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Jump Bug

  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 Jump Bug
Name jumpbug
Manufacturer Hoei (Rock-Ola license)
Year 1981
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .012
Romset size 39 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 27 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Platform

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
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 jb1 4096 415aa1b7 4f9edd7e9720acf085dd8910849c2f2fac5cb547 maincpu 0 good no
arcade jb2 4096 b1c27510 66fbe0b94b6c101cb50d7a3ff78160110415dff9 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade jb3 4096 97c24be2 1beb9fbc3a52610b416af8b5fee156d8b6b3125a maincpu 2000 good no
arcade jb4 4096 66751d12 26c68cfb59596ae164ee9ae4a24ddf8dc7a923a7 maincpu 3000 good no
arcade jb5 4096 e2d66faf 3dec0796642856359de57afb896cc668c0245b40 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade jb6 4096 49e0bdfd 8d89d9cd7134b153264fdc49d2c68e8c14004b0d maincpu 9000 good no
arcade jb7 2048 83d71302 9292088d26ba29fbf8817df03461b8bb6bf27639 maincpu a000 good no
arcade jbi 2048 7749b111 55071ce04708bd52177644298f76ae79d23f6ac9 gfx1 1800 good no
arcade jbj 2048 06e8d7df d04f1503d9fde5aae92652cb9d2eb16bd6a0fe9c gfx1 2000 good no
arcade jbk 2048 b8dbddf3 043de444890a93459789dc99c43ef88ff66b79e4 gfx1 2800 good no
arcade jbl 2048 9a091b0a 19b88f802ee80ff8901ef99e3688f2869f1a69c5 gfx1 0 good no
arcade jbm 2048 8a0fc082 58b72a3161950a2fb71cdab3f30bb3abb19c7978 gfx1 800 good no
arcade jbn 2048 155186e0 717ddaecc52a4ef03a01fcddb520acdbfb0d722a gfx1 1000 good no
arcade l06_prom.bin 32 6a0c7d87 140335d85c67c75b65689d4e76d29863c209cf32 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.0 audio 1536000
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 3072000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.12 [Nicola Salmoria]


Artwork available


TODO:

* Added missing discrete sound


WIP:

- 0.166: Osso fixed missing scrolling starfield in Jump Bug by applying the same star generator as Galaxian. Schematics aren't available, but the readme of the rom dump states that the PCB is very similar to Galaxian.

- 0.161: Tafoid adjusted Jump Bug clock speed to have working audio match that of video from PCB. Added notes regarding missing discrete sounds and added GAME_IMPERFECT_SOUND flag. Changed AY-3-8910A sound clock speed to 1536000 Hz.

- 0.128u5: Atari Ace fixed Jump Bug, which won't start second time around.

- 17th December 2006: Mr. Do - Thanks to the loan by Vintage Arcade Superstore, we have a scan of the generic Rockola bezel, which Zorg vectored quite nicely. For now, I added in a blank red instruction card until we get the real thing. This gives us a bezel for Jump Bug.

- 15th March 2000: Zsolt Vasvari fixed the star field in Jump Bug.

- 0.35b9: Zsolt Vasvari emulated the protection in Jump Bug (Rock-ola). Some ROM splitup too, and fixed colors. Changed palettesize to 97 colors. Renamed (jbugsega) to (jumpbugb).

- 26th March 1999: Zsolt Vasvari merged Jump Bug with Galaxian and emulated the protection.

- 0.34b6: Added color prom 6331-1.11r.

- 0.29: Juan Carlos Lorente added high score saving to Jump Bug.

- 0.26: Nicola fixed Jump Bug driver which is now perfect. Colors are still wrong without proms.

- 0.24: Changed description of clone (Sega) to 'Jump Bug (bootleg)'.

- 0.18: Nicola Salmoria fixed bugs in the Jump Bug sound driver which caused page faults when run under DOS.

- 0.16: Richard Davies and Brad Oliver added clone Jump Bug (Sega). It's actually a bootleg with the protection checks removed. Game is playable and the driver supports sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Fire and ALT = Jump. Known issues: "jumpbug" doesn't work - the protection is not emulated. "jbugsega" has the protection checks removed, so it works. Graphics are wrong - the game has multiple character banks, not emulated yet.

- 0.14: Jump Bug seems to run on hardware similar to Super Cobra [Nicola Salmoria].

- 0.12: Nicola Salmoria added 'Jump Bug' (Rock-ola 1981). It uses a modified Scramble driver, the hardware seems to be similar. It's not playable (the input bits are not even mapped), and resets after a few seconds. I'm not particularly interested in this game, anyone volunteers to complete the driver?


PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:

- Control car by rhythmically bouncing it with joystick.

- Score points and rewards by jumping on money bag, diamonds or cloud.

- Score points by shooting enemies (Extra points for shooting joker).

- Avoid loss of car by evading enemies, missiles and erupting volcanos.

- Gain one extra car for 48 rewards. Score bonus points for extra rewards.


LEVELS: 2


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* FB Alpha

* VAntAGE


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Jump Bug (c) 1981 Rock-ola.

The player controls a VW Beetle that jumps through 8 scenarios collecting money and jewels. Shoot or avoid the enemies.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released during December 1981.

The game was originally developed by Alpha Denshi.

Hoei International (which became Coreland Technology in 1982) supported its development mainly by supporting Alpha Denshi with funding.

Rock-ola Mfg. Corp. licensed this game from SEGA.

A bootleg of this game was released with SEGA copyright.

Allen Rager holds the official record for this game with 850,350 points.

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Emerson Arcadia

* COMPUTERS:
NEC PC 9801 (1996)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1236&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

sawys__________________________89.620
neriowinch_____________________65.690
michaelknight__________________34.170
didyeah________________________28.320
nicky634_______________________27.010
thegamer_______________________12.030
hulkiii_________________________8.300