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Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (World)

  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 Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (World)
Name bouldash
Manufacturer Data East Corporation (licensed from First Star)
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .035b05
Romset size 1.25 MB
Romset file 19 files
Romset zip 494 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Maze

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 256 240 57.444853 5000000 320 0 256 272 8 248

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade fn-00 65536 ec18d098 3cd1a27de295a177e81c14b9e9bbfcf5793aade2 gfx4 20000 good no
arcade fn-01 65536 9333121b 826ed261b1af41dd5468b2244767593d48577618 gfx4 0 good no
arcade fn-02 65536 4f060cba 4063183e699bb8b6059d56f4e2fec5fa0b037c23 gfx4 30000 good no
arcade fn-03 65536 254ba60f 71ab5cd48ee34da1d2dd951bb243a26d7a1171ae gfx4 10000 good no
arcade fn-04 65536 40f5a760 0d08b816714c08d0848dd25882a09d0a57fcc71b gfx1 8000 good no
arcade fn-05 65536 824f2168 32272a35e5faeebe41ece91fb902251707c9114b gfx1 18000 good no
arcade fn-06 65536 3feee292 d0dc75afffff268e0b3b817fbc060d52418a2ca7 gfx2 10000 good no
arcade fn-07 65536 eac6a3b3 359df7335d11134ae149675080169cb53cafc19c gfx2 0 good no
arcade fn-08 131072 5ac97178 7d246cb17986033ae2c219f7409e3b91be0dd259 gfx3 20000 good no
arcade fn-09 131072 c2b27bd2 8452d4442af476a35d3dfc4bd4df0a7d84a3dd7c gfx3 0 good no
arcade fn-10 65536 c74106e7 72213454c0ec78aa7d6843bd81d14b388ef7a48f audiocpu 0 good no
arcade fn-11 65536 990fd8d9 a37bd96ecd75c610d98df3320f53ae4e2b7fdefd oki 0 good no
arcade fw-12-2.9l 65536 242bdc2a 9f2d7a5af94fae4ce4e61a2f3881a7aa10cdef3f maincpu 1 good no
arcade fw-13-2.11l 65536 19209ef4 36d7eb242f9558ee760b6cc69e7cf8f32d01070f maincpu 20001 good no
arcade fw-14-2.13l 65536 69b6112d 3a8e34ae858946fc72b9ed4f932b9af64b081051 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade fw-15-2.17l 65536 ca19a967 b9dc2b1323f19b6239e550ed020943bf13de8db0 maincpu 0 good no
arcade fw-16-2.19l 65536 b7217265 7ffc71fffb82b1299c6d5d0d1e9e1550977d258a maincpu 20000 good no
arcade fw-17-2.20l 65536 78a632a1 6b7b82bf59cca10ac5a71b910a218a09c5014ff6 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade ta-16.21k 256 ad26e8d4 827337aeb8904429a1c050279240ae38aa6ce064 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
H6280 audiocpu cpu 2000000
M68000 maincpu cpu 10000000
OKI6295 oki audio 1000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ym1 audio 1500000
YM3812 ym2 audio 3000000

Serie

Serie : Boulder Dash
  1. Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex) (1984)
  2. Boulder Dash (DECO Cassette) (US) (1985)
  3. Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (World) (1990)
  4. Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (Japan) (1990)
  5. Boulder Dash (Fra) (19??)
  6. Champion Boulderdash (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b5 [Bryan McPhail]


SETUP:

- Boulder Dash has two game modes (Part 1/2). To changed the mode go into the dipswitch menu and use the dipswitch 'Game Change Mode'.


Bugs:

- First tilemap is offset by 1 pixel. Haze (ID 04403)


WIP:

- 0.158: Angelo Salese fixed MAME's video timing. This fixed fadeout/fadein on screen is the wrong speed slightly off.

- 0.142u1: Angelo Salese added screen raw params and irq ack to the DEC0 driver, improving fade in/out effects for Boulder Dash.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (bouldshj) to (bouldashj).

- 0.122u5: Corrado Tomaselli verified/corrected frequencies and OKI6295 pin 7 in Boulder Dash. Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 10MHz, HuC6280 CPU2 to 2MHz and OKI6295 to 1MHz.

- 21st April 2006: Roberto Fresca - Removed the default dec0 coinage (wrong) for Boulder Dash, figured out the real one and rewrote the complete coinage from the scratch. Fixed 'Difficulty' dipswitches. Removed 'Unused' (DSW0 0x10) and the former 'Demo Sounds' dipswitch (DSW0 0x20). Both are in fact part of the new coinage. Changed 'Game' dipswitch title to "Game Change Mode" (according to technical sources). Added 'Demo Sounds' dipswitch (DSW1 0x80).

- 0.95u4: Fixed rom names.

- 0.53: Added clone Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (Japan). Added priority prom ($0 - not used).

- 27th May 2001: David Haywood fixed Boulder Dash from crashing.

- 0.36b5: Changed description to 'Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2 (World)'. Changed HuC6280 clock speed to 3MHz.

- 0.35b13: Changed description to 'Boulder Dash / Boulder Dash Part 2'.

- 0.35b5: Bryan McPhail added 'Boulderdash / Boulderdash Part 2' (Data East 1990).

- 1st March 1999: Bryan McPhail has sent in his dec0 driver, with Boulder Dash support added and Sly Spy and Midnight Resistance now have full sound and music. All this was possible to do because he also added support for the Hu6280 CPU into MAME.


LEVELS: 31


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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Boulder Dash (Max-A-Flex)

Boulder Dash (DECO Cassette)

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Mr. Dig

Digger Man

History


Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

Boulder Dash (c) 1990 Data East.

An updated version of the classic rocks-and-gems game. Same gameplay applies, collects gems while pushing rocks and avoiding enemies.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID: DE-0322-3

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Hudson Soft HuC6280 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz), YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.757 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.41 Hz
Palette colors : 1024

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in May 1990.

This game is a port from an original game designed at First Star Software by Peter Liepa and Chris Gray for the Apple II computer.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Escape Trick : There is an escape mode that allows you to go through the stones and any moving walls. To activate it, press the A and B buttons at the same time while moving. There is a cost involved, though - it deducts 20 seconds for each stone or wall passed through.

* Boulder Dash Part 2 : There is a way to access Boulder Dash Part 2 from the attract mode (Part 2 has the same levels, but increased difficulty). To access it, press the following key sequence while the player list is onscreen : A+Up, A+Down, Left, Right.

- STAFF -

Planner (First Star Software) : Peter Liepa, Chris Gray
Arrange : Mr. Inaba
Graphic designers : Miss Yamaguchi, Miss Shiraiwa, Mr. Yokoi
Sound : Miss Hara, Mr. Fuse
Hard : Mr. Mitsui
Programmers : Mr. Ishiguri, Mr. Sakai, Mr. Ohta

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

popotte_______________________115.410
sawys__________________________68.220
fly_saya_______________________64.420
rousquilles____________________60.110
nicky634_______________________49.680
didyeah________________________31.950
hulkiii________________________16.570