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American Horseshoes (US)

  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
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Game infos

Description American Horseshoes (US)
Name horshoes
Manufacturer Taito America Corporation
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P alt
Added to MAME .036b04
Romset size 641 KB
Romset file 6 files
Romset zip 249 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Sports

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 yes
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
trackball 0 65535 50 30 yes

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 270 no 320 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c47-01.ic11 131072 031c73d8 deef972fbf226701f9a6469ae3934129dc52ce9c gfx1 20000 good no
arcade c47-02.ic5 131072 35f96526 e7f9b33d82b050aff49f991aa12db436421caa5b gfx1 0 good no
arcade c47-03.ic6 131072 37e15b20 85baa0ee553e4c9fed38294ba8912f18f519e62f maincpu 0 good no
arcade c47-04.ic4 131072 aeac7121 cf67688cde14d452da6d9cbd7a81593f4048ce77 gfx1 1 good no
arcade c47-05.ic10 131072 b2a3dafe 5ffd3e296272ef3f31432005c827f057aac79497 gfx1 20001 good no
arcade c47-06.ic12 324 4342ca6c 9c798a6f1508b03004b76577eb823f004df7298d plds 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 3332640
Z80 maincpu cpu 6665280

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b4 [Olivier Galibert]


WIP:

- 0.148u1: Kevin Eshback added confirmed PALs from boards matching American Horseshoes (US), fixing labels when needed.

- 0.136: Tafoid changed YM2203 clock speed to 3332640 Hz.

- 0.129u5: Fabio Priuli fixed game hangs upon startup in American Horseshoes.

- 0.123u3: Fixed rom names and gfx1 rom loading.

- 0.122u2: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6665280 Hz and YM2203 to 3330000 MHz.

- 0.82u2: Brian Troha fixed DIPs in American Horseshoes. Added dipswitches 'Demo Sounds', 'Service Mode' and 'Flip Screen'.

- 0.81u8: Brian Troha fixed DIPs in American Horseshoes. Added dipswitches 'Beer Frame Message', 'Price to Continue', 'Bonus Advantage', 'Scoring Speed' and 'Grip/Angle Select'.

- 0.37b12: Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', 'Time' and 'Innings'.

- 0.37b11: Added dipswitches 'Coinage' and 'Price to Continue'.

- 0.37b6: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6MHz. Added Trackball and player 2 and 3.

- 0.37b3: Added dipswitches 'Cabinet', 'Flip Screen', 'Demo Sounds' and 'Coin A/Coin B'.

- 0.36b4: Olivier Galibert added 'American Horseshoes (US)' (Taito 1990).

- 26th August 1999: Olivier Galibert sent in a Taito system L driver with support for American Horseshoes, Cachat, Champion Wrestler, Fighting Hawk, Palamedes, Plotting, Puzznic and Raimais. None of them have sound though, and some have graphic bugs.


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History


Arcade Video game published 29 years ago:

American Horseshoes (c) 1990 Taito America Corp.

A 1- to 4-players horseshoe game. Each players can choose from one of four characters. There are 2 pitches in each inning. Players may select grip and throwing angle prior to each pitch. The rolling of the trackball determines the distance of each pitch. After each inning the scoring with shown with an overhead shot of the stake area. Each player's score is shown throughout the game at the top of the screen. At the end of each 3 innings the players may continue by inserting additional credits. Up to 9 innings can be played per game.

- TECHNICAL -

Taito L System hardware
Prom Stickers : C47

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 320 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256

Players : 1
Control : Trackball
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Released in July 1990.

- SCORING -

Ringer (A horseshoe which wraps around the stake) : 3 points.
Leaner (A horseshoe which rests against the stake) : 2 points.
Landing within the stake area : 1 points.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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