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Check Man

  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 Check Man
Name checkman
Manufacturer Zilec-Zenitone
Year 1982
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 19 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 13 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Puzzle

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 90 no 768 224 60.606061 18432000 1152 0 768 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade checkman.clr 32 57a45057 d4ec6a54f72640e5b485aa59e206c090e67ff640 proms 0 good no
arcade cm1 2048 e8cbdd28 ba0b41e375b94bbfed6a2c949cc7958474c8ba6e maincpu 0 good no
arcade cm11 2048 8d1bcca0 28fc7fb76180820e84d59e6836ed1f8136e8f138 gfx1 0 good no
arcade cm13 2048 0b09a3e8 e4e65da306e22f61790f0a68d953cc017c3ce762 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade cm14 2048 47f043be 44d8892d93849cbc989561387c0a05baead58446 audiocpu 800 good no
arcade cm2 2048 b8432d4d d331476f1f88b7ef1426bed7442392f369e0650b maincpu 800 good no
arcade cm3 2048 15a97f61 3c06c734cef1eed68b401d0d36f7ec9126986d73 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade cm4 2048 8c12ecc0 1c2d61ef84404b6a524c453a3d339aaaadb38229 maincpu 1800 good no
arcade cm5 2048 2352cfd6 77db5f925ee5f83c17a05a78af5191eefe70ca5a maincpu 2000 good no
arcade cm9 2048 3cd5c751 a769fdd30752da8fb331aa0f7a0181a93f0b3378 gfx1 1000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.0 audio 1789750
DISCRETE discrete audio
Galaxian Audio Custom cust audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1620000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Brad Oliver]


NOTE:

- Checkman does not seem to have a control for the sliding of the pieces which was in the original game. checkmaj has designated buttons, but checkman uses the p1 and p2 start buttons. InsideOutBoy


WIP:

- 0.150: Added 'Galaxian Custom' sound.

- 0.134: Removed Discrete sound in clone Check Man (Japan).

- 0.133u1: Renamed (checkmaj) to (checkmanj).

- 0.67: Changed descriptions to 'Check Man' and clone (Japan) to 'Check Man (Japan)'.

- 0.36b16: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 1789750 Hz.

- 0.36b9: Zsolt Vasvari added clone Checkman (Japan).

- 12th November 1999: Zsolt Vasvari fixed sound in Check Man.

- 11th November 1999: Zsolt Vasvari added Check Man to the Galaxian driver, but sound isn't yet working because of a bad rom.

- 0.34b3: Brad Oliver fixed movement of the squares in Check Man.

- 0.34b1: Added color prom.

- 0.31: Brad Oliver added 'Check Man' (Zilec-Zenitone 1982). Control: Use 1 and 2 to move the rows left and right.

- 27th February 1997: Gary Walton dumped Check Man. All of the ROMS are contained on a smallish single card. The main circuit board is similar to Galaxian - there are no graphics ROMs - but two ribbon cables from where the roms would be seated leading to the ROM board. There are two boards perched above the main board. The first contains two processors ( Z80's ) and an AY-3-8910 sound chip.


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Use key 1 and 2 to move the rows left and right.

- Your task is to defuse the ticking bombs before they reach to zero.

- You gain extra points by running over flags but beware of the skulls and stomping boots.


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

* VAntAGE


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Touche Me

Twin Brats

History


Arcade Video game published 37 years ago:

Check Man (c) 1982 Zilec-Zenitone.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 1.62 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz), Tone generator and discrete circuits

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette Colors : 98

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

- TRIVIA -

Commercial remakes on home computer : Danger UXB by Micropower on the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron.

Released by JALECO in Japan.

- SCORING -

Clearing a square by walking over it : 10 points.
Collecting flags : 500, 1,000, 1,500, 2,000 points etc.
Defusing a bomb with 50-60 seconds remaining : 3,000 points.
Defusing a bomb with 40-49 seconds remaining : 2,500 points.
Defusing a bomb with 30-39 seconds remaining : 2,000 points.
Defusing a bomb with 20-29 seconds remaining : 1,500 points.
Defusing a bomb with 10-19 seconds remaining : 1,000 points.
Defusing a bomb with 1-9 seconds remaining : 500 points.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Collect all of the flags on the early levels as there is no great threat from the boots.

* Scroll bombs to the opposite edge of the screen so you can easily collect them and move back to your starting side.

* At the start of each level you get a few seconds where the boots can not move. Make use of this time to get to the first bomb.

* If two bombs are ticking down, get the closest one first unless the other is much closer to exploding.

* Move the floor away from boots to trap them.

* If you trap a boot on a single square, you can move the square away from underneath it, trapping it on empty space.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by: Peter Hughes, Duncan Shortland, Malcolm Mailer
Music by: Robin Cartwright

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Commodore C64 (1983, "Grid Trap")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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