mariner: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Mariner (c) 1981 Amenip.
An old horizontally scrolling shoot'em up with a vertically scrolling background. The player has to guide a submarine armed with torpedoes and missiles through five levels while fighting different underwater terrors. At the end of each area the boss-submarine appears.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 114
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Mariner is known in US as "800 Fathoms".
When you run the game for the first time, all score ranking entries are set to 10000 pts.
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.35b1 [Zsolt Vasvari]
TODO:
* Complete sound (discret components)
WIP:
- 0.145u8: Tafoid fixed crash before OK in Mariner and clone.
- 0.139u3: Changed AY-3-8910A clock speed to 1536000 Hz.
- 0.122u7: RansAckeR verified DIP locations from manuals for clone 800 Fathoms.
- 0.37b16: Changed palettesize from 112 to 114 colors.
- 0.37b2: Added clone 800 Fathoms. Added user1 and user2 prom ($0 - background color and char banking/star placement). Changed palettesize from 106 to 112 colors. Fixed rom names.
- 3rd May 2000: Zsolt Vasvari added another romset of Mariner to the driver.
- 0.35b2: Gerald Vanderick added accurate colors to Mariner. Added prom tm.t4 ($0) and changed palettesize to 106 colors.
- 0.35b1: Zsolt Vasvari added Mariner (Amenip 1981). Known issues: GFX banking not figured out. Sound seems incomplete.
- 12th August 1998: Dumped Mariner.
LEVELS: 5
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
Recommended Games (Submarine):
Sea Wolf
Sea Wolf II
Depthcharge
Invinco / Deep Scan
Destroyer
Minesweeper
Subs
Wolf Pack
Fire One
HeliFire
N-Sub
Navarone
Polaris
Tomahawk 777
Battle of Atlantis
Mariner
Subroc3D
Battle Cruiser M-12
Submarine
Turbo Sub
Up Scope
The Deep
Sauro
Battle Shark
Guts n' Glory (Depth Charge + Submarine)
In The Hunt
Romset: 29 kb / 10 files / 16.4 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="mariner" sourcefile="scramble.c"> |
| | | <description>Mariner</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Amenip</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="tp1.2h" size="4096" crc="dac1dfd0" sha1="57b9106bb7452640544ba0ab2d2ba290cccb45f0" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm2.2k" size="4096" crc="efe7ca28" sha1="496f8eb2ebc9edeed5b19d87f437f23bbeb2a007" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm3.2l" size="4096" crc="027881a6" sha1="47953aa5140a157ade484341609d477510e8342b" region="maincpu" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm4.2m" size="4096" crc="a0fde7dc" sha1="ea6700520b1bd31e6c6bfac6f067bbf652676eef" region="maincpu" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm5.2p" size="4096" crc="d7ebcb8e" sha1="bddefdc5f04c2f940e08a6968fbd6f930d16b8e4" region="maincpu" offset="6000"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm8.5f" size="4096" crc="70ae611f" sha1="2686dc6d3910bd58b290d6296f30c552686709f5" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="tm9.5h" size="4096" crc="8e4e999e" sha1="195e6896ca2f3175137d8c92777ba32c41e835d3" region="gfx1" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="t4.6e" size="32" crc="ca42b6dd" sha1="d1e224e788e3dcf57249e72f03f9fe3fd71e6c12" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="t6.6p" size="256" crc="ad208ccc" sha1="66a4122e46467344a7f3ddcc953a5f7f451411fa" region="user1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="t5.7p" size="32" crc="1bd88cff" sha1="8d1620386ef654d99c51e489c822eeb2e8a4fe76" region="user2" offset="0"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="Z80" clock="3072000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="8910.1" name="AY-3-8910A" clock="1536000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="90" width="256" height="224" refresh="60.606061" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="IN1" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Free Play" value="3"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="IN2" mask="6"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="6"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="IN2" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="8"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="114"/> |
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