MAWS - showing resource: bloxeedc

title	Bloxeed (World, C System)
set name	bloxeedc
manufacturer	Sega / Elorg
year	1989
genre	Puzzle (hof)
category	Puzzle / Drop (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	segac2.c
snapshots	PS: in game \| title \| select \| scores \| how to \| parent / MW: in game \| parent / CT: in game \| title \| select \| parent / Mr. Do: parent zoom
rating	72.4% after 20 votes
parent	Bloxeed (Japan, FD1094 317-0139)
other clones	Bloxeed (US, C System)

colour emulation	good
palette	2048
display type	raster
orientation	horizontal
resolution	256x224
frequency	60.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

players	2
nplayers	2P sim
controls	8 way joystick
buttons	1
coin slots	2

cpu	68000 @ 8.948862MHz
audio	YM3438 @ 7.670453MHz
audio	SN76496 @ 3.579545MHz

version added

.037b09

last change(s)

.057

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
epr12908.32	131072	fc77cb91	bloxeedc	248a462e3858ffdc171af7d806e57deecb5dae50
epr12907.31	131072	e5fcbac6	bloxeedc	a1adec5ef5574bff96a3d66619a24a6715097bb9
epr12993.34	131072	487bc8fc	bloxeedc	3fb205bf56f35443e993e08b39c1a08c13ca5e3b
epr12992.33	131072	19b0084c	bloxeedc	b3ba0f3d8d39a19aa66edb24885ea21192e22704

cabinet	bloxeed.png
marquee	bloxeed.png
control panel	bloxeed.png
flyer	bloxeed.png

info

0.37b9 [David Haywood, Aaron Giles]

0.36b2 [Andrew Prime]

TODO:

Wanted: 317-0140 EPM5032

NOTE:

The Bloxeed (C System) clones uses different hardware and sound.

WIP:

0.89u1: Thierry Lescot added 317-0139.key, dipswitches 'Price Type', 'Demo Sounds', 'Difficulty' and 'High Speed Mode' and fixed rom names - Game now playable.
24th November 2004: Thierry Lescot - Dumped the cpus from D.D.Crew (Europe, 4 Player), Ryukyu and Bloxeed (system18, japan).
0.84u5: Fabrice Arzeno added clone Bloxeed (US, C System).
18th March 2004: Charles MacDonald fixed Z80 clock (8.192 Mhz -> 8.00 MHz).
0.37b10: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 8192000 Hz and replaced YM2151 sound with 2x YM3438 (8MHz) and RF5C68 sound. Added dipswitches 'Coin A/B', '2 Credits to Start', 'Demo Sounds', 'Lives', 'Difficulty' and 'Time Adjust'.
0.37b9: David Haywood and Aaron Giles added Bloxeed (Sega 1990) and clone Bloxeed (C System) (Sega / Elorg 1989).
17th September 2000: David Haywood fixed some bugs in the Sega C2 driver so that Bloxeed, Borench, Poto Poto, Stack Columns and Zunzunkyou no Yabou now work.
0.36b2: Andrew Prime added Bloxeed (Sega 1990) (Testdriver).

Other Emulators:

Sega System C2

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Bloxeed

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Hot Blocks - Tetrix II

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Tetris (D.R. Korea)

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Tetris The Grand Master

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Block Out

Welltris

Romset: 712 kb / 9 files / 175.7 zip

history

Bloxeed (c) 1989 Sega.

A puzzle game. Gameplay is quite similar to "Tetris" but with some added twists.

- TECHNICAL -

Sega System C hardware

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8.948862 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM3438 (@ 7.670453 Mhz), SN76496 (@ 3.579545 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 2048

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 1

Another version runs on the Sega System 18 hardware.

- TRIVIA -

Mark Speath holds the official record for this game with 104,370 points on June 2, 2002.

- UPDATES -

The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.

The Sega System 18 version (released in 1990) has :

* Special effects on the title screen.

* An extra button to rotate counter-clockwise.

* Bug fixes (Level 2's background).

- PORTS -

* Consoles :

Sony PlayStation 2 (2006, "Sega Ages 2500 Series Vol.28 : Tetris Collection")

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Machine's picture.

Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=bloxeed&page=detail&id=295&o=2

resource links

view in MAWS
view in CAESAR
view high score and replay at MARP
view in Progetto EMMA (Italian)
view in arcade-history.com
view in arcade-history.com
view in GameFAQs
view in KLOV
view in System16
view in System16
view in The Arcade Flyer Archive

cheats

code	comments
00000000:FFF000:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
00100000:FFF32C:000003E7:FFFFFFFF	Maximum Lines PL1
00000000:FFC00C:00000000:FFFFFFFF	Manual Bind Mode PL1
00100000:FFF3AC:000003E7:FFFFFFFF	Maximum Lines PL2
00000000:FFC40C:00000000:FFFFFFFF	Manual Bind Mode PL2