game
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title Vs. Excitebike
set name excitebk
manufacturer Nintendo
year 1984
genre Driving (hof)
category Driving / Race Bike (hof)
driver status good
driver source vsnes.c
snapshots MW: in game / CT: in game | title / EJ: in game
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rating

68.6% after 40 votes
 
clones Vs. Excitebike (Japan)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 512
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 1P
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu N2A03 @ 1.789772MHz
audio N2A03 @ 1.789772MHz
audio DAC
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data
version added .037b11
last change(s) .079u1
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
mds-eb4.1d  8192  7e54df1d  excitebk    38d878041976386e8608c73133040b18d0e4b9cd 
mds-eb4.1c  8192  89baae91  excitebk    6aebf13c415e3246edf7daa847533b7e3ae0425f 
mds-eb4.1b  8192  4c0c2098  excitebk    078f24ce02f5fb91d7ed7fa59aec8efbec38aed1 
mds-eb4.1a  8192  b9ab7110  excitebk    89e3bd5f42b5b5e869ee46afe4f25a1a17d3814d 
mds-eb4.2b  8192  80be1f50  excitebk    d8544b9a0a9d8719ab601fa9c68c4305385b14c7 
mds-eb4.2a  8192  a9b49a05  excitebk    c14706e6a5524f81e79c101e32deef9f3d60de3f 
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cabinet art
cabinet excitebk.png
marquee excitebk.png
control panel excitebk.png
flyer excitebk.png
PCB excitebk.png
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additional information
info 0.37b11 [Howie Cohen]

Bugs:
  • Colors are wrong (see Original thread / post, MAME Screenshots and PCB Screenshots). excitebk0118u5gre Mr. Do
WIP:
  • 0.81u9: Chack'n fixed rom names in clone (Japan).
  • 0.79u1: Fixed rom names.
  • 0.60: Changed description to 'Vs. Excitebike'.
  • 0.37b12: Added clone Excitebike (Japan). Added dipswitches 'Bonus', '1st Half Qualifying Time' and '2nd Half Qualifying Time'.
  • 0.37b11: Howie Cohen added Excitebike (Nintendo 1984).
  • 6th January 2001: Howie Cohen fixed several bugs in the VSNES driver and added RBI Baseball, VS Baseball and VS Mahjong.
  • 1st January 2001: Howie Cohen finally submitted the long awaited VSNES driver, with most of the games having correct colors and sound.
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Romset: 48 kb / 6 files / 30.9 zip
history Vs. Excitebike (c) 1984 Nintendo.

A dirt bike game.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : N2A03 (@ 1.789772 Mhz)
Sound Chips : N2A03 (@ 1.789772 Mhz), DAC (@ 1.789772 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 256 x 240 pixels
Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz
Palette colors : 64

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

- TRIVIA -

James Hillard holds the official record for this game with 398,730 points.

- SERIES -
  1. Excitebike (1984, Nintendo NES)
  2. Vs. Excitebike (1984)
  3. Excitebike 64 (2000, Nintendo 64)
  4. Excite Truck (2006, Nintendo Wii)
- STAFF -
  • Designer : Shigeru Miyamoto
- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Famicom Disk (1988)
Nintendo 64 (2000, "Excitebike 64") : unlockable extra.
Game Boy Advance (2002, "E-Reader" Series)
Game Boy Advance (2004, "Famicon Mini" Series)

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
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
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cheats
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code comments
00000000:0063:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00000000:03E3:00000000:FFFFFFFF  No Overheating
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