crossbow: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Crossbow (c) 1983 Exidy.
Early first-person shoot'em up game with a dungeons and dragons feel about it. Features good speech and screams.
- TECHNICAL -
Exidy 440 hardware
Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.6224 Mhz)
Sound CPU : M6809 (@ 811.2 Khz)
Sound Chips : Custom (@ 50.7 Khz)
Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 256
Players : 1
Control : lightgun
Buttons : 1
- TRIVIA -
Released in October 1983. Crossbow is the first of Exidy's classic shoot'em up. It was also the first video game in history to completely use digitized sound and music.
Fadi Baroody holds the official record for this game with 21,654,300 points on Aug 1994 in Myrtle Beach, SC Wild-Rapids Water Park.
- STAFF -
Designed and programmed by : Larry Hutcherson, Vic Tolomei, Ken Nicholson
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari XEGS
* Computers :
Commodore C64 (1988 - Absolute Entertainment)
PC (1989 - Absolute Entertainment)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.35b4 [Aaron Giles]
Artwork available
SETUP/SERVICE MODE:
- Keep P1 button 1 pressed at boot to skip the checks.
- Keep start pressed to enter service mode.
WIP:
- 0.129u5: Aaron Giles fixed crash on "Crossing Bridge" stage in Crossbow.
- 11th February 2007: Mr. Do - We have a bezel for Crossbow.
- 0.35b4: Aaron Giles added Crossbow (version 2.0) (Exidy 1983).
- 20th February 1999: Aaron Giles has submitted the Exidy 440 driver (with Cheyenne, Clay Pigeon, Combat, Crossbow, Showdown and Whodunit).
- 11th February 1999: Aaron Giles has made preliminary support for Crossbow. This is the first true shooter game for MAME (Terminator 2 doesn't have freely movable guns), so Aaron has also added support for crosshairs (controlled by mouse). There still isn't sound and dipswitches are incorrect.
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:
- Insert coin(s) and press start button. Shoot a colored box to select your adventure path.
- Protect you friends from attack. Don't shoot your friends.
- To score points, shoot obstacles and enemy creatures.
- For bonus points and next level get friends safely through path.
LEVELS: 8
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Romset: 387 kb / 57 files / 274.7 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>Crossbow (version 2.0)</description> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="M6809" clock="1622400"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="M6809" clock="811200"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="custom" name="Exidy 440 CVSD" clock="50700"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="320" height="240" refresh="60.000000" pixclock="6489600" htotal="416" hbend="0" hbstart="320" vtotal="260" vbend="0" vbstart="240" /> |
| | | <input players="1" buttons="1" coins="2"> |
| | | | <control type="lightgun" minimum="0" maximum="255" sensitivity="70" keydelta="10"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="IN0" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="12" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="IN0" mask="48"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Normal" value="48" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="16"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="IN1" mask="15"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="3"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="7"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/2 Credits" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="11"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/2 Credits" value="6"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/3 Credits" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/4 Credits" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/3 Credits" value="5"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/2 Credits" value="10"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="15" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/4 Credits" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/3 Credits" value="9"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/4 Credits" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="14"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="13"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="12"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Free Play" tag="IN1" 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="unsupported" palettesize="256"/> |
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