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Tank Battalion

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Title Screen

Tank Battalion

Developer: Namco
Publishers: Namco, Game Plan (US)
Platform: Arcade (custom)
Released internationally: October 1980


SourceIcon.png This game has uncompiled source code.


Tank Battalion is a game about a battalion of tanks attacking a base. Your base. You are not part of the titular battalion, sorry.

It'd later see a much improved port to the Famicom as Battle City.

Filler Text

There are two chunks of 6502 assembly code used as filler text.

Chunk 1
6640
Chunk 2
7F6E
	IY:MBUFADL
	RTS
;
MSTEN0	
	LDA	Z :MBUFADH
	CMP	I /BH
	BNE	R :MST112
	LDA	Z :MBUFADL
	CMP	I /A2H
	BCC	R :MST121
	BCS	R :MST128
MST112	
	CMP	I /8
	BNE	R :MST121
	LDA	Z :MBUFADL
	CMP	I /5EH
	BCC	R :MST128
MST121	
	TYA
	CLC
	ADC	Z :MBUFADL
	AND	I /1FH
	CMP	I /2
	BEQ	R :MST128
	CMP	I /1DH
	BNE	R :MSTEN1
MST128	
	LDA	I /10H
	RTS
MST103	
	INY
MST104	
	INX
MSTEN1	
	LDA	IY:MBUFADL
	CMP	I /11H
	BCC	R :MST102
	CMP	I /90H
	BCS	R :MST102
	LDA	I /0
MST102
	RTS
;
MS10X
	TX
ANK SEARCH
STNKPS1
	LDY	Z :BUFDATA1
	BEQ	R :STP110
	SONO MAMA
	DEY
	DEY
	BMI	R :STP102
	BEQ	R :STP105
	JSR	A :SB20AD1
STP102	
	JSR	A :DECA
(Source: Original TCRF research)