/Arcade-TNKIII_MiSTer

Beta Core of SNK TNK III before merge with the SNKTripleZ80 Core

Primary LanguageVerilogGNU General Public License v2.0GPL-2.0

SNK T.N.K. III (Beta):

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About

This core as beta release will be published as independet core. Finally will be unified with the SNK Triple Z80 Core. For a list of games intended to work with the SNK Triple Z80 Core see: https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/snk.cpp.

Third party cores

Instructions:

In a game of two players who play in alternating turns. You use a 8-way joystick control with two buttons: Bullets and Shells. To rotate the tank turret, the left and right triggers of a gamepad are used, simulating SNK's LS-30 rotary joystick. You have additional buttons for Coin, Start, Pause and Service Mode. The controls of a second controller can be used for two players in alternate mode.

Manual installation

Rename the Arcade-TNKIII_XXXXXXXX.rbf file to TNKIII_XXXXXXXX.rbf and copy to the SD Card to the folder /media/fat/_Arcade/cores and the .MRA files to /media/fat/_Arcade.

The required ROM files follow the MAME naming conventions (check inside MRA for this). Is the user responsability to be installed in the following folder: /media/fat/_Arcade/mame/.zip

Acknowledgments

  • @caiusarcade for their assistance in using files and converting PLD files.
  • @topapate for general advice with the JTOPL core.
  • @FCochise for helping with the rom settings of MRA files.
  • @alanswx for helping me with some technical aspects related to the use of the MiSTer framework.
  • And all those who with their comments and shows of support have encouraged me to continue with this project.