MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: Remake of Bazooka

>hi, i am a new user on this forum. and one of the first threads i've noticed was an old one
>that talked about the old 1977 game called Bazooka.

You are so going to have a particular Bazooka fan that might reply here later since that was his game. :-) My favorite PSE (Project Support Engineering) brand game is Desert Patrol.

>well, i'm trying to remake that game in Unity.

Good luck there. MAME does have some building blocks in place (preliminary support for some TTL components), but still a ways to go. There have been some non-cpu game additions by couriersud (MAMEdev) with pong and Breakout and MooglyGuy doing preliminary support of Stunt Cycle.

>i know that this is not a Unity forum, that's why i posted it here on the loony bin,
>which is the forum section for other stuff), but i need some help from you.
>anyway, checking this old manual:

imo It's fine. This thread might be moved to emuchat forum section later so check there if it is not in Loonybin forum.

>(which i also found it that thread) it seems that the game had a lot of noises.
>but anyone (if you played that game) remember how they sounded?

I don't remember details about Bazooka. I played it, but not as much compared to Desert Patrol.

>for now i've just created some simple squarewave sounds (and a sine one for ambulance)
>but from what i've seen those old games counted a lot on realistic sound (for example
>death race). so i wanted to have an idea how to reproduce them in the most similar way to
>the original game

I had to visit Sixtoe's System 16 web site http://www.system16.com/

and then search on the TAITO DISCRETE LOGIC HARDWARE page.

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=625

and find Taito Attack and Taito Crossfire

Taito Attack http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=625&page=1#1449

https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Attack

For now, Taito Attack is best reference for explosion sound effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewhjLAte-Do

No video of Crossfire which is Taito's version Bazooka.

Taito Cross Fire http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=625&page=1#1408

https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Cross_Fire

Also no video with PSE Bazooka at this time....

https://mamedev.emulab.it/undumped/index.php?title=Bazooka

.....but a emufriendly contributor Vernimark

Bazooka (Italian bootleg) at Vernimark.

http://www.vernimark.com/index2.php?cat=5

....might be able to assist in audio sound effects of the other Bazooka sounds. Vernimark probably hasn't posted on here MAMEWorld in a while. You'll have to email and send a reference link to this thread. Hopefully he still has the cab.

As you already know, a lot of the analog circuitry (discrete) for audio sounds is quite involved when being emulated in something such as MAME.

The one shot sound effects for explosions is possible, but complex sound effects such as ambulance sirens might pose a challenge.

In MAME or other emulators, emulating some of those games is a challenge since they use 3 or 4 pcbs hooked up to a mainboard pcb.

That's why only single board non-cpu pcbs games are emulated at this time even though roms have been added/supported/dumped and documented in MAME so users can repair their pcbs and replace roms chips that have gone sour.