Mame game : balcube : Bal Cube

Game infos

Description Bal Cube

Name balcube

Manufacturer Metro

Year 1996

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .037b11

Romset size 5 MB

Romset file 8 files

Romset zip 3 B

Language English

Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)

Genre Ball & Paddle

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 no

Input tilt yes

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	224	60

Dipswitchs

2 Players Game
- 1 Credit
- 2 Credits
Allow Continue
- No
- Yes
Coin A
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- Free Play
Coin B
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
- Free Play
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Difficulty
- Easy
- Hard
- Normal
- Very Hard
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Lives
- 2
- 3
Service Mode
- Off
- On
Unused
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	bal-cube_01.1	524288	0ea3d161	63ae430a19e777ce82b41ab02baef3bb224c7557	gfx1	4	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_02.2	524288	492ca8f0	478336a462a2bfc288cf91262314f5767f8c707d	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_03.3	524288	eef1d3b4	be535963c00390e34a2305586397a16325f3c3c0	gfx1	6	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_04.4	524288	d1acda2c	f58015302af6c864523d48bdf8f8a4383b69fa9d	gfx1	2	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_05.5	262144	15313e3f	10a8702016f223194dc91875b4736253fd47dbb8	maincpu	1	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_06.6	262144	c400f84d	416eb82ec1201d24d9d964191a5a1792c9445923	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	bal-cube_07.7	524288	f769287d	dd0f781b4a1a1fd6bf0a50048b4996f3cf41e155	ymf	200000	good	no
arcade	yrw801-m	2097152	2a9d8d43	32760893ce06dbe3930627755ba065cc3d8ec6ca	ymf	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	16000000
Speaker	mono	audio
YMF278B	ymf	audio	33868800

0.37b11 [Luca Elia]

< Japan >

WIP:

- 0.143u3: Fixed rom names.

- 0.106u3: Fixed 'Difficulty' dipswitch and changed 'Unknown' to 'Unused' dips.

- 0.62: Olivier Galibert added the YMF278B sound emulation to Bal Cube. Added YMF278B stereo sound and missing sound1 rom (Yamaha YRW801 2MB rom with samples for the YMF278B OPL4).

- 3rd March 2001: Nicola Salmoria fixed 8bpp tile support so that Bal Cube now works properly as well.

- 0.37b11: Luca Elia added 'Bal Cube' (Metro 1996).

- 3rd January 2001: Luca Elia sent in a driver for Metro games, including Pang Poms, Sky Alert, Dharma, Last Fortress - Toride and Dai Toride with perfect graphics and colors but no sound, and Bal Cube with bad sprites and wrong colors.

LEVELS: 100 (endless)

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History

Arcade Video game published 23 years ago:

Bal Cube (c) 1996 Metro.

This is an "Arkanoid"-type game with a few twists. Instead of controlling a paddle, you control the ball itself by altering its momentum using the joystick. Various blocks (squares, triangles, and special blocks containing powerups) advance down from the top of the screen. The player dies when the ball goes down through a hole in the bottom of the screen, or if the blocks reach the bottom of the screen. When you die, you start over at the beginning of the level. Although the game has a ball and paddle look and feel, puzzle elements come into play later in the game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YMF278B (@ 33.8688 Mhz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Bal Cube was released in July 1996.

Mark Spaeth of Cambridge, Massachusetts, holds the official record for this game with 185,750 points on June 2, 2002.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=173&o=2

High scores

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Bal Cube