Checkmate | 1977

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Developer: Midway
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way)
Number of Players: 4
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Checkmate VGMuseum Game Endings
Checkmate on CAESAR
Checkmate high score and replay at MARP
Checkmate on datObase

Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry:
Checkmate (c) 1977 Midway.

Up to four players control a block which leaves a trail behind it. The object is to force the other player(s) to run into either the boundary or your trail.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : 615

Main CPU : Intel 8080
Sound Chips : Discrete circuitry

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 2

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick

- TRIVIA -

Released in January 1977.

- STAFF -

Designed and programmed by : Jay Fenton, Dave Nutting

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* Consoles :
Bally Astrocade (1978)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=444&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
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00000000 2027 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL1
00000001 2027 00000000 FFFFFFFF Set Score = 0 Now! PL1
00000901 2027 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL1
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00000000 2028 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL2
00000001 2028 00000000 FFFFFFFF Set Score = 0 Now! PL2
00000901 2028 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL2
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 2029 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL3
00000001 2029 00000000 FFFFFFFF Set Score = 0 Now! PL3
00000901 2029 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL3
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 202A 00000000 FFFFFFFF Score always = 0 PL4
00000001 202A 00000000 FFFFFFFF Set Score = 0 Now! PL4
00000901 202A 00000099 FFFFFFFF Select Score PL4

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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