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Gold Bug

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

Description Gold Bug
Name goldbug
Manufacturer Century Electronics
Year 1982
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .037b10
Romset size 37 KB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 22 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Maze

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail preliminary
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 90 no 240 248 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 5b.bin 2048 f055a624 5dfe89d7271092e665cdd5cd59d15a2b70f92f43 speechcpu 0 good no
arcade 82s123.10k 32 b5221cec 71d9830b33b1a8140b0fe1a2ba8024ba8e6e48e0 proms 800 good no
arcade 82s185.10h 2048 c205bca6 ec9bd220e75f7b067ede6139763ef8aca0fb7a29 proms 0 good no
arcade gb-cp1.bin 2048 80e1ad5a 0a577b0faffd9d6807c39175ce213f017a5cc7f8 gfx1 0 good no
arcade gb-cp2.bin 2048 0a288b29 0c6471a3517805a5c873857ff21ca94dfe91c24e gfx1 800 good no
arcade gb-cp3.bin 2048 e5bcf8cf 7f53b8ee6f87e6c8761d2200e8194a7d16d8c7ac gfx1 1000 good no
arcade gb-gp1.bin 4096 8deb7761 35f27fb6b5e3f76ddaf2c074b3391931e679df6e maincpu 0 good no
arcade gb-gp2.bin 4096 135036c1 9868eae2486687772bf0bf71b82e461a882ae1ab maincpu 400 good no
arcade gb-gp3.bin 4096 d48b1090 b3cbfeb4fc2bf1bbe0befab793fcc5e7e6ff804c maincpu 800 good no
arcade gb-gp4.bin 4096 c8053205 7f814b059f6b9c62e8a83c1753da5e8780b09411 maincpu c00 good no
arcade gb-gp5.bin 4096 eca17472 25c4ca59b4c96a22bc42b41adbf3cc33373cf85e maincpu 1000 good no
arcade gb-sdp1.bin 4096 c8a4b39d 29fffaa12639f3b19db818ad374d09fbf9c7fb98 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade gb-sp1.bin 2048 5d0205c3 578937058d56e5c9fba8a2204ddbb59a6d23dec7 speechdata 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
1-Bit DAC dac3 audio
4-Bit R-2R DAC dac2 audio
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac1 audio
S2650 speechcpu cpu 894886
Signetics 2636 s2636_2 audio
Speaker speaker audio
TMS5100 tms audio 640000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b10 [Mike Coates, Malcolm Lear]


WIP:

- 0.123u1: Stephane Humbert fixed duplicated coin 2 input and cocktail mode support. Removed button 2.

- 0.37b10: Mike Coates added 'Gold Bug' (Century 1982).

- 14th November 2000: Mike Coates submitted the Century Video System driver written by him and Malcolm Lear, supporting Hunchback, Hero, Hunchback Olympic, Cosmos, Dark Warrior, Video Eight Ball, Logger, Dazzler, Wall Street, Radar Zone, Gold Bug and Superbike.


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History


Arcade Video game published 37 years ago:

Gold Bug (c) 1982 Century Electronics.

A "Dig Dug"-style game.

- TECHNICAL -

CVS [Convertable Video System] Hardware.

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound CPU : S2650 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound Chips : (2x) DAC, TMS5110 (@ 640 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 4-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Steve Peterson holds the official record for this game with 173,740 points.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=976&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

popotte_______________________332.170
sawys_________________________278.990
hulkiii________________________15.220