Luca Elia MAMEWIP
Luca Elia has posted news regarding some of his workings for MAME, that might possibly appear in MAME V0.122u6, or later versions of MAME:
14 January 2008
- Another Italian Arcade Game
One of the few arcade games ever programmed in Italy has been uncovered, by the good guys over at Mame Italian Forum.
Here are some snapshots from Wheels Runner (1988?):
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It’s obviously a clone of Atari’s Championship Sprint (minus the upgradeable cars feature) and, while I won’t comment on its quality, it’s nice to have it preserved.
The hardware is fantland.c with a NEC V20 as main CPU, and a Z80 as sound cpu (in place of the usual 8088).
It is almost fully working, but I had to resort to a few hacks in the video emulation, that I’ll have to investigate further and implement properly.
Plus, it’s obviously trying to play the crash / hit sounds by driving two I/O ports, but not like DAC’s. Indeed, some other games on this platform use a custom sample player in place of the DAC’s, but in this case there are no sample roms. So that will require some more work.
Thanks to f205v & Mame Italia.
13 January 2008
- Horse Racing Game
This game by Coinmaster is called Internationl Toote (1998):
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It runs on seta.c hardware, but with an additional I/O board with two 6821’s and two 6850’s. The game does not currently work due to this board being used as protection. Though by patching the initial hardware tests, and the betting screen timer routine, you can get to the screens above.
Despite the 1998 copyright, it appears to be the German version (or bootleg) of an earlier “Horse Race” game (the I/O Board has 1993 on it), maybe the unemulated Seta’s Jockey Club.
The gameplay, controls and graphics are very similar to those in Dark Horse, (which in turn is a bootleg of Seta’s Jockey Club II).
Thanks to icronnya77.
