game
icon
title Exciting Soccer
set name exctsccr
manufacturer Alpha Denshi Co.
year 1983
genre Sports (hof)
category Sports / Soccer (hof)
driver status good
driver source champbas.c
snapshots MW: in game / CT: in game | title | select / EJ: in game / PS: in game | title | scores
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rating

67.2% after 24 votes
 
clones Exciting Soccer (alternate music)
Exciting Soccer (bootleg)
display
colour emulation good
palette 512
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x256
frequency 60.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu Z80 @ 4MHz
cpu Z80 @ 4.123456MHz
cpu ALPHA-8301 @ 0.384MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz
audio AY-3-8910A @ 1.5MHz
audio DAC
audio DAC
data
version added .034b07
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
1_g10.bin  8192  aa68df66  exctsccr    f10cac5a4c5aad1e1eb8835174dc8d517bb2921a 
2_h10.bin  8192  2d8f8326  exctsccr    8809e7b081fa2a1966cb51ac969fd7b468d35be0 
3_j10.bin  8192  dce4a04d  exctsccr    9c015e4597ec8921bea213d9841fc69c776a4e6d 
0_h6.bin  8192  3babbd6b  exctsccr    b81bd47c4449f4f21f2d55d01eb9cb6db10664c7 
9_f6.bin  8192  639998f5  exctsccr    c4ff5e5e75d53dea38449f323186d08d5b57bf90 
8_d6.bin  8192  88651ee1  exctsccr    2052e1b3f9784439369f464e31f4a2b0d1bb0565 
7_c6.bin  8192  6d51521e  exctsccr    2809bd2e61f40dcd31d43c62520982bdcfb0a865 
1_a6.bin  4096  20f2207e  exctsccr    b1ed2237d0bd50ddbe593fd2fbff9f1d67c1eb11 
4_a5.bin  8192  c342229b  exctsccr    a989d6c12521c77882a7e17d4d80afe7eae05906 
6_c5.bin  8192  eda40e32  exctsccr    6c08fd4f4fb35fd354d02e04548e960c545f6a88 
5_b5.bin  8192  35f4f8c9  exctsccr    cdf5bbfea9abdd338938e5f4499d2d71ce3c6237 
2_k5.bin  4096  7f9cace2  exctsccr    bf05a31716f3ca1c2fd1034cd1f39e2d21cdaed3 
3_l5.bin  4096  db2d9e0d  exctsccr    6ec09a47f7aea6bf31eb0ee78f44012f4d92de8a 
prom1.e1  32  d9b10bf0  exctsccr    bc1263331968f4bf37eb70ec4f56a8cb763c29d2 
prom3.k5  256  b5db1c2c  exctsccr    900aaaac6b674a9c5c7b7804a4b0c3d5cce761aa 
prom2.8r  256  8a9c0edf  exctsccr    8aad387e9409cff0eeb42eeb57e9ea88770a8c9a 
cabinet art
flyer exctsccr.png
additional information
info 0.34b7 [Ernesto Corvi, Jarek Parchanski]

WIP:
  • 0.126u1: Nicola Salmoria merged Exciting Soccer driver into Champion Base Ball driver. Changed ALPHA-8301 CPU3 clock speed to 384000 Hz. Fixed proms rom loading.
  • 0.123u6: Fixed gfx1/2/3 rom loading. Switched clone Exciting Soccer (bootleg) to use the correct gfx ROMs (matches screenshot found in ID 01058 exctsccb: Exciting Soccer bootleg should be placed in champbas.c.).
  • 0.123u1: Changed palettesize to 384 colors.
  • 0.104u8: Tatsuyuki Satoh added emulation of the Alpha 8201/8301 MCU and connected it to Exciting Soccer. Added ALPHA-8301 (500000 HZ) CPU3.
  • 0.35b11: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4123456 Hz.
  • 0.35b10: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4001000 Hz.
  • 0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone Exciting Soccer (alternate music).
  • 0.34b8: Jarek Parchanski added hiscore save in Exciting Soccer.
  • 0.34b7: Ernesto Corvi and Jarek Parchanski added Exciting Soccer (Alpha Denshi 1983) and clone (bootleg) (Kazutomi 1984). Issues: The song that should be played during the match is selected through the Alpha MCU. The bootleg mutilated the audio part, so information about this table is not available. Cocktail mode is unsupported. Sprites colors/banking?
LEVELS: 5 (endless)

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Romset: 93 kb / 16 files / 58.1 zip
history Exciting Soccer (c) 1983 Alpha Denshi.


An early soccer game.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 4 Mhz), Z80 (@ 4.123456 Mhz), ALPHA-8301 (@ 500 Khz)

Sound Chips : (4x) AY8910 (@ 1.5 Mhz), (2x) DAC (@ 1.5 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


A Japanese bootleg of this game was released in 1984.


Exciting Soccer music is a copy of an instrumental rock and roll ('Tequila', as played by The Champs).


Terenzio Carraro holds the official record for this game with 503,610 points.


- UPDATES -


In the Japanese bootleg :

* The Italian team is replaced by the Japanese Team.

* The music are different.

* The title screen says : 'planned by Shinzi' and 'programmed by Kazutomi'.


- SERIES -
  1. Exciting Soccer (1983)
  2. Exciting Soccer II (1984)
resource links view in MAWS
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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
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:7C0D:00000099:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00010000:7C0E:00000059:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/2)
00000001:7C0D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish Match Now!
00010001:7C0E:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Finish Match Now! (2/2)
00000101:7C19:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Select Score PL1
00000101:7C1C:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Select Score PL2
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