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Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2

  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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2
Name blockcar
Manufacturer Visco
Year 1992
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b11
Romset size 1.75 MB
Romset file 5 files
Romset zip 757 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Ball & Paddle

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 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 90 no 384 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade bl-chr-0.j3 524288 a33300ca b0a7ccb77c3e8e33c12b83e254924f30209a4c2c gfx1 0 good no
arcade bl-chr-1.l3 524288 563de808 40b2f9f4a4cb1a019f6419572ee21d66dda7d4af gfx1 80000 good no
arcade bl-snd-0.a13 524288 a92dabaf 610c1dc0467753dfddaa4b27bc40cb118b0bc7a3 x1snd 0 good no
arcade u1.a1 131072 4313fb00 f5b9e212436282284fa344e1c4200bc38ca3c50a maincpu 0 good no
arcade u4.a3 131072 2237196d 5a9d972fac94e62f026c36bca0c2f5fe8e0e1a1d maincpu 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker mono audio
X1-010 x1snd audio 16000000

Serie

Serie : Thunder & Lightning
  1. Thunder & Lightning (1990)
  2. Thunder & Lightning (bootleg with Tetris sound) (1990)
  3. Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2 (1992)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b11 [Luca Elia]


NOTE:

- The dipswitch setting controls name. The game can be Block Carnival or Thunder & Lightning 2, for either Japan or US.


WIP:

- 0.167: Preliminary hook-up of the OKI6295 for clone Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2 (bootleg), only SFX work. Is there another sound chip? If not, what's the purpose of the sound cpu?

- 0.153: ANY added clone Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2 (bootleg).

- 0.37b11: Luca Elia added 'Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2' (Visco 1992).

- 4th January 2001: Luca Elia added Block Carnival to the Seta driver.


LEVELS: 20


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 27 years ago:

Block Carnival (c) 1992 Visco Corp.

A funny ball and paddle game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : X1-010 (@ 16 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Block Carnival was released in October 1992.

This game is also known as "Thunder & Lightning 2".

- SERIES -

1. Thunder & lightning (1990)
2. Block Carnival (1992)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=283&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

dark_kariya___________________233.500
gnu____________________________95.300
sawys__________________________64.750
foxmulder______________________64.500
zarouk_________________________62.300
thegamer_______________________15.500
hulkiii_________________________7.150