gridlee: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Gridlee (c) 1983 Videa.
An early shoot 'em up game in which you exist on a plane that disappears into the horizon. You move on a small grid, catching balls, avoiding the grid squares that have been touched by the bad guys, and shooting the bad guys when they are in the air.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.25 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 1.25 Mhz), Samples
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2048
Players : 2
Control : trackball
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Originally named 'Pogoz', this prototype was never released. The game was put out on field test and did poorly, so Gottlieb decided not to build it. Only one unit was built.
Videa was started in November of 1981 as a video game development company. Around that time were 'Gridle' was submitted and refused by Gottlieb, the assets of Videa (but not the corporate entity) were acquired by Pizza Time Theater. The new corporation, formed from the combination of the existing Pizza Time engineering department and the employees of and assets of Videa, was named 'Sente Technology'.
The former principles of Videa, Ed Rotberg, Roger Hector, and Howard Delmann, gave the developers of MAME permission to add the game and freely distribute it. The game code remains copyrighted and owned by the three men.
- SCORING -
Red ball : 100 points.
Green ball : 500 points.
Shinning ball : 1,000 points.
Yumperz : 200 points.
Fergies : 400 points.
Igor : 500 points.
- STAFF -
Programmed by : Ed Rotberg
Video graphics by : Roger Hector
Sound by : Howard Delman
Technician : Paul Brandt
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.37b16 [Aaron Giles]
Samples required
NOTE:
- Gridlee is a game that was never released. It was developed by Videa, Inc. in 1982, on hardware designed by Howard Delman. Videa was eventually acquired by Pizza Time Theater and formed the core of their new Sente Technologies division. The hardware that Gridlee ran on evolved into the Bally/Sente SAC I system, which provided a cartridge-based arcade gaming platform. Thanks to the kind generosity of the three co-founders of Videa -- Howard Delman, Ed Rotberg, and Roger Hector -- the original PROM images from the only existing Gridlee machine have been made available for free, non-commerical use. The ROMs were dumped from the only known existing prototype, owned by Dale Luck.
WIP:
- 0.131u1: MooglyGuy merged memory maps in Gridlee.
- 0.129u4: Changed Custom sound to Gridlee Custom.
- 0.129: MooglyGuy removed anonymous timers from Gridlee and added savestate support.
- 0.116u2: Zsolt Vasvari fixed regressions in Gridlee.
- 0.113u2: Zsolt Vasvari updated Gridlee and Bally/Sente driver to use new video timing code and raw screen parameters. Changed VSync to 59.185606 Hz.
- 0.58: Added Custom and Samples sound (bounce1 and bounce2.wav - partial).
- 0.37b16: Aaron Giles added Gridlee (Videa 1983). Analog sound hardware is unemulated.
- 25th May 2001: Aaron Giles sent a driver for Gridlee.
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:
- Catch as many balls as you can.
- Shoot opponents as they pass overhead (watch their shadows).
- Avoid the charged squares YUMPERZ and FERGIES.
- Watch out for IGOR. He gums up your grid.
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Romset: 46 kb / 13 files / 24.5 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="gridlee" sourcefile="gridlee.c" sampleof="gridlee"> |
| | | <description>Gridlee</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Videa</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnla.bin" size="4096" crc="1c43539e" sha1="8b4a6f5c2c22bb021937157606d2129e2b01f718" region="maincpu" offset="a000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnlb.bin" size="4096" crc="c48b91b8" sha1="651210470ddf7c14f16f6c3046a9b8e903824ab8" region="maincpu" offset="b000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnlc.bin" size="4096" crc="6ad436dd" sha1="f393b63077f249d34a8e85649aea58b27a0425b1" region="maincpu" offset="c000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnld.bin" size="4096" crc="f7188ddb" sha1="eeb3f7dd8c61689cdd9992280ee1b3b5dc79a54c" region="maincpu" offset="d000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnle.bin" size="4096" crc="d5330bee" sha1="802bb5705d4cd22d556c1bcbcf730d688ca8e8ab" region="maincpu" offset="e000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridfnlf.bin" size="4096" crc="695d16a3" sha1="53d22cbedbedad8c89a964b6a38b7075c43cf03b" region="maincpu" offset="f000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridpix0.bin" size="4096" crc="e6ea15ae" sha1="2c482e25ea44aafd63ca5533b5a2e2dd8bf89365" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridpix1.bin" size="4096" crc="d722f459" sha1="8cad028eefbba387bdd57fb8bb3a855ae314fb32" region="gfx1" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridpix2.bin" size="4096" crc="1e99143c" sha1="89c2f772cd15f2c37c8167a03dc4c7d1c923e4c3" region="gfx1" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="gridpix3.bin" size="4096" crc="274342a0" sha1="818cfd4132183d922ff4585c73f2cd6e4546c75b" region="gfx1" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <rom name="grdrprom.bin" size="2048" crc="f28f87ed" sha1="736f38c3ec5455de1266aad348ba708d7201b21a" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="grdgprom.bin" size="2048" crc="921b0328" sha1="59d1a3d3a90bd680a75adca5dd1b4682236c673b" region="proms" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="grdbprom.bin" size="2048" crc="04350348" sha1="098fec3073143e0b8746e728d7d321f2a353286f" region="proms" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="M6809" clock="1250000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="gridlee" name="Gridlee Custom"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="samples" name="Samples"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="256" height="240" refresh="59.185606" pixclock="5000000" htotal="320" hbend="0" hbstart="256" vtotal="264" vbend="16" vbstart="256" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="1" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="trackball" minimum="0" maximum="255" sensitivity="20" keydelta="8" reverse="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="IN1" mask="48"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="16"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="8000 points" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="10000 points" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="12000 points" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="14000 points" value="3"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="12"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Free Play" tag="DSW" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="16"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="DSW" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="32"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Reset Hall of Fame" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="No" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Yes" value="64"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Reset Game Data" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="No" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Yes" value="128"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="IN2" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="2048"/> |
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