MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - guesses regarding other Mattel led games *edited*

> forgot about that mattel basketball game.

Maybe not as memorable compared to Football, but still holds its own when being compared to Football. Basketball was my second pick after Football. I liked it compared to other Mattel led games I had such as auto Racing, Baseball, Armor Battle, Sub Chase.

*nevermind*

Here is an excerpt from my old message to someone of my guess.

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https://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=118570#Post118570

Some of them are on PPS4/1 (Auto Race, Football games, and the newer VFD Football game too, this 1: https://handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/WCFB.htm). Missing MCU emulation, but might not be too hard to add to MAME since standard PPS4 is already emulated. Kevtris dumped the VFD game ages ago, older games are not dumped.

(COP400 is COPS II,
Basketball 2, Soccer 2 are dual-COP421. Sean has these, but not dumped yet.
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Specific support for 421 type hardware will happen with the section while games data
is/are copied from handhelds.

National Semiconductor COP421 /COP421 disassembler
"cpu/cop400/cop421ds.cpp"

src/devices/cpu/cop400
src/devices/cpu/cop400/cop424ds.cpp

My guess is the games such as "Basketball 2, Soccer 2 are dual-COP421 COP400 is COPS II" are next items to be supported including Mattel's Look Alive! Football (1980) which looks like an awesome game itself.

https://handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/LAFB.htm
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I was surprised the PPS-4/1 MCU hardware with its games was emulated before COPS II
hardware was worked on.

For folks curious about remaining Mattel led games to be worked on.

https://handheldmuseum.com/Mattel/index.html

>I think all that is left from my childhood are those casio databank watches and
> that nelsonic pac-man watch. At that point I think MAME has emulated most of the
> electronic junk I had when I was a kid.

Microvision being emulated to fully working last year was a big deal to me since I had that myself. The Mattel led games being emulated will complete the electronic games I had as a teenager then.

> Eeek the price for those on ebay, gawd.

Fortunately a fair amount of the handhelds is accounted for or emulated before speculators arrived to drive prices upwards of many of the games.

Edited by gregf (03/23/21 08:35 AM)