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Mayday (set 1)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Roms list
  9. Chips list
  10. Categories
  11. MAMEinfo
  12. History
  13. High scores
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Game infos

Description Mayday (set 1)
Name mayday
Manufacturer Hoei
Year 1980
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .036b07
Romset size 30 KB
Romset file 8 files
Romset zip 21 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Shooter

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 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 5 (half8) no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 292 240 60.096154 8000000 512 12 304 260 7 247

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ic01-1.bin 4096 5dcb113f c41d671c336c68824771b7c4f0ffce39f1b6cd62 maincpu f000 good no
arcade ic02-2.bin 4096 62183aea 3843fe055ab6d3bb5a3362f57a63ce99e36cec47 maincpu e000 good no
arcade ic03-3.bin 4096 a1ff6e62 c3c60ce94c6bdc4b07e45f386eff9a4aa4816953 maincpu d000 good no
arcade ic04-4.bin 4096 ea6a4ec8 eaedc11968d88fd6f3c5b40c8d15d64ca6d0a1ab maincpu 10000 good no
arcade ic05-5.bin 4096 0d797a3e 289d2ecfebd7d71430d6624f3c9fbc91f9ef05cc maincpu 11000 good no
arcade ic06-6.bin 4096 ee8bfcd6 f68c44fdc18d57070aea604e261fb7b9407345a2 maincpu 12000 good no
arcade ic07-7d.bin 4096 d9c065e7 ceeb58d1dfe14106271f17cf1c689b812216c3c0 maincpu 16000 good no
arcade ic28-8.bin 2048 fefd5b48 ceb0d18483f0691978c604db94417e6941ad7ff2 soundcpu f800 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M6808 soundcpu cpu 3579545
M6809 maincpu cpu 1000000
MC1408 dac audio
Speaker speaker audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36b7 [Aaron Giles]

0.34b6 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.154: Changed visible area to 292x240.

- 0.149: Basilio Garcia added clone Battle Zone (bootleg of Mayday).

- 0.95u3: Changed visible area to 294x239 and a cpu1 rom address to $16000 in Mayday.

- 0.88: Stefan Jokisch fixed Mayday inputs. Changed input from 5 to 3 buttons with 2x coin slots.

- 0.76u2: Removed 6th button.

- 0.58: Added clone Mayday (set 3).

- 0.57: Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 0.36b8: Changed description to 'Mayday (set 1)' and clone (alternate) to 'Mayday (set 2)'. Added missing cpu1 rom ($12000) to clone (set 2).

- 0.36b7: Aaron Giles added 'Mayday' (Hoei 1980) and clone (alternate).

- 7th October 1999: Aaron Giles added Mayday to the Williams driver.

- 0.34b6: Added (Testdrivers) MayDay and clone (Alternate).


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History


Arcade Video game published 38 years ago:

Mayday!! (c) 1981 Hoei.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola M6809 (@ 1 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6808 (@ 894.75 Khz)
Sound Chips : DAC

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 294 x 239 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 16

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Williams considered this game to be an 'infringement' on their copyright of Defender which led to the halting of Mayday!!'s production.

Default highscore table :
1 MIT 20000
2 NOB 15000
3 NUN 10000
4 HON 7000
5 IKU 5000

Dwayne Richard holds the official record for this game with 6,235,300 points.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1586&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fordie_________________________28.325
vikleroy_______________________26.925
merlin_________________________21.125
foxmulder_______________________8.100
hulkiii_________________________5.300