0.91 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]
WIP:
- 0.144u4: Angelo Salese fixed priority and sprite Y positions in Kick Boy. Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 2496000 Hz, the 3x AY-3-8910A sound to 1248000 Hz and MSM5205 sound to 384000 Hz.
- 0.138u2: Team Japump and The Dumping Union added color PROM of Kick Boy and corrected ROM filename. Angelo Salese hooked up the color prom. Changed palettesize to 32 colors.
- 10th June 2010: Smitdogg - We got the Kick Boy PCB and the proms have been added! And here are new pictures with correct colors thanks to N. Alston, takearushfan, A. Costin, M, jmurjr, Ranger_Lennier, Kevin Eshbach, takearushfan, Cananas, Karasu, Hurray Banana and Team Japump.
- 23rd May 2010: Smitdogg - I don't usually mention game names before purchasing for various reasons but in this case I guess I will. There is a 1983 Nichibutsu Kick Boy PCB that has become available that we need. The proms aren't dumped and without them, the game will never have correct colors in MAME. I do have some recycled funds but am still at least $350 short for Kick Boy, so I want to see if we can raise the rest of the money needed. Update: Done! I'll go send the rest of the money to Team Japump and we should have it in a week or so. Thanks to all the donators!
- 0.135u2: Fabio Priuli added save state support to Dacholer driver.
- 0.128u5: Mamesick fixed Kick Boy freezes on the title or credit.
- 0.125u5: Tomasz Slanina added sound emulation to Kick Boy. Added 3x AY-3-8910A (1.5MHz) and MSM5205 (375000 Hz) sound.
- 12th June 2008: Tomasz Slanina - Fixed sound cpu interrupts (mode 2 (two vectors)+ nmi). Added sound and music. AY/MSM clocks are arbitrary. Just a guess - upper nibble of byte from port 3 _probably_ contains sound command (sound cpu writes it to port c).
- 0.118u3: Stephane Humbert updated Dacholer driver with now all known dipswitches. Added dipswitches 'Bonus Life' and 'Difficulty'.
- 0.91: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added 'Kick Boy' (Nichibutsu 1983). Missing proms (causes bad colours) and lack sound.
- 23rd January 2005: Pierpaolo Prazzoli - 2 quick additions for 2 rare Nichibutsu games (Dacholer (Nichibutsu 1983) and Kick Boy (Nichibutsu 1983)). I still have to add sound and inputs. The bad news is that we're missing the colors proms from both.
- 10th January 2005: Xadhoom dumped Kick Boy. EPROMs only.
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Swinging Singles
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Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:
Kick Boy (c) 1983 Nichibutsu [Nihon Bussan Company, Limited.].
A shooter type maze game, where you play a role of an boy and will have to avoid and destroy all the annoying dogs kicking a soccer ball for hit them and come to the bonnus stage or next level.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Players : 2
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 2
- TRIVIA -
Released in December 1983 in Japan.
Also known as "Dacholer".
- CONTRIBUTE -
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