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title Pang (World)
set name pang
manufacturer Mitchell
year 1989
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Gallery (hof)
driver status good
driver source mitchell.c
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rating

71.5% after 328 votes
 
clones Buster Bros. (US)
Pang (bootleg, set 1)
Pang (bootleg, set 2)
Pang (bootleg, set 3)
Pomping World (Japan)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 2048
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 384x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 1
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 8MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 1MHz
audio YM2413 @ 4MHz
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data
version added .035b04
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
pang6.bin  32768  68be52cd  pang    67b9ac15f4cbd3959c417f979beae36ae17334c1 
pang7.bin  131072  4a2e70f6  pang    039db1b51374e5637b5c2ba8e18ccd08816613a7 
pang_09.bin  131072  3a5883f5  pang    a8a33071e10f5992e80afdb782c334829f9ae27f 
bb3.bin  131072  79a8ed08  pang    c1e43889e29b80c7fe2c09b11eecde24450a1ff5 
pang_11.bin  131072  166a16ae  pang    7f907c78b7ac8c99e3d79761a6ae689c77e3a1f5 
bb5.bin  131072  2fb3db6c  pang    328814d28569fec763975a8ae4c2767517a680af 
bb10.bin  131072  fdba4f6e  pang    9a2412a97682bbd25b8942520a0c02616bd59353 
bb9.bin  131072  39f47a63  pang    05675ad45909a7d723acaf4d53b4e588d4e048b9 
bb1.bin  131072  c52e5b8e  pang    933b954bfdd2d67e28b032ffabde192531249c1f 
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cabinet art
control panel pang.png
flyer pang.png
PCB pang.png
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additional information
info 0.35b4 [?]

0.34b2 [Paul Leaman]

NOTE:
  • The bootleg version pangb contains opcodes and data decrypted separately, plus a few patches here and there. They disabled sound in attract mode (there isn't a setting to do that, unlike Buster Bros.), changed the lives option from 1,2,3,4 to 1,3,4,6, and changed the copyright year from 1989 to 1990.
WIP:
  • 0.122u1: Corrado Tomaselli verified some CPU clocks of original boards using a frequency counter, changed Pang M6295 clock from 990khz to 1Mhz.
  • 0.119u4: David Haywood added clone Pang (bootleg, set 3). This bootleg has different sound hardware, the sound program is the same as 'rebus' by microhard. I suspect it was produced by the same company as 'spangbl'.
  • 0.119u3: David Haywood added clone Pang (bootleg, set 2).
  • 0.101u3: Fixed cpu1 roms addresses in clone (bootleg).
  • 0.63: All new, much better, YM2413 emulation [Jarek Burczynski].
  • 0.61: New YM-2413 emulator [Fabio R. Schmidlin, Charles Mac Donald].
  • 1st February 2001: Sean Young integrated Mitsutaka Okazaki's YM2413 emulator.
  • 0.37b4: Added new cpu1 roms ($0, 80000).
  • 0.36b1: Yasuhiro Ogawa added clone Pomping World (Japan). Fixed sound1 rom length from 64 to 128k.
  • 0.35RC1: Brian Lewis and Andrea Mazzoleni added new tweaked VGA modes: 384x240 (for CPS1, Pang etc.), 384x256 (for Lode Runner etc.), 336x240 (for Gauntlet and other Atari games), 320x240 (for NeoGeo and others).
  • 0.35b4: Added Pang (World) and clone Buster Bros. (US). The old version, Pang (bootleg), contains opcodes and data decrypted separately, plus a few patches here and there. They disabled sound in attract mode (there isn't a setting to do that, unlike Buster Bros), changed the lives option from 1,2,3,4 to 1,3,4,6, and changed the copyright year from 1989 to 1990. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 8MHz.
  • 0.34b5: Added YM-2413 (3579580 Hz) sound.
  • 0.34b3: Juan Carlos Lorente added hiscore save in Pang.
  • 0.34b2: Paul Leaman added Pang (Mitchell 1989) and clone Buster Bros (Capcom 1989) (Testdriver).
LEVELS: 50

Other Emulators:
  • Raine
Recommended Games (Pang):

Pang

Super Pang

Pang! 3

Mighty! Pang

Pang Poms

Genix Family

Monsters World

Choky! Choky!

Romset: 1056 kb / 9 files / 407 zip
history Pang (c) 1989 Mitchell.


1 or 2 players control safari suit-wearing characters armed with harpoon guns and must destroy bouncing balls. When hit, h balls break down into smaller fragments, in a similar fashion to Atari's 1979 classic, "Asteroids". The players can only fire virtually upwards, but can move right and left, as well as climbing the ladders that appear on many of the levels. Each screen features a backdrop of a famous world landmark. All bubbles must be destroyed before players can advance to the next screen.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)

Sound Chips : OKI6295 (@ 7.5 Khz), YM2413 (@ 4 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 384 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 2048


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


This game is known in Japan as "Pomping World" and in US as "Buster Bros".


The bootleg version was released in 1990.


Pang was an updated version of a game Hudson Soft originally released in 1983 in Japan and UK for the Sinclair ZX-Spectrum. The game was called 'Canon Ball' in Japan and Sinclair Research limited released 'Canon Ball' in the UK as 'Bubble Buster', under license from Hudson Soft.


- SERIES -
  1. Pang (1989)
  2. Super Pang (1990)
  3. Pang! 3 (1995)
  4. Mighty! Pang (2000)
    5. - STAFF -
    • Planner : NDA
    • Programmers : Hospitel Masa, Mamichan Otona
    • Music composer : Tamayo Kawamoto
    • Character designers : Hiramattyo, Oyuu
    • Direction : Kihaji Okamoto
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Amstrad GX4000 (1990)
    • Nintendo Game Boy (1993)
    • Sony PSP (2006, "Capcom Puzzle World")
    • * Computers :
    • Amstrad CPC+ (1990)
    • Atari ST (1990)
    • Commodore Amiga (1990)
    • Commodore C64 (1991)
    • Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1991)
    • * Others :
    • Mobile phone [Nokia 7650] (2003)
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=pang&page=detail&id=1929&o=2
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:E01A:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time:Disable just before travelling to a different city otherwise the game will freeze!
00000001:E027:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Stop the Bubbles Now!
00000001:E027:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Restart the Bubbles Now!
00000001:E01C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Level Now!
00000001:E018:00000010:FFFFFFFF  Goto Last level on comp.
00010001:E019:00000030:FFFFFFFF  Goto Last level on comp.(2/2)
00000001:E018:00000010:FFFFFFFF  Goto Last level on death
00010001:E019:00000031:FFFFFFFF  Goto Last level on death(2/2)
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:E230:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000  Invincibility PL1:Disable this cheat just before ending a level or else the level will not end!
00010000:E200:00000004:00000004  Enabled
00010000:E200:00000000:00000004  Disabled
00000000:E228:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Protection PL1
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000  Select Weapon PL1
00010000:E229:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal
00018000:E22C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal (2/3)
00018000:E244:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal (3/3)
00010000:E229:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Double
00018000:E22C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Double (2/3)
00018000:E244:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Double (3/3)
00010000:E229:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun
00018000:E22C:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun (2/3)
00018000:E244:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun (3/3)
00010000:E229:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Blocker
00018000:E22C:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Blocker (2/3)
00018000:E244:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Blocker (3/3)
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:E2B0:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000  Invincibility PL2:Disable this cheat just before ending a level or else the level will not end!
00010000:E280:00000004:00000004  Enabled
00010000:E280:00000000:00000004  Disabled
00000000:E2A8:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Protection PL2
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000  Select Weapon PL2
00010000:E2A9:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal
00018000:E2AC:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal (2/3)
00018000:E2C4:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Normal (3/3)
00010000:E2A9:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Double
00018000:E2AC:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Double (2/3)
00018000:E2C4:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Double (3/3)
00010000:E2A9:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun
00018000:E2AC:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun (2/3)
00018000:E2C4:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Machine Gun (3/3)
00010000:E2A9:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Blocker
00018000:E2AC:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Blocker (2/3)
00018000:E2C4:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Blocker (3/3)
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