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Vs. Ice Climber (set IC4-4 B-1)

  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 Vs. Ice Climber (set IC4-4 B-1)
Name iceclimb
Manufacturer Nintendo
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .066
Romset size 49 KB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 33 B
Language Japanese
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Platform

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 60 4024320 256 0 256 262 0 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mds-ic4-4 b-1.6b 8192 a8afdc62 f798da6c107926790026d4a4d384961dbff2380e maincpu c000 good no
arcade mds-ic4-4 b.6a 8192 96505d4d 0fb913853decebec1d5d15ee5adc8027cd66f016 maincpu e000 good no
arcade mds-ic4-4 b.6c 8192 51fe438e f40812d4275dabaac6f9539e1300c08d07992654 maincpu a000 good no
arcade mds-ic4-4 b.6d 8192 0ea5f9cb 3ba6228ac8011371fc36ce9dde4fc158a81a99a2 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade mds-ic4-4 b.8a 8192 4ec44fb3 676e0ab574dec08df562c6f278e8a9cc7c8afa41 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade mds-ic4-4 b.8b 8192 331460b4 4cf94d711cdb5715d14f1ab3cadec245e0adfb1e gfx1 0 good no
arcade rp2c04-0004.pal 192 0c2e8e4d 0f9090225eb1f08ae5072d40af3e95547cbce05f palette 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
N2A03 maincpu cpu 1789772
N2A03 APU maincpu:nesapu audio 1789772
Speaker mono audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.146u1 [Chack'n]

0.37b11 [Howie Cohen]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.146u1: Tafoid fixed Ice Climber booting problem. Changed clone (Japan) to parent 'Vs. Ice Climber (set IC4-4 B-1)' and 'Vs. Ice Climber' to clone 'Vs. Ice Climber (set IC4-4 ?)'. Renamed (iceclimb) to (iceclimba) and (iceclimbj) to (iceclimb).

- 0.133u1: Renamed (iceclmbj) to (iceclimbj).

- 0.81u9: Chack'n fixed rom names in clone (Japan).

- 0.66: MASH added clone Vs. Ice Climber (Japan). Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', 'Time before bear appears' and 'Unused'.

- 24th October 2002: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Ice Climber Japan version to the VSNES driver.

- 0.60: Removed 3rd button. Changed description to 'Vs. Ice Climber'.

- 16th May 2001: Chackn from Team Japump dumped Vs. Ice Climber (Japan).

- 0.37b11: Howie Cohen added 'Ice Climber' (Nintendo 1984).

- 6th January 2001: Howie Cohen fixed several bugs in the VSNES driver and added RBI Baseball, VS Baseball and VS Mahjong.

- 1st January 2001: Howie Cohen finally submitted the long awaited VSNES driver, with most of the games having correct colors and sound.


LEVELS: 48 (endless)


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Vs. Ice Climber (c) 1984 Nintendo.

You are an Eskimo who wants to climb mountains. You can jump and break the ice, or splat monsters with a handily provided hammer. Bad weather will hamper your progress through 20 different scenarios. A fun platform game in 2 player mode, but pretty unimpressive in 1 player mode.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zetex N2A03
Sound Chips : Zetex N2A03, DAC

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

- TRIVIA -

The name of the blue Eskimo is Popo and the pink Eskimo is named Nana.

The Ice Climbers (Nana and Popo) were absent from the Nintendo world until their appearance as selectable fighters in Super Smash Brothers Melee (Nintendo GameCube). They both fight as a pair and have moves inspired by the original Ice Climber game. They also have a stage inspired by their game and in the Adventure mode, the Polar Bear and Topi appear as enemies/obstacles. The freezie appears in Super Smash Brothers Melee as an item/weapon.

- UPDATES -

In the US version, Topi (a seal) was replaced with the miniature Abominable Snowman, over concerns of animal cruelty (i.e., seal-clubbing).

- STAFF -

Programmer : Kazuaki Morita
Producer : Shigeru Miyamoto

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo NES [JP] (Jan. 30, 1985) "Ice Climber [Model HVC-IC]"
Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1988)
Nintendo GameCube (2001, "Animal Crossing" as an unlockable Bonus game)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002, "e-Reader Series")
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2004, "Classic Nes Series")
Nintendo WII (2007, "Virtual Console")

* COMPUTERS:
NEC PC-8801 (1985)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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