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title Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 3)
set name snowbrob
manufacturer Toaplan
year 1990
genre Platform (hof)
category Platform / Run Jump (hof)
driver status good
driver source snowbros.c
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rating

67.7% after 43 votes
 
parent Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 1)
other clones Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Dooyong license)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Japan)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 2)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 4)
Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure
The Winter Bobble (bootleg of Snow Bros.)
display
colour emulation good
palette 256
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x224
frequency 57.500000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 3
hardware
cpu 68000 @ 8MHz
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
audio YM3812 @ 3MHz
data
version added .036b07
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
sbros3-a  131072  301627d6  snowbrob    0d1dc70091c87e9c27916d4232ff31b7381a64e1 
sbros2-a  131072  f6689f41  snowbrob    e4fd27b930a31479c0d99e0ddd23d5db34044666 
sbros-4.29  32768  e6eab4e4  snowbros    d08187d03b21192e188784cb840a37a7bdb5ad32 
sbros-1.41  524288  16f06b3a  snowbros    c64d3b2d32f0f0fcf1d8c5f02f8589d59ddfd428 
cabinet art
cabinet snowbros.png
marquee snowbros.png
control panel snowbros.png
flyer snowbros.png
PCB snowbros.png
additional information
info 0.34b8 [Zsolt Vasvari]

0.31 [Mike Coates]

NOTE:
  • There are terrible slowdowns in Snow Bros. ONLY in the final boss stage. I have Snow Bros original arcade cab and I can comfirm it DOES have slowdowns on final stage. mOamed
LEVELS: 50 (Snow Brothers 3)

WIP:
  • 0.127: Tirino73 / Mame Italia added clone Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Dooyong license).
  • 0.119u3: Added new cpu1 roms to clone 'The Winter Bobble'.
  • 0.117: David Haywood moved "Pandora" sprite chip implementation to its own file. Updated Snow Bros, Air Buster, DJ Boy and Heavy Unit to use ths new generic implementation.
  • 0.97u4: Mamesick increased 68000 clock speed to 12MHz in clone Winter Bobble - otherwise the gfx and scroll break up.
  • 0.97u3: Corrado Tomaselli fixed Oki frequency (7575 Hz) in clone Snow Brothers 3 to match samples pitch on the PCB for Final Tetris.
  • 0.90u4: Re-added 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure' as clone of Snow Bros.
  • 0.85u2: Inigo Luja added conditional coinage to Snow Bros.
  • 0.81u4: Fabrice Arzeno added clone 'Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 4)'.
  • 0.75: Replaced all gfx1 roms with rom sbros-1.41 (512kb). Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 6MHz and YM3812 to 3MHz and VSync to 57.5 Hz.
  • 0.74: Removed 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure'.
  • 0.64: Added 'Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure' (Syrmex 2002 (bootleg/hack)).
  • 9th December 2001: Quench added cocktail support and did some other minor fixes in the Snow Bros driver.
  • 0.37b7: David Haywood added clone 'The Winter Bobble' (bootleg).
  • 31st August 2000: Brad Oliver fixed Winter Bobble to work on Macs.
  • 29th August 2000: Haze added Winter Bobble to the Snow Bros driver.
  • 0.36b14: Changed YM3812 clock speed to 3579545 Hz.
  • 0.36b7: Added clone Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 3).
  • 0.36b2: Tatsuyuki Satoh make further improved the YM3812 emulator, especially the rhythm section (check Snow Bros!).
  • 0.36b1: Tatsuyuki Satoh made a new digital YM3812/YM3526 emulator (in the DOS version, use -noym3812opl to enable it). It doesn't support the rhythm section yet, but is overall better than the old one.
  • 0.35RC1: Nicola Salmoria added clone Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Japan).
  • 0.35b13: Changed description to 'Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom'.
  • 0.35b4: Renamed (snowbro2) to (snowbroa).
  • 0.34RC2: Changed Z80 CPU2 and YM2812 clock speed to 3.6MHz.
  • 0.34b8: Zsolt Vasvari added Snow Bros (set 1). Renamed (snowbros) to (snowbro2). In the old version (set 2) you sometimes get a green potion that makes you invincible for a few seconds (during which you can pass through walls and destroy any enemies you touch). Looking at the GFX for this set vs snowbros and it appears that only the snowbro2 set has it.
  • 0.33b6: Nicola Salmoria fixed Snow Bros hanging after level 30.
  • 0.33b3: Increased music tempo in Snow Bros. Nicola Salmoria fixed a couple of palette problems with Snow Bros. It also no longer uses a 16 bit video mode, so it's faster.
  • 0.31: Mike Coates added Snow Bros (Toaplan 1990).
LEVELS: 50

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Romset: 800 kb / 4 files / 270.1 zip
history Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (c) 1990 Toaplan.


One or two players take on the roles of snowmen Nick and Tom as they battle a variety of monsters over fifty platform-based, single screen levels. The snowmen must throw snowballs at the enemies, eventually encasing them completely in snow. The encased enemies must them be kicked in order to destroy them. This is achieved by standing next to the snowball and pressing the "kick out" button, which sends the giant snowball flying around the screen, killing any enemies that lay in its path. During every 10th level, the players must face and defeat an end-of-level boss.


A number of power-ups are available, in the form of coloured potions. The power-ups are as follows :

* Yellow = Long shot

* Red = Speed up

* Blue = Bigger snowballs (encases monsters quicker)

* Green = Inflates the players like a balloon and lets them fly around the screen, killing any monsters they touch.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : MIN16-02


Main CPU : 68000 (@ 8 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM3812 (@ 3 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 256 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 57.50 Hz

Palette colors : 256


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Released in April 1990.


Like Taito's "Liquid Kids", Snow Bros. was licensed to Manchester's Ocean Software for conversion to both the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga home computers but, again like "Liquid Kids", Ocean decided that the game wouldn't perform well at retail and the game was cancelled. It's not known how far into production Snow Bros was before cancellation, although several work-in-progress screenshots were published in the games magazines of the time.


This game was released as a conversion kit only (often factory installed in a generic cabinet), so any such machine could be converted into a proper Snow Bros. machine. This title is JAMMA compatible (the circuit board for it is one of the smallest ever made, it is barely larger than a Nintendo Famicom cartridge). The marquee for this title shows a ''Snow Bros.'' logo, with two snowmen, and a couple of cartoon enemies in the background - in keeping with the game's ''cute'' theme.


Licensed to Romstar for USA distribution.


A bootleg of this game is known as "The Winter Bobble".


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Out Zone, Snow Bros. - PCCB-00044) on 21/10/1990.


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* Killing all the monsters on a level with a single snowball causes money bonuses, worth 10,000 points, to fall down, but sometimes a glowing cake bonus will appear instead. When the cake is collected, the game stops and four blue snowball creatures appear for a short time. If these enemies are killed, they each provide a letter : 'S','N','O' or 'W'. Collect all four of these letters for an extra life. The glowing cake can also appear at other times during the game.


* Hidden Functions : If the 'Invulnerability dip switch' is enabled, you are invulnerable but you may also 'Pause' the game with P2 Start and restart with P1 Start.


- SERIES -
  1. Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (1990)
  2. Snow Bros. 2 - With New Elves (1994)
  3. Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure (2002)
  4. - STAFF -
    • Music composed by : Osamu Ohta
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Nintendo Famicom (1991)
    • Sega Mega Drive (1993)
    • Nintendo Game Boy ("Snow Bros. Jr.") : includes 10 additional (new) levels after you complete all 50 from the arcade.
    • * Computers :
    • Amstrad CPC (1991)
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=snow-bros.-nick-and-tom&page=detail&id=2482&o=2
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code comments
00000000:100195:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00000000:1000BB:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00000010:10165D:00000001:00000001  Enable to Get Secret Bonus
00100001:1018CA:00000001:FFFFFFFF  One hit for boss Now!
00110001:10190A:00000001:FFFFFFFF  One hit for boss Now! (2/2)
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Next Floor Now!
00010001:101573:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Floor 5
00010001:101573:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Floor 10
00010001:101573:0000000D:FFFFFFFF  Floor 15
00010001:101573:00000012:FFFFFFFF  Floor 20
00010001:101573:00000017:FFFFFFFF  Floor 25
00010001:101573:0000001C:FFFFFFFF  Floor 30
00010001:101573:00000021:FFFFFFFF  Floor 35
00010001:101573:00000026:FFFFFFFF  Floor 40
00010001:101573:0000002B:FFFFFFFF  Floor 45
00010001:101573:00000030:FFFFFFFF  Floor 50
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:101591:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000010:1015EB:00000000:00000027  Invincibility PL1:Turn it OFF temporarily when you get the green potion. See the Dip Switch Menu to enable an alternate Invincibility cheat.
00000001:1015EB:00000024:FFFFFFFF  Get Invincibility Item Now! PL1
00000000:1015D7:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire PL1
00000000:1015A8:00000070:FFFFFFFF  Always have all powers PL1
00000000:1015A8:00000010:00000010  Always have pow-up shot PL1
00000000:1015A8:00000020:00000020  Always have pow-up range PL1
00000000:1015A8:00000040:00000040  Always have pow-up speed PL1
00000001:1015A8:00000070:FFFFFFFF  Get all powers Now! PL1
00000001:1015A8:00000010:00000010  Get pow-up shot Now! PL1
00000001:1015A8:00000020:00000020  Get pow-up range Now! PL1
00000001:1015A8:00000040:00000040  Get pow-up speed Now! PL1
00000001:1015AA:00000001:00000001  Get Letter "S" Now! PL1
00000001:1015AA:00000002:00000002  Get Letter "N" Now! PL1
00000001:1015AA:00000004:00000004  Get Letter "O" Now! PL1
00000001:1015AA:00000008:00000008  Get Letter "W" Now! PL1
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:1015A7:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
00000010:10162B:00000000:00000027  Invincibility PL2:Turn it OFF temporarily when you get the green potion. See the Dip Switch Menu to enable an alternate Invincibility cheat.
00000001:10162B:00000024:FFFFFFFF  Get Invincibility Item Now! PL2
00000000:101617:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire PL2
00000000:1015A9:00000070:FFFFFFFF  Always have all powers PL2
00000000:1015A9:00000010:00000010  Always have pow-up shot PL2
00000000:1015A9:00000020:00000020  Always have pow-up range PL2
00000000:1015A9:00000040:00000040  Always have pow-up speed PL2
00000001:1015A9:00000070:FFFFFFFF  Get all powers Now! PL2
00000001:1015A9:00000010:00000010  Get pow-up shot Now! PL2
00000001:1015A9:00000020:00000020  Get pow-up range Now! PL2
00000001:1015A9:00000040:00000040  Get pow-up speed Now! PL2
00000001:1015AB:00000001:00000001  Get Letter "S" Now! PL2
00000001:1015AB:00000002:00000002  Get Letter "N" Now! PL2
00000001:1015AB:00000004:00000004  Get Letter "O" Now! PL2
00000001:1015AB:00000008:00000008  Get Letter "W" Now! PL2
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