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Blocken (Japan)

  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 Blocken (Japan)
Name blocken
Manufacturer Visco / KID
Year 1994
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b05
Romset size 2.31 MB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 975 B
Language Japanese
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Ball & Paddle

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
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 384 224 59.410646 8000000 512 0 384 263 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ic100j.bin 524288 a34786fd 7d4879cbaa055c2ddbe6d20dd946bf0e3e069d4d gfx1 200000 good no
arcade ic31j.bin 131072 ec8de2a3 09a6b8c1b656b17ab3d1fc057902487e4f94cf02 maincpu 0 good no
arcade ic32j.bin 131072 79b96240 c1246bd4b91fa45c581a8fdf90cc6beb85adf8ec maincpu 1 good no
arcade ic34.bin 65536 23e446ff 82c03b45b337696b0f8293c446544d7ee080d415 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade ic53.bin 524288 86108c56 aa405fa2eec5cc178ef6226f229a12dac09504f0 samples 0 good no
arcade ic98j.bin 524288 35dda273 95850d12ca1557c14bc471ddf925aaf423313ff0 gfx1 0 good no
arcade ic99j.bin 524288 ce43762b e1c51ea0b54b5febdee127619e15f1cda650cb4c gfx1 80000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 16000000
OKI6295 oki audio 1056000
Speaker mono audio
YM3438 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 6000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b5 [Nicola Salmoria]


< Japan >


Bugs:

- When finishing game on the fourth course, you got a cell testing screen instead of credit. YMI (ID 00358)

- Regardless of the course chosen, in the first intermission there's no road on the map. Kale (ID 00986)

- Flip Screen graphics are messed up. Speedfreak (ID 00348)


WIP:

- 0.161: Minor doc update & verification for Blocken's OKI OSC [Brian Troha].

- 0.148u3: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Blocken. Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 16MHz.

- 0.147u1: Fixed M68K and hooked up SCREEN_RAW_PARAMS for Blocken. Game was definitely running at erratic speeds before. This fixed Blocken demo play screen freezes [Angelo Salese, Tafoid]. Changed 68000 CPU1 clock speed to 12MHz and VSync to 59.410646 Hz.

- 0.130: Phil Bennett fixed color / missing gfx in Blocken.

- 0.128u1: Phil Bennett fixed wrong enemy voices in Blocken.

- 0.108u4: Canim changed 68000 clock speed to 8MHz.

- 0.37b5: Nicola Salmoria added 'Blocken (Japan)' (KID / Visco 1994). TODO: Incomplete zoom support and missing rotation support.

- 7th July 2000: Nicola Salmoria added Blocken to the Shanghai 3 driver.


LEVELS: 5 - 7 - 10 - 12 (depends on difficulty level selected)


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History


Arcade Video game published 25 years ago:

Blocken (c) 1994 Visco Corp.

A ball and paddle game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 8 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM3438 (@ 8 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in August 1994 in Japan.

- STAFF -

Developed by KID.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=289&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01



mode: easy-course

redstar_______________________847.890
dark_kariya___________________639.770
merlin________________________317.160
sawys_________________________271.820
zarouk________________________236.770
didyeah_______________________113.540
ballyballo_____________________94.000
hulkiii________________________66.460


mode: expert-course

zarouk______________________1.166.660
sawys_________________________874.900
dark_kariya___________________668.760
didyeah_______________________179.930


mode: hard-course

redstar_____________________1.860.630
dark_kariya___________________835.080
sawys_________________________173.670
zarouk_________________________99.190
didyeah________________________69.160


mode: normal-course

dark_kariya___________________788.280
zarouk________________________426.790
sawys_________________________192.740
didyeah________________________43.630