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title Pac & Pal (older)
set name pacnpal2
manufacturer Namco
year 1983
genre Maze (hof)
category Maze (hof)
driver status good
driver source mappy.c
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rating

71.8% after 17 votes
 
parent Pac & Pal
other clones Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp
display
colour emulation good
palette 512
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x288
frequency 60.606061Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 4 way joystick
buttons 1
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu M6809 @ 1.536MHz
cpu M6809 @ 1.536MHz
audio Namco 15XX @ 0.024MHz
data
version added .037b03
last change(s) .097u2
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
pap1-3.1d  8192  d7ec2719  pacnpal2    b633a5360a199d528bcef209c06a21f266525769 
pap1-2.1c  8192  0245396e  pacnpal2    7e8467e317879621a7b31bc922b5187f20fcea78 
pap1-1.1b  8192  7f046b58  pacnpal2    2024019e5fafb698bb5775075c9b88c5ed35f7ba 
pap1-4.1k  4096  330e20de  pacnpal    5b23e5dcc38dc644a36efc8b03eba34cea540bea 
pap1-6.3c  4096  a36b96cb  pacnpal    e0a11b5a43cbf756ddb045c743973d0a55dbb979 
pap1-5.3f  8192  fb6f56e3  pacnpal    fd10d2ee49b4e059e9ef6046bc86d97e3185164d 
pap1-6.4c  32  52634b41  pacnpal    dfb109c8e2c62ae1612ba0e3272468d152123842 
pap1-5.4e  256  ac46203c  pacnpal    3f47f1991aab9640c0d5f70fad85d20d6cf2ea3d 
pap1-4.3l  256  686bde84  pacnpal    541d08b43dbfb789c2867955635d2c9e051fedd9 
pap1-3.3m  256  94782db5  pacnpal    ac0114f0611c81dfac9469253048ae0214d570ee 
cabinet art
flyer pacnpal.png
additional information
info 0.27 [Aaron Giles, Kevin Brisley, Lawnmower Man]

WIP:
  • 0.97u2: Added new sound1 prom to Pac & Pal and clones. Nicola Salmoria and Guru corrected colors in clone 'Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp'.
  • 0.79u1: Replaced Namco sound with Namco 15XX.
  • 0.78u4: Fixed rom names.
  • 18th November 2000: Aaron Giles fixed some graphics priority problems in Pac 'n Pal.
  • 0.37b3: Zsolt Vasvari added Pac & Pal (older) (Namco 1983).
  • 22nd May 2000: Zsolt Vasvari added another romset of Pac & Pal to the driver.
  • 0.36b13: Added clone Pac-Man & Chomp Chomp.
  • 0.28: John Butler provided a new 6809 emulator. It is faster than the previous one, and fixes some bugs including the ship moving in the wrong direction on the tower level of Star Wars and the bonus maze in Pac & Pal.
  • 0.27: Support for Pac & Pal (Namco 1983). Runs on the same hardware as Super Pac Man.
LEVELS: 255 (endless)

Recommended Games (Maze Pac-Man):

Pac-Man / PuckMan

Pac-Man - Namco Classics Collection Vol.2

Pac-Man Plus

Super Pac-Man

Pac & Pal

Pac-Mania

4 Fun in 1 (Ghost Muncher)

Ghostmuncher Galaxian (bootleg)

Ms. Pac-Man

Jr. Pac-Man

Hyper Pacman

Twinkle

Funny Strip

Puckman Pockimon

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Professor PacMan

Pac-Land

Puzzle Club

Romset: 41 kb / 10 files / 21.7 zip
history Pac & Pal (c) 1983 Namco.


Pac-Man has a new friend named Miru, but she tries to steal stuff for her own use. Pac-Man now not only has to collect the stuff lying around the board, but he also must watch Miru to make sure she doesn't take the stuff for her own use.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID: PAP


Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)

Sound CPU : M6809 (@ 1.536 Mhz)

Sound Chips : Namco 8-channel WSG


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 288 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 32


Players : 2

Control : 4-way joystick

Buttons : 1


- TRIVIA -


Released in July 1983.


The 'Pal' in the game's title is named Miru.


An alternate version of this game features Chomp Chomp, Pac-Man's dog from the animated cartoon series, in place of Miru, and the game's name is changed accordingly : "Pac-Man & Chomp-Chomp".


First "Pac-Man" game to have music during gameplay.


- SCORING -


Cards : 10-100 points, dying resets cards to ten points.

Regular Items: 50-500 points.

Power Items : 1000 points.

Stunning Ghosts : 200, 400, 800, 1600 points.

Key : 700 - 5000 points.

End of round bonus : 100 X items eaten.

Bonus Rounds :

Cards : 100-1000 points.

Uncovering Miru : doubles points of cards uncovered afterwards.

Uncovering Blinky : ends round.


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* Easter Egg : enter service mode and enter the following sequence : Left, Right(x9), Down(x5), Up(x6). '(c) (p) 1982 NAMCO LTD.' will be added at the bottom of the screen.


* Don't let Miru eat the fruit. Bonus points are awarded 'perfect boards' when Pac-Man eats all fruit himself, and the bonus increases with each 'perfect board'.


- SERIES -
  1. Pac-Man (1980)
  2. Ms. Pac-Man (1981)
  3. Super Pac-Man (1982)
  4. Pac-Man Plus (1982)
  5. Jr. Pac-Man (1983)
  6. Pac-Mania (1987)
  7. Pac-In-Time (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom)
  8. Pac-Man 2 - The New Adventures (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom and Sega Mega Drive)
  9. Pac-Man VR (1996)
  10. Pac-Man World (1999, Sony PlayStation)
  11. Pac-Man - Adventures in Time (2000, PC CD-ROM)
  12. Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000, Sony PlayStation)
  13. Ms. Pac-Man - Quest for the Golden Maze (2001, PC CD-ROM)
  14. Pac-Man All-Stars (2002, PC CD-ROM)
  15. Pac-Man Fever (2002, Sony PlayStation 2)
  16. Pac-Man World 2 (2002, Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft XBOX; 2004, PC CD-ROM)
  17. Pac-Man vs. (2003, Nintendo GameCube)
  18. Ms. Pac-Man - Maze Madness (2004, Nintendo GameBoy Advance)
  19. Pac-Man World 3 (2005, Sony PSP, Sony PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Microsoft XBOX, PC CD-ROM, and Nintendo DS)
  20. Pac'n Roll (2005, Nintendo DS)
  21. Pac-Pix (2005, Nintendo DS)
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cheats
cheats
code comments
00000000:1175:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives
00000000:1111:00000018:FFFFFFFF  Infinite "power" time
00000000:1110:00000001:FFFFFFFF  "Power" always available
00000001:1222:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Orange ghost is stoned Now!
00000001:1232:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Green ghost is stoned Now!
00000001:1242:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Pink ghost is stoned Now!
00000001:1252:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Red ghost is stoned Now!
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