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Professor Pac-Man

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

Description Professor Pac-Man
Name profpac
Manufacturer Dave Nutting Associates / Bally Midway
Year 1983
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .074u2
Romset size 299 KB
Romset file 33 files
Romset zip 130 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Quiz

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

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 yes
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 0 no 352 240 60.054442 7159090 455 0 352 262 0 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade pls153a_cpu.u12 235 499a6fc5 633d647bcae2f762847a2abe8069741ac33b15b8 plds 0 good no
arcade pls153a_cpu.u16 235 9a5ea540 8619c7626e58eac09a4d91f5ad49742240f5f71e plds 100 good no
arcade pls153a_epr.u6 235 d8454bf7 5e074a2cbac99ebbf02bc4cd331679ede30eea3f plds 200 good no
arcade pls153a_epr.u7 235 fa831d9f ca8c3d8db24e99537c682aaf9726cbcef86728dd plds 300 good no
arcade pls153a_gam.u10 235 fe2157b0 577e6839190054f9b3aec6425e9d2a1810e11a08 plds 400 good no
arcade pls153a_gam.u11 235 5772f6d8 01a02aa67a42ff61e38e12683b02bf81c16519b8 plds 500 good no
arcade pls153a_gam.u5 235 b3f2c6b8 e49fb4ca7d9c8a769c145fd497b1244d6696831f plds 600 good no
arcade pls153a_scr.u19 235 b5fff2db beae4fc5664d15a4b83a885d97d21efd14977380 plds 700 good no
arcade pls153a_scr.u39 235 ba7ef5dd 7aea6e17edbf87dc1d47ca8c640b50ebdb65dd29 plds 800 good no
arcade pls153a_scr.u55 235 c3f47134 78ae2cc1d8b761b077e36343d4a91517298ce9e8 plds 900 good no
arcade ppq1 16384 dddc2ccc d81caaa639f63d971a0d3199b9da6359211edf3d epromboard 0 good no
arcade ppq10 16384 ed72a81f db991b93001d2da16b398ee8e9b01b8f0dfe5740 epromboard 24000 good no
arcade ppq11 16384 98295020 7f68a8b89117b7ab8724869401a861fe7cff28d9 epromboard 28000 good no
arcade ppq12 16384 e01a8dbe c7052bf9ce9d2006dda5ddc07ad164d0119b86ea epromboard 2c000 good no
arcade ppq13 16384 87165d4f d47655300c8747698a46f30deb65fe762073e869 epromboard 30000 good no
arcade ppq14 16384 ecb861de 73d28a79b76795d3016dd608f9ab3d255f40e477 epromboard 34000 good no
arcade ppq2 16384 33bbcabe f9455868c70f479ede0e0621f21f69da165d9b7a epromboard 4000 good no
arcade ppq3 16384 3534d895 24fb14c6b31b7f27e0737605cfbf963d29dd3fc5 epromboard 8000 good no
arcade ppq4 16384 17e3581d 92d2391e4c8aef46cc8e92b8cf9a8ec9a1b5ff68 epromboard c000 good no
arcade ppq5 16384 80882a93 d5d6afaadb022b109c14c3911eceb0769204df6c epromboard 10000 good no
arcade ppq6 16384 e5ddaee5 45b4925709da6790676319268398f6cfcf12794b epromboard 14000 good no
arcade ppq7 16384 c029cd34 f2f09fdb13920012a6a43958b640d7a06c0c8e69 epromboard 18000 good no
arcade ppq8 16384 fb3a1ac9 e8fe02c85e90320680a14ad560204d5c235730ad epromboard 1c000 good no
arcade ppq9 16384 5e944488 2f03f799c319309b5ebf9a5299891d1824398ba5 epromboard 20000 good no
arcade pps1 8192 a244a62d f7a9606ce6d66c3e6d210cc25572904aeab2b6c8 maincpu 0 good no
arcade pps2 8192 8a9a6653 b730b24088dcfddbe954670ff9212b7383c923f6 maincpu 2000 good no
arcade pps3 8192 15717fd8 ffbb156f417d20478117b39de28a15680993b528 banks 4000 good no
arcade pps4 8192 36540598 33c797c690801afded45091d822347e1ecc72b54 banks 6000 good no
arcade pps5 8192 8dc89a59 fb4d3ba40697425d69ee19bfdcf00aea1df5fa80 banks 8000 good no
arcade pps6 8192 5a2186c3 f706cef6518b7d839377aa8a7c75fdeed4985c57 banks a000 good no
arcade pps7 8192 f9c26aba 201b930cca9669114ffc97978cade69587e34a0f banks c000 good no
arcade pps8 8192 4d201e41 786b30cd7a7db55bdde05909d7a1a7f122b6e546 banks e000 good no
arcade pps9 8192 17a0b418 8b7ed84090dbc5181deef6f55ec755c05d4c0d5e maincpu c000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
Astrocade astrocade2 audio 1789772
Speaker rspeaker audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 1789772

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.74u2 [Nicola Salmoria]

0.37b1 [Testdriver]


Bugs:

- When profpac plays certain music cues (after getting a question right, for example) there's a really annoying high-frequency whine from both sound channels. Luigi30 (ID 02162)

- Professor Pacman not multisession friendly john_iv (ID 02163)


WIP:

- 0.123u6: Changed description to 'Professor Pac-Man'.

- 0.123u3: RansAckeR added DIP locations and improved dipwitches in Professor PacMan.

- 0.116: Aaron Giles fixed screen top/left cut off.

- 0.115u2: Changed visible area to 352x240.

- 0.115u1: Added 10x plds ($0 - 900, pls153a). Fixed cpu1/user1 rom loading. Changed Z80 CPU and 2x Astrocade clock speeds to 1789772 Hz, palettesize to 4096 colors and VSync to 60.054442 Hz.

- 0.108u3: Added 3x 'Unused' dipswitches.

- 11th January 2005: 3D ARCADE - New 3D cabinet model for Professor Pac-Man from btribble.

- 0.88u2: Improvements to Astrocade driver [Frank Palazzolo]. Professor PacMan works but fails 2 self-tests yet. Added NVRAM handling (still not working) and support stereo (Sounds great now!!). Fixed cpu1/user1 rom loading. Removed 8-way Joystick and changed to 3x button. Added dipswitches 'Reset on powerup', 'Halt on error', 'Beep', 'ROM' and 'Unknown'.

- 25th October 2004: Frank Palazzolo - The game is now working 100% as far as I can tell. I'm still messing around with getting the last two self-tests to pass, and cleaning up the driver.

- 0.74u2: Nicola Salmoria added 'Professor PacMan' (Bally Midway 1983).

- 0.37b1: Added (Testdriver) Professor PacMan.

- 29th March 2000: Nicola Salmoria added Professor Pacman to the driver (however it doesn't work at all).


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History


Arcade Video game published 36 years ago:

Professor Pac-Man (c) 1983 Bally Midway.

This is a multiple choice quiz game featuring Pac-Man as a professor.

- TECHNICAL -

Bally Midway Astrocade hardware
Game No. 573

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.789773 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Astrocade (@ 1.789773 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 204 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 256

Players : 2
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Professor Pac-Man was released in August 1983.

Midway thought they were on to the next big thing and planned to release software revisions every three months to keep people from memorizing the answers. Three software versions were planned: family (under 12), public (for bars, etc.) and prize (for casinos). Naturally, this game was almost an immediate flop and most operators only had it hanging around for as long as it took to get it shipped back to the distributor. Only 400 were ever made. It was programmed in FORTH language.

- STAFF -

Developer: David Nutting Associates

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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