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Minesweeper

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Configurations
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Samples list
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
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Game infos

Description Minesweeper
Name mineswpr
Manufacturer Amutech
Year 1977
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .054
Romset size 3 KB
Romset file 4 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 10 to 20 (Horrible)
Genre Maze

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 1

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 0 no 256 224 60.114504 5197500 330 0 256 262 0 224

Configuration

name tag mask
Boom Switch
Name Off
Value 0
Default no
Name On
Value 4
Default yes

IN0
 4
Lives
Name 3
Value 96
Default no
Name 4
Value 80
Default no
Name 5
Value 48
Default no
Name 6
Value 112
Default yes

IN0
 112

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mineswee.h0p 1024 5850a4ba 9f097d31428f4494573187049c53fbed2075ff32 maincpu 0 good no
arcade mineswee.l0p 1024 05961379 3d59341be8a663e8c54c1556442c992a6eb886ab maincpu 0 good no
arcade mineswee.uls 512 3a4f66e1 bd7f6c51d568a79fb06414b2a6ef245d0d983c3e gfx1 0 good no
arcade mineswee.ums 512 0e1c5c37 d4d56bd63307e387771c48304724dfc1ea1306d9 gfx1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8080A maincpu cpu 2079000
DISCRETE discrete audio
Samples samples audio
Speaker mono audio

Samples list

name
boom

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.54 [Frank Palazzolo]


Samples required (Blockade)


WIP:

- 0.133u1: Changed 'Minesweeper (4-Player)' from a parent set to a clone of 'Minesweeper'. Renamed (minesw4p) to (mineswpr4).

- 0.92: Frank Palazzolo added 'Minesweeper (4-Player)' (Amutech 1977). Sound in Minesweeper driver [Frank Palazzolo]. Added discrete sound. Fixed cpu1/gfx1 rom loading.

- 1st February 2005: Frank Palazzolo - Well, I got a PCB from eBay. As suspected, it is an exact clone of the Gremlin blockade hardware, except for the connectors. The program roms are the same as our existing set, but the graphics are slightly different. (The scores can be displayed in four different directions). So, it turns out that fixing the port settings in Blockade driver enables 4 player mode. I did this, along with some general cleanup. I'll submit the updated driver soon, but I'd like to try and add some sound first.

- 0.54: Frank Palazzolo added 'Minesweeper' (Amutech 1977).

- 21st August 2001: Frank Palazzolo added Minesweeper to the Blockade driver.

- 26th February 1999: Dumped Minesweeper.


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Wit's

History


Arcade Video game published 42 years ago:

Minesweeper (c) 1977 Amutech.

This game was two player only, you must have a real live person to play against, or else the other players boat will head directly for the bottom wall, which doesn't make for a very interesting game. Each player moves their little boat around leaving a solid line of mines behind them. All moves are made on an invisible grid, so you can only turn at 90 degree angles. To win you must last longer than your opponent before hitting something (first person to hit something loses). One good strategy is to try and box your opponent in to a small section of the screen, and then just move carefully until they crash. Pushing backwards on the stick will cause you to crash into your own mines, so avoid that at all cost.

The game was controlled with buttons rather than joysticks (this was cheaper to produce, and most of the other similar games of the time used buttons as well). Inserting a coin started the game at once. Both players got to play for a single coin. The game ended after one player chalked up six wins, but this was operator adjustable down to as low as three. The operator can also turn the sound on and off with internal switches as well.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Intel 8080 (@ 2.079 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Samples (@ 2.079 Mhz), Discrete (@ 2.079 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 2

Players : 2
Button : 4

- TRIVIA -

Shane Poulsen holds the official record for this game on 'Beginner' settings with 5 points. Shane Poulsen also holds the official record for this game on "'Intermediate' settings with 32 points.
And lastly, Shane Poulsen holds the official record for this game on 'Expert' settings with 114 points.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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