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LA Girl
URL: http://datobase.arcadehits.net/lagirl Manufacturer : bootleg ?
Year : 1992 ?
Category : Breakout *Mature* ?
Nplayers : 2P sim ?

Driver : taito_l.c ?

This rom is a clone of plgirls
no samples are needed
no artwork is avalaible
hiscore.dat support : NO
cheat.dat support : NO
command.dat support : NO
romset and CRC info : detail


flyer does not exist

title screen does not exist
LA Girl (c) 1992 Unknown.
- SOURCES -
Game's ROM.

from game history database (history.dat)


picture : marquee does not exist



informations from mame info database (mameinfo.dat)
mameinfo.dat for plgirls
cabinet does not exist




in game snapshot does not exist
0.37b6 [Nicola Salmoria]
0.37b3 [Nicola Salmoria]

BUGS :
- Wrong colours of Janet. colour_thief / Twisty (ID 01015)

WIP :
- 0.136: Brian Troha made LA Girls to a clone of Play Girls. It's clearly a bootleg hardware clone. Title & background change, but the demo play and block arrangement are identical. Added info from the Guru's website about the reported manufacture company and year for LA Girls. Added a note about Tube-it having the copyright and manufacture info removed. Tafoid changed YM2203 clock speed to 3332640 Hz.
- 0.135u3: Tomasz Slanina and Guru added LA Girl ( 199?).
- 2nd December 2009: Tomasz Slanina - This time, dump the stocks Gurus - Korean alteration Play Girls (copy-Taito L System hardware made on three systems TPC1020 (FPGAs Texas)). Changed the title and put a new background image - soft anime (why not Tentacles of 'La Blue Girl'?). No gameplay changes...
- 15th August 2009: Guru - From Korea thanks to gp-lee we got LA Girl (Ta Ta Electronics 1993), a Play Girls clone.
- 0.130u3: Fabio Priuli added Play Girls cheat dipswitch (found by Gatinho).
- 0.122u2: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6665280 Hz and YM2203 to 3330000 MHz.
- 0.37b12: Added 'Difficulty' dipswitch.
- 30th July 2000: Nicola Salmoria fixed the sound interface in the Taito L driver.
- 0.37b6: Nicola Salmoria added Play Girls (Hot-B. 1992).
- 0.37b3: Nicola Salmoria added Play Girls (Testdriver).
- 22nd May 2000: Nicola Salmoria added Play Girls and Play Girls 2 to the Taito-L driver, but only Play Girls 2 works and with graphics glitches.

LEVELS : 30

OTHER EMULATORS :
* Raine
Recommended Games (Breakout):
Gee Bee
Super Breakout
Tournament Table
Bomb Bee
Cutie Q
Field Goal
Straight Flush
Wall Crash
Cannon Ball (Pacman Hardware)
Flying Ball (Cassette)
Wink
Arkanoid
Tournament Arkanoid
Arkanoid - Revenge of DOH
Arkanoid Returns
Gigas
Gigas Mark II
Riddle of Pythagoras
Block Gal
Free Kick
Super Free Kick
Goindol
Mahjong Block Jongbou
Quester
Reaktor
Domino Block
Thunder & Lightning
Block Block
Ghox
Off the Wall
Twin Squash
Block Carnival / Thunder & Lightning 2
Play Girls
Peek-a-Boo!
Blocken
Wiggie Waggie
Cuby Bop
Zip & Zap
Bal Cube
Pop 'n Bounce (NeoGeo)
Puchi Carat
VS Block Breaker
Bestri
Mad Ball
Jumping Break
The Block Kuzushi
Gunbarich

ROMSET : 768 kb / 3 files / 236 zip



picture : control panel does not exist



informations from mame info database (mameinfo.dat)
mameinfo.dat for taito_l.c driver
0.37b3 [Olivier Galibert]
0.36b4 [Olivier Galibert]
TODO :
- slowdowns in fhawk, probably the interrupts have to be generated at a different time.
- plgirls doesn't work without a kludge because of an interrupt issue. This happens because the program enables interrupts before setting IM2, so the interrupt vector is interpreted as IM0, which is obviously bogus.
- The puzznic protection is worked around, but I'm not happy with it (the 68705-returned values are wrong, I'm sure of that).
- A bunch of control registers are simply ignored
- The source of irqs 0 and 1 is unknown, while 2 is vblank (0 is usually ignored by the program, 1 leads to reading the ports... maybe vbl-in, vbl-out and hblank ?).
- Text Plane colors are only right in Cuby Bop once you've started a game & reset
- Scrolling in Cuby Bop's Game seems incorrect.

NOTES :
- The system uses RAM based characters, which aren't really supported by the TileMap system, so we have to tilemap_mark_all_tiles_dirty() to compensate
- Kurikinta has some debug dip switches (invulnerability, slow motion) so might be a prototype. It also doesn't have service mode (or has it disabled).

WIP :
- 0.136u1: Fabio Priuli added driver data struct to Taito L driver.
- 0.130u4: Aaron Giles merged memory maps in Taito L driver. Also removed some word handlers in favor of using READ8/WRITE8 directly in address maps. Removed some additional unnecessary handlers in favor of using AM_READ_PORT.
- 0.130u3: Taito L input updates [Fabio Priuli].
- 0.128u6: Added includes\taito_l.h.
- 0.111u3: Atari Ace fixed invalid array access in the Taito L driver.
- 0.93u3: Taito L driver update [Nicola Salmoria]: Changed interrupt handling and fxied MSM5205 playback in Champion Wrestler.
- 29th March 2001: Gerardo Oporto fixed yet more dipswitch settings in the Taito L driver.
- 10th February 2001: David Haywood added Cuby Bop and a few clone romsets to the Taito L system driver.
- 31st January 2001: Gerardo Oporto fixed dipswitch settings in the Taito L system driver.
- 0.37b6: Several fixes and improvements to the Taito L games (sound, priorities, speed) [Nicola Salmoria, Jarek Burczynski]. Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6MHz.
- 3rd August 2000: Jarek Burczynski fixed sound in Raimais and Champion Wrestler in the Taito L driver. Nicola Salmoria fixed several graphics in the Taito L driver and added Kuri Kinton.
- 31st July 2000: Nicola Salmoria fixed Play Girls 1 and 2 in the Taito L driver.
- 30th July 2000: Nicola Salmoria fixed the sound interface in the Taito L driver.
- 0.37b3: Changed taitol.c to taito_l.c driver.
- 22nd April 2000: Gerardo Oporto submitted Taito-L driver dipswitch fixes.
- 0.36b4: Added taitol.c driver and vidhrdw\taitol.c.
- 26th August 1999: Olivier Galibert sent in a Taito system L driver with support for American Horseshoes, Cachat, Champion Wrestler, Fighting Hawk, Palamedes, Plotting, Puzznic and Raimais. None of them have sound though, and some have graphic bugs.



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