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City Connection (set 1)

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

Description City Connection (set 1)
Name citycon
Manufacturer Jaleco
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .031
Romset size 256 KB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 106 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Platform

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 1

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 240 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c1 32768 1fad7589 2e626bbbab8cffe11ee7de3e56aa1871c29d5fa9 audiocpu 8000 good no
arcade c10 16384 ae88b53c dd12310bd9c9b93462446e8e0a1c853506bf3aa1 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade c11 32768 139eb1aa c570e8ca1499f7ea61938e78c32c1cc3050ca2b7 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade c12 8192 08eaaccd a970381e3ba22bcdea6df2d31cd8a10c4b2bc413 gfx2 0 good no
arcade c13 8192 1819aafb 8a5ffcd8866e09c5568879257384767d61796111 gfx2 2000 good no
arcade c2 32768 f2da4f23 5ea1a51c3ac283796f7eafb6719d88356767340d gfx4 0 good no
arcade c3 16384 7ef3ac1b 8a0497c4e4733f9c50d576f632210b82497a5e1c gfx4 8000 good no
arcade c4 8192 a6b32fc6 d99d5a527440e9a91525c1084b95b213e3b760ec gfx1 0 good no
arcade c5 8192 c03d8b1b 641c1eba334d36ea64b9293a20320b31c7c88858 gfx4 c000 good no
arcade c6 32768 2246fe9d f7f8708d499bcbd1a583e1092b54425ad1105f94 gfx3 c000 good no
arcade c7 16384 e8b97de9 f4d1b7075f47ab4522c36281b97eaa02fe383814 gfx3 14000 good no
arcade c8 16384 0d7a1eeb 60b8d4124ce857a248d3c41fdb050f11be58549f gfx3 8000 good no
arcade c9 32768 8aeb47e6 bb09dbe6b37e1bd02abf3024ac4d954c8f0e70f2 gfx3 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A aysnd audio 1250000
M6809 audiocpu cpu 640000
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 1250000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.31 [Mirko Buffoni]


Bugs:

- Wrong/not played SFX when hitting cellars. Kale (ID 03369)

- One of the frames of the car jumping/changing directions seems to be out of order. The Dog (ID 00393)


WIP:

- 0.135u2: Fabio Priuli added save state support to City Connection.

- 0.133u1: Angelo Salese made irqs more accurate in City Connection.

- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in City Connection.

- 0.126u4: Fabio Priuli added DIP locations for City Connection. Added 'Difficulty' dipswitch.

- 0.55: Replaced 1st YM2203 sound with AY-8910.

- 27th August 2001: Tatsuyuki Satoh added support for using AY8910 and YM2203 at the same time, making it possible to add correct sound in City Connection.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize from 640 to 1664 colors.

- 0.36RC2: Added 2nd player.

- 0.36b9: Changed clock speed of the 2x YM2203 to 1250000 Hz.

- 0.35b13: Nicola Salmoria added clone Cruisin (Kitkorp 1985).

- 0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone City Connection (set 2). Changed parent description to 'City Connection (set 1)'.

- 0.33b4: Dynamic palette support for games with >256 colors, not complete yet but good for many cases. Drivers who want to use it must first of all set up like the static palette ones (put the real number of colors in MachineDriver-> total_colors, etc.), and call palette_recalc() in vh_screenrefresh() before drawing anything. A color usage table must be passed to palette_recalc() so that the function knows which colors are needed. Drivers which use the new system, and therefore no longer run in 16-bit video modes: Black Tiger, City Connection, Gun Dealer and Ninja Gai Den [Nicola Salmoria].

- 0.33b3: Dani Portillo added high score saving to City Connection.

- 0.31: Mirko Buffoni added 'City Connection' (Jaleco 1985). Known issues: In cocktail mode, player 2 uses the same controls as player 1. Maybe the port is multiplexed.


LEVELS: 12 (endless)


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Rally X

Namco Classic Collection Vol.2 (Rally X)

New Rally X

Spectar

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Pang Pang Car

History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

City Connection (c) 1985 Jaleco Company, Limited. [Japan Leisure].

The player controls a small red car and must jump between platforms to colour them in as it drives over them. Oil cans can be collected and shot at the police, taxis, ambulances etc. that roam the levels. Flag waving cats must also be avoided.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU: Motorola M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz)
Sound CPU: Motorola M6809 (@ 640 Khz)
Sound Chips: General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz), Yamaha YM2203 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

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

- TRIVIA -

City Connection was released in July 1985.

The main sprite resembles a Honda City hatchback, which may explain the game's title.

The main character is a 15 year old girl named Clarice (Kurarisu) drives around the world in her love car (Clarice's car - Kurarisuka) looking for the ideal man. This explains the hearts after losing a life and the girl that appears every time you beat a level. Clarice's name appears at the bottom of the High score rankings.

Approximately 1,000 units were produced (based on serial number). Kitcorp licensed this title and sold it as "Cruisin'".

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[JP] Nintendo Famicom (sept.27, 1985) "City Connection [Model JF-05]"
[EU] Nintendo NES (1988) "City Connection [Model NES-CI-EUR]"
[US] Nintendo NES (may.1988) "City Connection [Model NES-CI-USA]"
[JP] Sony PS4 [PSN] (oct.2, 2014) "Arcade Archives - City Connection [Model CUSA-00389]"
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] [US] (may.5, 2015) "Arcade Archives - City Connection [Model CUSA-00980]"
Sony PlayStation 4 [PSN] [EU] [AU] (sept.8, 2015) "Arcade Archives - City Connection [Model CUSA-02666]"

* COMPUTERS:
[JP] MSX (1986)

While there were only 2 official ports of City Connection, UK-based software house 'Core Design' released their own interpretation of the game called 'Car-Vup' in 1991, for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

neoeki________________________476.900
sawys_________________________380.400
dark_kariya___________________217.100
nicky634_______________________89.200
ezequiel_______________________72.300
foxmulder______________________61.400
thegamer_______________________38.900
hulkiii________________________23.800
didyeah_________________________7.500