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Twin Qix (Ver 1.0A 1995/01/17, prototype)

  1. Game infos
  2. Sound
  3. Driver
  4. Inputs
  5. Controls
  6. Display
  7. Roms list
  8. Chips list
  9. Serie
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Twin Qix (Ver 1.0A 1995/01/17, prototype)
Name twinqix
Manufacturer Taito America Corporation
Year 1995
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b15
Romset size 7.5 MB
Romset file 23 files
Romset zip 2 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Puzzle

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

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 yes
Input tilt yes
Input players 4
Input buttons
Input coins 4

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 4095 25 25 no
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 320 224 58.97

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade mpr0-0.b63 262144 a4c44c11 b928134028bb8cddd6e34a501a4aad56173e2ae2 maincpu 3 good no
arcade mpr0-1.b62 262144 531f9447 4d18efaad9c3dd2b14d3125c0f9e18cfcde3a1f2 maincpu 2 good no
arcade mpr0-2.b61 262144 45a70987 8cca6845064d943fd28416143e60399188b023cd maincpu 1 good no
arcade mpr0-3.b60 262144 1a63d0de 7d8d8a6c9c7f9dfc0a8a528a905e33388b8fe13d maincpu 0 good no
arcade obj0-0.a08 524288 c6ea845c 9df710637e8f64f7fec232b5ebbede588e07c2db gfx1 0 good no
arcade obj0-1.a20 524288 8c12b7fb 8a52870fb9f508148619763fb6f37dd74b5386ca gfx1 1 good no
arcade pal16l8b.b24 260 0b73a7d1 953234ce95a8c2dfb9ba276742411cb2ca4d4bf8 plds 200 good no
arcade pal16l8b.b57 260 74b4d8be 23ba316bc5550dd69f07f9a0f697927656a35e5a plds 400 good no
arcade pal16l8b.b58 260 17e2c9b8 841b290ee3a3089a975456b20018c04e6afb2257 plds 600 good no
arcade pal16l8b.b59 260 dc0db200 9f46e7edf053ad9ee3a4a6dd00f9f6996203fc60 plds 800 good no
arcade pal16l8b.b64 260 3aed3d98 8f0b02baad87aeda1767f0e95aa1a84545376076 plds a00 good no
arcade pal20l10a.a12 204 plds 0 nodump no
arcade pal20l10a.a24 204 plds 100 nodump no
arcade scr0-0.b07 524288 9a1b9b34 ddf9c6ba0f9c340b580573e1d96ac76b1cd35beb gfx2 0 good no
arcade scr0-1.b06 524288 e9bef879 7e720f5054a1ef3a28353f1c221f4cf15d3b7428 gfx2 2 good no
arcade scr0-2.b05 524288 cac6854b c97fb7de48e1644695bbe431587d6c1be01ea62d gfx2 1 good no
arcade scr0-3.b04 524288 ce063034 2ecff74427d7d2fa8d1db4ac87481d123d7ce003 gfx2 3 good no
arcade scr0-4.b03 524288 d32280fe 56b120128c5e4b8c6598a1de51269e6702a63175 gfx2 300000 good no
arcade scr0-5.b02 524288 fdd1a85b 1d94a4858baef3e78c456049dc58249a574205fe gfx2 300001 good no
arcade snd-0.b43 524288 ad5405a9 67ee42498d2c3c00015237b3b5cd020f9a7c4a18 ensoniq.0 0 good no
arcade snd-1.b44 524288 274864af 47fefee23038bb751bdf6b6f48312ba0b6e38b90 ensoniq.0 100000 good no
arcade snd-14.b10 524288 26312451 9f947a11592fd8420fc581914bf16e7ade75390c ensoniq.0 200000 good no
arcade snd-15.b11 524288 2edaa9dc 72fead505c4f44e5736ff7d545d72dfa37d613e2 ensoniq.0 300000 good no
arcade spr0-0.b65 262144 2569eb30 ec804131025e600198cd8342925823340e7ef458 taito_en:audiocpu 100001 good no
arcade spr0-1.b66 262144 4b20e99d faf184daea0f1131bafa50edb48bd470d4c0b141 taito_en:audiocpu 100000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
ES5505 taito_en:ensoniq audio 15238050
M68000 taito_en:audiocpu cpu 15238050
M68EC020 maincpu cpu 16000000
Speaker taito_en:rspeaker audio

Serie

Serie : Qix
  1. Qix (Rev 2) (1981)
  2. Qix II (Tournament) (1981)
  3. Qix (set 2, smaller roms) (1981)
  4. Qix (set 2, larger roms) (1981)
  5. Qix (set 3, earlier) (1981)
  6. Qix (1982)
  7. Qix (1982)
  8. Super Qix (World/Japan, V1.2) (1987)
  9. Super Qix (bootleg of V1.0, 8031 MCU) (1987)
  10. Super Qix (bootleg, No MCU) (1987)
  11. Super Qix (World/Japan, V1.0) (1987)
  12. Super Qix (World/Japan, V1.1) (1987)
  13. Super Qix (US) (1987)
  14. Qix (clean crack) (1989)
  15. Qix (1990)
  16. Qix (World) (1990)
  17. Qix (Euro, USA) (1991)
  18. Qix (USA) (1991)
  19. Twin Qix (Ver 1.0A 1995/01/17, prototype) (1995)
  20. Space Invaders / Qix Silver Anniversary Edition (Ver. 2.03) (2003)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b15 [Bryan McPhail]

0.37b11 [Testdriver]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.168: Changed description to 'Twin Qix (Ver 1.0A 1995/01/17, prototype)'.

- 0.106u12: MASH added plds ($200, 400, 600, 800, a00 - pal16l8b.b24, pal16l8b.b57, pal16l8b.b58, pal16l8b.b59 and pal16l8b.b64) to Twin Qix.

- 0.105u1: Changed description to 'Twin Qix (Ver 1.0A 1995/01/17) (Prototype)'.

- 0.57: Fixed sound1 rom loading.

- 14th August 2001: Uki fixed the sound problems in Twin Qix.

- 4th March 2001: Bryan McPhail and David Haywood added some more NMK games to the Bombjack Twin driver but they all suffer from unemulated protection and don't work very well.

- 0.37b15: Bryan McPhail added 'Twin Qix (US Prototype)' (Taito 1995).

- 0.37b11: Bryan McPhail added (Testdriver) Twin Qix.


LEVELS: 19


Other Emulators:

* Raine


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Qix

Space Invaders / Qix Silver Anniversary Edition

Super Qix

Twin Qix

Jin

Volfied

Volfied (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

History


Taito F3 cart. published 24 years ago:

Twin Qix (c) 1995 Taito Corp.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "Taito F3 System" Hardware.

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Twin Qix was released in January 1995.

Only one Japanese prototype board is known to have been manufactured.

The game forbids the initials 'SEX' on the high score table. If you try, it gets changed to 'H !'. In Japanese 'H' is often used as a shortening of the word 'hentai', meaning pervert.

- SERIES -

1. Qix (1981, ARC)
2. Qix II - Tournament (1982, ARC)
3. Super Qix (1987, ARC)
4. Ultimate Qix (1991, MD)
5. Twin Qix (1995, ARC)
6. Battle Qix (2002, ARC)
7. Qix ++ (2009, XBLA)

- STAFF -

Project leader : Keppel Maekawa
Software designer : Harumi. K
Game designers : Tukasa Oshima, Takafumi Kaneko
Character designer : Izumi Takemoto
Graphic designer : Akiyoshi Takada, Lin Chinkai (Indy Chinkai), Takashi Yamada, Takeshi Ninomiya, Shigeki Yamamoto, Masato Shinchi, Kawamoyan
Sound : Nakayama Jotohei (Zuntata)
Printing designer : Kumi Mizobe
Hardware works : Takeshi Kinugasa

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fordie______________________1.037.730
rousquilles___________________414.740
dark_kariya___________________169.900
zarouk_________________________96.090