game
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title The Winter Bobble (bootleg of Snow Bros.)
set name wintbob
manufacturer [Toaplan] (Sakowa Project Korea bootleg)
year 1990
genre Platform (hof)
category Platform / Run Jump (hof)
driver status good
driver source snowbros.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent
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rating

71.6% after 46 votes
 
parent Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 1)
other clones Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (Japan)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 2)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 3)
Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom (set 4)
Snow Brothers 3 - Magical Adventure
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display
colour emulation good
palette 256
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 256x224
frequency 57.500000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 3
coin slots 3
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hardware
cpu 68000 @ 10MHz
cpu Z80 @ 6MHz
audio YM3812 @ 3MHz
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data
version added .037b07
last change(s) .119u3
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
wb3  65536  b9719767  wintbob    431c97d409f2a5ff7f46116a4d8907e446434431 
wb1  65536  a4488998  wintbob    4e927e31c1b865dbdba2b985c7a819a07e2e81b8 
wb04.bin  65536  53be758d  wintbob    56cf85ba23fe699031d73e8f367a1b8ac837d5f8 
wb02.bin  65536  fc8e292e  wintbob    857cfeb0be121e64e6117120514ae1f2ffeae4d6 
wb05.bin  65536  53fe59df  wintbob    a99053e82b9fed76f744fa9f67078294641c6317 
wb13.bin  65536  426921de  wintbob    5107c58e7e08d71895baa67fe260b17ebd61389c 
wb06.bin  65536  68204937  wintbob    fd2ef93df5fd8aa2d36072858dbcfce41157ef3e 
wb12.bin  65536  ef4e04c7  wintbob    17158b61b3c158e0491db9abb2e1a8c20d981d37 
wb07.bin  65536  53f40978  wintbob    058bbf3b7877f0cd320383e0386c5959e0d6589b 
wb11.bin  65536  41cb4563  wintbob    94f1d12d299ac08fc8522139e1927f0cf739be75 
wb08.bin  65536  9497b88c  wintbob    367c6106276f3816528341f11f3a97ae458d25cd 
wb10.bin  65536  5fa22b1e  wintbob    1164003d873e9738a3ca133cce689c7120061e3c 
wb09.bin  65536  9be718ca  wintbob    5c195e4f13efbdb229201d2408d018861bf389cc 
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cabinet art
cabinet snowbros.png
marquee snowbros.png
control panel snowbros.png
flyer snowbros.png
PCB snowbros.png
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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:
  • 0.119u3: 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 The Winter Bobble (c) 1990 Sakowa Project.

Two snowmen battle cute Japanese critters over 50 platform based screens. Turn the enemy critters into snowballs and then boot them around the platforms knocking down everything in their path. Pick up Sushi for extra points. When a screen is cleared of monsters you move on to the next level.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : 68000 (@ 12 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 -

This game is a bootleg of "Snow Bros. - Nick & Tom".

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.
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cheats
cheats
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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