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Speed Coin (prototype)

  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 Speed Coin (prototype)
Name spdcoin
Manufacturer Stern Electronics
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .035b08
Romset size 17 KB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 9 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Puzzle

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

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 no
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 2 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 768 224 60.606061 18432000 1152 0 768 264 16 240

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade spdcoin.2c 4096 65cf1e49 a4570f0d7868fcdd378de3fd9e5346780afcf427 maincpu 0 good no
arcade spdcoin.2e 4096 1ee59232 b58c1de69d33cf80432012b9b6d8b1e3d8b00662 maincpu 1000 good no
arcade spdcoin.5c 2048 b4cf64b7 a95d94be2e374b78b4ba49b6931f0c214ff9d033 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade spdcoin.5d 2048 92304df0 01471bf7cbea0090933a253b1b46f80c8f240df5 audiocpu 800 good no
arcade spdcoin.5f 2048 dd5f1dbc e7c40972a7530cac19ce04de3272244959d337ab gfx1 0 good no
arcade spdcoin.5h 2048 ab1fe81b 98057932cb5faad60d425b547590ab22bfc67ff6 gfx1 800 good no
arcade spdcoin.clr 32 1a2ccc56 58bedaa8b3e21e916295603b38529084b6c0099a proms 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A 8910.1 audio 1789772
DISCRETE konami audio
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 1789772

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.35b8 [Frank Palazzolo]


Bugs:

- Very low sound. MASH (ID 03783)


WIP:

- 0.137u2: Stephane Humbert fixed dipswitches and inputs (after verification of the Z80 code) in Speed Coin.

- 0.125u5: Couriersud moved Speed Coin to the Galaxian driver. This fixed the bad sound and background color. Added Discrete sound. Changed visible area to 224x768 and palettesize to 32 colors.

- 25th May 2005: Frank Palazzolo - As far as I know, I'm the only one with a Speed Coin cabinet. It's definitely a prototype, as the cabinet is made of nice plywood and not particle board. Also, the marquee and control panel are made of colored paper, colored electrical tape, and a blown-up xerox copy of a coin face. My understanding is that it came from Stern when it shut down. The boardset is a Scramble, with hand-labelled ROM chips inside. Also, the wiring harness is different, since it only requires a 2-way joystick. When I went to plug this into the Scramble driver in MAME (back in 1999!), I was stymied by the fact that the background was blue in MAME, but black on the "real thing". I traced through the PCB only to find that the monitor was adjusted with the blue gun turned off! When I adjusted it, it matched MAME exactly. In case you are wondering about the sound, the music sounds kind of muted and noisy on the real thing, just like in MAME. Last year, I was stunned to play Speed Coin in an arcade in Nashville, Tennessee. It turns out the Ultracade guys added that game to their Multigame system, under "Arcade Classics"?!. I'm sure they used the ROM images I dumped in my basement, and here it was on a machine in another city. Pretty strange feeling. I really don't think it's a classic. More like "Arcade Relics".

- 0.59: Added dipswitches 'Free Play' and 'Difficulty'.

- 0.53: Changed palettesize to 99 colors.

- 0.37b16: Changed input to 1 player and 8-way Joystick.

- 0.35b8: Frank Palazzolo added 'Speed Coin (prototype)' (Stern 1984).

- 17th March 1999: Frank Palazzolo added Speed Coin prototype to Super Cobra driver.

- 25th October 1998: Dumped Speed Coin (prototype).


LEVELS: 8 (endless)


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* FB Alpha

* VAntAGE


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Speed Coin (c) 1984 Stern Electronics.

The objective is to roll the coin to the bottom of the screen and through the hole at the bottom by tilting the coin's platform. This must be done without breaking the coin, and within the shortest time possible. If this is done above certain times, the player gets a bonus multiplier (either 4, 2, or 1) depending on which of the 3 times the player's finishing time is above or equal to. It seems simple, but is super addictive and really fun to play with a group of people.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical
Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz
Palette colors : 99

Players : 2
Control : 2-way joystick

- STAFF -

Game concept by : Thomas Baron
Programmed by : Keith Enge

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

trb_metroidteam_____________1.922.950
sawys_________________________603.000
nicky634_______________________82.300