MAWS - showing resource: malzak

title	Malzak
set name	malzak
manufacturer	Kitronix
year	????
genre	Shooter (hof)
category	Shooter / Flying Horizontal (hof)
driver status	preliminary
driver source	malzak.c
snapshots	PS: in game \| title \| scores / MW: in game / CT: in game \| title zoom
rating	66% after 18 votes
clones	Malzak II

colour emulation	good
palette	128
display type	raster
orientation	horizontal
resolution	240x240
frequency	50.000000Hz

sound emulation	preliminary
channels	mono

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

cpu	S2650 @ 0.95MHz
audio	SN76477
audio	SN76477

version added

.077u3

last change(s)

.109 .078

roms

name	size	crc	set	flags	sha1
malzak.5	4096	75355c98	malzak		7036ed5d9ee38585b1a6bc204d410d5fb5ddd81f
malzak.4	4096	744c81e3	malzak		c08d6df3cf2808a5f99d8247fc19a59be88121a9
malzak.3	2048	b947229e	malzak		37b88b5aa91a483fcfe60a9bdd67a66f6378c487
malzak.2	2048	2a12ad67	malzak		f89a50b62311a170004c061abd8dedc3ebd84748
malzak.1	2048	74d5ff7b	malzak		cae326370dc83b86542f9d070e2dc91b1b833356
p2000.chr	2240	78c17e3e	malzak	bad dump	4e1c59dc484505de1dc0b1ba7e5f70a54b0d4ccc

art	no cabinet, marquee, flyer, control panel or PCB images found

info

0.77u3 [Barry Rodewald]

TODO:

Collisions don't work

TEST MODE:

Test mode in Malzak II should be enabled by setting a POT to position '4' and pressing button 1 three times. Then the POT is set to position '1' to go back to the game.

WIP:

0.124: Zsolt Vasvari fixed clone Malzak II from crashing.
0.121u1: Changed palettesize from 16 to 128 colors.
0.97u1: Barry Rodewald added clone Malzak II, improved SAA 5050 emulation and fixed S2636 port. Changed cpu1 rom ($c00) to user2 (screen data).
0.89u6: Changed S2650 CPU1 clock speed to 950000 Hz.

- 0.77u3: Barry Rodewald added Malzak (Kitronix 19??). TODO: I/O ports (0x00 for sprite->background collisions), sound (2x SN76477), playfield graphics may be banked, tiles above 0x1f are incorrect and sprite->sprite collision aren't quite perfect (you can often fly through flying missiles).

4th December 2003: Barry Rodewald - Getting there... The sprite to playfield collision detection still needs to be figured out. And I think the playfield is a little bit more colourful too.
1st December 2003: Barry Rodewald - Now it can run the game. But there is no playfield. Don't know, as yet, how or where it reads level data and displays the playfield.
28th November 2003: Barry Rodewald - Got Malzak running a bit - still some graphics unimplemented, but this is enough to get a few inputs mapped too. It would seem that there may be some form of ROM banking going on. Background colours are disabled for now, as I'm pretty sure that it was causing incorrect displays.

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Romset: 17 kb / 6 files / 7.21 zip

history

Malzak (c) 198? Kitronix.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : S2650 (@ 950 Khz)

Sound Chips : (2x) SN76477 (@ 950 Khz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 240 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 50.00 Hz

Palette colors : 16

Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 1

- TRIVIA -

When you run the game for the first time, the default highscore board is empty (everything is set to 0 - nicknames are set to @@@).

- SERIES -

Malzak (19??)
Malzak II (19??)

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

cheats

code	comments
00100000:101C:00003939:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Credits
00000000:10D1:000000A0:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Fuel
20900000:41FD:00000942:FFFFFFFF	Invincibility
00000000:1036:00000000:FFFFFFFF	Rapid Fire
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000
00000000:1302:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:1382:00000009:FFFFFFFF	Infinite Lives PL2