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halleys: MAME ROM Information.


History:

Halley's Comet (c) 1986 Coin-It Co.


- TRIVIA -


Conversion kit sold by Coin-It in the US under license from Taito. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Taito version entry.


- SOURCES -


Game's ROM.

Game's Manual.



MAME Info:

0.66 [Jarek Burczynski, Phil Stroffolino, Acho A. Tang]

0.61 [Jarek Burczynski, Nicola Salmoria, Phil Stroffolino]


Bugs:

- halley87, halleysc, halleycj: Priority glitch between hiscore text and background. Kold666 (ID 03594)

- halley87, halleysc, halleycj: Sound support incomplete. Kold666 (ID 03595)


WIP:

- 0.142u4: Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h usage in the Halleys driver.

- 0.136u1: Corrado Tomaselli verified and corrected clocks in Halley's Comet. Changed VSync to 59.5 Hz.

- 0.131u2: Fabio Priuli fixed Halley's Comet sound: AY8910 write handlers work on two bytes.

- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in the Halleys driver.

- 0.128u3: Stephane Humbert fixed dipswitches for all Halley games. Added DIP locations for 'halleys' and clones. Added dipswitches 'Operation Data Recorder', 'Infinite Lives (Cheat)', 'Coin Slots' and 9x 'Unused'.

- 0.122u1: Corrado Tomaselli verified some CPU clocks of original boards using a frequency counter, changed Halley Comet main CPU clock to 1.664MHz (it's not a mistake, the clock is very low).

- 20th September 2006: Dumping Project - Purchased Halley's Comet '87 (Taito, very Rare). Thank go to the fivepeople who recently donated after the last request. A special thanks goes to Kevin.

- 0.108u1: Brian Troha fixed collision detection in clone Halley's Comet '87.

- 0.108: Added clone Halley's Comet '87. Changed description of clones 'Halley's Comet (Japan set 1)' to 'Halley's Comet (Japan, Newer)' and 'Halley's Comet (Japan set 2)' to 'Halley's Comet (Japan, Older)'.

- 0.72u1: Misc improvements, cleanups and fixes to the Halleys driver [Acho A. Tang]. Changed palettesize to 1536 colors.

- 12th August 2003: Acho A. Tang re-submitted Halley's Comet collision detection.

- 13th March 2003: Acho A. Tang added better collision detection to the Halley's Comet driver.

- 0.66: Added Halley's Comet (US) (Taito 1986) and clones (Japan set 1) and (Japan set 2).

- 9th March 2003: Acho A. Tang submitted major improvements to the Halley's Comet and Ben Bero Beh driver, they are almost perfect now.

- 12th January 2003: Phil Stroffolino sent in an updated Halley's Comet driver that is pretty close to playable, but some blitter problems still remain.

- 4th September 2002: Phil Stroffolino sent in an update to the Halley's Comet driver. The title screen works but it crashes after a few seconds into the game, and the graphics emulation is missing a lot of things.

- 0.61: Added (Testdrivers) Halley's Comet (set 1) and clones (set 2) and (Japan).

- 24th June 2002: Jarek Burczynski added sound to Halley's Comet, but it isn't otherwise improved.

- 8th June 2002: Phil Stroffolino sent in another small update to Halley's Comet.

- 7th June 2002: Phil Stroffolino sent in a preliminary Halley's Comet driver that works up to the test mode.

- 19th May 2002: Nicola Salmoria cleaned up the bare bones Halley's Comet driver, but did not progress any further.

- 7th May 2002: Jarek Burczynski decoded the program code in Halley's Comet but the driver doesn't do anything else yet.

- 1st November 2001: Neurokinetik dumped Halley's Comet (US).

- 4th February 2000: Gansuke from Team Japump dumped Halley's Comet (Japan, Older).

- 22nd February 1999: Tormod Tjaberg dumped Halley's Comet (Japan, Older) and (Japan, Newer). Board supplied by Andie.


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Romset: 209 kb / 17 files / 106.9 zip



MAME XML Output:

       <game name="halleys" sourcefile="halleys.c">
              <description>Halley's Comet (US)</description>
              <year>1986</year>
              <manufacturer>Taito America Corporation (Coin-It license)</manufacturer>
              <rom name="a62_01.30" size="16384" crc="a5e82b3e" sha1="c16c6a6c23a579454b8a2be4b951c35b04f2a856" region="maincpu" offset="0"/>
              <rom name="a62_02.31" size="16384" crc="25f5bcd3" sha1="9d72afe866df363d2ac33dab3ed6c3913f4de12d" region="maincpu" offset="4000"/>
              <rom name="a62-15.52" size="16384" crc="e65d8312" sha1="29870fe0dbb30d23970a8a816849dc5807d70675" region="maincpu" offset="8000"/>
              <rom name="a62_04.50" size="16384" crc="fad74dfe" sha1="92c0d42c5e186bc07c168ad581e52a5ae340c2b2" region="maincpu" offset="c000"/>
              <rom name="a62_13.5" size="8192" crc="7ce290db" sha1="e3c72ba5d97cb07f0f72d2765a068af6fb5cca29" region="audiocpu" offset="0"/>
              <rom name="a62_14.4" size="8192" crc="ea74b1a2" sha1="7be3b9e9d51cfa753ce97e92f7eebd9723fe5821" region="audiocpu" offset="2000"/>
              <rom name="a62_12.78" size="16384" crc="c5834a7a" sha1="4a24b3fa707cde89ad5a52d4e994412fcf28e81f" region="gfx1" offset="0"/>
              <rom name="a62_10.77" size="16384" crc="3ae7231e" sha1="277f12570001d82104c79d3d0a58a0b57ed18778" region="gfx1" offset="4000"/>
              <rom name="a62_08.80" size="16384" crc="b9210dbe" sha1="f72f2307e9acd2dd622a3efce71bd334b68a9b60" region="gfx1" offset="8000"/>
              <rom name="a62-16.79" size="16384" crc="1165a622" sha1="6a0b4a3eadf157f89c69b5202bd4f895f92a3ef1" region="gfx1" offset="c000"/>
              <rom name="a62_11.89" size="16384" crc="d0e9974e" sha1="6826cfb4fbf098ed7b9d8b00e2684d7c85a13c11" region="gfx1" offset="10000"/>
              <rom name="a62_09.88" size="16384" crc="e93ef281" sha1="8bfe1ecce1c7107a5bd1b43b531594c8cfc0719d" region="gfx1" offset="14000"/>
              <rom name="a62_07.91" size="16384" crc="64c95e8b" sha1="4c3320a764b13a5751c0019c9fafb899ea2f908f" region="gfx1" offset="18000"/>
              <rom name="a62_05.90" size="16384" crc="c3c877ef" sha1="23180b106e50b7a2a230c5e9948832e5631972ae" region="gfx1" offset="1c000"/>
              <rom name="a26-13.109" size="32" crc="ec449aee" sha1="aa33e82b592276d5ffd540d9a73d1b48d7d4accf" region="proms" offset="0"/>
              <rom name="a26-13.110" size="32" crc="ec449aee" sha1="aa33e82b592276d5ffd540d9a73d1b48d7d4accf" region="proms" offset="20"/>
              <rom name="a26-13.111" size="32" crc="ec449aee" sha1="aa33e82b592276d5ffd540d9a73d1b48d7d4accf" region="proms" offset="40"/>
              <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="M6809" clock="1664000"/>
              <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="3000000"/>
              <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/>
              <chip type="audio" tag="ay1" name="AY-3-8910A" clock="1500000"/>
              <chip type="audio" tag="ay2" name="AY-3-8910A" clock="1500000"/>
              <chip type="audio" tag="ay3" name="AY-3-8910A" clock="1500000"/>
              <chip type="audio" tag="ay4" name="AY-3-8910A" clock="1500000"/>
              <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="90" width="256" height="240" refresh="59.500000" />
              <sound channels="1"/>
              <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2" tilt="yes">
                     <control type="joy" ways="8"/>
              </input>
              <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="DSW1" mask="1">
                     <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="1"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW1" mask="2">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW1" mask="4">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW1" mask="8">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="8" default="yes"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW1" mask="48">
                     <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/>
                     <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="48" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="0"/>
                     <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="32"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSW1" mask="192">
                     <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="64"/>
                     <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="192" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="0"/>
                     <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="128"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW2" mask="3">
                     <dipvalue name="Easy" value="2"/>
                     <dipvalue name="Medium" value="3" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="Hard" value="1"/>
                     <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW2" mask="12">
                     <dipvalue name="100k 600k 500k+" value="0"/>
                     <dipvalue name="200k 800k 600k+" value="12" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="200k 1000k 800k+" value="8"/>
                     <dipvalue name="200k 1200k 1000k+" value="4"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW2" mask="48">
                     <dipvalue name="2" value="32"/>
                     <dipvalue name="3" value="48" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="4" value="16"/>
                     <dipvalue name="4 (No Points Bonus Lives)" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Operation Data Recorder" tag="DSW2" mask="64">
                     <dipvalue name="Not fixed" value="64" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="When fixed" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW2" mask="128">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW3" mask="1">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Free Play" tag="DSW3" mask="2">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Start Area" tag="DSW3" mask="28">
                     <dipvalue name="1 (Earth)" value="28" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="4 (Venus)" value="24"/>
                     <dipvalue name="7 (Mercury)" value="20"/>
                     <dipvalue name="10 (Sun)" value="16"/>
                     <dipvalue name="13 (Pluto)" value="12"/>
                     <dipvalue name="16 (Neptune)" value="8"/>
                     <dipvalue name="19 (Uranus)" value="4"/>
                     <dipvalue name="22 (Saturn)" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW3" mask="32">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Invincibility" tag="DSW3" mask="64">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Infinite Lives" tag="DSW3" mask="128">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="1">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="2">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="4">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="8">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="16">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Coin Slots" tag="DSW4" mask="32">
                     <dipvalue name="1" value="0"/>
                     <dipvalue name="2" value="32" default="yes"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="64">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW4" mask="128">
                     <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/>
                     <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/>
              </dipswitch>
              <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="imperfect" cocktail="preliminary" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="1536"/>
       </game>
 
 


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