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Pinball Action (set 1)

  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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Pinball Action (set 1)
Name pbaction
Manufacturer Tehkan
Year 1985
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .030
Romset size 160 KB
Romset file 14 files
Romset zip 75 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Pinball

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 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
only_buttons no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 256 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade a-e3.bin 8192 0e53a91f df2827197cd55c3685e5ac8b26c20800623cb932 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade a-j5.bin 16384 21efe866 0c0a05a26d793ba98b0f421d464ff4b1d301ff9e bgchars 0 good no
arcade a-j6.bin 16384 7f984c80 18795ecbcd2da94f1cfcce5559d652388d1b8bc0 bgchars 4000 good no
arcade a-j7.bin 16384 df69e51b 52ab15c63332f0fa98884fa9adc8d35b93c939c4 bgchars 8000 good no
arcade a-j8.bin 16384 0094cb8b 58f48d24903b797e8451bf231f9e8df621685d9f bgchars c000 good no
arcade a-s6.bin 8192 9a74a8e1 bd27439b91f41db3fd7eedb44e828d61b793bda0 fgchars 0 good no
arcade a-s7.bin 8192 5ca6ad3c 7c8eff087f18cc2ff0572ea45e681a3a1ec94fad fgchars 2000 good no
arcade a-s8.bin 8192 9f00b757 74b6d926b8f456c8d0101f0232c5d3662423b396 fgchars 4000 good no
arcade b-c7.bin 8192 d1795ef5 69ad8e419e340d2f548468ed7838102789b978da sprites 0 good no
arcade b-d7.bin 8192 f28df203 060f70ed6386c808303a488c97691257681bd8f3 sprites 2000 good no
arcade b-f7.bin 8192 af6e9817 56f47d25761b3850c49a3a81b5ea35f12bd77b14 sprites 4000 good no
arcade b-l7.bin 8192 e7412d68 e75731d9bea80e0dc09798dd46e3b947fdb54aaa maincpu 8000 good no
arcade b-n7.bin 16384 d54d5402 a4c3205bfe5fba8bb1ff3ad15941a77c35b44a27 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade b-p7.bin 16384 8d6dcaae c9e605f9d291cb8c7163655ea96c605b7d30365f maincpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A ay3 audio 1500000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3072000

Serie

Serie : Pinball Action
  1. Pinball Action (set 1) (1985)
  2. Pinball Action (set 2) (1985)
  3. Pinball Action (set 3, encrypted) (1985)
  4. Pinball Action (set 4, encrypted) (1985)
  5. Pinball Action (set 5, encrypted) (1985)
  6. Super Pinball Action (prototype) (1989)
  7. Super Pinball Action (US) (1991)
  8. Super Pinball Action (Japan) (1991)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.30 [Nicola Salmoria]


Artwork available


WIP:

- 0.143u3: Brian Troha added DIP locations to Pinball Action and clones.

- 0.137u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data class and save states to Pinball Action.

- 7th December 2009: Mr. Do - Here is Pinball Action artwork that I had completed some time ago, but never got around to adding them in.

- 0.135: f205v added clone Pinball Action (set 5, encrypted).

- 21st October 2009: f205v dumped Pinball Action (set 5, encrypted).

- 0.133u1: Team Europe / Dumping Project added clone Pinball Action (set 4, encrypted). Renamed (pbactio2) to (pbaction2) and (pbactio3) to (pbaction3).

- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in Pinball Action.

- 0.95u1: Nicola Salmoria fixed clone 'Pinball Action (set 3, encrypted)'.

- 0.95: Added clone Pinball Action (set 3, encrypted?). Seems to be encrypted.

- 26th March 2005: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Pinball Action (set 3, encrypted).

- 0.36b1: Mirko Buffoni fixed title colors in Pinball Action.

- 0.35RC2: Nicola Salmoria added scroll to Pinball Action when you push button 4, but Nicola is not sure it's correct.

- 0.34b5: Marco Cassili added clone Pinball Action (set 2). Known issues: The alternate set has code for a third Z80, whose function is unknown. Changed parent description to 'Pinball Action (set 1)'.

- 0.34b1: Dani Portillo added high score saving to Pinball Action.

- 0.33b7: Sound in Pinball Action [Mirko Buffoni]. Nicola Salmoria fixed sprite priorities and tile flip in Pinball Action. Added Z80 CPU2 and 3x AY-8910 sound.

- 18th March 1998: CaBBe dumped Pinball Action.

- 0.30: Nicola Salmoria added 'Pinball Action' (Tehkan 1985).


LEVELS: 1 (endless)


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History


Arcade Video game published 34 years ago:

Pinball Action (c) 1985 Tehkan.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (3x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz)

Players : 2
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Pinball Action was released in July 1985 in Japan.

- SERIES -

1. Pinball Action (1985)
2. Super Pinball Action (1991)

- STAFF -

Sound programming by: Tsukasa

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Sony PlayStation 2 (2004, "Tecmo Hit Parade")
Microsoft XBOX (2005, "Tecmo Classic Arcade")

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1969&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

cessna______________________1.794.020
sawys_______________________1.620.780
thegamer______________________610.170
foxmulder_____________________587.190
furohon_______________________378.060
nicky634______________________377.690
olivier_______________________250.350
gatts47_______________________151.910
hulkiii_______________________132.080