Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2)

Game infos

Parent and clones

Sound infos

Driver infos

Inputs infos

Controls infos

type	ways	minimum	maximum	sensitivity	keydelta	reverse
mouse		0	1023	100	2	no

Display infos

type	rotate	flipx	width	height	refresh	pixclock	htotal	hbend	hbstart	vtotal	vbend	vbstart
raster	0	no	384	280	60
raster	0	no	192	22	60

Configuration

name	tag	mask
Backdrop Color Name Black Value 0 Default yes Name Black (Alternate) Value 128 Default no Name Blue Value 144 Default no Name Cyan Value 176 Default no Name Green Value 160 Default no Name Half-Bright Blue Value 16 Default no Name Half-Bright Cyan Value 48 Default no Name Half-Bright Green Value 32 Default no Name Half-Bright Magenta Value 80 Default no Name Half-Bright Red Value 64 Default no Name Half-Bright White Value 112 Default no Name Half-Bright Yellow Value 96 Default no Name Magenta Value 208 Default no Name Red Value 192 Default no Name White Value 240 Default no Name Yellow Value 224 Default no	DEBUG	240
Force Backdrop Color Name Off Value 0 Default yes Name On Value 4 Default no	DEBUG	4
Plane A Disable Name Off Value 0 Default yes Name On Value 1 Default no	DEBUG	1
Plane B Disable Name Off Value 0 Default yes Name On Value 2 Default no	DEBUG	2

Roms list

console	name	bios	size	crc	md5	merge	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	cdi220b.rom		524288	279683ca		cdi220b.rom	53360a1f21ddac952e95306ced64186a3fc0b93e	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	cdic.bin		8192					cdic	0	nodump	no
arcade	quizard4_german_d8751.bin		4096	77be0b40			113b5c239480a2259f55e411ba8fb3972e6d4301	mcu	0	good	no
arcade	slave.bin		8192					slave	0	nodump	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
CD/DA	cdda	audio
DMA-driven DAC	dac2	audio
I8751	mcu	cpu	8000000
SCC68070	maincpu	cpu	15000000
Speaker	rspeaker	audio

Disks list

name	md5	sha1	merge	region	index	status	optional
quizard4r42		a5d5c8950b4650b8753f9119dc7f1ccaa2aa5442		cdrom	0	baddump	no

Serie

1. Quizard (v1.8) (1995)
2. Quizard (v1.0) (1995)
3. Quizard (v1.2) (1995)
4. Quizard (v1.7) (1995)
5. Quizard 2 (v2.3) (1995)
6. Quizard 2 (v2.2) (1995)
7. Quizard 3 (v3.4) (1995)
8. Quizard 3 (v3.2) (1996)
9. Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.0) (1997)
10. Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2) (1998)
11. Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.1) (1998)

Categories

• Added to Mame in version .138u3
• German
• Quiz

MAMEinfo

0.139u1 [Team Europe, The Dumping Union]

0.138u3 [ANY, The Dumping Union, Harmony]


CD-ROM required


WIP:

- 0.182: Added decapped dump of the d8751 for Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2) and clones [Team Europe]. Added I8751 (8MHz) CPU2 and quizard4_german_d8751.bin MCU rom.

- 27th December 2016: Team Europe - MCU decapping: A basically very interesting arcade system is Quizard from TAB Austria. This CD-I based quiz-system uses an Standard CD-I Player and an external Jamma-PCB which is connected to the CD-I Player over the serial port on the back of the Player. The Jamma PCB has an MCU (D8751H) as a copy protection on it and by starting the game, the CD-I player communicates over the serial port with the MCU. There are 4 different CD-Versions for the Quizard (1, 2, 3 and 4) and a couple of different revisions for each version. For example version 1 got 8 different revisions (1.0 to 1.7). To play a version you need the matching MCU for it! So to play any revision of version 1 you a need an MCU for version 1. The same goes for version 2, 3 and 4. So you can not play a version 1 CD with the MCU from version 4. As it's an austrian System, and i'm austrian too, i got very soon interested in finding some CD's for it and to get it included in MAME. Thx to the help of harmony, it was also possible to play some the games very shortly after! (http://harmoniouscode.blogspot.co.at/2010/10/quizard-22-patch-free.html). harmony got the Version 1 and 2 fully working, by hacking/patching the copy protection and without a dump of the MCU! Version 3 and 4 are bootable, but crash after you press START. So we tought, that the copy protections from version 3 and 4 are more complex and the game needs some other values from the MCU to get it fully working. 6 years fast forward... CAPS0ff (Blog here) is doing fantastic work with decapping MCU's and other stuff! And i nearly look daily on their blog to see if new magic happened! But i was also fascinated about the work they have done with the D8751 MCU's, and how it was possible to de-secure the lock bit! I got so fascinated that i had to try it myself, as i have a couple of D8751's for the Version 4 here. So basically no big deal if one get's broken. I used the following equipment: Galep5 Programmer (500eur), cheap digital Microscope (200x zoom) (25eur), Heat-Gun (30eur) and cheap China Eprom UV-Eraser (15eur). So basically cheap equipment... beside the programmer, but you can easily find cheaper ones which can also dump d8751's. So i heated the top of the TAB DE 142 D3 chip at about 330 degrees for about 20 seconds, and used a flat screwdriver to remove the top of the chip. Before i could erase the lock bit, i had to cover the eprom part with something, i did not have professional uv opaque material (like CAPS0ff), so i used electrical tape which i cut to the correct size. thx to the blog of CAPS0ff i basically knew were the lock bit is located. So the chip was now ready for the uv eraser! 15 minutes later i tried dumping it and voila i got consistent reads! --> and yes, the chip was locked before, only giving FF's when reading. Let's hope this will get the games running in MAME! We will see soon! For sure it's a good thing to have a dump of it, so basically now everyone can burn it's own MCU for version 4! This was a fun challenge and it proofs that it's possible to do decaps with cheap materials and equipment! But please don't try this with EXPENSIVE and RARE games\chips!!! There's just to much risc for destroying them! Leave them to professionals like the guys from CAPS0ff. Thx again to CAPS0ff, who basically inspired me for doing this!

- 0.164: Changed 'Quizard Rainbow 4.2' to 'Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2)', 'Quizard Rainbow 4.0' to clone 'Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.0)' and 'Quizard Rainbow 4.1' to clone 'Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.1)'. Renamed (quizrr42) to (quizard4), (quizrr40) to (quizard4_40) and (quizrr41) to (quizard4_41).

- 0.142u3: Team Europe added 'Quizard Rainbow 4.0' (TAB Austria 1997).

- 0.139u4: Harmony added incomplete protection patches to Quizard 3.2 and Quizard Rainbow 4.1; both now run through attract mode and coin up, but crash when going in-game.

- 11th October 2010: Harmony - With some additional finagling, I've managed to get both Quizard 1.2 and Quizard 1.7 to be fully playable by either one or two players, along with service mode. Additionally, the protection check patches were able to be made partially generic, enabling Quizard 3.2 and Quizard Rainbow 4.1 to boot, go into attract mode, and coin up without much hassle. Unfortunately, both of them have some sort of additional checks before they'll go in-game. I can patch them with an additional poke, but that ventures into even more hacky territory than I'd like.

- 0.139u1: Team Europe and The Dumping Union added 'Quizard Rainbow 4.2' (Disney 1998).

- 10th April 2010: Smitdogg - Team Europe has accumulated and dumped Quizard 1.2 01/95, 1.7 10/96, 2.2 03/95, 3.2 01/96, 4.1 06/98, and 4.2 09/98, and there is a driver for them currently being worked on.

- 1st August 2010: Smitdogg - Team Europe dumped Quizard Rainbow 4.2.

- 0.138u3: Luigi, Volker Hann and Team Europe added 'Quizard Rainbow 4.1' (Disney 1998). Harmony added a skeleton driver for Philips CD-i-based arcade series, Quizard.

- 13th March 2010: Smitdogg - Team Europe dumped a few revisions of Quizard.


Recommended Games:

Quizard (v1.8)

Quizard 2 (v2.3)

Quizard 3 (v3.4)

Quizard 4 Rainbow (v4.2)


CD-ROM: 584.1 MB (Compressed: 273.8)

History