0.36b11 [Manuel Abadia]
0.36b6 [Manuel Abadia]
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Bugs:
- Part of the zamboni is missing when it exits or enters from the right side of the screen. joe35car (ID06511)
- Trackball input issues. AWJ (ID 05520)
- Flip Screen has no sprite flip. Tafoid (ID 04902)
- Original PCB running through an RGB board and into my PC. It's about 8 minutes of attract mode. Smitdogg (ID 03940)
WIP:
- 0.165: Cleanup Blades of Steel driver and video [Alex Jackson].
- 0.154: Adjusted Blades of Steel ROM loading so that drivers using the K007342 and K007420 use compatible gfx layouts. Simplify rom loading and reduce tagmap lookups. Fixed trackball tags. Updated bladestl to use ioport_array_finder. Added RC filters to YM2203 SSG channels (based on schematic, identical to Double Dribble) [Alex Jackson]. Added 3x RC Filter.
- 0.142u3: Angelo Salese fixed protection read-back registers 0x07 and 0x0e / 0x0f in K051733 math chip. Made K051733 RNG to behave like an adder. Removed deprecat.h dependancy and updated irqs accordingly for Blades of Steel.
- 0.136u4: R. Mucciarelli, Phil Bennett, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clone Blades of Steel (version L). Fixed rom names.
- 8th February 2010: Smitdogg - We got Blades of Steel (Rev.L). Credits so far: R. Mucciarelli, Phil Bennett, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union.
- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to Blades of Steel. Added device versions of all the Konami custom ICs currently emulated in machine\konamiic.c and video\konamiic.c. Updated Blades of Steel to use new devices.
- 0.126u3: Andrew Gardner merged memory maps in Blades of Steel.
- 0.123u6: RansAckeR added DIP locations and made use of PORT_INCLUDE. Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.
- 0.122u8: Zsolt Vasvari removed colortables from Blades of Steel and a number of other drivers, as part of a larger move to phase out old-style colortables. Changed palettesize to 288 colors.
- 0.122u7: Changed HD6309 CPU1 clock speed to 12MHz.
- 3rd June 2007: Mr. Do - Scanned instruction card for Blades of Steel provided by Tormod.
- 0.67: Jake Stookey fixed 2nd player control in Blades of Steel.
- 0.59: Changed sound2 rom ($0) to sound1 ($80000).
- 29th December 1999: Manuel Abadia fixed a graphics bug in Blades of Steel.
- 28th December 1999: Manuel Abadia sent in a Konami update with K051733 working fully in Blades of Steel.
- 0.36b13: Manuel Abadia fixed protection in Blades of Steel.
- 27th December 1999: Manuel Abadia added the K051733 protection hacks to Blades of Steel and the game works a little bit better.
- 0.36b11: Manuel Abadia added Blades of Steel (version T). Added dipswitches 'Bonus time set' and 'Period time set'. Changed 'Blades of Steel' to clone 'Blades of Steel (version E)'. Renamed (bladestl) to (bladstle).
- 1st December 1999: Manuel Abadia added another Blades of Steel romset.
- 0.36b9: Changed M6809 CPU2 clock speed to 2MHz.
- 0.36b6: Manuel Abadia added 'Blades of Steel' (Konami 1987). The game is not working properly because of protection (custom CPU/MCU Konami 051733). Wrong sprite colors. Missing samples. Second Trackball is not implemented yet.
- 27th September 1999: Manuel Abadia sent in a Blades of Steel driver but it doesn't really work because of the protection.
LEVELS: 3
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Shuffleshot
Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:
Blades of Steel - The Supreme Hockey Challenge (c) 1987 Konami Industry Company, Limited.
An ice hockey game with hand-to-hand fighting and physical violence. Features close-up action scenes where two players (one from each team) throw off their gloves and punch each other.
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : GX797
Main CPU : HD6309 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 2 Mhz)
Sound Chips : UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz), Yamaha YM2203 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : Trackball
Buttons : 3
=> [A] Face Off/Pass, [B] Shoot, [C] Fight
- TRIVIA -
Blades of Steel was released in October 1987.
- STAFF -
Sound Editor: Kazuki Muraoka
Cabinet Graphic Design: Don Marshall
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicom Disk [JP] (jul.22, 1988) "Konamic Ice Hockey [Model KDS-HOC]"
[US] Nintendo NES (dec.1988) "Blades of Steel [Model NES-VS]" : Re-released in 1990 as part of Konami Classic Series
Nintendo NES [AU] (1990) "Blades of Steel [Model NES-VS]"
[EU] Nintendo NES (nov.23, 1990) "Blades of Steel [Model NES-VS]"
[EU] Nintendo Game Boy (1991) "Blades of Steel [Model DMG-UB]"
[US] Nintendo Game Boy (aug.1991) "Blades of Steel [Model DMG-UB]"
[JP] Nintendo Game Boy (nov.27, 1992) "Konamic Ice Hockey [Model DMG-UBJ]"
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] [EU] (dec.21, 2007) NES version
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console] [US] (dec.24, 2007) NES version
* COMPUTERS:
[US] Commodore C64 (1990)
[EU] Commodore Amiga (1990)
PC [MS-DOS, 5.25"] [US] (1990)
* OTHERS:
LCD handheld game
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