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Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-0A)

  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
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Game infos

Description Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-0A)
Name phrcraze
Manufacturer Merit
Year 1986
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .085u1
Romset size 352 KB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 174 B
Language English
Evaluation 30 to 40 (Amendable)
Genre Quiz

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 yes
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
gambling no
only_buttons no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 256 76.293945 10000000 512 0 512 256 0 256

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 6221-40_u5-0a.u5 32768 ccd33a0c 869b66af4369f3b4bc19336ca2b8104c7f652de7 maincpu 0 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-1 32768 0a016c5e 1a24ecd7fe59b08c75a1b4575c7fe467cc7f0cf8 user1 0 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-2 32768 e67dc49e 5265af228531dc16db7f7ee78da6e51ef9a1d772 user1 10000 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-3 32768 5c79a653 85a904465b347564e937074e2b18159604c83e51 user1 20000 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-4 32768 9837f757 01106114b6997fe6432e519101f95c83a1f7cc1e user1 30000 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-5 32768 dc9d8682 46973da4298d0ed149c651498527c91b8ba57e0a user1 40000 good no
arcade phrz1-07_std-6 32768 48e24f17 f50c85505f6ab2360f0885494001f174224f8575 user1 50000 good no
arcade phrz_u37.u37 32768 237e221a 7aa69375c2b9a9e73e0e4ed207bf595368b2deb2 gfx1 0 good no
arcade phrz_u38.u38 32768 bfa78b67 1b51c0e00240f798fe717624e706cb15700bc2f9 gfx1 8000 good no
arcade phrz_u39.u39 32768 9ce22cb3 b653afb8f13decd993e434aaad69a6e09ab65f83 gfx1 10000 good no
arcade phrz_u40.u40 32768 17dcddd4 51682bdbfb67cd0ccf20b97e8fa12d72f0fe82ed gfx2 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8912A aysnd audio 1250000
Speaker mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 2500000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.129 [David Haywood]

0.104 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

0.85u1 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]


SETUP:

- When you see "PUSH ANY SWITCH", press 'C' key to proceed.


WIP:

- 0.148: Added gambling control. Changed description to 'Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-0A)' and clones (set 2) to 'Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-0)', (Expanded Questions, set 1) to 'Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-3A Expanded Questions)', (Expanded Questions, set 2) to 'Phraze Craze (6221-40, U5-3 Expanded Questions)' and (Sex Kit, Vertical) to 'Phraze Craze (6221-45, U5-2 Vertical)'.

- 0.137u3: D. Beneke, Smitdogg and The Dumping Union added clones Phraze Craze (set 2) and (Expanded Questions, set 2). Changed description of clones (set 2) to 'Phraze Craze (Expanded Questions, set 1)' and (Sex Kit) to 'Phraze Craze (Sex Kit, Vertical)'. Renamed (phrcrazea) to (phrcrazeb) and (phrcrazes) to (phrcrazev).

- 0.136u1: Fixed rom names.

- 0.135u4: Fixed rom names.

- 7th August 2009: Smitdogg - Thanks to D. Beneke we got a box of PCB's from a dealer in NY for pretty cheap. I've dumped all. In the box were 2 more Merit Phraze Craze games which both have an undumped program rom and a couple of bootlegs. I also got a Phraze Craze manual.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (phrcraza) to (phrcrazea) and (phrcrazs) to (phrcrazes).

- 0.129: David Haywood added clone Phraze Craze (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Phraze Craze (set 1)'. Changed 'Phraze Craze (Sex Kit)' from a parent set to a clone of Phraze Craze (set 1).

- 0.128: Couriersud fixed access violation in Phraze Craze.

- 0.127u6: Couriersud fixed Phraze Craze gfx rom ordering. Changed AY-3-8910A clock speed to 1250000 Hz, visible area to 512x256 and VSync to 76.293945 Hz.

- 0.108u4: Added dipswitches 'Reset High Scores', 'Coinage' and 'Cabinet'.

- 0.104u4: Added new user1 rom ($50000).

- 0.104: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added 'Phraze Craze (Sex Kit)' (Merit 1986).

- 0.99u1: Fixed Phraze Craze [Tomasz Slanina, Pierpaolo Prazzoli, Nicola Salmoria] - Game now playable. Changed visible area to 512x248 and palettesize to 256 colors.

- 0.98u4: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed the question roms reading for Phraze Craze and fixed some loading based on new info discovered.

- 0.85u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added 'Phraze Craze' (Merit 1986).

- 2nd August 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli - Phraze Craze (Merit 1986) works - Still have to undesrtand how the video hardware works.


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History


Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Phraze Craze (c) 1986 Merit.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 2.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 2.5 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 248 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256

Players : 2
Buttons : 5

- CONTRIBUTE -

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