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Hero

  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
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Hero
Name hero
Manufacturer Century Electronics / Seatongrove Ltd
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .037b10
Romset size 35 KB
Romset file 13 files
Romset zip 21 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Maze

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 hr-cp1.bin 2048 2d201496 f195aa1b231a0e1752c7da824a10321f0527f8c9 gfx1 0 good no
arcade hr-cp2.bin 2048 21b61fe3 31882003f0557ffc4ec38ae6ee07b5d294b4162c gfx1 800 good no
arcade hr-cp3.bin 2048 9c8e3f9e 9d949a4d12b45da12b434677670b2b109568564a gfx1 1000 good no
arcade hr-gp1.bin 4096 82f39788 44217dc2312d10fceeb35adf3999cd6f240b60be maincpu 0 good no
arcade hr-gp2.bin 4096 79607812 eaab829a2f5bcb8ec92c3f4122cffae31a4a77cb maincpu 400 good no
arcade hr-gp3.bin 4096 2902715c cf63f72681d1dcbdabdf7673ad8f61b5969e4bd1 maincpu 800 good no
arcade hr-gp4.bin 4096 696d2f8e 73dd57f0f84e37ae707a89e17253aa3dd0c8b48b maincpu c00 good no
arcade hr-gp5.bin 4096 936a4ba6 86cddcfafbd93dcdad3a1f26e280ceb96f779ab0 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade hr-sdp1.bin 2048 c34ecf79 07c96283410b1e7401140094db95800708cf310f audiocpu 0 good no
arcade hr-sp1.bin 2048 a5c33cb1 447ffb193b0dc4985bae5d8c214a893afd08664b 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]

0.34b7 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.154: Osso fixed Hero save state regression (couldn't repro the Dazzler one).

- 0.127u2: Replaced I8035 CPU2 with MB8884 in clones 'Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversion)' and (DK conversion not encrypted). Couriersud consolidated memory maps for S2650 based games (Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversion) and (DK conversion not encrypted)). Renamed handlers to s2650_*. Joined protection handlers.

- 0.123u1: Removed button 2.

- 0.122: Couriersud moved address remapping proms to REGION_USER1 in clones (DK conversion) and (DK conversion not encrypted).

- 0.61: Changed S2650 CPU clock speed to 512000 Hz in clones Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversion) and (DK conversion not encrypted).

- 0.60: Added clones Hero in the Castle of Doom (DK conversion) and (DK conversion not encrypted).

- 9th April 2002: Nicola Salmoria added Hero in the Castle of Doom to the Donkey Kong driver, and Stephane Humbert fixed the dipswitch settings in it.

- 0.37b10: Mike Coates added 'Hero' (Seatongrove Ltd 1983).

- 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.

- 0.34b7: Nicola Salmoria added (Testdriver) herocast.


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha


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Super Bagman

Tutankham

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Money Money

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Uncle Poo

Hero

Spatter

The Tower of Druaga

The Return of Ishtar

Bygone

Doki Doki Penguin Land

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Gauntlet (PlayChoice-10)

Gauntlet II

Shackled

Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen

Mustache Boy

Marchen Maze

Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan

Evil Stone

Magical Crystals

Mesopotamia (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

Skweek (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

Super Duck

Cheese Chase

Princess Clara Daisakusen

Burglar X

Monster Farm Jump

History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Hero (c) 1983 Century Electronics.

Wander through a maze and collect the heart, diamond, spade, club and in later stages 'J' to move to the next level on your way to rescuing Esmeralda. Avoid the fireballs and arrows.

- TECHNICAL -

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

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 248 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 16

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

- TRIVIA -

Developed by Seatongrove UK, Ltd.

This game is known, under the Crown Vending license, as "Hero in the Castle of Doom".

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1116&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

popotte_______________________481.000
sawys_________________________259.000
nicky634______________________156.000
hulkiii_______________________125.000