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Balloon Brothers

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

Description Balloon Brothers
Name ballbros
Manufacturer East Technology
Year 1992
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b09
Romset size 1.81 MB
Romset file 9 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
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 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 384 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 0 131072 1cc584e5 18cf607fa06c095d088b80cea2a1e507d19c7126 gfx1 60000 good no
arcade 1 131072 8196d624 c859e3b1d3b481f38cfe47576efc1dcdbe6cde28 gfx1 40000 good no
arcade 10a 131072 4af0e858 817817169aee075d52411bdbe568514511760386 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 2 131072 bb441717 205ae0aa3ded11766ae8f6fe7d08fefff17a9b73 gfx1 20000 good no
arcade 3 131072 ec3e0537 51fe5c6ef007c188b2f51ad2225753d2b403e35a gfx1 0 good no
arcade 5a 131072 0b983a69 7be06761a19e1dc5d1404d1920797b406421e365 maincpu 1 good no
arcade 8d 65536 d1c515af 00451991b4c793487b156f9be2b2e4688325ff24 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade east-10 524288 ca0ac419 b29f30a8ff1286c65b741353b6551918a45bcafe ymsnd 0 good no
arcade east-11 524288 92111f96 e781f24761b7a923388f4cda64c7b31388fd64c5 ymsnd.deltat 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b9 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.143u3: Changed 'Unused' to 'Debug Mode' dipswitch.

- 0.118u4: Added 'Color Change' dipswitch.

- 0.110u1: Aaron Giles fixed flipscreen in Balloon Brothers.

- 0.106u1: Changed 'Unused' dipswitches to 'Unknown'.

- 0.37b16: Added 3rd player button and removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.37b9: Yochizo added 'Balloon Brothers' (East Technology 1992).

- 16th September 2000: Yochizo added Balloon Brothers, Gigandes and Daisenpu to the Superman a.k.a. Taito X driver.


LEVELS: 1 (endless)


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* FB Alpha

* Raine


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History


Arcade Video game published 27 years ago:

Balloon Brothers (c) 1992 East Technology.

A puzzle game similar to "Tetris" but with different colored balloons in different shapes. Instead of falling blocks, the balloons float to the top. Completing a full row across will make that row disappear.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito X System hardware

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in September 1992.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=175&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fok999_________________________68.370
gnu____________________________50.790
gatts47________________________50.530
popotte________________________46.190
sawys__________________________34.300
olivier________________________30.480
hulkiii________________________28.300
jgabmurer______________________23.950