checkmat: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Checkmate (c) 01/1977 Midway.
Up to four players control a block which leaves a trail behind it. The object is to force the other player(s) to run into either the boundary or your trail.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : 615
Main CPU : 8080
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2
Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
- STAFF -
Designed and programmed by : Jay Fenton, Dave Nutting
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Bally Astrocade (1978)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.34b6 [Al Kossow]
Bugs:
- Choppy discrete sound. MASH (ID 04609)
- Dips settings have description of "Language #". The languages are German, French, Spanish. ROM_LOAD( "checkmat.d", 0x1000, 0x0400, NO_DUMP ) /* language ROM */ Rom needs to be dumped and added first before language dip adjustment can be completed. gregf (ID 01050)
WIP:
- 0.112u4: Derrick Renaud added Discrete sound to Checkmate. Still need to breadboard to get noise/filter frequencies.
- 0.111u4: Changed 8080 CPU clock speed to 1996800 Hz. Fixed dipswitches.
- 0.34b6: Al Kossow added Checkmate (Midway 1977).
Other Emulators:
* CottAGE
* Laser
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Tron
Toggle
Wit's
Romset: 4 kb / 4 files / 3.53 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="checkmat" sourcefile="mw8080bw.c"> |
| | | <description>Checkmate</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Midway</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="checkmat.h" size="1024" crc="3481a6d1" sha1="f758599d6393398a6a8e6e7399dc1a3862604f65" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="checkmat.g" size="1024" crc="df5fa551" sha1="484ff9bfb95166ba09f34c753a7908a73de3cc7d" region="maincpu" offset="400"/> |
| | | <rom name="checkmat.f" size="1024" crc="25586406" sha1="39e0cf502735819a7e1d933e3686945fcfae21af" region="maincpu" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="checkmat.e" size="1024" crc="59330d84" sha1="453f95dd31968d439339c41e625481170437eb0f" region="maincpu" offset="c00"/> |
| | | <rom name="checkmat.d" size="1024" status="nodump" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="8080" clock="1996800"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="discrete" name="DISCRETE"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="260" height="224" refresh="59.541985" pixclock="4992000" htotal="320" hbend="0" hbstart="260" vtotal="262" vbend="0" vbstart="224" /> |
| | | <input players="4" coins="1"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="IN2" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 or 2 Players" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 or 2 Players, 2 Coins/3 or 4 Players" value="1"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="IN2" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Rounds" tag="IN2" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="12"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="IN2" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="16"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Language" tag="IN2" mask="96"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="English" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Language 2" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Language 3" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Language 4" value="96"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="IN2" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="128"/> |
| | | <adjuster name="Boom Volume" default="50"/> |
| | | <adjuster name="Tone Volume" default="50"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="0"/> |
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