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Senkyu (Japan set 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 Senkyu (Japan set 1)
Name senkyu
Manufacturer Seibu Kaihatsu
Year 1995
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .081
Romset size 18.69 MB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 7 B
Language Japanese
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Puzzle

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic imperfect
Driver cocktail
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
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 320 240 53.986864 7159090 448 0 320 296 0 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade fb_1.211 262144 20a3e5db f1109aeceac7993abc9093d09429718ffc292c77 maincpu 100000 good no
arcade fb_2.212 262144 38e90619 451ab5f4a5935bb779f9c245c1c4358e80d93c15 maincpu 100001 good no
arcade fb_3.210 262144 226f0429 69d0fe6671278d7fe215e455bb50abf631cdb484 maincpu 100002 good no
arcade fb_4.29 262144 b46d66b7 1acd0fea9384e1488b44661e0c99b9672a3f9803 maincpu 100003 good no
arcade fb_5.48 65536 440a9ae3 3f57e6da91f0dac2d816c873759f1e1d3259caf1 gfx1 2 good no
arcade fb_6.413 131072 b57115c9 eb95f416f522032ca949bfb6348f1ff824101f2d gfx1 0 good no
arcade fb_7.216 524288 874d7b59 0236753636c9a818780b23f5f506697b9f6d93c7 sound01 800000 good no
arcade fb_bg-1d.415 2097152 eae7a1fc 26d8a9f4e554848977ec1f6a8aad8751b558a8d4 gfx2 0 good no
arcade fb_bg-1p.410 1048576 b46e774e 00b6c1d0b0ea37f4354acab543b270c0bf45896d gfx2 2 good no
arcade fb_obj-1.322 4194304 29f86f68 1afe809ce00a25f8b27543e4188edc3e3e604951 gfx3 0 good no
arcade fb_obj-2.324 4194304 c9e3130b 12b5d5363142e8efb3b7fc44289c0afffa5011c6 gfx3 400000 good no
arcade fb_obj-3.323 4194304 f6c3bc49 d0eb9c6aa3954d94e3a442a48e0fe6cc279f5513 gfx3 800000 good no
arcade fb_pcm-1.215 1048576 1d83891c 09502437562275c14c0f3a0e62b19e91bedb4693 sound01 0 good no
arcade flash0_blank_region01.u1053 1048576 7ae7ab76 a2b196f470bf64af94002fc4e2640fadad00418f soundflash1 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
I386 maincpu cpu 25000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YMF271 ymf audio 16934400
Z80 audiocpu cpu 7159090

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.81 [Ville Linde]


< Japan >


WIP:

- 0.153: Changed description of clones 'Battle Balls (Asia)' to 'Battle Balls (Hong Kong)' and 'Battle Balls (Asia, earlier)' to 'Battle Balls (Hong Kong, earlier)'.

- 0.149: Added soundflash1 rom (flash0_blank_region01.u1053). Changed description to 'Senkyu (Japan set 1)' and clone (Japan, set 2) to 'Senkyu (Japan set 2)'.

- 0.144u1: Corrado Tomaselli, Alberto Grego and The Dumping Union added clone Battle Balls (Asia, earlier).

- 0.133u1: Renamed (batlbala) to (batlballa) and (batlbalu) to (batlballu).

- 0.122u8: Changed description to 'Senkyu (Japan, set 1)'.

- 0.111u1: Arzeno Fabrice added clone Battle Balls (US).

- 0.93: Nicola Salmoria decrypted the graphics in all SPI games. Senkyu is now playable.

- 0.92u1: Changed description of clones 'Battle Balls (Germany, Tuning License)' to 'Battle Balls (Germany)' and (Asia, Metrotainment License) to 'Battle Balls (Asia)'.

- 0.88u1: Fabrice Arzeno added clone Senkyu (Japan, set 2).

- 0.81u7: Added clone Battle Balls (Asia, Metrotainment License). Changed parent description to 'Senkyu (Japan)' and clone 'Battle Balls' to 'Battle Balls (Germany, Tuning License)'.

- 20th April 2004: David Haywood added the Asian version of Battle Balls to the Seibu SPI driver.

- 0.81u6: Ville Linde completely rewrote i386 REP/REPNE prefix handling. Fixes the following: Battle Balls attract mode runs correctly now, balls no longer all the same color in-game in Battle Balls, E-Jan now coins up and Viper Phase 1 is now playable (with encrypted gfx).

- 0.81u3: Ville Linde fixed i386 core and improved the SPI system. Senkyu and E-Jan High School now do something.

- 0.81: Ville Linde added Senkyu (Seibu Kaihatsu 1995) and clone Battle Balls. I386 CPU core [Ville Linde].

- 3rd November 2003: Guru - Sen Kyu (Seibu SPI hardware) arrived from Pelle.

- 24th June 2002: Guru - Got a Battle Balls (Seibu 1995) board from Naikrovek.

History


Arcade Video game published 24 years ago:

Senkyu (c) 1995 Seibu Kaihatsu.

In this puzzle game, 3 rotatable balls consisting of 4 basic colors, yellow, pink, green, blue, fall from the top to the lowest part of the screen.

When groups of like-colored spheres collect together, they disappear and the space is filled in with surrounding spheres.

Bonuses are awarded for completing combos and the game ends when the entire screen has been filled up.

The game has many modes of play : Single, Puzzle, Vs. Computer and Vs. Player. In Puzzle mode there is continuous, changing backgrounds and additional colors. In the Vs. play modes, the spheres only appear in the 4 basic colors.

- TECHNICAL -

Seibu SPI Hardware

Main CPU : I386 (@ 25 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 7.15909 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YMF271 (@ 7.15909 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Senkyu was released in October 1995 in Japan.

Export releases:
This game is known outside Japan as "Battle Balls".

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation (1997, as bonus game in "Raiden DX")

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



mode: solo

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