game
icon
title Sarge
set name sarge
manufacturer Bally Midway
year 1985
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Field (hof)
driver status good
driver source mcr3.c
snapshots MW: in game / CT: in game | title / EJ: in game / PS: in game | title
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rating

66.6% after 20 votes
 
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display
colour emulation good
palette 64
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 512x480
frequency 30.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls vdoublejoy2way
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 5MHz
cpu M6809E @ 8MHz
audio DAC
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data
version added .030
last change(s) .061 .060
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
cpu_3b.bin  32768  da31a58f  sarge    29b97caf61f8f59042519a6b501cd1d15099dd59 
cpu_5b.bin  32768  6800e746  sarge    018c2b622b3654530ebc2c299b3f745777163d4b 
tcs_u5.bin  8192  a894ef8a  sarge    7f53927fc185fff8ba1b1747f0d565e089d879e6 
tcs_u4.bin  8192  6ca6faf3  sarge    4647e633dd11f55a65c3acf81adeb3af93624991 
til_15a.bin  8192  685001b8  sarge    300abd808efe5b44b022082eebc591c7c255697c 
til_14b.bin  8192  8449eb45  sarge    6cc43639998d55fe7ffac7e9b091d35ea169e048 
spr_8e.bin  32768  93fac29d  sarge    3d144208eca3b5377689e69da4505187a3d20d4f 
spr_6e.bin  32768  7cc6fb28  sarge    5fe24d5114551b4a4bf303cd612da332555c0f93 
spr_5e.bin  32768  c832375c  sarge    dfb7782b13e1e959e0ecd5da771cd38962f6952b 
spr_4e.bin  32768  c382267d  sarge    6b459e9ec7948a529b5308357851a0bede085aef 
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cabinet art
cabinet sarge.png
marquee sarge.png
control panel sarge.png
flyer sarge.png
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additional information
info 0.30 [Brad Oliver, Aaron Giles]

WIP:
  • 0.122u6: Replaced M6809 CPU3 with M6809E (8MHz).
  • 0.98u1: Changed M6809 CPU2 clock speed to 2MHz and changed to double 8-way joystick.
  • 0.53: Changed palettesize from 128 to 64 colors.
  • 0.30: Brad Oliver and Aaron Giles added Sarge (Bally Midway 1985). Nicola Salmoria added alternate controls in Battle Zone and Sarge, they are available only when the -cheat option is specified.
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:
  • Insert coin and press Switch button to enter battle.
  • Destroy all enemy vehicles to earn a promotion Bonus.
  • All surviving armies advance to the next battle.
  • Push switch button to change vehicles. Tank and Helicopter weapons: Pull Trigger for ground grenades. Hit Thumb button for Air Assault.
Other Emulators:
  • Retrocade
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Vs. Battle City

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Romset: 224 kb / 10 files / 82.1 zip
history Sarge (c) 1985 Bally Midway.


- TECHNICAL -


Bally Midway MCR 3 hardware


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 5 Mhz)

Sound CPU : M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)

Sound Chips : DAC


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 512 x 480 pixels

Screen refresh : 30.00 Hz

Palette colors : 64


Players : 2

Control : Double 2-way joystick (Vertical)

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in October 1985.


From Brian Colin, Lead Artist on Sarge : "The realistically depicted female soldier featured in the game generated so much interest when it was first introduced that, part-way through it's production run, we slipped a hidden player incentive. With the machine's internal DIP switches set a certain way, players who achieved a rank of Colonel were greeted with a winking, sexy GI Jane wearing little more than a smile.

The DIP switches should be set as follows : 0011000100.

To see if the switches are set correctly, look at the girl at the start of the game. If she is wearing a low-cut T-shirt, then the 'hidden player incentive' is on.".


- STAFF -
  • Software : Jeff Nauman
  • Artists : Brian Colin, Sharon Perry
  • Sounds : Bob Libbe, Neil Falconer
  • Hardware : Cary Mednick, Steve Ackerman
  • Mechanical : John Kubik
  • Added support : Jim Belt
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Machine's picture.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=sarge&page=detail&id=2315&o=2
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:E0F3:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Invincible Tank PL1
00000000:E0F4:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Invincible Copter PL1
00000000:E173:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Invincible Tank PL2
00000000:E174:00000006:FFFFFFFF  Invincible Copter PL2
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