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The Pit Boss (2214-07, U5-0A)

  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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
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Game infos

Description The Pit Boss (2214-07, U5-0A)
Name pitboss
Manufacturer Merit
Year 1983
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .183
Romset size 56 KB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 24 B
Language English
Genre Casino

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 good
Driver graphic imperfect
Driver cocktail preliminary
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service yes
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
gambling no
only_buttons no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 256 76.293945 10000000 512 0 512 256 0 256

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 2214-07_u5-0a.u5 8192 0cd31f5e cd49b91e70a74b35990ca4602d4fa1e88a5438d9 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 2214-07_u6-0.u6 8192 459aa388 fdc734660a7e5c1efc1b09990db070d62288be3b maincpu 2000 good no
arcade 2214-07_u7-0.u7 8192 517cc893 5d49ab4cddee53cc16d29404e5fb316c81943575 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade chr7_u37.u37 8192 cb12e139 06fe91281faae5d0c0ae4b3cd8ad103bd3995c38 gfx1 4000 good no
arcade chr7_u38.u38 8192 a014b44f 906d426b1de75f26030c19dcd599b6570909f510 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade chr7_u39.u39 8192 6662f607 6b423f8de011d196700839af0be37effbf87383f gfx1 0 good no
arcade chr7_u40c.u40 8192 50fbbada 6dd35fee5411606cab51ac3093dd1e171df86721 gfx2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8912A aysnd audio 1250000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 2500000

Serie

Serie : Pit Boss
  1. The Pit Boss (2214-07, U5-0A) (1983)
  2. The Pit Boss (2214-03, U5-0C) (1983)
  3. The Pit Boss (2214-03, U5-1C) (1983)
  4. The Pit Boss (2214-04) (1983)
  5. The Pit Boss (M4A1) (1983)
  6. The Pit Boss (PSB1) (1983)
  7. Pit Boss II (9221-01C) (1988)
  8. Super Pit Boss (9221-02A) (1988)
  9. Pit Boss Superstar (9221-10-00B) (1990)
  10. Pit Boss Superstar (9221-10-00A) (1990)
  11. Pit Boss Superstar (9221-12-01) (1992)
  12. Pit Boss Superstar III 30 (9233-00-01) (1993)
  13. Pit Boss Supertouch 30 (9234-00-01) (1993)
  14. Pit Boss Supertouch 30 (9234-10-01) (1994)
  15. Pit Boss Megastar (9244-00-01) (1994)
  16. Pit Boss Megastar (9243-00-01) (1994)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.183 [Brian Troha, The Dumping Union]

0.86 [?]


WIP:

- 0.183: Brian Troha and The Dumping Union added The Pit Boss (2214-07, U5-0A). Renamed (pitboss) to (pitboss04), (pitbossa) to (pitboss03), (pitbossa1) to (pitboss03a), (pitbossb) to (pitbossps) and (pitbossc) to (pitbossm4).

- 0.177: Brian Troha and The Dumping Union added clone 'Dealer's Choice (E4A1)' (Merit 1983). Changed 'Player's Choice (M4C1)' from a parent set to clone of Pit Boss.

- 0.176: Blair Quinney and The Dumping Union added 'Player's Choice (M4C1)' (Merit 1983). Changed description of clones (2214-02?) to 'The Pit Boss (PSB1)' and (2214-?) to 'The Pit Boss (M4A1)'.

- 0.148u3: Brian Troha and The Dumping Union added clone The Pit Boss (2214-03, U5-1C). Correct rom labels [Brian Troha]. Changed description of clone (2214-03) to 'The Pit Boss (2214-03, U5-0C)'.

- 0.148: Added gambling control and 'Hands Per Game' dipswitch.

- 0.147: Added dipswitches to the Pit Boss sets with DIP locations. Reordered sets from oldest to newest. Added GAME_NO_COCKTAIL flag as these games support a cocktail mode. Mapped player 2 controls for cocktail mode [Brian Troha]. Added 2nd Player and button 7. Added dipswitches 'Coin A', 'Max Double Up Per Winner', 'Cabinet' and 'Free Hands'. Added dipswitches '1-7' and '1-8'. Changed clone (set 4) to parent 'The Pit Boss (2214-04)', (set 1) to clone 'The Pit Boss (2214-02?)', (set 2) to 'The Pit Boss (2214-03)' and (set 3) to 'The Pit Boss (2214-?)'. Renamed (pitboss) to (pitbossb), (pitbossc) to (pitboss) and (pitbossb) to (pitbossc).

- 0.135u4: Fixed rom names in clone The Pit Boss (Set 2).

- 0.129u5: Brian Troha added clone The Pit Boss (Set 2). Changed parent description to 'The Pit Boss (Set 1)' and clones (Set 2) to 'The Pit Boss (Set 3)' and (Set 3) to 'The Pit Boss (Set 4)'. Renamed (pitbossb) to (pitbossc) and (pitbossa) to (pitbossb).

- 0.129u4: Brian Troha added clone Pit Boss (Set 3). Angelo Salese properly added the PPI8255 devices to Pit Boss and reorganized the inputs in these two games. Roberto Fresca fixed Pit Boss and clone, which crashes with DEVCB dialog. Added 2nd coin slot and removed buttons 7-9.

- 0.129: David Haywood added clone Pit Boss (Set 2). Changed parent description to 'Pit Boss (Set 1)'.

- 0.127u6: Couriersud fixed Pit Boss - Game now playable. Changed AY-3-8910A clock speed to 1250000 Hz, visible area to 512x256 and VSync to 76.293945 Hz.

- 0.99u1: Fixed Pit Boss [Tomasz Slanina, Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Nicola Salmoria] - Game almost playable now!. Changed visible area to 512x248 and palettesize to 256 colors.

- 24th July 2005: Tomasz Slanina - Fixed Pit Boss mem map and added sound to the Merit driver.

- 0.86: Added 'Pit Boss' (Merit 1983).


Recommended Games (Pit Boss):

The Pit Boss

Pit Boss II

Super Pit Boss

Pit Boss Superstar

Pit Boss Superstar III 30

Pit Boss Supertouch 30

Pit Boss Megastar

Pit Boss Megatouch

Pit Boss Megatouch II

Megatouch III

Megatouch IV

Megatouch 5

Megatouch 6

History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Pit Boss (c) 1983 Merit.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 32

Players : 1
Buttons : 5

- SERIES -

1. Pit Boss (1983)
2. Super Pit Boss (198?)
3. Pit boss II [Model F 21800] (1988)
4. Pit Boss Superstar (1989)
5. Pit Boss Megastar (1994)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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