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title	Driving Force (Pac-Man conversion)
set name	drivfrcp
manufacturer	Shinkai Inc. (Magic Eletronics Inc. licence)
year	1984
genre	Driving (hof)
category	Driving / Race (chase view) (hof)
driver status	good
driver source	pacman.c
snapshots	MW: in game / CT: in game \| title / Mr. Do: artwork / PS: in game \| title \| scores zoom
rating	59.5% after 24 votes
clones	Driving Force (Galaxian conversion bootleg) Driving Force (Galaxian conversion)

colour emulation	good
palette	512
display type	raster
orientation	vertical
resolution	224x256
frequency	60.606061Hz

sound emulation	good
channels	mono

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

cpu	S2650 @ 1.536MHz
audio	SN76496 @ 3.072MHz

version added

.074u1

last change(s)

.075

roms

name	size	crc	set	sha1
drivforc.1	16384	10b59d27	drivfrcp	fa09f3b95319a3487fa54b72198f41211663e087
drivforc.2	16384	56331cb5	drivfrcp	520f2a18ebbdfb093c8e4d144749a3f5cbce19bf
drivforc.pr1	32	045aa47f	drivfrcp	ea9034f441937df43a7c0bdb502165fb27d06635
drivforc.pr2	256	9e6d2f1d	drivfrcp	7bcbcd4c0a40264c3b0667fc6a39ed4f2a86cafe

control panel	drivfrcp.png
flyer	drivfrcp.png

info

0.74u1 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]

Bugs:

Clones drivfrcg, drivfrcb: No crash sound (it's available, just not connected). Robbbert (ID 01595)

WIP:

0.109u4: Removed 2nd SN76496 sound and fixed SN76496 clock speed to 3072000 Hz.
0.93: Added 2nd SN76496 (512000 Hz).
0.81u4: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Driving Force (Galaxian conversion bootleg) with piggy-backed colour proms. Added the colour proms also to clone 'Driving Force (Galaxian conversion)'.
17th February 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli cleaned up the memory map for Driving Force.
0.75: Removed Namco sound.
0.74u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Driving Force (Galaxian conversion).
28th September 2003: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Driving Force (Galaxian conversion) to the Galaxian driver.
0.74u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Driving Force (Pac-Man conversion) (Shinkai 1984 (Magic Eletronics licence)).
22nd September 2003: Pierpaolo Prazzoli submitted an update to the Pac-Man driver, adding a few S2650 CPU based games such as Driving Force, Porky (decrypted by Peter Storey) and Eight Ball Action (conversion on Pac-Man hardware, decrypted by Dave Widel).

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Romset: 33 kb / 4 files / 15.4 zip

history

Driving Force (c) 1984 Shinkai.

An early chase-view racing game.

- TECHNICAL -

* "Pac-Man" conversion :

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 1.536 Mhz)

Sound Chips : SN76496 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 16

Players : 1

Control : 2-way joystick

Buttons : 2

* "Galaxian" conversion :

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : Tone generator, discrete circuits

Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 64

Players : 1

Control : 2-way joystick

Buttons : 2

- TRIVIA -

Licensed to Magic Electronics.

A bootleg was released in 1985 by Elsys Software.

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=driving-force&page=detail&id=715&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 The Arcade Flyer Archive

cheats

code	comments
00000000:1D76:00000099:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
00000000:1D7A:00000099:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Time
20800000:24BB:0000001B:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility
20910000:415C:00001E1B:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility (2/2):1st = Car, 2nd = Wall