0.136 [Angelo Salese, Chack'n, Team Japump, Dumping Union]
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WIP:
- 0.147: Cycle Maabou standing cones are reddish-yellow/black instead of red/white [hap].
- 0.146u5: Angelo Salese and David Haywood fixed Cycle Maabou - Game now playable. Fixed sprite GFX order. Hooked up inputs. Defaults to disallow game over, fix it. Fixed a color bug with tilemap. More protection sim fixes (machine\tait8741.c) [Angelo Salese]. Tried sound stuff but didn't get anywhere [hap]. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6MHz, Z80 CPU2 to 3MHz. Replaced AY-3-8910A sound with YM2203 (1.5Mhz). Fixed sprite_data rom loading. Added Player2, Paddle, 1x button and 1x coin slot. Added dipswitches 'SYSTEM', 'Cabinet', 'Free Play', 'Disallow Game Over (Cheat)', 'Stage Start', 'Flip Screen' and 'Service Mode'. Changed description to 'Cycle Maabou (Japan)'.
- 0.136: Angelo Salese, Chack'n, Team Japump and Dumping Union added 'Cycle Mahbou (Japan)' (Taito Corporation 1984).
- 25th December 2009: Angelo Salese - Started to write a driver for Cycle Mahbou, an obscure game from Taito / Seta. It seems to be the logical next revision of the Joshi Volleyball / Great Swordsman HW, and like them, it has 2 Taito 8741 MCUs to care about... so it's not yet working mainly due of that. This game was brought to you by Chack'n from Team Japump & Dumping Union, a present gift for the Christmas.
- 24th December 2009: Smitdogg - In almost unbelievable news, a member of Team Japump scored a Cycle Mahbou (Seta/Taito 1984). This is super rare and sought after. Check the pic, it looks like the most interesting game I've seen in a while. If you can find it at all, the going price is over $2,000 USD. Japump also has some other games in the works and could use some financial help, and I have a few PCB's in the works as well (undumped Taito revisions, maybe 64th Street for the prom, and others) that I need financial assistance with, so if anyone can spare some funds over the next few days, I will work on sorting it all out in our favor. Either way, Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays! Cycle Mahbou is coming to MAME!
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Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:
Cycle Mahbou (c) 1984 Taito Corp.
It's a rather unique game of skill and different test. You play the role of a guy on a unicycle he advance through the track, and must performed timed jumps to land on various items to collect points, holding the button longer does longer jumps or short jumps. At the same time you need to balance your character using the paddle / spinner control so things can get quite tricky. Each stage gives you a target score and a bonnus stage.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 2
Control : 2-way paddle
Buttons : 1 jump
- TRIVIA -
Cycle Mahbou was released in December 1984 in Japan.
- CONTRIBUTE -
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