snowbros: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (c) 1990 Toaplan.
One or two players take on the roles of snowmen Nick and Tom as they battle a variety of monsters over fifty platform-based, single screen levels. The snowmen must throw snowballs at the enemies, eventually encasing them completely in snow. The encased enemies must them be kicked in order to destroy them. This is achieved by standing next to the snowball and pressing the "kick out" button, which sends the giant snowball flying around the screen, killing any enemies that lay in its path. During every 10th level, the players must face and defeat an end-of-level boss.
A number of power-ups are available, in the form of coloured potions. The power-ups are as follows :
* Yellow = Long shot
* Red = Speed up
* Blue = Bigger snowballs (encases monsters quicker)
* Green = Inflates the players like a balloon and lets them fly around the screen, killing any monsters they touch.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : MIN16-02
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.50 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Released in April 1990.
Like Taito's "Liquid Kids", Snow Bros. was licensed to Manchester's Ocean Software for conversion to both the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga home computers but, again like "Liquid Kids", Ocean decided that the game wouldn't perform well at retail and the game was cancelled. It has since been released, in its entirety, to the emulation community and is a fine conversion.
This game was released as a conversion kit only (often factory installed in a generic cabinet), so any such machine could be converted into a proper Snow Bros. machine. This title is JAMMA compatible (the circuit board for it is one of the smallest ever made, it is barely larger than a Nintendo Famicom cartridge). The marquee for this title shows a 'Snow Bros.' logo, with two snowmen, and a couple of cartoon enemies in the background - in keeping with the game's 'cute' theme.
Licensed to Romstar for USA distribution.
A bootleg of this game is known as "The Winter Bobble".
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Out Zone, Snow Bros. - PCCB-00044) on 21/10/1990.
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
* Killing all the monsters on a level with a single snowball causes money bonuses, worth 10,000 points, to fall down, but sometimes a glowing cake bonus will appear instead. When the cake is collected, the game stops and four blue snowball creatures appear for a short time. If these enemies are killed, they each provide a letter : S,N,O or W. Collect all four of these letters for an extra life. The glowing cake can also appear at other times during the game.
* Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.
- SERIES -
1. Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (1990)
2. Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves (1994)
3. Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure (2002)
- STAFF -
Music composed by : Osamu Ohta
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Nintendo Famicom (1991)
Sega Mega Drive (1993)
Nintendo Game Boy ("Snow Bros. Jr.") : includes 10 additional (new) levels after you complete all 50 from the arcade.
* Computers :
Commodore Amiga (Unreleased).
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.34b8 [Zsolt Vasvari]
0.31 [Mike Coates]
WIP:
- 0.142: Aaron Giles fixed missing video in clone 'The Winter Bobble (bootleg of Snow Bros.)'.
- 0.133u1: Renamed (snowbroa) to (snowbrosa), (snowbrob) to (snowbrosb), (snowbroc) to (snowbrosc), (snowbroj) to (snowbrosj), (snowbrod) to (snowbrosd) and (snowbro3) to (snowbros3).
- 0.127: Tirino73 / MAME Italia added clone 'Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Dooyong license)'.
- 14th August 2008: Tirino73 dumped Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Dooyong license), comes from an original PCBb. Differences are: In title screen, copyright string added with "Licensed to Dooyong Ind. Co. Ltd.".
- 0.119u3: Changed description of clone 'The Winter Bobble' to 'The Winter Bobble (bootleg of Snow Bros.)'. Added new cpu1 roms to clone 'The Winter Bobble'.
- 0.117: David Haywood moved "Pandora" sprite chip implementation to its own file. Updated Snow Bros, Air Buster, DJ Boy and Heavy Unit to use ths new generic implementation.
- 0.97u4: Mamesick increased 68000 clock speed to 12MHz in clone Winter Bobble - otherwise the gfx and scroll break up.
- 0.97u3: Corrado Tomaselli fixed OKI6295 frequency (7575 Hz) in clone Snow Brothers 3 to match samples pitch on the PCB for Final Tetris.
- 0.90u4: Re-added 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure' as clone of Snow Bros.
- 0.85u2: Inigo Luja added conditional coinage to Snow Bros.
- 0.81u4: Fabrice Arzeno added clone 'Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 4)'.
- 0.75: Replaced all gfx1 roms with rom sbros-1.41 (512kb). Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 6MHz and YM3812 to 3MHz and VSync to 57.5 Hz.
- 0.74: Removed 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure'.
- 0.64: Added 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure' (Syrmex 2002 (bootleg/hack)).
- 0.57: Fixed MAMETesters bug snowbros056gre.
- 9th December 2001: Quench added cocktail support and did some other minor fixes in the Snow Bros driver.
- 0.37b7: David Haywood added clone 'The Winter Bobble' (bootleg).
- 29th August 2000: David Haywood added Winter Bobble to the SnowBros driver.
- 31st August 2000: Brad Oliver fixed Winter Bobble to work on Macs.
- 29th August 2000: Haze added Winter Bobble to the Snow Bros driver.
- 0.36b14: Changed YM3812 clock speed to 3579545 Hz.
- 0.36b7: Added clone Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 3).
- 0.36b2: Tatsuyuki Satoh make further improved the YM3812 emulator, especially the rhythm section (check Snow Bros!).
- 0.36b1: Tatsuyuki Satoh made a new digital YM3812/YM3526 emulator (in the DOS version, use -noym3812opl to enable it). It doesn't support the rhythm section yet, but is overall better than the old one.
- 0.35RC1: Nicola Salmoria added clone Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Japan).
- 0.35b13: Changed parent and clone descriptions to 'Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'.
- 0.35b4: Renamed (snowbro2) to (snowbroa).
- 0.34RC2: Changed Z80 CPU2 and YM2812 clock speed to 3.6MHz.
- 0.34b8: Zsolt Vasvari added Snow Bros (set 1). Changed parent description to 'Snow Bros (set 2)'. Renamed (snowbros) to (snowbro2). In the old version (set 2) you sometimes get a green potion that makes you invincible for a few seconds (during which you can pass through walls and destroy any enemies you touch). Looking at the GFX for this set vs snowbros and it appears that only the snowbro2 set has it.
- 0.33b6: Nicola Salmoria fixed Snow Bros hanging after level 30.
- 0.33b3: Nicola Salmoria fixed a couple of palette problems with Snow Bros. It also no longer uses a 16 bit video mode, so it's faster. Increased music tempo in Snow Bros.
- 12th May 1998: Dumped The Winter Bobble (bootleg of Snow Bros.).
- 0.31: Mike Coates added Snow Bros (Toaplan 1990).
LEVELS: 50
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Romset: 800 kb / 4 files / 265.9 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 1)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Toaplan</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="sn6.bin" size="131072" crc="4899ddcf" sha1="47d750d3022a80e47ffabe47566bb2556cc8d477" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="sn5.bin" size="131072" crc="ad310d3f" sha1="f39295b38d99087dbb9c5b00bf9cb963337a50e2" region="maincpu" offset="1"/> |
| | | <rom name="sbros-4.29" size="32768" crc="e6eab4e4" sha1="d08187d03b21192e188784cb840a37a7bdb5ad32" region="soundcpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="sbros-1.41" size="524288" crc="16f06b3a" sha1="c64d3b2d32f0f0fcf1d8c5f02f8589d59ddfd428" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="soundcpu" name="Z80" clock="6000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM3812" clock="3000000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="256" height="224" refresh="57.500000" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="3" coins="3" tilt="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Region" tag="DSW1" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Europe" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="America (Romstar license)" value="1"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Flip Screen" tag="DSW1" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW1" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW1" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSW1" mask="48"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="32"/> |
| | | | <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 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"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="192" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="128"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW2" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW2" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="100k and every 200k" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="100k Only" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="200k Only" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="None" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW2" mask="48"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="48" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="16"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Invulnerability" tag="DSW2" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Allow Continue" tag="DSW2" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="No" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Yes" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="256"/> |
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