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title Jackal (World)
set name jackal
manufacturer Konami
year 1986
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Driving Vertical (hof)
driver status good
driver source jackal.c
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rating

73.3% after 77 votes
 
clones Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan)
Top Gunner (bootleg)
Top Gunner (US)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 768
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu M6809 @ 1.536MHz
cpu M6809 @ 1.536MHz
audio YM2151 @ 3.579545MHz
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data
version added .033b07
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
j-v02.rom  65536  0b7e0584  jackal    e4019463345a4c020d5a004c9a400aca4bdae07b 
j-v03.rom  16384  3e0dfb83  jackal    5ba7073751eee33180e51143b348256597909516 
631t01.bin  32768  b189af6a  jackal    f7df996c394fdd6f2ce128a8df38d7838f7ec6d6 
631t04.bin  131072  457f42f0  jackal    08413a13d128875dddcf4f6ad302363096bf1d41 
631t05.bin  131072  732b3fc1  jackal    7e89650b9e5e2b7ae82f8c55ac9995740f6fdfe1 
631t06.bin  131072  2d10e56e  jackal    447b464ea725fb9ef87da067a41bcf463b427cce 
631t07.bin  131072  4961c397  jackal    b430df58fc3bb722d6fb23bed7d04afdb7e5d9c1 
631r08.bpr  256  7553a172  jackal    eadf1b4157f62c3af4602da764268df954aa0018 
631r09.bpr  256  a74dd86c  jackal    571f606f8fc0fd3d98d26761de79ccb4cc9ab044 
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cabinet art
control panel jackal.png
flyer jackal.png
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additional information
info 0.33b7 [Kenneth Lin]

NOTE:
  • Clones supported: Top Gunner ('topgunr') Tokushu Butai Jackal ('jackalj') bootleg Top Gunner ('topgunbl'). topgunbl also allows to rotate the gun turret with a rotary switch. This feature is not available in the original sets. In jackalj, the gun faces the direction you are moving. In the others, it always faces up.
Bugs:
  • Coin counters don't work correctly. Source (ID 02555)
  • Sound CPU clock is overclocked to avoid a communication problem. Source (ID 02556)
WIP:
  • 0.127u3: Nicola Salmoria fixed wrong enemy tank colors in Jackal.
  • 0.125u5: Jackal driver improvements [Nicola Salmoria]: Fixed palette animation (very subtle!). Verified on the schematics and on the PCB that the high score table text cannot change color. Removed the IMPERFECT_GRAPHICS flag. Fixed music stops after you get in the jeep with a kludge (overclock sound CPU). Added dip switch locations and sorted input ports. Added 2x 'Unused' dipswitch.
  • 0.123u1: Zsolt Vasvari removed color tables from Jackal. Added resnet.c color computations where appropriate. Changed palettesize to 4608 colors.
  • 0.122u5: Corrado Tomaselli changed/verified frequencies in Jackal. Changed M6809 CPU1/2 clock speeds to 1536000 Hz and YM2151 to 3579545 Hz.
  • 28th July 2006: Guru - Top Gunner (Konami 1986) and other games just arrived in 2 huge boxes. I think most of these are just for fixing issues in MAME (snd/gfx etc). Big thanks to Tingoes.
  • 0.89u4: Curt Coder cleaned up the Jackal driver.
  • 0.79u1: Curt Coder converted Jackal to tilemaps. Added dipswitches 'Sound Adjustment' and 'Sound Mode'.
  • 0.37b15: Fixed gfx1 rom loading.
  • 0.36b13: Added proms ($0, 100 - color lookup tables).
  • 22nd December 1999: Nicola Salmoria fixed some graphics problems in Jackal.
  • 0.36b8: Added clone Tokushu Butai Jackal (Japan). In Jackal (Japan), the gun faces the direction you are moving. In the other sets, it always faces up. Fixed Jackal (World) romset with gfx1 roms ($0, 1, 40000, 40001).
  • 0.36b7: Fixed gfx1 roms.
  • 26th September 1999: Nicola fixed Jackal character roms.
  • 0.35RC2: Karl Stenerud added rotary control support to clone Top Gunner. This works in topgunbl *only* - the gun turret cannot be rotated in jackal and topgunr, those games don't support the rotary joystick.
  • 0.34b5: Nicola Salmoria added clone Top Gunner (bootleg); also fixed the original set.
  • 0.33b7: Kenneth Lin added Jackal (Konami 1986) and clone Top Gunner. Issues: The high score table colors are probably not correct (all lines are white). Sprites disappear at the border of thse screen and are not in sync with the scroll. At the beginning of a game, part of the screen remains black. Top Gunner doesn't work, ROM 16D doesn't pass the self test.
ARCADE RELEASE: Tokusyu Butai Jackal (Konami) - 1986/Oct/15

LEVELS: 1

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Romset: 625 kb / 9 files / 227 zip
history Jackal (c) 1986 Konami.


1 or 2 players operate a jeep and must battle their way through a huge, vertically scrolling battlefield. Their mission is to save PoWs and deliver them to the nearest helicopter pad so they can be flown to safety. The hostages are trapped in enemy buildings and PoW camps, which must be destroyed in order to release the prisoners. The jeep can only carry up to a maximum of eight PoWs, the current amount being carried is displayed in the upper left-hand corner of the screen.


The jeep is armed with a machine gun and a grenade thrower, the latter of which can be powered-up into a missile launcher. As well as huge numbers of enemy troops and static gun emplacements, the players must also contend with enemy jeeps, tanks, boats, submarines and planes. The final part of the game takes place in the enemy stronghold and the game ends when the final enemy gun emplacements are destroyed.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : GX631


Main CPU : (2x) M6809

Sound Chips : YM2151


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 512


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in October 1986.


This game is known in US as "Top Gunner" and in Japan as "Tokushu Butai Jackal".


Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Konamic Game Freaks : Konami Kukeiha Club - 28XA-135) on 25/03/1987.


- UPDATES -


In Top Gunner, the jeep has an American flag flying next to the cannon and the sound effects are slightly different.


- PORTS -


* Consoles :

Nintendo Famicom (1988)

Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1988, "Final Commando - Akai Yousai")


* Computers :

Commodore C64 (1987)

Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1987)

Amstrad CPC (1988)


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.

Machine's picture.



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code comments
00000000:1478:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:0B06:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL1
00000000:0AFD:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Always Full Power Ups PL1
00000001:0AFC:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Get 8 rescued prisoners PL1
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:14B8:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:0B7E:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility PL2
00000000:0B75:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Always Full Power Ups PL2
00000001:0B74:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Get 8 rescued prisoners PL2
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