0.34b7 [Ernesto Corvi, Jarek Parchanski]
WIP:
- 0.168: hap added MCU rom to Exciting Soccer romsets. Replaced ALPHA-8301 CPU3 with HD44801.
- 0.147: Tirino73 added clone Exciting Soccer (US). Fixed minor typo in rom name for the new US set [R. Belmont]. Fixed rom names. Changed description of clones (Japan set 1) to 'Exciting Soccer (Japan, older)' and (Japan set 2) to 'Exciting Soccer (Japan)'. Renamed (exctsccrj) to (exctsccrjo) and (exctsccrj2) to (exctsccrj).
- 0.145u5: Changed description of clone (Japan) to 'Exciting Soccer (Japan set 1)'.
- 0.136u1: Corrado Tomaselli added clone Exciting Soccer (Japan set 2). Corrado Tomaselli verified and corrected clocks in Exciting Soccer. Changed 1st AY-3-8910A clock speed to 1940000 Hz and VSync to 60.54 Hz.
- 24th December 2009: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Exciting Soccer (Japan, set 2).
- 0.133u1: Renamed (exctscca) to (exctsccra), (exctsccj) to (exctsccrj) and (exctsccb) to (exctsccrb).
- 0.130u3: Uki added clone Exciting Soccer (Japan). Exciting Soccer update [Uki]: Verified clock frequency (including 4KHz NMI). Position 6A is not populated in version (Japan). Sound tempo is wrong in all sets (with or without this change). Clock for AY-3-8910 is 14.31818M/8 except for main melody. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 3072000 Hz, Z80 CPU2 to 3579545 Hz and the 4x AY-3-8910A to 1789772 Hz.
- 0.126u1: Nicola Salmoria merged Exciting Soccer driver into Champion Base Ball driver. Changed ALPHA-8301 CPU3 clock speed to 384000 Hz. Fixed proms rom loading.
- 0.123u6: Nicola Salmoria fixed sprite bpp in Exciting Soccer, removed the horrible hacks that were used to fix colors and transparency. Fixed sound clipping in Exciting Soccer. Fixed gfx rom loading. Changed palettesize to 512 colors. Switched clone Exciting Soccer (bootleg) to use the correct gfx ROMs (matches screenshot found in ID 01058 exctsccb: Exciting Soccer bootleg should be placed in champbas driver).
- 0.123u1: Changed palettesize to 384 colors.
- 0.104u8: Tatsuyuki Satoh added emulation of the Alpha 8201/8301 MCU and connected it to Exciting Soccer. Added ALPHA-8301 (500000 HZ) CPU3.
- 0.35b11: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4123456 Hz.
- 0.35b10: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4001000 Hz.
- 0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone Exciting Soccer (alternate music).
- 0.34b8: Jarek Parchanski added high score saving to Exciting Soccer.
- 0.34b7: Ernesto Corvi and Jarek Parchanski added 'Exciting Soccer' (Alpha Denshi 1983) and clone (bootleg) (Kazutomi 1984). Known issues: The song that should be played during the match is selected through the Alpha MCU. The bootleg mutilated the audio part, so information about this table is not available. Cocktail mode is unsupported. Sprites colors/banking?
LEVELS: 5 (endless)
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Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:
Exciting Soccer (c) 1983 Alpha Denshi.
Exciting Soccer is an association football game which includes penalty shootout if the game ends in a tie. If you win the game you move on to the next level, each time the opponent gets harder to beat. When you start playing you can choose one of 6 teams: Italy, England, Brazil, West Germany, Austria, or France. The sequel Exciting Soccer II was released in 1984 with Japan replacing Austria and new music, but identical gameplay.
The game allows for one or two players to play and has a control scheme where they can tackle, shoot, short pass, and long pass. Exciting Soccer had realistic touches for the time: corner kicks, throw-ins, penalty shots, and cheerleaders, as well as digitized voices and an influential overhead view.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz), Zilog Z80 (@ 4.123456 Mhz), ALPHA-8301 (@ 500 Khz)
Sound Chips : (4x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz), (2x) DAC
Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Exciting Soccer was released in October 1983 in Japan.
A Japanese bootleg of this game was released in 1984.
Exciting Soccer music is a copy of an instrumental rock and roll ('Tequila', as played by The Champs).
Terenzio Carraro holds the official record for this game with 503,610 points.
- UPDATES -
In the Japanese bootleg :
* The Italian team is replaced by the Japanese Team.
* The music are different.
* The title screen says : 'planned by Shinzi' and 'programmed by Kazutomi'.
- SERIES -
1. Exciting Soccer (1983)
2. Exciting Soccer II (1985)
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