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Water Balls

  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
Download watrball.zip (2.75 MB)
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Game infos

Description Water Balls
Name watrball
Manufacturer ABM
Year 1996
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .100u3
Romset size 2.75 MB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 799 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Puzzle

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

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 0 no 384 240 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade rom1.bin 524288 7f88dee7 d493b961fa4631185a33faee7f61786430707209 oki 0 good no
arcade rom10.bin 524288 22a2a706 c7350a94a857e0007d7fc0076b44a3d62693cb6c sprites 180000 good no
arcade rom4.bin 131072 bfbfa720 d6d14c0ba545eb7adee7190da2d3db1c6dd00d75 maincpu 0 good no
arcade rom6.bin 131072 acff9b01 b85671bcc4f03fdf05eb1c9b5d4143e33ec1d7db maincpu 1 good no
arcade rom7.bin 524288 e7e5c311 5af1a666bf23c5505d120d81fb942f5c49341861 sprites 0 good no
arcade rom8.bin 524288 fd27ce6e a472a8cc25818427d2870518649780146e51835b sprites 80000 good no
arcade rom9.bin 524288 122cc0ad 27cdb19fa082089e47c5cdb44742cfd93aa23a00 sprites 100000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
OKI6295 oki audio 1000000
Speaker rspeaker audio

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.100u3 [David Haywood, Corrado Tomaselli]


WIP:

- 0.135u2: Fabio Priuli added driver data and save state support to Blomby Car driver.

- 0.126u4: Andrew Gardner merged memory maps in the Blomby Car driver.

- 0.122u6: Brian Troha added dipswitches and DIP locations for Water Balls. Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', 'Demo Sounds', 'Service Mode', 'Coin A/B', 'Unknown 1-2' and 5x 'Unused'.

- 0.100u3: David Haywood added 'Water Balls' (ABM 1996).

- 24th September 2005: David Haywood - I found a little time to add support for Water Balls, a strange and seemingly original puzzle game from ABM running on basically the same hardware as Blomby Car. Thanks to MAME Italian Forum for helping with this.

- 23rd September 2005: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Water Balls. The PCB has some empty sockets, maybe it was used for other games since it has no markings.


LEVELS: 30


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

History


Arcade Video game published 23 years ago:

Water Balls (c) 1996 ABM Electronics.

A "Puzzle Bobble" style game.

The players controls a comic mouse that controls a tiny fire old engine you must eject the water to catch the falling colors balls (you can also change the color) for then eject again to hit them with balls of the same color for complete the level.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound Chips : OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 384 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 768

Players : 2
Control : 8-way Joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

The initials input music is John Philip Sousa's 'Liberty Bell March' (also recognized as the Monty Python theme).

At the game over screen, 'Game over, man!' from the 1986 movie Aliens is played.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=4584&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

popotte________________________51.090
dark_kariya____________________43.580
hulkiii________________________29.410
jgabmurer______________________13.890