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The Main Event (4 Players ver. Y)

  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 The Main Event (4 Players ver. Y)
Name mainevt
Manufacturer Konami
Year 1988
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P sim
Added to MAME .033b07
Romset size 2.22 MB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Sports

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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 no
Input players 4
Input buttons
Input coins 4

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 0 no 288 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 63s141n.k14 256 61f6c8d1 c70f1f8e434aaaffb89e30e2230a08374ef324ad proms 0 good no
arcade 799b03.d4 524288 f1cfd342 079afc5c631de7f5b652d0ce6fd44b3aacd14a1b k007232 0 good no
arcade 799b04.h4 524288 323e0c2b c108d656b6ceff13c910739e4ca760acbb640de3 k051960 0 good no
arcade 799b05.k4 524288 571c5831 2a18f0bcf6946ada6e0bde7edbd11afd4db1c170 k051960 2 good no
arcade 799b06.c22 524288 2c8c47d7 18a899767177ddfd870df9ed156d8bbc04b58a19 upd 0 good no
arcade 799c01.f7 32768 447c4c5c 86e42132793c59cc6feece143516f7ecd4ed14e8 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade 799c06.f22 32768 f839cb58 b36202ca2b68b6249c3f972ad09501e28a0162f7 k052109 0 good no
arcade 799c07.h22 32768 176df538 379e1de81afb85b1559de170cd2ab9f4af2b137e k052109 1 good no
arcade 799c08.j22 32768 d01e0078 7ac242eb24271ac2783ec4d9e97ae051f1f3363a k052109 2 good no
arcade 799c09.k22 32768 9baec75e a8f6102c8fd46f18678f336bc44be31458ca9256 k052109 3 good no
arcade 799y02.k11 65536 e2e7dbd5 80314cd42a9f47f7bb82a2160fb5ef2ddc6dff30 maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
HD6309 maincpu cpu 12000000
K007232 PCM Controller k007232 audio 3579545
Speaker mono audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3579545
uPD7759 upd audio 640000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.33b7 [Bryan McPhail]


Bugs:

- mainevt and clones: Black lines on ropes when wrestler is near ropes while Flipped. Tafoid (ID 04943)


WIP:

- 0.147u1: R. Belmont corrected Main Event rom names via verification from new PCB dump.

- 0.145u4: hap fixed sound regression MainEvent driver.

- 0.142u3: Angelo Salese fixed protection read-back registers 0x07 and 0x0e / 0x0f in K051733 math chip. Made K051733 RNG to behave like an adder.

- 0.136u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct and save states to the MainEvent driver.

- 0.135u4: Fabio Priuli updated The Main Event to use Konami video devices.

- 0.133u2: Kanikani cleanup dipswitches in The Main Event.

- 0.133u1: Brian Troha added DIP locations to The Main Event. Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'. Renamed (mainev2p) to (mainevt2p).

- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in the MainEvent driver.

- 0.122u7: Changed HD6309 CPU1 clock speed to 12MHz.

- 0.106u3: Fixed 'Difficulty' dipswitch port names.

- 3rd January 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed Main Event (SNK) so that it starts again.

- 0.69: Added clone The Main Event (2 Players ver. X). Changed parent description to 'The Main Event (4 Players ver. Y)' and clones (version F) to 'The Main Event (4 Players ver. F)' and 'Ring no Ohja (Japan)' to 'Ring no Ohja (Japan 2 Players ver. N)'.

- 2nd September 2002: Stephane Humbert added a 2 players version of Main Event.

- 0.59: Changed sound2 rom address to ($0).

- 0.36b9: Added clone Ring no Ohja (Japan).

- 0.36b3: Changed M6309 CPU1 clock speed to 3MHz and Z80 CPU2 to 3579545 Hz.

- 10th August 1999: Nicola fixed half priority sprites in Main Event.

- 0.36b2: Changed M6309 CPU1 clock speed to 2MHz. Added priority encoder prom ($0 - not used).

- 3rd August 1999: Bryan McPhail sent in a 007232 update which added bankswitching to the samples, necessary for Main Event.

- 3rd March 1999: Hiromitsu Shioya sent in a newer version of the K007232 sound chip emulation which now supports stereo output.

- 0.35b2: Nicola Salmoria added clone The Main Event (version F). Changed parent description to 'The Main Event (version Y)'. Sound in The Main Event [Nicola Salmoria]. Added Z80 (4MHz) CPU2, KONAMI 007232, uPD7759 sound and sound1 rom ($0) and sound2 rom ($0).

- 0.34RC1: Dave W. added high score saving to The Main Event.

- 0.33b7: Bryan McPhail added 'The Main Event' (Konami 1988). Sprite priorities not yet fully correct. No sound. Graphics rom test fails.

- 1st March 1998: Dumped The Main Event (4 Players ver. Y).


ARCADE RELEASE: Ring no Ouja (Konami) - 1988/Jun/23


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History


Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:

The Main Event (c) 1988 Konami.

Export version. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese version entry; "Ring no Ohja [Model GX799]"

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : GX799

- TRIVIA -

The Main Event was released in July 1988. It was originally known in Japan as "Ring no Ohja [Model GX799]" (released one month before).

In this Export version you are no more stuck with being the team of Conan the Great and Kamikaze Ken in single player like in the original Japanese version.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1540&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

furohon________________________11.700
hulkiii_________________________3.700