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Cannon Ball (Pac-Man Hardware)

  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 Cannon Ball (Pac-Man Hardware)
Name cannonbp
Manufacturer Novomatic
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 6P alt
Added to MAME .119u3
Romset size 21 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 13 B
Language English
Evaluation 10 to 20 (Horrible)
Genre Ball & Paddle

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status preliminary
Driver emulation good
Driver color preliminary
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 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 288 224 60.606061 6144000 384 0 288 264 0 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 82s126.1m 256 a9cc86bf bbcec0570aeceb582ff8238a4bc8546a23430081 namco 0 good no
arcade 82s126.3m 256 77245b66 0c4d0bee858b97632411c440bea6948a74759746 namco 100 good no
arcade colorprom_1 32 08f8ae7e cd1e26da5f214f4d9924a30e6d9cf312f91c2028 proms 0 good no
arcade colorprom_2 256 359a15dc e57ef15eb3baac70fe9e2db897c4165da3c00e20 proms 20 good no
arcade n1-6e 2048 c68878c7 4ab69f820e861a33fa7555286459e5953c126d33 maincpu 0 good no
arcade n2-6k 2048 ff3951a5 8c06526903f2ce3e0ac29ba0138e8c270732150a maincpu 800 good no
arcade n3-6f 2048 2329079d 461d1258a03ea35ba33f4094c05f8ffda8cdfc47 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade n4-6m 2048 fcc57ecb 9efafbb7f3d44652aded860e734332f47354e299 maincpu 1800 good no
arcade n5-6h 2048 52846c9d 4a479ff8961c8865aea12976355d0201a8cb1b48 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade n6-6n 2048 59e890dd c148b71d71fb49a138ef1afe771be70bec21ad2b maincpu 2800 good no
arcade z1-5e 2048 125779e0 c1ae7214e3ff1a941ae0c4948ec886bc84b6f040 gfx1 0 good no
arcade z2-5f 2048 fbd2c99d 135a5d86d59010cc608b099054815dd31d443da7 gfx1 1000 good no
arcade z3-5h 2048 78f866c0 171f0b5ed6c8b1f2ae8dc1b7e97ea9f0c3d8e18e gfx1 800 good no
arcade z4-5j 2048 8734c904 86d9dc72d3cfc863c558967860ac4d2dc8d2c07c gfx1 1800 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Namco namco audio 96000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 3072000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.120u1 [David Haywood]

0.68 [Jarek Burczynski]


WIP:

- 0.171: AntoPISA added year (1985) according to history.dat.

- 0.146u2: Changed description to 'Cannon Ball (Pac-Man Hardware)'.

- 0.135u2: Volker Hann and Team Europe added clone 'Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware) (set 3, no bonus game)'. Changed description of clone (bootleg on Crazy Climber hardware, set 1) to 'Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware) (set 1, buggy)' and (bootleg on Crazy Climber hardware, set 2) to 'Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Kong hardware) (set 2, buggy)'.

- 0.120u1: Documented information about the various Cannonball sets [Stephane Humbert]. Added dipswitches 'Display', 'Lives' and 3x 'Unused'. Removed 'Unknown' dipswitches. Changed 'Cannon Ball (Pacman Hardware)' to parent, (Crazy Climber hardware) to clone 'Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Climber hardware, set 1)' and (set 2) to 'Cannon Ball (bootleg on Crazy Climber hardware, set 2)'.

- 0.119u4: Rob Walmsley added color PROMs for clone Cannon Ball (Pacman Hardware). These give some ugly colours, but should be correct.

- 0.119u3: David Haywood added clone Cannon Ball (Pacman Hardware).

- 0.116u2: Changed description of clone (set 2) to 'Cannon Ball (set 2)'.

- 0.114u3: Couriersud fixed 'Cabinet' dipswitch.

- 0.110u5: Mamesick cleaned up the Crazy Climber driver, replacing hacks for Cannon Ball with a separate video update callback. This fixed the missing sprites.

- 0.102: Changed description of clone set 2 to 'Cannonball (set 2)'.

- 0.98u4: Dave Widel added clone 'Cannonball set 2' (TV Game Gruenberg 1985).

- 0.68: Jarek Burczynski added 'Cannon Ball (Crazy Climber hardware)' (Soft 1985). Some gfx problems (bad ROMs?).

- 31st July 2005: Dave Widel - Andy Welburn found a Cannon Ball running on a Falcon board, this is what it looks like in MAME. Notice the sprites, whole death sequence is ripped from Pac-Man with a face added.

- 10th April 2003: Jarek Burczynski resubmitted the Cannon Ball addition in the Crazy Climber driver.

- 12th March 2003: Jarek Burczynski added Cannon Ball to the Crazy Climber driver.

- 8th January 2003: Jarek Burczynski started working on a driver for Cannon Ball (not the Atari prototype nor the Yun Sung games that have the same name).


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Cannon Ball (c) 1985 Novomatic.

Cannon Ball is a game similar to Breakout except with a twist. Instead of having to clear all of the bricks, you have to destroy a "bat" being protected by all of the bricks. The "bat" tries to kill you by throwing monsters at you which, if hit by one, your paddle shrinks. Once your paddle is invisible, you get a game over. You can also eat the monsters by ramming into one once they are on your playing field.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the Pac-Man hardware.

- TRIVIA -

Released in June 1985.

There are two bootlegs of this game. One made by Soft in the same year running on Crazy Kong's hardware, and another made by TV Game Gruenberg that also runs on Crazy Kong hardware. The only difference between Soft's and TV Game Gruenberg's bootlegs is that they have different color palettes.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=34399&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

merlin_________________________13.025
hulkiii_________________________2.370