0.61 [Angelo Salese]
0.35b4 [Nicola Salmoria]
SERVICE MODE:
- Keep P1 button 1 pressed during boot to have access to a wider range of options in service mode.
WIP:
- 0.178: Assume clone Power Spikes (Italian bootleg) to have OKIM6295 pin7 low [Angelo Salese].
- 0.164: Manual Assoni added clone Power Spikes (Italian bootleg).
- 0.148u5: ANY added clone Power Spikes (US). Added clone 1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg, set 2). Changed description of clone '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg)' to '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg, set 1)'.
- 0.145u5: R. Belmont added clone 1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg, set 2). This may actually be an svolley bootleg on spikes91 hardware (spikes91 is a pspikes bootleg), it's difficult to tell. Feel free to investigate if this interests you.
- 0.135u1: Corrado Tomaselli verified/changed clocks and VSync in Power Spikes. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 5MHz and VSync to 61.31 Hz.
- 0.125u3: David Haywood fixed missing text layer in clone '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg)' (changed visible area to 320x224).
- 0.125u2: David Haywood fixed clone '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg)' sprite colours without resorting to hacks - Game now playable.
- 0.124u3: Roberto Zandona fixed lookup table for sprites in clone '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg)'.
- 0.124u2: 1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg) improvements [Roberto Zandona]: Fix for sprite's y-coordinate. Implemented lookup table for convert sprite code in the real code. Fixed scroll and offset. Changed description of clone 'Pallavolo (Italian Power Spikes bootleg)' to '1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg)'. Renamed (pallavol) to (spikes91).
- 0.123u2: Removed 3rd coin slot. Added 2x 'Unused' dipswitches.
- 0.115u1: Roberto Fresca fixed Power Spikes PLD name typo.
- 0.114u1: Added pld ($0 - peel18cv8.bin).
- 0.113u3: Added clone Pallavolo (Italian Power Spikes bootleg).
- 28th February 2007: f205v dumped 1991 Spikes (Italian bootleg). This is a clone of "Power Spikes" with Italian language. It was rather famous here.
- 0.112u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Power Spikes (China).
- 8th February 2007: f205v dumped Power Spikes (China).
- 0.106u12: MASH added plds ($0, 200 - peel18cv8-1101a-u15.53 and peel18cv8-1103-u112.76) to clone Power Spikes (Korea).
- 0.98u3: Added 'Debug' dipswitch. Weisse Eins fixed some problems in Power Spikes bootleg.
- 0.95u3: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Power Spikes (bootleg).
- 4th February 2005: f205v dumped Power Spikes (bootleg).
- 0.61: Angelo Salese added Power Spikes (World). Renamed (pspikes) to (pspikesk).
- 20th May 2002: Angelo Salese added the World version to Power Spikes.
- 0.37b16: Changed visible area to 352x240.
- 31st July 2000: Guru - Dumped Power Spikes (Alt).
- 0.36b15: Added clone Super Volley '91 (Japan). Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', '2 Players Starting Score' and '2 Players Time per Credit'.
- 0.35b4: Nicola Salmoria added 'Power Spikes (Korea)' (Video System 1991).
- 21st February 1999: Nicola has added Power Spikes, which runs on the same hardware as Aero Fighters and Turbo Force.
- 21st February 1999: Malcor dumped Power Spikes (Korea).
LEVELS: 5
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
Recommended Games (Volleyball):
Tournament Table (Volleyball)
Joshi Volleyball
Spiker
Volley Ball (PlayChoice-10)
Ace Attacker
U.S. Championship V'ball
Super Volleyball
Super Volley ball (Tourvision PCE bootleg)
Power Spikes
Power Spikes II
Touch & Go
World Beach Volley
World Cup Volley '95
Beach Festival World Championship 1997
Winning Spike
Funky Ball
Beach Spikers
Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:
Power Spikes (c) 1991 Video System Company, Limited.
Export release. Game developed in Japan. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese release entry; "Super Volley '91"
- TECHNICAL -
Game ID : 9201-2024
PCB Number : OV-15-03 UA-67 MV
- TRIVIA -
* In the World version during a play with any team, you can see when you get a point the faces of Italy's Team which was the most titled volley's team in the World in the early 1990'.
ONE PLAYER MODE :
* In the World version you can select a lot of European Teams and Brazil's Team.
* In the Japanese and Korean version you can select respectively only the Japanese Team and the Korean Team.
* In the Japanese and Korean version you can also play with female players.
* In the World version you must defeat in order: China, Japan, USA, Cuba, U.S.S.R.
* In the Japanese and Korean version you must defeat in order: France, USA, Cuba, Italy, U.S.S.R (male mode), Germany, Peru, China, Cuba, U.S.S.R (female mode).
* In the Japanese and Korean version when you get a point, you will see face of the player who made the point and the statistics of this player after the point (like aces, winners spikes, etc...).
TWO PLAYERS MODE :
* In the World Version you can select the same teams like in one player mode but in the Japanese and Korean version you can select respectively the Japanese Team and the Korean Team and the Italian and the USA Team.
* In the Japanese and Korean version you can also play with female players.
A bootleg version was made by Playmark. Pcb layout, fonts on the pcb and components are the same as their original games. Eproms have stickers with their logo.
- SERIES -
1. Super Volleyball (1989)
2. Power Spikes (1991)
3. Power Spikes II (1994)
- PORTS -
* CONSOLES:
Super NES (1993, "Hyper V-Ball")
- CONTRIBUTE -
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