MAWS - showing resource: citycon

title	City Connection (set 1)
set name	citycon
manufacturer	Jaleco
year	1985
genre	Platform (hof)
category	Platform / Run Jump (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	citycon.c
snapshots	PS: in game \| title \| scores / MW: in game / CT: in game \| title / EJ: in game zoom
rating	67.4% after 43 votes
clones	City Connection (set 2) Cruisin

colour emulation	good
palette	1664
display type	raster
orientation	horizontal
resolution	240x224
frequency	60.000000Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

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

cpu	M6809 @ 2.048MHz
cpu	M6809 @ 0.64MHz
audio	AY-3-8910A @ 1.25MHz
audio	YM2203 @ 1.25MHz

version added

.031

last change(s)

none since version .53

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
c10	16384	ae88b53c	citycon	dd12310bd9c9b93462446e8e0a1c853506bf3aa1
c11	32768	139eb1aa	citycon	c570e8ca1499f7ea61938e78c32c1cc3050ca2b7
c1	32768	1fad7589	citycon	2e626bbbab8cffe11ee7de3e56aa1871c29d5fa9
c4	8192	a6b32fc6	citycon	d99d5a527440e9a91525c1084b95b213e3b760ec
c12	8192	08eaaccd	citycon	a970381e3ba22bcdea6df2d31cd8a10c4b2bc413
c13	8192	1819aafb	citycon	8a5ffcd8866e09c5568879257384767d61796111
c9	32768	8aeb47e6	citycon	bb09dbe6b37e1bd02abf3024ac4d954c8f0e70f2
c8	16384	0d7a1eeb	citycon	60b8d4124ce857a248d3c41fdb050f11be58549f
c6	32768	2246fe9d	citycon	f7f8708d499bcbd1a583e1092b54425ad1105f94
c7	16384	e8b97de9	citycon	f4d1b7075f47ab4522c36281b97eaa02fe383814
c2	32768	f2da4f23	citycon	5ea1a51c3ac283796f7eafb6719d88356767340d
c3	16384	7ef3ac1b	citycon	8a0497c4e4733f9c50d576f632210b82497a5e1c
c5	8192	c03d8b1b	citycon	641c1eba334d36ea64b9293a20320b31c7c88858

marquee	citycon.png
flyer	citycon.png

info

0.31 [Mirko Buffoni]

NOTE:

When reaching 900.000 points the game "awards" you with infinite lives. This is a bug in the game's code. Bugfinder

Bugs:

I have noticed that one of the frames of the car jumping/changing directions seems to be out of order. It happens very seldom, and only when doing a certain tricky maneuver (sp?) where you're simulatenously jumping and changing directions. The order of images in this sequence does seem odd, and there's one image (3 frames long) where the car first turns around, the image flips nose to tail but the pieces are not flipped to match. The Dog (ID 00393)

WIP:

0.126u4: Fabio Priuli added diplocations for City Connection. Added 'Difficulty' dipswitch.
0.55: Replaced 1st YM2203 sound with AY-8910.
27th August 2001: Tatsuyuki Satoh added support for using AY8910 and YM2203 at the same time, making it possible to add correct sound in City Connection.
0.53: Changed palettesize from 640 to 1664 colors.
0.36b9: Changed clock speed of the 2x YM2203 to 1250000 Hz.
0.35b13: Nicola Salmoria added clone Cruisin (Kitkorp 1985).
0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone City Connection (set 2).
0.33b4: Dynamic palette support for games with >256 colors, not complete yet but good for many cases. Drivers who want to use it must first of all set up like the static palette ones (put the real number of colors in MachineDriver-> total_colors, etc.), and call palette_recalc() in vh_screenrefresh() before drawing anything. A color uage table must be passed to palette_recalc() so that the function knows which colors are needed. Drivers which use the new system, and therefore no longer run in 16-bit video modes: Black Tiger, City Connection, Gun Dealer and Ninja Gai Den [Nicola Salmoria].
0.33b3: Dani Portillo added hiscore save in City Connection.
0.31: Mirko Buffoni added City Connection (Jaleco 1985). In cocktail mode, player 2 uses the same controls as player 1. Maybe the port is multiplexed.

LEVELS: 12 (endless)

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Romset: 256 kb / 13 files / 109 zip

history

City Connection (c) 1985 Jaleco.

The player controls a small red car and must jump between platforms to colour them in as it drives over them. Oil cans can be collected and shot at the police, taxis, ambulances etc. that roam the levels. Flag waving cats must also be avoided.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : M6809 (@ 2.048 Mhz)

Sound CPU : M6809 (@ 640 Khz)

Sound Chips : AY8910 (@ 1.25 Mhz), YM2203 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 240 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 1664

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

The main sprite resembles a Honda City hatchback, which may explain the game's title.

The main character is a 15 year old girl named Clarice (Kurarisu) drives around the world in his love car (Clarice's car - Kurarisuka) looking for the ideal man. This explains the hearts after losing a life and the girl that appears every time you beat a level. Clarice's name appears at the bottom of the High score rankings.

Approximately 1,000 units were produced (based on serial number). Kitcorp licensed this title and sold it as "Cruisin'".

- PORTS -

* Consoles :

Nintendo Famicom (1988)

* Computers :

MSX (1986)

While there were only 2 official ports of City Connection, UK-based software house 'Core Design' released their own interpretation of the game called 'Car-Vup' in 1991, for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST home computers.

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=city-connection&page=detail&id=468&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 GameFAQs
view in KLOV
view in VGMuseum Gamepics

cheats

code	comments
00000000:001A:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000	Select Starting Stage:For the best effect enable before starting a game and it's best to turn this off after you've started to allow the game to loop back to level 1 after finishing level 12.
00190000:0002:00000000:00000000	1
00190000:0002:00000101:00000000	2
00190000:0002:00000202:00000000	3
00190000:0002:00000303:00000000	4
00190000:0002:00000404:00000000	5
00190000:0002:00000505:00000000	6
00190000:0002:00000606:00000000	7
00190000:0002:00000707:00000000	8
00190000:0002:00000808:00000000	9
00190000:0002:00000909:00000000	10
00190000:0002:00000A0A:00000000	11
00190000:0002:00000B0B:00000000	12
20800000:9B97:00000020:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility
20810000:A57E:00000020:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility (2/2):Pt 1 Cars, Pt 2 the Cat
00000001:0000:00000007:FFFFFFFF	Finish Stage Now!::It's a legal zero address!
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000
00000000:004C:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:00AE:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Oil PL1
00000000:004D:00000003:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL2
00000000:00AF:00000001:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Oil PL2