0.36b3 [Nicola Salmoria]
Bugs:
- [possible] If you lose an event and continue a game, the name you have inserted will change to AAA. Kale (ID 01084)
WIP:
- 0.165: Use new K051960 video support [Dirk Best].
- 0.154: Modernized banking [Alex Jackson]. Changed visible area to 320x224.
- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct to '88 Games. Added device versions of all the Konami custom ICs currently emulated in machine\konamiic.c and video\konamiic.c. Updated '88 Games to use new devices.
- 0.131: Removed button 4.
- 0.129: MooglyGuy added savestate support to '88 Games and clones.
- 0.123u6: RansAckeR added use of PORT_DIPUNKNOWN_DIPLOC in 88 Games.
- 0.108u2: Roberto Fresca added DIP locations to '88 Games. Fixed 'Cabinet' dipswitch. Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.
- 0.93: Added 2nd UPD7759 (640000 Hz).
- 0.66: Nicola Salmoria fixed tilemaps and garbage in '88 Games.
- 0.65: Acho A. Tang fixed some issues with uPD7759 (TMNT, 88 Games, P.O.W.).
- 9th February 2003: Acho A. Tang fixed various problems in the uPD7759 sound chip emulation, including a crash in the System16 driver and missing and/or incorrect sounds in TMNT, P.O.W. and '88 Games.
- 0.62: Removed 3rd coin slot. Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.
- 4th August 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed dipswitches and input ports in '88 Games driver.
- 0.53: Nicola Salmoria added real shadows in some Konami games (88 Games, Chequered Flag, X-Men, Asterix, Surprise Attack, Sunset Riders, etc).
- 0.36RC2: Added clone Hyper Sports Special (Japan).
- 0.36b4: Gerald Vanderick added clone Konami '88.
- 24th August 1999: Gerald Vanderick added Konami'88 to the '88 Games driver.
- 0.36b3: Nicola Salmoria added '88 Games' (Konami 1988). Ernesto Corvi changed the UPD7759 emulator to support two chips ('88 Games needed this) and fixed a bug in the ADPCM decoding.
- 13th August 1999: Nicola Salmoria added '88 Games.
ARCADE RELEASE: Hyper Sports Special (Konami) - 1988/Jul/27
LEVELS: 8
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Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:
'88 Games (c) 1988 Konami Industry Company, Limited.
Export release. Game developed in Japan by Konami. For more information, please see the original Japanese release entry: "Hyper Sports Special [Model GX861]".
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : GX861
Main Board Number : PWB351171A
Rom Board Number : PWB350782
Prom Stickers : A0xx
- TRIVIA -
'88 Games was released in July 1988.
- SERIES -
1. Track & Field [Model GX361] (1983, ARC)
2. Hyper Sports [Model GX330] (1984, ARC)
3. '88 Games [Model GX861] (1988, ARC)
4. Hyper Athlete [Model GV021] (1996, ARC)
5. Nagano Winter Olympics '98 [Model GX720] (1998, ARC)
6. International Track & Field 2000 (2000, PS)
7. International Track & Field Summer Games (2000, N64)
8. New International Track & Field (2008, DS)
9. Hyper Sports Winter (2010 iPhone)
10. Hyper Sports Track & Field (2010 iPhone)
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