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Brain

  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 Brain
Name brain
Manufacturer Coreland / Sega
Year 1986
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .034b03
Romset size 273 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 87 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Shooter

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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 0 no 512 224 60.096154 10000000 640 0 512 260 0 224

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade bprom.1 256 371c44a6 ac37458d1feb6566b09a795b20c21953d4ab109d palette 200 baddump no
arcade bprom.2 256 3e7babd7 d4f8790db4dce75e27156a4c6de2dcef2baf6d76 palette 100 baddump no
arcade bprom.3 256 8eee0f72 b5694c120f604a5f7cc95618a71ab16a1a6151ed palette 0 baddump no
arcade brain.1 32768 2d2aec31 02dfbb0e9ca01b864e3aa594cf38306fe82a4b5d maincpu 0 good no
arcade brain.110 32768 a1b847ec d71664822b9b863bd2a37da71b4e0850893b9876 sprites 8000 good no
arcade brain.117 32768 92ff71a4 856646c595e0ef7bbcf18844ee34b04e05893ffa sprites 0 good no
arcade brain.120 32768 c7e50278 9709a59004c6bc39173d0cb94f3602c358367976 soundcpu 0 good no
arcade brain.2 32768 810a8ab5 87cd39f5b1047f355e1d257c691ef11fc55824ca maincpu 10000 good no
arcade brain.3 32768 9a225634 9f137938592dd9c5ab2273864a11a682e0f7f783 maincpu 18000 good no
arcade brain.4 32768 fd2ea53b c7f2d267f19d2c27a550120e003ebfcb10d8af89 sprites 10000 good no
arcade brain.62 16384 7dce2302 ebf15da3aea36f6a831a5395b0e5fc253852a3ee tiles 0 good no
arcade brain.64 16384 7ce03fd3 11f037c75d606276cbf4ec76a2cfdde94a756493 tiles 4000 good no
arcade brain.66 16384 ea54323f 08a4d2543a75a1fbb6ef2c126e3aeb4945bf458f tiles 8000 good no
arcade pr5317.76 256 648350b8 c7986aa9127ef5b50b845434cb4e81dff9861cd2 proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
SN76489A sn2 audio 4000000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 soundcpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.34b3 [Nicola Salmoria]


WIP:

- 0.115u4: Replaced SN76496 sound with SN76489.

- 0.60: Added proms ($0, 100, 200 - palette).

- 0.37b6: Changed palettesize from 2048 to 1536 colors. Added prom ($300 - timing? (not used)).

- 0.34b7: Howie Cohen added high score saving to Brain.

- 0.34b5: Known issues: The color PROMs are missing.

- 0.34b3: Nicola Salmoria added 'Brain' (Coreland / Sega 1986). Known issues: This could be a bootleg. The ROM checksum test fails. The color PROMs are missing.

- 7th September 1998: J-ROM dumped Brain (c)1986 SEGA/CORELAND.


LEVELS: 3


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* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Brain (c) 1986 Sega.

A side scrolling shooter in deep space with tough gameplay and eerie music and sounds. The game has alternate play modes where you must first fly a space craft and land on the planet surface at the end. After landing, you take control of the space ranger and must negotiate your way through caves and tunnels while obtaining computer disks. Each disk you collect brings you closer to discovering a hidden enemy. There are certain UFO's and aliens you can obtain them from, just watch the game demo's to see them.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the Sega "System 2" hardware.

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

- TRIVIA -

Released in March 1986.

- STAFF -

Developed by: Coreland

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=331&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fok999________________________126.400
bald_bull_____________________120.700
dark_kariya___________________115.300
foxmulder______________________91.000
sawys__________________________88.100
didyeah________________________77.400
majygool_______________________64.500
hulkiii________________________44.400
welos666_______________________36.000