0.172 [Ioannis Bampoulas, Roberto Fresca]
0.126u4 [Luca Elia]
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WIP:
- 0.173: IGS009 protection patch for the newer Jingle Bell sets [Luca Elia]. Changed parent description to 'Jingle Bell (US, V157US)' and clones (EU, V141) to 'Jingle Bell (EU, V141UE)', (EU, V153) to 'Jingle Bell (EU, V153UE)' and (EU, V155) to 'Jingle Bell (EU, V155UE)'.
- 0.172: Ioannis Bampoulas and Roberto Fresca added Jingle Bell (US, V157) and clones Jingle Bell (EU, V141), Jingle Bell (EU, V153) and Jingle Bell (EU, V155). IGS009 driver improvements: Added both missing PPI8255 devices and routed all inputs/outputs through them. Reparent all sets of IGS Jingle Bell. Added technical information about the hardware [Roberto Fresca]. Renamed (jingbell) to (jingbelli).
- 0.162: Osso added save state support to IGS009 driver.
- 0.157: Updated dips and added locations to comply with the manual for Jingle Bell & Gran Prix '98 [Bad A. Billy]. Added dipswitches 'Max Bet', 'Maximum Play', 'Skill Stop', 'Hands Count', 'Hands Coin Rate', 'Hands Coin Value' and 'Unused'.
- 0.146u2: Jingle Bell is actually working, added DIPs [Luca Elia]. Removed buttons 3 and 4. Added dipswitches 'Coin 1 Rate', 'Coin 2 Rate', 'Key In Limit', 'Key In Rate', 'Key Out Rate', 'Main Game Rate (%)', 'Min Bet', 'Min Play For Fever', 'Payout Mode', 'Play Line', 'Player's Panel', 'Spin Speed', 'Strip Girl', 'System Limit', 'W-Up Chance (%)' and 'Unknown'.
- 0.146: Updated IGS009 driver to use modern I8255 implementation instead of the legacy one [Fabio Priuli].
- 0.133u1: Removed buttons 5-8 and coin slots 3-4.
- 16th December 2008: David Haywood - I took a look at the Reel emulation in Jingle Bell which Luca recently added. It was quite simple, very similar to Golden Star etc. I actually wonder if Golden Star has the same functionality to control the area in which the reels are displayed. As things stand it's hardcoded in the driver. Jingle Bell required it to be dynamic, controlled from a 'tilemap line enable' ram area.
- 0.126u4: Luca Elia added 'Jingle Bell (Italy, V133I)' (IGS 1995).
- 13th July 2008: Luca Elia - IGS009 based game: This is one of the many gambling games produced by Taiwanese IGS. Specifically, a video slot machine titled Jingle Bell. It's the Italian version of a game released in 1995 (as written in the rom). The hardware is similar to other IGS002 + IGS003 based boards, and consists of a Z180 CPU, IGS009 custom for graphics, YM2413 and OKI M6295 for sound. The interesting part is the background tilemap, that is designed specifically for simulating the nine reels of the slot machine. The way it works is similar, but more complicated than what's emulated in iqblock or goldstar. Frankly, I haven't nailed it down yet. As for most IGS games, it is also encrypted and protected, but I think I've taken care of that. Thanks to drummerboy81 & f205v.
- 12th February 2008: f205v dumped Jingle Bell (Italy, V133I).
