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Quester (Japan)

  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
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Quester (Japan)
Name quester
Manufacturer Namco
Year 1987
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .036rc1
Romset size 836 KB
Romset file 11 files
Romset zip 141 B
Language Japanese
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Ball & Paddle

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

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

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
dial 0 255 30 15 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 288 224 60.606061 6144000 384 73 361 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade cus64-64a1.mcu 4096 ffb5c0bd 7a38c0cc2553c627f4ec507fb6e807cf7d537c02 mcu 0 good no
arcade qs1_c0.bin 131072 ca69bd7a 98130f06e3d7b480b76bf28a4e252b4aaa1e1b3e gfx2 0 good no
arcade qs1_c1.bin 131072 d660ba71 738d225c0e2b91c785fde0c33a0520a672933659 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade qs1_c2.bin 131072 4686f656 8628a18bf7154b8edaf7cfbee2d8881a28690bff gfx2 40000 good no
arcade qs1_c8.bin 65536 06730d54 53d79c27e2f1b192b1de781b6b5024eb1e8126ad gfx1 0 good no
arcade qs1_o0.bin 65536 e24f0bf1 31f37f853fe27c24cfeaa059f8959dfea37911cb gfx3 0 good no
arcade qs1_o1.bin 65536 e4aab0ca e4765dd369b02492dbb9955cc082f24665a01635 gfx3 20000 good no
arcade qs1_p5.bin 65536 c8e11f30 33589ceb723c3b3cfbe36d58ca9426d26bd28568 user1 280000 good no
arcade qs1_p7b.bin 65536 f358a944 317adf846c6dbf6d00b13020b5078e2263056f93 user1 380000 good no
arcade qs1_s0.bin 65536 c2ef3af9 aa0766aad450660e216d817e41e030141e8d1f48 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade qs1_v0.bin 65536 6a2f3038 00870da9b7f65536ff052c32da2d553f8c6b994b voice 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac1 audio
HD63701 mcu cpu 6144000
M6809 audiocpu cpu 1536000
Namco CUS30 namco audio 12000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2151 ymsnd audio 3579580

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.36RC1 [Vernon C. Brooks]


WIP:

- 0.140u3: taka-e added clone Quester Special Edition (Japan).

- 0.89: Added 'Level Select', 'Brightness' and 4x 'Unknown' dipswitches.

- 0.36RC1: Vernon C. Brooks added 'Quester (Japan)' (Namco 1987).

- 22nd February 2000: Vernon C. Brooks added Quester to the Namco System 1 driver.


LEVELS: 33


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History


Arcade Video game published 32 years ago:

Quester (c) 1987 Namco.

The player must move a paddle left and right across the bottom of the screen deflecting a ball to hit bricks. Some bricks contain special power-ups to enhance play

- TECHNICAL -

Namco System 1 hardware
Game ID : QS

Main CPU: 6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sub CPU: 6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound CPU: 6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
MCU: HD63701 (@ 1.536 Mhz)
Sound Chips: Yamaha YM2151 (@ 3.57958 Mhz), Namco advanced 8-channel stereo WSG, stereo DAC

Screen orientation: Vertical
Video resolution: 224 x 288 pixels
Screen refresh: 60.61 Hz
Palette colors: 24-bit RGB palette

Players: 2
Control: Dial
Buttons: 1

- TRIVIA -

Quester was released in September 1987 in the Japanese arcades. It represented at its time the Namco response to Taito's "Arkanoid".

Victor Entertainment released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Namco Video Game Graffiti Vol.4 - VDR-5282) on 08/03/1989.

- STAFF -

Game designer : Shinji Noguchi
Field designers : Toru Iwatani, Shinji Noguchi, Yukihiko Yagi
Graphic designers : Nobutaka Nakajima, Shinji Noguchi, Yukari Miyagi, Satoshi Norimatsu, Michiyo Yamashita
Title logo designer : Akira Usukura
Music composer : Shinji Hosoe
Game sequence : Kosei Matsuura
Device driver : Atsushi Yuhara
Sound driver : Junko Ozawa, Takatoshi Kobayashi
Hardware test : Hideto Yamazaki
PCB & chip designers : Toru Ogawa, Makoto Inoue, Tsutomu Fujita, Takao Okada, Kazukiyo Shinozaki
Control panel : Akira Ohsugi, Hiroyuki Kobayashi
Produced by : Toru Iwatani

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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