Puzzle Star (Sang Ho Soft)

Game infos

Sound infos

Driver infos

Inputs infos

Controls infos

type	ways	minimum	maximum	sensitivity	keydelta	reverse
joy	8					no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	270	no	543	465	59.922749	21477272	684	0	543	524	10	475

Dipswitchs

• Coinage
  • 1 Coin/1 Credit
  • 1 Coin/2 Credits
  • 2 Coins/1 Credit
  • 3 Coins/1 Credit
• Difficulty
  • Easy
  • Hard
  • Hardest
  • Normal
• Display Numbers on Tiles
  • Off
  • On
• Unknown
  • Off
  • On

Roms list

console	name	bios	size	crc	md5	merge	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	rom01.bin		131072	0b327a3b			450fd27f9844b9f0b710c1886985bd67cac2716f	user1	0	good	no
arcade	rom02.bin		131072	dc859437			e9fe5aab48d80e8857fc679ff7e35298ce4d47c8	user1	20000	good	no
arcade	rom03.bin		131072	f92b5624			80be9000fc4326d790801d02959550aada111548	user1	40000	good	no
arcade	rom04.bin		131072	929e7491			fb700d3e1d50fefa9b85ccd3702a9854df53a210	user1	60000	good	no
arcade	rom05.bin		131072	8c6f71e5			3597b03fe61216256437c56c583d55c7d59b5525	user1	80000	good	no
arcade	rom06.bin		131072	84599227			d47c6cdbf3b64f83627c768059148e31f8de1f36	user1	a0000	good	no
arcade	rom07.bin		131072	6f64cc35			3e3270834ad31e8240748c2b61f9b8f138d22f68	user1	e0000	good	no
arcade	rom08.bin		131072	18d2bfe2			cb92ee51d061bc053e296fcba10708f69ba12a61	user1	c0000	good	no
arcade	rom09.bin		131072	19a31115			fa6ead5c8bf6be21d07797f74fcba13f0d041937	user1	100000	good	no
arcade	rom10.bin		131072	c003328b			5172e2c48e118ac9f9b9dd4f4df8804245047b33	user1	120000	good	no
arcade	rom11.bin		131072	d36c1f92			42b412c1ab99cb14f2e15bd80fede34c0df414b9	user1	140000	good	no
arcade	rom12.bin		131072	baa82727			ed3dd1befa615003204f903472ef1af1eb702c38	user1	160000	good	no
arcade	rom13.bin		131072	8b4b6a2c			4b9c188260617ccce94cbf6cccb45aab455af09b	user1	180000	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
Speaker	mono	audio
YM2413	ymsnd	audio	3580000
Z80	maincpu	cpu	8000000

Categories

• Added to Mame in version .106u06
• Puzzle
• Sliding * Mature *

MAMEinfo

0.106u6 [David Haywood, Tomasz Slanina]


WIP:

- 0.152: Angelo Salese and Wilbert Pol fixed Puzzle Star (Sang Ho Soft) - Game now playable. Kludged Puzzle Star hang at title screen [Angelo Salese].

- 0.146u5: Changed palettesize to 19268 colors.

- 0.145u7: Brian Troha filled in some dipswitches for Puzzle Star and added DIP locations. Added 'Difficulty' and 'Coinage' dipswitches.

- 0.139u1: Mariusz Wojcieszek improved memory banking in Puzzle Star (Sang Ho Soft).

- 0.106u7: Improvements to the Sang Ho driver, making them somewhat playable [David Haywood, Tomasz Slanina]. Added YM2413 (3580000 Hz) sound. Changed visible area to 480x544 and palettesize to 512 colors. Added 2 Player and 8-way Joystick. Added dipswitches 'DIPS', 'Display Numbers on Tiles' and 3x 'Unknown'. Changed description to 'Puzzle Star (Sang Ho Soft)'.

- 0.106u6: David Haywood and Tomasz Slanina added 'Puzzle Star? (Sang Ho)' (Sang Ho Soft 1991).

- 12th June 2006: Tomasz Slanina - Preliminary Sexy Boom / Puzzle Star driver. Haze made a skeleton driver and mapped inputs. I've hooked up the v9938 vdp (taken from MESS) and sound. Both games dispalys "something", but rombanking is still unknown( Sexy Boom writes to ports in range $f8-$fe (similar to msx2), puzzle star use port $91). Game hardware is based on MSX2 but differs in many places.

- 11th June 2006: David Haywood - Sang Ho Soft's Puzzle Star (and Sexy Boom) may be based on reproduction MSX hardware, but again they are probably protected. The PCB has a battery backed ATT3030 FGPA chip labaled 'Warning ! No Touch' Once the battery is dead the PCB dies too, and most of the PCBs we've seen have been dead. The problem is we don't know what to do with it, we don't know if that chip simply controls their video hardware, or runs the main game. Until progress is made with the emulation this worrying situation remains. It might not even be based on MSX hardware, even that remains a guess for now. Dox has expressed an interest at looking at this further so I wish him the best of luck in figuring it out, and for now I'll keep hoping that we don't need anything extra from the PCBs.


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