Vs. Ice Climber

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Vs. Ice Climber | 1984

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Units produced: Nintendo
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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Vs. Ice Climber VGMuseum Game Endings
Vs. Ice Climber on CAESAR
Vs. Ice Climber high score and replay at MARP
Vs. Ice Climber on datObase

MAME folder name: iceclimb

Display: raster 256x240 @ 60.00Hz (60.00 pixclock)
Sound: 1 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver vsnes.c:
Roms:

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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* FB Alpha

* JFF

* Raine


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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:
Vs. Ice Climber (c) 1984 Nintendo.

You are an Eskimo who wants to climb mountains. You can jump and break the ice, or splat monsters with a handily provided hammer. Bad weather will hamper your progress through 20 different scenarios. A fun platform game in 2 player mode, but pretty unimpressive in 1 player mode.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Zetex N2A03
Sound Chips : Zetex N2A03, DAC

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

The name of the blue Eskimo is Popo and the pink Eskimo is named Nana.

The Ice Climbers (Nana and Popo) were absent from the Nintendo world until their appearance as selectable fighters in Super Smash Brothers Melee (Nintendo GameCube). They both fight as a pair and have moves inspired by the original Ice Climber game. They also have a stage inspired by their game and in the Adventure mode, the Polar Bear and Topi appear as enemies/obstacles. The freezie appears in Super Smash Brothers Melee as an item/weapon.

- UPDATES -

In the US version, Topi (a seal) was replaced with the miniature Abominable Snowman, over concerns of animal cruelty (i.e., seal-clubbing).

- STAFF -

Programmer : Kazuaki Morita
Producer : Shigeru Miyamoto

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo NES [JP] (Jan. 30, 1985) "Ice Climber [Model HVC-IC]"
Nintendo Famicom Disk System (1988)
Nintendo GameCube (2001, "Animal Crossing" as an unlockable Bonus game)
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2002, "e-Reader Series")
Nintendo Game Boy Advance (2004, "Classic Nes Series")
Nintendo WII (2007, "Virtual Console")

* Computers :
NEC PC-8801 (1985)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=3104&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 0797 0000005C FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00100000 07FA 00009999 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00110000 07FE 00009998 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time (2/2)
20800000 CCC8 00000023 FFFFFFFF Invincibility Note - dropping down gaps still kills though.
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000
00000000 0020 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 0021 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file