Rip-Off

Cinematronics · 1980

by Daniel Ferrer

Details

Original hardware

Cinematronics CCPU

Romset

roms/ripoff.zip

Controls

Button 3 inserts a coin, button 4 starts; button 1 fires, button 2 thrusts, the stick left and right turns. On the web: C, V, Z and X, and the arrow keys.

Analog controls

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Orientation

Horizontal game: drawn rotated 90°

Last update

2026-11-08

Changelog

1. v1.22026-11-08
   • The romset can live in any folder of the card. The game looks in .roms/, then roms/, then searches the whole card, and remembers where it found it (.conf/<romset>.loc), so the next start goes straight there; if it is moved, it is searched for again.
   • Settings go in .conf/ and romsets in .roms/: the UVMC2's menu hides folders whose name starts with a dot, so the card shows only the games. A card set up before keeps everything: the old config/ and roms/ are still read, and nothing is written to them any more.
   • Without the romset on the card the screen says ROM FILE NOT FOUND and the name of the zip it wants.
2. v1.12026-11-05
   • Brighter: 60% of what it draws is at the board's dim level, which MAME puts at half the bright one -- dark on the Vectrex's tube. Raised to three quarters, checked on the console; the bright level is unchanged.
3. v1.02026-11-04
   • First release.
   • Sound, through the jack: the cabinet's sound circuits as the thirteen recordings MAME plays, embedded in the game and mixed at MAME's balance, the engine drone included.
   • The cabinet's switches as it ships (MAME's defaults): one coin, one credit; they were read as all on.
   • Drawn the right way round: it came out mirrored, left for right.
   • Runs at the arcade's own 38 Hz.
   • An options screen at start, after the Vectrex Studio intro: screen vertical or horizontal, refresh, brightness, controls (the buttons can be remapped, and the choice is saved) and calibration.
   • The picture keeps the cabinet's 4:3 shape and fills the screen, upright and with the console on its side.