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Bells & Whistles (World, version L)

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

Description Bells & Whistles (World, version L)
Name blswhstl
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1991
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .036b13
Romset size 3.56 MB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Shooter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 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 90 no 320 224 60

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 060_l02.e09 131072 e8b7b234 65ae9faf34ed8ab71013acdc84e9429e5f5fb7a2 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 060_l03.g09 131072 3c26d281 d348305ecd4457e023bcdbc39842096d23c455fb maincpu 1 good no
arcade 060_l09.e11 131072 14628736 87f7a65cffb87085b3e21043bd46fbb7db9266dd maincpu 40000 good no
arcade 060_l10.g11 131072 f738ad4a 5aea4afa4bf935d3e92856eff745f61ed4d98165 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade 060e04.d1 1048576 c680395d acde593a5ec501e89c8aaca6c4fbacf707a727e1 k053260 0 good no
arcade 060e05.k3 524288 32454241 7a246b255ff30118c4f8e07e6ba03a22fd5ddc8a k053245 2 good no
arcade 060e06.k7 524288 09381492 5a3008dec99a8e0043405e9c4f5145794b8606e0 k053245 0 good no
arcade 060e07.k16 524288 c400edf3 3f507df8804c1774e2e213f5eb8be0aa7e818d65 k052109 0 good no
arcade 060e08.k12 524288 70dddba1 2acb94f249cf89b3d53798a6ee1c960f84a04d2e k052109 2 good no
arcade 060j01.f3 65536 f9d9a673 8e5631c20dc37913cc7fa84f7ef786ff1ef85f09 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade blswhstl.nv 128 87434e3f 458d21cfc0ef3415c0b09d8d748263b9218bdb24 eeprom 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
K053260 KDSC k053260 audio 3579545
M68000 maincpu cpu 16000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579545
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3579545

Serie

Serie : Twin Bee
  1. TwinBee (ROM version) (1985)
  2. Twin Bee (Jpn) (1986)
  3. TwinBee (Jpn) (1986)
  4. TwinBee (1986)
  5. TwinBee (Disk Writer) (1988)
  6. Twin Bee (1988)
  7. TwinBee da!! (Jpn) (1990)
  8. Bells & Whistles (World, version L) (1991)
  9. Bells & Whistles (Asia, version M) (1991)
  10. Detana!! Twin Bee (Japan, version J) (1991)
  11. Detana!! Twinbee (1992)
  12. Twin Bee Yahhoo! (ver JAA) (1995)
  13. Twin Bee (Jpn) (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b13 [?]

0.36b4 [Nicola Salmoria]


Artwork available


Bugs:

- Graphic glitch on the final boss. Frotz (ID 00258)

- [possible] Minor input bug. Jpikachu / Canim (ID 00793)


WIP:

- 0.164: System11 changed visible area to 224x320 in Bells & Whistles.

- 0.163: rtw and The Dumping Union added clone Bells & Whistles (Asia, Version M). Confirmed that CPU clock derive by actual OSC [Brian Troha]. Changed parent description to 'Bells & Whistles (World, Version L)' and clone (Japan ver. J) to 'Detana!! Twin Bee (Japan, version J)'.

- 0.144u7: hap fixed missing graphics in Bells & Whistles and clone.

- 0.143u7: Roberto Zandona fixed screen size and zoom in Bells & Whistles and graphic glitch on the final boss. Changed visible area to 224x280.

- 0.129u6: Phil Bennett fixed Bells & Whistles ROM Check fails at startup.

- 3rd September 2006: Mr. Do - Added instruction cards for Detana Twinbee.

- 0.108u1: More rom names fixes.

- 0.108: Fixed rom names.

- 0.97u4: Mamesick fixed inverted stereo channels.

- 0.92: Fixed rom names.

- 27th February 2004: R. Belmont fixed the sound balance in Asterix, Detana Twinbee and Sunset Riders.

- 0.72u1: Acho A. Tang fixed sticky sprites in clone Detana! Twinbee.

- 0.67: Changed description to 'Bells & Whistles (Version L)' and clone (Japan) to 'Detana!! Twin Bee (Japan ver. J)'.

- 0.59: Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.36b13: Added 'Bells & Whistles' (Konami 1991).

- 0.36b5: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 3579545 Hz.

- 0.36b4: Nicola Salmoria added 'Detana!! Twin Bee (Japan)' (Konami 1991).

- 27th August 1999: Nicola sent in a driver for Detana!! Twin Bee.


LEVELS: 7


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* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Bells & Whistles (c) 1991 Konami.

Export release. Game developed in Japan. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese release entry; "Detana!! Twin Bee".

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX060

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), K053260 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Bells & Whistles was released in February 1991.

- SERIES -

1. Twin Bee [Model GX412] (1985)
2. Bells & Whistles [Model GX060] (1991)
3. Twin Bee Yahhoo! Fushigi no Kuni de Oo-Abare!! (1995)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=232&o=2

High scores

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