MAWS - showing resource: tcobra2

title	Twin Cobra II (Ver 2.1O 1995/11/30)
set name	tcobra2
manufacturer	Taito Corporation Japan
year	1995
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Flying Vertical (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	taito_f3.c
snapshots	MW: in game / CT: in game \| title / Mr. Do: artwork / EJ: in game / PS: in game \| title \| scores zoom
rating	59.2% after 16 votes
clones	Kyukyoku Tiger II (Ver 2.1J 1995/11/30) Twin Cobra II (Ver 2.1A 1995/11/30)

colour emulation	good
palette	8192
display type	raster
orientation	vertical
resolution	232x320
frequency	58.970000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	stereo

players	4
nplayers	2P sim
controls	8 way joystick
buttons	4
coin slots	4

cpu	68EC020 @ 16MHz
cpu	68000 @ 16MHz
audio	ES5505 @ 15.23805MHz

version added

.085u2

last change(s)

.085u3

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
e15-14.bin	262144	b527b733	tcobra2	19efd647ea9c277b306714fe79ebf40d5f9d2187
e15-13.bin	262144	0f03daf7	tcobra2	de5aee5a339224dfe5e03a02d3ef5ffd5a39211e
e15-12.bin	262144	59d832f2	tcobra2	27019b4121b1f8b0b9e141234192b3da1a4af718
e15-18.bin	262144	4908c3aa	tcobra2	9b0230e6bafd0533ecbe89bc18fae6f3425ea1a3
e15-04.bin	2097152	6ea8d9bd	tcobra2	c31644e89752325ba2f174b60e31bd9659479391
e15-02.bin	2097152	2ea7f2bd	tcobra2	3b42f603f7d35e9b32931a2e8913eb735151a64c
e15-03.bin	1048576	be45a52f	tcobra2	5d9735a774233b43003057cbab6ae7d6e0195dd2
e15-01.bin	1048576	85421aac	tcobra2	327e72f0107e024ec9fc9dc20d381e2e20f36248
e15-10.bin	2097152	d8c96b00	tcobra2	9cd275abb66b3475433ea2649dc872d7d35eb5b8
e15-08.bin	2097152	4bdb2bf3	tcobra2	1146b7a5d9f26d3173a7c64768e55d53a0ab7b8e
e15-09.bin	1048576	07c29f60	tcobra2	3ca0f632e7047cc50ee3ce24cd6c0c8c7252a278
e15-07.bin	1048576	8164f7ee	tcobra2	4550521f820e93ec08b86d148135966d016cbf22
e15-15.bin	131072	22126dfb	tcobra2	a1af17e5c3440f1bab50d79f92c251f1a4536ca0
e15-16.bin	131072	f8b58ea0	tcobra2	c9e196620765efc4c7b535793a5d1f586698ce55
e15-05.bin	2097152	3e5da5f6	tcobra2	da6fc8b26cd02c45cfc0f1aa5292614e4d28cae4
e15-06.bin	2097152	b182a3e1	tcobra2	db8569b069911bb84900b2aa5168c45ba3e985c7

flyer

tcobra2.png

info

0.85u2 [Brian Troha]

0.37b11 [Bryan McPhail]

Bugs:

The music in tcobra2 is in full stereo, but all the sound effects are either centered or play from the left speaker only, depending on the sound effect (e.g. Player 1's shots come from the left speaker while Player 2's shots are centered). tcobra20104u3gre1 AWJ
There are stray flashing pixels on the bottom left of the helicopter after starting a game. tcobra20104u3gre2 Twisty / AWJ

WIP:

0.85u2: Brian Troha added Twin Cobra 2 (World) and clone (US).
0.37b11: Bryan McPhail added Kyukyoku Tiger 2 (Japan) (Taito 1995). Issues: Playfields are 1 off in the x-axis.
16th January 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed some memory corrupting bugs in the Taito F3 driver.
15th January 2001: Bryan McPhail finally submitted his Taito F3 driver, which is not graphically perfect and crashes hard sometimes but has complete ES5505 sound emulation thanks to Aaron Giles, Ian Schmidt and R. Belmont. Not all games are working due to 68020 core bugs, but these are: Ring Rage, Arabian Magic, Riding Fight, Grid Seeker: Project Stormhammer, Gunlock / Rayforce, Super Cup Finals / Hat Trick Hero '93, Top Ranking Stars, Light Bringer, Kaiser Knuckle / Global Champion, Bubble Bobble 2 / Bubble Symphony, Space Invaders DX, Taito Power Goal / Hat Trick Hero '95, Quiz Theater - 3tsu no Monogatari, Akkanvader, Moriguchi Hiroko no Quiz de Hyuu!Hyuu!, Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move Again, Puzzle Bobble 2X, Kyukyoku Tiger 2, Bubble Memories, Cleopatra Fortune, Puzzle Bobble 3, Arkanoid Returns, Kirameki Star Road, Puchi Carat and Pop 'N Pop.

LEVELS: 6

Other Emulators:

Raine

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Strategy X

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Sky Army

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Liberation

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Tiger Heli

Vs. Raid on Bungeling Bay

Airwolf

Ajax

Battle Chopper

Thunder Blade

Super Thunder Blade (Mega-Tech)

Twin Cobra

Twin Cobra 2

Apache 3

Chopper I

Cobra-Command

Metal Hawk

Silk Worm

Twin Eagle

Twin Eagle II - The Rescue Mission

Viper

Ashura Blaster

Steel Talons

Thunder Strike

Air Rescue

S.S. Mission

Desert War

Zero Gunner

Romset: 17664 kb / 16 files / 5.95 zip

history

Twin Cobra II (c) 1995 Taito.

A vertically scrolling shooter.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito F3 System hardware

Prom Stickers : E15

Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound Chips : ES5505 (@ 15.23805 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 232 x 320 pixels

Screen refresh : 58.97 Hz

Palette colors : 8192

Players : 4

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

This game is known in Japan as "Kyukyoku Tiger II".

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'AAA'.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Recycle It, Don't Trash It!" screen.

- SERIES -

Twin Cobra (1987)
Twin Cobra II (1995)
Kyukyoku Tiger II Plus (1997, Sega Saturn)

resource links

view in MAWS
view in CAESAR
view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
view in arcade-history.com
view in MamEnd
view in System16
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive
view in VGMuseum Game Endings

cheats

code	comments
00000000:4006CB:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000
00000000:400865:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:400869:00000005:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Bombs PL1
00000000:40D268:00000010:00000010	Invincibility PL1
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000
00000000:400867:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:40086D:00000005:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Bombs PL2
00000000:40D328:00000010:00000010	Invincibility PL2
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000	Select Region:After you enable this cheat to see any effect you will have to reset the game (F3). Then you may have to turn the Test Mode ON (F2), wait for Test Mode to appear and reset again(F3).
20810000:0FFFFF:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Japan (Kyukyoku Tiger 2)
20810000:0FFFFF:00000002:FFFFFFFF	US (Twin Cobra 2)
20810000:0FFFFF:00000003:FFFFFFFF	World (Twin Cobra 2)