Mame game : bsktball : Basketball

Game infos

Description Basketball

Name bsktball

Manufacturer Atari

Year 1979

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 2P sim

Added to MAME .031

Romset size 12 KB

Romset file 6 files

Romset zip 7 B

Language English

Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)

Genre Sports

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
trackball		0	255	100	10	no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	256	224	60

Dipswitchs

Coinage
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/4 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
Cost
- One Coin Minimum
- Two Coin Minimum
Language
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
Play Time per Credit
- 0:30
- 0:45
- 1:00
- 1:15
- 1:30
- 2:00
- 2:30
- Free Play
Service Mode
- Off
- On

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	034757.a6	2048	010e8ad3	43ce2c2089ec3011e2d28e8257a35efeed0e71c5	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	034758.b6	2048	f7bea344	df544bff67bb0334f77cef11792199d9c3f5fdf4	gfx1	800	good	no
arcade	034763.b1	2048	1fc69359	a215ba3bb18ea2c57c443dfc4c4a0a3846bbedfe	maincpu	3800	good	no
arcade	034764.c1	2048	a087109e	f5d6dcccc4a54db35be3d8997bc51e73892747fb	maincpu	2800	good	no
arcade	034765.d1	2048	798cea39	b1b709a74258b01b21d7c2038a3b6abe879944c5	maincpu	2000	good	no
arcade	034766.f1	2048	a82e9a9f	9aca236c5145c04a8aaebb316179482bbdc9ddfc	maincpu	3000	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
DISCRETE	discrete	audio
M6502	maincpu	cpu	750000
Speaker	mono	audio

0.31 [Mike Balfour]

Artwork available

WIP:

- 0.150: No need for scrlegcy.h include [Miodrag Milanovic].

- 6th December 2011: 3D ARCADE - New Atari 3D cabinet model for Basketball from btribble.

- 0.142u3: Angelo Salese removed deprecat.h dependancy and updated irqs accordingly for Basketball.

- 0.140u1: Derrick Renaud optimized speed of DISCRETE_DAC_R1.

- 0.135u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save state support to Basketball.

- 26th July 2008: Mr. Do - Thanks to the BYOAC/CAG artwork, we now have a Atari Basketball bezel.

- 0.121u1: Changed palettesize from 4 to 264 colors.

- 0.90u3: Derrick Renaud converted Basketball to component value code.

- 0.78u5: Derrick Renaud changed bounce sound in Atari Basketball to use DISCRETE_CRFILTER (high pass R/C filter).

- 0.69: Minor code cleanup to Basketball [Derrick Renaud].

- 0.68: Replaced 3x DAC sound with Discrete.

- 0.37b15: Stefan Jokisch fixed sound in Atari Basketball.

- 0.36b7: Added 'Service Mode' dipswitch.

- 0.31: Mike Balfour added 'Basketball' (Atari 1979). The original hardware uses the Player 1 and Player 2 Start buttons as the Jump/Shoot buttons. MAME taken button 1 and mapped it to the Start buttons to keep people from getting confused.

- 2nd January 1998: Dumped Basketball.

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History

Arcade Video game published 40 years ago:

Atari Basketball (c) 1979 Atari.

An old black and white basketball game.

- TECHNICAL -

Cabinet dimensions : 70,18'' (178,26cm) high x 29,5'' (74,93cm) wide x 78,8'' (200,15cm) deep. Monitor : 23'' B/W.

Game ID : 034756-034766

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 750 Khz)
Sound Chips : Discrete (@ 750 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 4

Players : 2
Control : trackball
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

Released in May 1979.

An Atari Basketball unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Tron'.

Michael Jackson used to own this game (upright). It was sold at the official Michael Jackson Auction on Apr. 24th, 2009.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by : Chris Downend

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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