Armed Police Batrider - Arcade

Armed Police Batrider. © 1997 Eighting / Raizing.

Armed Police Batrider is a vertically scrolling manic shooter arcade game developed and published by Raizing/Eighting in 1998. The player controls teams of flying jet bikes (Batriders) each with their own pilot; players can choose up to three of nine standard characters plus another nine unlockable characters from the previous Raizing games Mahou Daisakusen and Battle Garegga. Batrider contains up to seven stages along with a large number of secrets, which are either unlockable with codes or dipswitch settings, or hidden within the game itself.

Main CPU : 68000, Z80
Sound Chips : YM2151, (2x) OKI6295

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 240 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2048

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

Program 68000 side : Shinobu Yagawa
Program Z80 side : Yuichi Ochiai
Character designer : Kazuyuki Nakashima
Graphic designers : Kazuyuki Nakashima, H. Yokoyama, M. Taguchi, Masaharu Tokutake, Yuki Yonei
Music composers : Manabu Namiki (Santaruru), Ken-ichi Koyano, Hitoshi Sakimoto
Sound effects : Mato

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• vertical
• arcade
• shooter
• mame

[MikeArcade07]

Great Gameplay!

But how do you play it on MAME? I always download it but it never reads the rom, Any Advice?

[classicgamevideos]

@MikeArcade07 mame gets updated every so often and roms change sometimes. You just have to keep up to date with it.

[MysticArksRevenge]

@jaranarm I agree! 8ing should keep making games like this OR make Beat em'ups.

[Tiamat583]

I just played this, its so awesome! Lovin the concept and the fast paced gameplay! kinda reminds me of Raiden Fighters a little bit.

[ClessxAlghazanth]

never understand the scoring in raizing games but they are fun anyway

[deejaytai1]

The way I do it is download the same game from every site I can pull up. Some roms on some sites just don't work, while it might from another. Went to 7 different sites before I found a working SF III rom!!

[ArtVandalay1984]

@MikeArcade07 I know your post is a year old but, the reason why you can't get Batrider to work might be because you have to download the European version first. Think of the European version as the parent rom that all the other versions need to run off of. Then again you might have figured this out already.

[woutiedotcom]

wow, 2014 :) hehe... we are almost there!

[MikeArcade07]

@classicgamevideos I have but it still never plays, Same goes for Bakraid and Tengai.

I just don't get how everyone else can play these games on mame but me. I'm at the latest version of mame but it still doesn't work, It is never listed on my roms list in mame. Thank you for helping me though.

[jaranarm]

I don't get why Eighting continues to waste their talents on making fighting games when they could be making more games like this.