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pinguinos: MAME ROM Information.


MAME Info:

0.01 [Nicola Salmoria, Sergio Munoz, Allard van der Bas]


Artwork available (pengo, penta)


WIP:

- 0.141u3: hap fixed Player 2 cocktail graphics are offset in Pengo.

- 0.139u1: Atari Ace removed global variables from NAMCO sound core.

- 0.138u1: Tafoid added DIP locations to Pengo.

- 26th July 2008: Mr. Do - Funny story. Tormod sent me a BUNCH of instruction cards a long time ago. You've probably been seeing them added in every so often. Well, around July of last year, I had completed a whole bunch of them, but then had a computer crash, and they ended up on the "spare" hard drive by mistake. I found them again going through a cleanup. So thanks to Tormod, this week we have Penta.

- 0.115u4: Lord Nightmare fixed Pengo to explicitly use the SN76489 now that it behaves differently from the SN76496. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 3072000 Hz.

- 0.113u1: Fixed rom names in clone Pengo (set 2 not encrypted).

- 24th December 2006: Mr. Do - Thanks to the loan by Vintage Arcade Superstore and top-of-the-line restoration by Addy, we have Pengo bezel.

- 0.94u4: Shimapong fixed ROM loading in clones pengo3u, pengo4 and penta.

- 0.93: Added clock parameter to Namco sound (96000 Hz).

- 0.91: smf fixed Pengo (was broken in 0.90u4).

- 0.88u4: smf added clone Jr. Pac-Man (Pengo hardware).

- 0.88u2: Gerald fixed rom names in Pengo (set 4).

- 0.87u2: MASH added clone Pengo (set 4).

- 0.73: Added clone Pengo (set 3 not encrypted). Changed parent description to 'Pengo (set 1 rev c)'. Fixed rom names in Pengo (set 1 rev c).

- 0.60: Added clone Pengo (bootleg).

- 0.37b12: Changed VSync to 60.606060Hz.

- 0.34b1: Added sound and color proms ($0, 20). Changed description of clone 'Pengo (set 2 unencrypted)' to 'Pengo (set 2 not encrypted)'.

- 0.33b7: Tim Lindquist added clone Pengo (set 2). Changed parent description to 'Pengo (set 1)' and clone 'Pengo (alternate)' to '(set 2 unencrypted)'. Renamed (pengoa) to (pengo2u).

- 0.31: Gerrit Van Goethem added high score saving to Pengo (alternate).

- 0.28: Rewritten the decryption routines in Pengo [Nicola Salmoria]. Merged Pengo and Pac Man vidhrdw [Nicola Salmoria].

- 0.27: Thanks to Gary Walton, speed in Pengo should now be closer to the original [Nicola Salmoria]. The unencrypted versions of Penta and "pengopop" are no longer supported because they are just hacks, not coming from a real board. The *original*, *encrypted* versions are now supported instead. They are exactly the same, the only difference is that they are encrypted and come from real boards. The names now are: "pengo" original Pengo with "PopCorn" music, "pengoa" alternate version (earlier) with different music and no slow screen draw and "penta" the bootleg called Penta.

- 31st July 1997: Gary Walton dumped Pengo (set 1 rev c).

- 0.26: Added clones 'Pengo Popcorn Music' and 'Pengo (alternative version)'.

- 0.15: Brad Oliver deserves a prize for being the person who, alone, has discovered more bugs than everyone else put together. This time the bug was illegal memory acesses in games using 224x288 and 288x224 modes (Pengo, Pac Man, Rally X).

- 0.13: Nicola Salmoria added high score saving to Pengo.

- 0.02: Added clone Penta (bootleg 1982).

- 0.01: Nicola Salmoria added Pengo (Sega 1982). Game is playable with accurate colors and sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Push, F1 = Skip level and F2 = Test mode. Very special thanks to Sergio Munoz for the precious information about the Pengo sound hardware and colors.


LEVELS: 99 (endless)


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* FB Alpha

* JAE

* Raine

* Sparcade

* VAntAGE


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Pengo

Dacholer

Dommy

Guzzler

Kick Boy

Mr. Jong

Rock Duck

Scrambled Egg

Pirate Ship Higemaru

Rumba Lumber

Toypop

Kitten Kaboodle

Meikyu Jima

Yam! Yam!?

Poizone

Three Wonders - Don't Pull Puzzle

Mr. Kicker


Romset: 50 kb / 14 files / 27.8 zip