Qbert Multi Game




This multigame runs on a standard QBert board. It allows you to play either 3 or 6 games. The standard games are: QBert, Qubes, Faster Harder More Chanllenging Qbert. The extra games are: Insector, Curveball, Mello Yello Qbert. Insector plays a little different since it's a horizontal game, and the qbert stick is not ideal. But that was the closest match of the Gottleib games.

To select a game jump off the pyramid onto the disk, to move to the next screen, jump off the bottom of the pyramid. To return to the menu hold both start buttons for 2 seconds. QBert boards have a lot of trouble with holding the nvram. To prevent nvram problems this board uses a completely different system of nvram. When you leave a game to return to the menu the contents of the nvram area is copied to a serial eeprom. The next time you start that game the contents are reloaded. That is why you will see messages on the screen, Reading and Writing when games are loading and exiting. This means when you finish you must return to the menu if you want to save your scores.

The original menu code is by Mark Spaeth, although I've modified it quite a bit. Mark has included a diagnostic menu. You can get to it by turning on the test switch and booting the game. Turn the test swtich off and you will get to my dipswitch menu. There's a seperate page for each game. The dips are labeled with a general label for convenience, the dips are the same as the original game. There's also a page for the entire multigame. It doesn't actually store values from this menu. Selecting an item here runs through all the menu's turning the appropriate dips off or on. A row of zeros will flash to indicate that you have selected an item. Don't forget to select the exit when you are done to store the values you have selected.

Installation