPROMS, while the newer boardsets used 512K EPROMS. The other noticeable difference is the sound board is two channel on the older model, while the newer model only used one channel."

Personally I believe there may be other revisions out there. I have a couple messages out there trying to find out what else is out there. The website hasn't been updated in a long time so this statement kind of haunts me. Is it still true after this latest release?

"Several Versions of the ROMS have surfaced, included a 'complete' set which has not been released yet."

I haven't started looking at the raw ROMS yet so am unsure if TCA or TC8 is final. TC8 has stuff that's not in TCA but I can see the possibility of it being removed because it made the game more difficult and slowed down the pace. So it could go either way. If I find out more I'll be sure to post updates.

I haven't said it lately but thanks to all involved on the MAME team for everything you do but especially for the work on TurboSub (and hopefully a future Bouncer release).

-Mc