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Cue Brick (World, version D)

  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
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Game infos

Description Cue Brick (World, version D)
Name cuebrick
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .071u2
Romset size 640 KB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 192 B
Language English
Evaluation 60 to 70 (Passable)
Genre Puzzle

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 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 304 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 903c26.k15 65536 f808fa3d 2b0fa1581acc5c4f7055e6faad97664ef16cc082 k052109 3 good no
arcade 903c27.k17 65536 5bd4b8e1 0bc5e508af20e479c7913fab1ef158165fe67079 k052109 2 good no
arcade 903c28.k19 65536 80d2bfaf 3b38558d4f17309154457e9e7780a25577d1858d k052109 1 good no
arcade 903c29.k21 65536 fada986d 79d13dcee5433457c25a8cca0093bddd55165a72 k052109 0 good no
arcade 903d20.k6 65536 2872a1bb da7c7a41860283eac49facaa3beb712d3be7db56 k051960 3 good no
arcade 903d21.k8 65536 3c7bf8cd c487e0109f56b3b0e2aa2c4db2dfb30ad74fb0ab k051960 2 good no
arcade 903d22.k10 65536 95ad8591 4e3c8c794be1cd78044eb0eebfa3c755e2aaf54f k051960 1 good no
arcade 903d23.k12 65536 c39fc9fd fe5a63e5d898f985f9ab9be5b701af4a8e2a9049 k051960 0 good no
arcade 903d24.f12 65536 2973625d e2496704390930761204624d4bf6b0b68d3133ab maincpu 1 good no
arcade 903d25.g12 65536 8d575663 0e308e04936efa80351bf808ac304d3fcc82f19a maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 8000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579545

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.122u5 [ R. Belmont]

0.36b8 [Phil Stroffolino]

0.36b6 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.163: Changed description to 'Cue Brick (World, version D)'.

- 0.156: Alex Jackson fixed wrong colors in service mode "color check" of Cue Brick.

- 0.155: Osso fixed Cue Brick save state regression.

- 0.152: Alex Jackson fixed Cue Brick NVRAM size, added XTALs and various cleanups.

- 0.143u8: Kanikani fixed DIPSW and added DIP locations to Cue Brick.

- 0.133u2: Renamed (cuebrckj) to (cuebrickj).

- 0.122u6: Zsolt Vasvari fixed video roms give bad checksums.

- 0.122u5: Zsolt Vasvari reversed ROM set names of Cue Brick (World version D) and (Japan). Changed some function names to reflect parent set. Changed clone Cue Brick (World version D) to parent. Renamed (cuebrick) to (cuebrckj) and (cuebrckj) to (cuebrick).

- 0.107u2: Canim fixed coin input in clone Cue Brick (World version D).

- 0.77: Curt Coder fixed Cue Brick NVRAM handler, added watchdog reset and visible area in cuebrckj. Changed description of clone (Japan version D) to 'Cue Brick (World version D)', since text is in English.

- 0.76u2: Changed visible area to 304x224. Removed 3rd Player. Added dipswitches 'Lives', 'Machine Name', 'Difficulty', 'Upright Controls' and 'Mode'. Changed description to 'Cue Brick (Japan)'.

- 0.71u3: R. Belmont cleaned up Cue Brick (Japan version D) addition.

- 0.71u2: R. Belmont added clone Cue Brick (Japan version D).

- 9th July 2003: R. Belmont sent in a driver for the Japan version of Cue Brick which runs on different hardware than the world version. David Haywood fixed the text layer colors in it.

- 0.67: Changed description to 'CueBrick'.

- 0.36b10: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 3579545 Hz.

- 0.36b9.1: Added new cpu1 rom ($0).

- 3rd November 1999: Phil Stroffolino fixed CueBrick sound.

- 0.36b8: Phil Stroffolino added 'Cuebrick' (Konami 1989).

- 0.36b6: Phil Stroffolino added (Testdriver) Cuebrick.


ARCADE RELEASE: CueBrick (Konami) - 1989/Aug/01


LEVELS: 21


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Cue Brick (c) 1989 Konami Industry Company, Limited.

A puzzle game where you shift blocks so that a ball rolling along a path can roll across every block that has a path drawn on it.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX903

Main CPU : (2x) Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz), Konami K007232 (@ 3.579545 Mhz), UPD7759 (@ 640 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Cue Brick was released in August 1989.

The game contains some Moai and other Easter Island references.

- UPDATES -

* In the Japanese version, Stop is a counter you can trigger anytime, starting at 200, so basically 20 seconds.
* In the World version, you start with 3 stop bonus, and each of them can stop the game 4 seconds. The World version has a practice mode too.

- STAFF -

Game planners : N. Toshiaki, K. Kunihiko
Game programmers : T. Tokusan, T. Koji
Sound programmer : K. Satoru
Graphic designers : M. Saruchan, Maruyakikun, Y. Oyajin, K. Caro
Sound designers : N. Kazuo, O. Masanori

- PORTS -

* COMPUTERS:
Sharp X68000 (feb.24, 1990, "Cube Runner" by SPS)

- CONTRIBUTE -

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