news: MAME ROM Information.
History:
News (c) 1993 Poby.
- TECHNICAL -
Main CPU : Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound Chips : OKI6295 (@ 8 Khz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 1
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2
- STAFF -
Programmed by : Kwang-Ho Cho
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.60 [David Haywood]
WIP:
- 0.136u4: Fabio Priuli added driver_data struct and save states to News.
- 0.131u1: Angelo Salese merged memory maps in News.
- 0.113: Ruben added DIP locations to News.
- 0.104u8: Ryan Ahn added clone News (set 2). Changed parent description to 'News (set 1)'.
- 0.60: David Haywood added News (Poby / Virus 1993). Note: The gfx data cointains pictures for both women and girls, however only the women seem to be used. Different ROM set, probably (there's a table at 0x253 containing the numbers of the pictures to use).
- 20th April 2002: Nicola Salmoria fixed the background graphics in News.
- 18th April 2002: David Haywood wrote a driver for News, complete with sound. Stephane Humbert updated the News and IQ Block drivers with correct inputs and dipswitch settings.
LEVELS: 1 (endless)
Other Emulators:
* CottAGE
* FB Alpha
* JEmu2
Romset: 800 kb / 4 files / 408.2 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="news" sourcefile="news.c"> |
| | | <description>News (set 1)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Poby / Virus</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="virus.4" size="32768" crc="aa005dfb" sha1="52f4dd399a30568851d43d052b83cfaa6682665d" status="baddump" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="virus.2" size="262144" crc="b5af58d8" sha1="5dd8c6ab8b53df695463bd0c3620adf8c08daaec" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="virus.3" size="262144" crc="a4b1c175" sha1="b1ac0da4d91bc3a3454ea80aa4cdbbc68bbdf7f1" region="gfx1" offset="1"/> |
| | | <rom name="virus.1" size="262144" crc="41f5935a" sha1="1566d243f165019660cd4dd69df9f049e0130f15" region="oki" offset="0"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="Z80" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="oki" name="OKI6295" clock="1056000"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="256" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <input players="1" buttons="2" coins="1"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="DSW" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSW" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Medium" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Helps" tag="DSW" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Copyright" tag="DSW" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Poby" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Virus" value="32"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="256"/> |
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