Leprechaun

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Leprechaun | 1982

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Units produced: Tong Electronic
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way)
Number of Players: 2
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MAME folder name: leprechn

Display: raster 256x256 @ 59.20Hz (59.20 pixclock)
Sound: 1 channels

Emulated in MAME via driver gameplan.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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* 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:
Leprechaun (c) 1982 Tong Electronic.

The player controls a sleuth running through a forest, trying to get a Leprechaun's pot of gold. The pot of gold is randomly placed on the screen. When the pot of gold is touched, the player is taken to the next level. The Leprechaun chases the sleuth through the forest, trying to catch him. If he is caught, the player loses a life and starts over from the beginning of the level. After all lives are lost, the game ends. Should the Leprechaun reach the pot of gold first, it is then relocated to another forest. By touching the trees, the player's score increases, as does the value of the pot of gold. After each level and after every 30 seconds the Leprechaun's speed increases.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1.25 Mhz)
Sound CPU : MOS Technology M6502 (@ 1.5 Mhz)
Sound Chips : General Instrument AY8910 (@ 1.78975 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 256 pixels
Screen refresh : 57.00 Hz
Palette Colors : 16

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick

- TRIVIA -

Like Tugboat, this game was designed to try to tap in to the market of very young children by being non-violent and distributed in extra small kid-sized cabinates.

The game is exactly like Game Plan's "Pot of Gold". except the machine is only about three and a half feet high and the difficulty factor is set for children ages three to five.

Jean Baudin holds the official record for this game with 412,690 points on June 8, 2001.

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1377&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
20800000 8FA0 000000FF FFFFFFFF Invincibility - Player
20900000 901E 0000D710 FFFFFFFF Invincibility - Tree
00000000 028C 000000B4 FFFFFFFF Freeze Leprechaun
00010000 028D 0000009C FFFFFFFF Freeze Leprechaun (2/2)
00000000 0123 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 0134 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file