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Black Heart

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Black Heart
Name blkheart
Manufacturer UPL
Year 1991
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .060
Romset size 3.44 MB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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 no
Input tilt no
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 56.18

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 10.bpr 256 cfdbb86c 588822f6308a860937349c9106c2b4b1a75823ec proms 100 good no
arcade 3.bin 131072 a1ab3a16 3fb57c9d2ef94ee188cbadd70378ae6f4407e71d fgtile 0 good no
arcade 4.bin 65536 7cefa295 408f46613b3620cee31dec43281688d231b47ddd audiocpu 0 good no
arcade 9.bpr 256 98ed1c97 f125ad05c3cbd1b1ab356161f9b1d814781d4c3b proms 0 good no
arcade 90068-1.bin 524288 e7af69d2 da050880e186954bcf0e0adf00750dd5a371551b oki2 0 good no
arcade 90068-2.bin 524288 3a583184 9226f1ea7725e4b48bb055d1c17389cf960d75f8 oki1 0 good no
arcade 90068-5.bin 1048576 a1ab4f24 b9f8104d53eda87ccd4000d049ee74ac9aa20b3e bgtile 0 good no
arcade 90068-8.bin 1048576 9d3204b2 b37a246ad37f9ce092b371f01122ddf2bc8b2db6 sprites 0 good no
arcade blkhrt.6 131072 6449e50d d8cd126d921c95478346da96c20da01212395d77 maincpu 1 good no
arcade blkhrt.7 131072 5bd248c0 0649f4f8682404aeb3fc80643fcabc2d7836bb23 maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
OKI6295 oki2 audio 4000000
Speaker mono audio
TMP90840 nmk004:mcu cpu 8000000
YM2203 ymsnd audio 1500000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.60 [Kamel, RAINE team]

0.37b14 [Testdriver]

0.37b13 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.155: Added proper NMK004 internal rom [trap15]. Added TMP90840 (8MHz) CPU2.

- 0.133u1: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Black Heart. Renamed (blkhearj) to (blkheartj).

- 0.132u3: Corrado Tomaselli verified/changed clocks on Black Heart. Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 8MHz and VSync to 56.18 Hz.

- 0.122u1: David Haywood and Tomasz Slanina fixed Black Heart - Game now playable. Changed VSync to 56Hz.

- 0.94u4: Nicola Salmoria improved NMK004 simulation and prevented hang in Black Heart.

- 0.94u2: Added YM2203 (1.5MHz) sound and 'Demo Sounds' dipswitch. Swapped sound1/2 roms.

- 0.90: Brian Troha fixed Black Heart dipswitches.

- 0.61: Added dipswitches 'Service Mode' and 'Difficulty'.

- 0.60: Kamel added 'Black Heart' (UPL 1991) and clone Black Heart (Japan).

- 16th April 2002: Kamel added protection patches that make Black Heart and Mustang playable in the nmk16 driver.

- 0.37b14: Added (Testdriver) Black Heart.

- 0.37b13: Added (Testdriver) Black Heart (Japan).

- 4th March 2001: Bryan McPhail and David Haywood added some more NMK games to the Bombjack Twin driver but they all suffer from unemulated protection and don't work very well.


LEVELS: 8 (endless)


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* FB Alpha

* Raine


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History


Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Black Heart (c) 1991 UPL.

A horizontally scrolling shoot'em up.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : UPL-91069

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), (2x) OKI6295 (@ 4 mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Black Heart was released in May 1991.

'Black Heart' is not only the title of this game, but also boses' names in Razing's Famous shooter "Battle Garega" and "Armed Police Batrider.". Many staff from UPL joined Raizing later and apparently, they like this name.

Gamest (Japanese game magazine) April 2011, a gamer called 'KDK-takeyuki' recorded a high score of 3,713,700 points on this game.

- STAFF -

Developed by NMK (Nihon Maicom Kaihatsu).

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=263&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

majygool______________________461.500
gohat0________________________344.200
fly_saya______________________266.200
didyeah_______________________244.400
inkilino______________________240.100
foxmulder_____________________240.000
sawys_________________________237.400
mike_gyver____________________222.800
thegamer______________________165.300
topmav________________________104.900
hulkiii________________________63.100