0.35b13 [Gerald Vanderick]
0.01 [Nicola Salmoria, Allard van der Bas]
Artwork available
WIP:
- 0.178: MASH added clone Crush Roller (set 3). Changed description of clones (set 3) to 'Crush Roller (set 4)' and (set 4) to 'Crush Roller (set 5)'. Renamed (crush4) to (crush5) and (crush3) to (crush4).
- 0.165: David Haywood fixed rom load in clone Crush Roller (Famaresa PCB) - Game now playable.
- 0.164: Rockman and Edcross added clone Crush Roller (Famaresa PCB). Note: Actually seems to have it's own protection/encryption and is a different code revision to anything else by the looks of it, maybe actually based off a licensed version?
- 0.149u1: Added Namco (96000 Hz) sound to clone Crush Roller (bootleg set 4).
- 0.148u5: ANY added clone Crush Roller (bootleg set 3). Changed description of clone (bootleg set 3) to 'Crush Roller (bootleg set 4)'.
- 0.147: Cleanup Crush Roller sets descriptions, after feedback from yasu [hap]. Changed description to 'Crush Roller (set 1)' and clones (bootleg) to 'Crush Roller (bootleg set 1)', (bootleg?) to 'Crush Roller (bootleg set 2)', (Kural - bootleg?) to 'Crush Roller (set 3)', (Kural Esco - bootleg?) to 'Crush Roller (set 2)', (Kural TWT) to 'Crush Roller (set 4)', (Sidam bootleg) to 'Crush Roller (bootleg set 3)', 'Korosuke Roller' to 'Korosuke Roller (Japan)', 'Magic Brush' to 'Magic Brush (bootleg of Crush Roller)', 'Make Trax (set 1)' to 'Make Trax (US set 1)', 'Make Trax (set 2)' to 'Make Trax (US set 2)' and 'Paint Roller' to 'Paint Roller (bootleg of Crush Roller)'.
- 13th July 2009: Smitdogg - Darran has been sorting through his PCB collection for needed dumps! He dumped a Crush Roller running on Falcon KPM II hardware.
- 0.130u3: Tafoid and f205v added clone Crush Roller (bootleg?).
- 0.128u1: Fabio Priuli fixed broken dipswitches in Crush Roller.
- 9th July 2008: Mr. Do - Added the real Make Trax instruction card for the bezel in Crush Roller, thanks to Vintage Arcade.
- 0.119u4: Sonikos added dipswitches 'Service Mode', 'Teleport Holes' and 'Coin A/B' to clone Crush Roller (Sidam bootleg).
- 0.118u6: David Haywood added clones Crush Roller (bootleg) and (Sidam bootleg).
- 24th December 2006: Mr. Do - Make Trax bezel is a little shinier thanks to lots of toe tracing by Zorg.
- 12th November 2006: Mr. Do - We have Make Trax bezel, thanks to the loan by Vintage Arcade Superstore and cleanup by Ad_Enuff.
- 0.108u1: Roberto Zandona fixed gameplay in clone Magic Brush - the game use now the DRIVER_INIT(maketrax).
- 29th May 2006: f205v dumped Crush Roller (Sidam bootleg).
- 0.98u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Crush Roller (Kural TWT).
- 7th July 2005: f205v dumped Crush Roller (bootleg). Blister, no PCB. Blister labeled "roller crash piccolo" - "roller crash small".
- 14th April 2005: f205v dumped Crush Roller (Kural TWT).
- 0.70: BUT and Nono added clone Korosuke Roller (Kural Electric 1981).
- 0.69: Dave Widel added clone Make Trax (set 2). Changed description of clone 'Make Trax' to 'Make Trax (set 1)'.
- 0.60: MASH fixed colors in Crush Roller. Added new prom ($20 - color).
- 26th March 2002: Matthew Neja added the correct color PROM for Crush Roller.
- 19th December 1999: Marco Cassili fixed dipswitches in clone Paint Roller.
- 0.36b12: Added clone Paint Roller (bootleg).
- 0.35b13: Gerald Vanderick added 'Crush Roller (Kural Samno)'. Changed 'Crush Roller' to clone 'Crush Roller (Kural Esco - bootleg?)' and clone (set 2) to 'Crush Roller (Kural - bootleg?)'. Renamed (crush2) to (crush3) and (crush) to (crush2).
- 9th May 1999: Gerald Vanderick added the original, Kural version of Crush Roller.
- 0.35b5: Zsolt Vasvari added clone Crush Roller (set 2).
- 24th February 1999: Zsolt Vasvari added another Crush Roller set to the pacman driver.
- 19th December 1999: Marco Cassili fixed Paint Roller dipswitches.
- 0.35b3: Zsolt Vasvari added clone Magic Brush.
- 17th January 1999: Thierry and Gerald dumped Crush Roller (Kural - bootleg?).
- 0.34b7: Added new gfx1 roms.
- 0.34b1: Added sound and color proms ($0, 10).
- 0.30: Mike Balfour added clone Make Trax. Known issues: Colors are accurate for Crush Roller, but they could be wrong for Make Trax.
- 0.18: Sprite placement in Crush Roller should now be arcade perfect [Nicola Salmoria]. Thanks to Richard Davies who verified it on a real machine.
- 0.15: Nicola Salmoria added high score saving to Crush Roller.
- 0.10: Thanks to Gary Walton and Simon Walls, we now have 100% accurate colors in Crush Roller.
- 0.01: Nicola Salmoria added 'Crush Roller' (1981). Game is playable with wrong colors and sound. Control: Arrows = Move around and F1 = Skip level. Crush Roller is a hacked version of Make Trax, modified to run on a Pac Man board. Known issues: There's the same problem with sprites as in Pac Man, but here it could be fixed without apparent side effects. Thanks to Gary Walton for his help in making the Crush Roller colors better. Thanks to Allard van der Bas (avdbas@wi.leidenuniv.nl) for starting the Arcade Emulation Programming Repository at http://valhalla.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/emul8. Without the Repository, I would never have even tried to write an emulator.
LEVELS: 1 (endless)
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* Tickle
* VAntAGE
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Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:
Crush Roller (c) 1981 Kural Electric, Limited.
Crush Roller is a maze game in which the player controls a paintbrush and must paint the entire layout in order to advance to the next stage. Two fish — one yellow, the other light blue — emerge from separate aquariums to pursue the paintbrush around the board, and if either of the fish succeeds in making contact with the paintbrush, the player loses a life.
The player may use two "rollers" to attack the fish. The rollers are located on two overpasses, one vertical in its orientation, the other horizontal. To use a roller, the player positions the paintbrush on the forward end of the roller, waits for either or both of the fish to approach, then pushes the paintbrush along the roller, attacking the fish. The fish is removed from the maze for a few seconds, then returns to one of the aquariums and resumes its pursuit of the paintbrush. Killing fish in this manner scores bonus points.
A third character, appearing to be an animal or human figure depending on the level, may enter the maze and leave tracks that must be painted over in order for the board to be completed. The player can limit the damage by running over the figure, which not only stops further tracks from being left but also awards the player a score, which progressively increases as more boards are cleared.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Namco (@ 96 Khz)
Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
- TRIVIA -
Released in October 1981.
This game is known in the U.S. as "Make Trax".
Another version of this game is known as "Korosuke Roller".
2 bootlegs are known as "Paint Roller" and "Magic Brush". Another bootleg was made by Sidam as "Crush Roller (Sidam [Torino, Italy, EUR])".
Giuseppe Fiorido of Italy holds the official record for this game with 2514100 points on June 27, 1984.
- UPDATES -
"Make Trax" has a protection chip, Crush Roller doesn't. The code between the two is nearly identical, except that everywhere the protection code is located, code has been replaced with a couple of bytes to return the correct value and several NOP instructions (which do absolutely nothing).
- SCORING -
Painting floor : 10 points per unpainted or footprint/tiretrack/dropping messed segment.
Killing Fish : 50, 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200, 6400 and the maximum 9000.
Each level starts with the lowest point scoring fish being increased by one. E.g. Level one starts at 50 points, level two with 100 points, and so on up to 9000
Capturing the creature/object messing up your paintwork : 1000 points.
- SERIES -
1. Crush Roller (1981)
2. Crush Roller [Model NEOP00380] (1999, Neo Geo Pocket Color)
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicon [AS] (1990, "Brush Roller")
- CONTRIBUTE -
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