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Bradley Trainer Support in MAME 0.62

Posted by Hemos on from the train-on-the-big-boys dept.

TheAlchemist writes "The Bradley Trainer was a modification to Atari's Battlezone arcade game created for the US Army to help train personel in the use of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. Supposedly only two of these machines were built, and of the two only one of them is known to exist today. The latest version of the arcade enumator MAME (0.62) has support for the Bradley Trainer, which hasn't been emulated until now. Pictures and more information of the Atari Bradley Trainer be found on this site, and screenshots of it running in MAME can be found here."

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  1. Wow...... by Kip+Winger · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I'm laughing my ass off that the army decided to use this game to help train. I can't see how this game is the least bit helpful to training a American Soldier. Well, all I can really say is that I'm sure glad we didn't have any big wars during the 80's, because this is just funny. I'm off now, to download this incredible training simulation and turn myself into a lethal killing machine, able to blow up tanks with single shells.

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  2. Battlezone has been running one MAME for 1 year! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    WTF??? How is this news?

  3. I can't believe.. by RaboKrabekian · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I can't believe no one's mentioned that the Bradley was the subject of a great bit of political and military satire in the movie Pentagon Wars. Very funny and scary at the same time. Well, scary if you're an American.

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  4. Imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    1. Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!

  5. Hey I used to have this.. by xchino · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Only when I played it they called it Battle tank.

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  6. Give it up for these ROM GUYS by puto · · Score: 2, Redundant

    http://www.tombstones.org.uk

    They sell rom sets for the cost of media and shipping. You click on the area of the world you are on and they show you who is availible.

    I got all the games for 10 bucks. 3200. But you have to find mame on your own.

    Theflatline

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  7. my favorite feature by coaxial · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ricocheting the big square bullets off walls to kill the enemy.

    *chhhh*
    *bong*
    *bong*
    *bong*
    *bhgh*
    *doo-do o-doo-doo-doo-dwup* :)

  8. Only two people can use it! by Komodo · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Of course, since only two were ever built, that means that there are only two sets of ROMs out there. Since you can't legally play a MAME game unless you have license for the ROM images (which generally means owning a physical set of ROMs, which generally means owning the actual game), there are only two people out there who can actually USE this patch in MAME.

    Which makes me wonder how it was written, tested, etc... seems like prima facie (sp) evidence to me that MAME is an illegal product.