Manufacturers

Loading

X the Ball

  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
Download xtheball.zip (2.56 MB)
Snapshot

Game infos

Description X the Ball
Name xtheball
Manufacturer Rare
Year 1991
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 1P
Added to MAME .096
Romset size 2.56 MB
Romset file 8 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Sports

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 yes
Input tilt no
Input players 1
Input buttons
Input coins 3

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
trackball 0 255 100 10 yes

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 512 224 60.797665 10000000 640 114 626 257 24 248

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade aces18-hi.ic19 32768 5a682f92 ed77c02cbdcff9eac32760cee67e3a784efacac7 user1 1 good no
arcade aces18-lo.ic13 32768 c0e80004 d79c2e7301857148674fffad349c7a2a98fa1ee2 user1 0 good no
arcade xtb-1h.ic9 524288 9ce7785b 9a002ba492cdc35391df2b55dfe90c55b7d48ad1 user2 100001 good no
arcade xtb-1l.ic8 524288 df52c00f 9a89d780ad394b55ce9540a5743bbe571543288f user2 100000 good no
arcade xtb-2h.ic11 524288 50c27558 ecfb7d918868d35a8cde45f7d04fdfc3ffc06328 user2 200001 good no
arcade xtb-2l.ic10 524288 e2545a19 c2fe5adf7a174cec6aad63baa1b92761ef21d5a4 user2 200000 good no
arcade xtb-ic6.bin 262144 a3cc01b8 49d42bb17c314609f371df7d7ace57e54fdf6335 user2 0 good no
arcade xtb-ic7.bin 262144 8dfa6c1b a32940b3f9501a44e1d1ef1628f8a64b32aa2183 user2 1 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
Speaker speaker audio
TMS34010 maincpu cpu 40000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.96 [Aaron Giles]


Bugs:

- When the ball appears, only half of it fades in but the whole ball shows up when it's done fading. Luigi30 (ID 00806)


WIP:

- 0.160: Osso added save state support to X the Ball.

- 0.148u1: Reduced tag lookups in X the Ball [Phil Bennett].

- 0.124: Aaron Giles fixed video timing in X The Ball. Still don't know why it changed recently, but the new parameters reproduce the old values. Changed VSync to 60.797665 Hz.

- 0.123u3: Zsolt Vasvari and Mamesick fixed the DAC sound in X The Ball.

- 0.122u6: Changed TMS34010 CPU1 clock speed to 40MHz.

- 0.113u1: Changed visible area to 512x224.

- 0.96: Aaron Giles added 'X the Ball' (Rare 1991).

- 12th April 2005: Dumping Project - A Texas company has a working cabinet for Rare's "X The Ball" soccer-themed redemption game; this is the only copy I've ever seen. It's the last known undumped game by Rare, and is supposedly on "Battletoads" hardware; it shouldn't be too hard to emulate. They are willing to part out the boardset and let us rent and dump it for $400, with $200 to be refunded if we return it in working order. I grant you that this is an awful lot to spend for something we won't own, but the only alternative is to either buy the boardset outright and break up a working cab (which I think is a terrible thing to do with a game this rare) or to buy and ship the whole cab.


LEVELS: 1 (endless)


Recommended Games (Soccer):

Soccer (Ramtek)

Take 5 (PRO MATCH)

Fun Four (Soccer)

Tournament Table (Soccer I & Soccer II)

Atari Soccer

Dribbling

Exciting Soccer

Exciting Soccer II

Pro Soccer

Pro Soccer (DECO Cassette)

Indoor Soccer

Power Play

Tehkan World Cup

Vs. Soccer

Kick and Run

Dynamic Shoot Kyousou

Fighting Soccer

Kick Off

Last Striker / Kyuukyoku no Striker

Great Soccer (Mega-Tech)

Tecmo World Cup (Mega Play)

Tecmo World Cup '90

Tecmo World Cup '94

Tecmo World Soccer '96

Tecmo World Cup '98

Tecmo World Cup Millennium

World Championship Soccer (Mega-Tech)

World Trophy Soccer (Arcadia)

Football Champ

Super Football Champ

Formation Soccer - Human Cup '90 (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

Nintendo World Cup (PlayChoice-10)

World Soccer Finals

Power Eleven (Tourvision PCE bootleg)

Soccer Brawl

Big Striker

Seibu Cup Soccer

Super Sidekicks

Super Sidekicks 2 - The World Championship

Super Sidekicks 3 - The Next Glory

Super Soccer (Nintendo Super System)

Grand Striker

Grand Striker 2

Premier Soccer

Super Cup Finals

Taito Cup Finals

Dream Soccer '94

International Cup '94

J-League Soccer V-Shoot

Soccer Superstars

Super Visual Football: European Sega Cup

Taito Power Goal

V Goal Soccer

Virtua Striker

Virtua Striker 2

Virtua Striker 2 '98

Virtua Striker 2 '99.1

Virtua Striker 2 Ver. 2000

Virtua Striker 3

Virtua Striker 3 Ver. 2002

Virtua Striker 4

Virtua Striker 4 Ver.2006

Virtua Striker 2002

Five a Side Soccer

Goal! Goal! Goal!

Kick Goal

World PK Soccer

World PK Soccer V2

Back Street Soccer

Pleasure Goal

Prime Goal EX

The Ultimate 11

Versus Net Soccer

Capcom Sports Club (Soccer)

Libero Grande

Eleven Beat

Heat of Eleven '98

Neo-Geo Cup '98 - The Road to the Victory

World Kicks

Evolution Soccer

World Soccer Winning Eleven Arcade Game Style

World Soccer Winning Eleven Arcade Game 2003

World Club Champion Football Serie A

World Club Champion Football European Clubs

-

Goalie Ghost

Free Kick

Super Free Kick

X the Ball

PK Scramble

Power Kick (Japan)

Stone Ball

Kick '4' Cash

History


Arcade Video game published 27 years ago:

X The Ball (c) 1992 Rare, Limited.

- TECHNICAL -

A.C.E.S. 2 hardware

Main CPU : TMS34010 (@ 5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 512 x 222 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256

Players : 1
Control : trackball
Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

It was the first arcade game made by Rare, Ltd. Presented by Capcom.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=4213&o=2