Mame game : berlwall : The Berlin Wall

Game infos

Description The Berlin Wall

Name berlwall

Manufacturer Kaneko

Year 1991

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .036rc1

Romset size 6 MB

Romset file 14 files

Romset zip 2 B

Language English

Evaluation 40 to 50 (Decent)

Genre Platform

Driver infos

Driver status good

Driver emulation good

Driver color good

Driver sound good

Driver graphic good

Driver cocktail

Driver protection

Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service yes

Input tilt yes

Input players 2

Input buttons

Input coins 2

Controls infos

type	ways	minimum	maximum	sensitivity	keydelta	reverse
joy	8					no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	256	224	60

Dipswitchs

Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 2 Coins/3 Credits
Country
- England
- Freeze Screen
- Germany
- Italy
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Hardest
- Normal
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Lives
- 2
- 3
- 5
- 7
Service Mode
- Off
- On
Unused
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	bw000.u46	262144	d8fe869d	75e9044c4164ca6db9519fcff8eca6c8a2d8d5d1	oki	0	good	no
arcade	bw001.u84	524288	bc927260	44273a8b6a041504d54da4a7897adf23e3e9db10	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	bw002.u83	524288	223f5465	6ed077514ab4370a215a4a60c3aecc8b72ed1c97	gfx1	80000	good	no
arcade	bw003.u77	524288	fbb4b72d	07a0590f18b3bba1843ef6a89a5c214e8e605cc3	gfx2	0	good	no
arcade	bw004.u73	524288	5300c34d	ccb12ea05f89ef68bcfe003faced2ffea24c4bf0	gfx3	0	good	no
arcade	bw005.u74	524288	16db6d43	0158d0278d085487400ad4384b8cc9618503319e	gfx3	100000	good	no
arcade	bw006.u75	524288	73a35d1f	af919cf858c5923aea45e0d8d91493e6284cb99e	gfx3	200000	good	no
arcade	bw007.u76	524288	97f85c87	865e076e098c49c96639f62be793f2de24b4926b	gfx3	300000	good	no
arcade	bw008.u65	524288	9aaf2f2f	1352856159e19f07e8e30f9c44b21347103ce024	gfx3	1	good	no
arcade	bw009.u66	524288	1151a0b0	584a0da7eb7f06450f95e76faa20d19f053cb74c	gfx3	100001	good	no
arcade	bw00a.u67	524288	f447dfc2	1254eafea92e8e416deedf21cb01990ffc4f896c	gfx3	200001	good	no
arcade	bw00b.u68	524288	b0a48225	de256bb6e2a824114274bff0c6c1234934c31c49	gfx3	300001	good	no
arcade	bw100e_u23-01.u23	131072	76b526ce	95ba7cccbe88fd695c28b6a7c25a1afd130c1aa6	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	bw101e_u39-01.u39	131072	78fa7ef2	8392de6e307dcd2bf5bcbeb37d578d33246acfcf	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	bw_u47.u47	279			plds	0	nodump	no
arcade	bw_u48.u48	279			plds	200	nodump	no
arcade	bw_u54.u54	279			plds	400	nodump	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	12000000
OKI6295	oki	audio	2000000
Speaker	rspeaker	audio
YM2149	ym2149_2	audio	1000000

0.102u1 [?]

0.36b16 [Luca Elia]

WIP:

- 0.181: Angelo Salese fixed "Copy Board" error message in clones The Berlin Wall (bootleg?) and (Korea).

- 0.170: Changed description to 'The Berlin Wall (bootleg?)'.

- 0.154: System11 added clone The Berlin Wall (Korea). Improvements to Berlin Wall [Luca Elia]: Scrambling of sprite offset registers, fixes when finishing a level the timer bonus doesn't show correctly. Added background scroll register (screen shaking effect), fixed flipping. Fixed flipped tilemap offset [Luca Elia]. Removed bw300.u82 gfx1 rom from parent set.

- 0.153: Handle Berlin Wall alt spriteram layout in driver instead of inside sprite chip, added IC locations [David Haywood].

- 0.147: David Haywood fixed for Berlin Wall crashing or hanging on exit for some systems.

- 0.136u1: Corrado Tomaselli changed Berlin Wall to use YM2149.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (berlwalt) to (berlwallt).

- 0.127: Fabio Priuli fixed P1 inputs not working in Berlin Wall and clone.

- 0.102u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli swapped berlwall and berlwalt sets as per SebV notes in the source code. Changed clone (set 2) to parent 'The Berlin Wall' and (set 1) to clone 'The Berlin Wall (bootleg ?)'. Renamed (berlwall) to (berlwalt) and (berlwalt) to (berlwall).

- 0.55: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 12121 Hz.

- 0.53: Nicola Salmoria fixed colors in Berlin Wall. Fixed gfx1/2 rom loading.

- 2nd August 2001: Nicola Salmoria decrypted the background graphics in Berlin Wall.

- 0.37b1: Fixed sound in Berlin Wall [Luca Elia]. Changed clock speed of the 2x AY-8910 to 1MHz and OKI6295 to 8000 Hz.

- 0.36RC1: Added clone The Berlin Wall (set 2). Changed parent description to 'The Berlin Wall (set 1)'.

- 0.36b16: Luca Elia added 'The Berlin Wall' (Kaneko 1991).

LEVELS: 46

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History

Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

The Berlin Wall (c) 1991 Kaneko.

The player takes control of a boy who must use his hammer to break the blocks that form part of the colourful, platform-strewn levels that form each stage. These holes act as traps for the many patrolling monsters and once an enemy has fallen into a hole, the player must then use the hammer on the enemy to make it fall through the hole and down to the platform below - causing it to change into fruit, which can then be collected. This game is a reworking of the 1980 classic, "Space Panic".

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 12.121 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 34816

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [A] Dig, [B] Fill, [C] ?Mystery

- TRIVIA -

Released in January 1991.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Items list :
Godzilla : Breaths fire to destroy the enemy.
ZZZ : Enemy sleeping period.
Hammer : A single strike digs and covers.
Sand clock : Time limit extended.
Steel ball : Digs blocks in one vertical line.
Warp : To the next stage.
Water : Flood due to rain, enemy washed away!!
Footprints : Increase one extra clone.
Bomb : Devastates the enemy.
X2 : Points double at that stage only.

- STAFF -

Programmed by : Y. Saka, Tiny Tomo
Graphic designed by : Atsuko Yasaki, Yuko Mabuchi, Ayako Funatsu, Keisuke Matsuoka
Music & Effect sound by : Tatsuya Watanabe, Swara Pro
Hardware designed by : Hayato Morinaga
Produced by : Hiroshi Kaneko

- PORTS -

Kaneko planned to release a Sega Mega Drive home conversion of this game, but it was never released.

* CONSOLES:
Sega Game Gear (1991)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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The Berlin Wall