Pacbox

Pacbox is an emulator of the Pacman arcade machine hardware. It is a port of PIE - Pacman Instructional Emulator.

Getting Started and ROMs

To play Pacman, you'll need a copy of the Pacman ROMs from a Midway Pacman or Puckman arcade board.

Filename	MD5 checksum
pacman.5e	2791455babaf26e0b396c78d2b45f8f6
pacman.5f	9240f35d1d2beee0ff17195653b5e405
pacman.6e	290aa5eae9e2f63587b5dd5a7da932da
pacman.6f	19a886fcd8b5e88b0ed1b97f9d8659c0
pacman.6h	d7cce8bffd9563b133ec17ebbb6373d4
pacman.6j	33c0e197be4c787142af6c3be0d8f6b0

Copy these files to the /.rockbox/pacman/ directory on your player. Any other files found in the archives can be discarded as they are not required.

Keys

Function	iriver	iriver remote	iriver H10 (5Gb)	iPod	iAudio X5	Gigabeat
Move Up	RIGHT	VOL+	Scroll UP	NEXT	RIGHT	UP
Move Down	LEFT	VOL-	Scroll DOWN	PREV	LEFT	DOWN
Move Left	UP	REW	<--	MENU	UP	LEFT
Move Right	DOWN	FF	O	PLAY	DOWN	RIGHT
Insert Coin	REC	MODE	FF	SELECT	REC	A
1-Player Start	SELECT	-10	REW	SELECT	SELECT	SELECT
2-Player Start	ON	+10	POWER	n/a	POWER	POWER
Menu	MODE	A-B	PLAY	SELECT+MENU	PLAY	MENU

Note that on all targets apart from the Gigabeat and iriver H10 5GB, the Pacman screen is rotated 90 degrees clockwise. The H10 screen does not however, show the score or lives.

Screenshots

• 160x128 greyscale screenshot (iriver H1x0, iAudio M5 and iPod 1G/2G/3G/4G):
  

• 176x132 screenshot (iPod Nano and iAudio X5):
  

• 220x176 screenshot (iriver H300 and iPod Color/Photo):
  

• 320x240 screenshot (iPod 5G/Video):
  

• 240x320 screenshot (Gigabeat):
  

• 176x200 screenshot (Sansa e200):
  

Other GPL'd arcade machine emulators

Here are some links to some GPL'd emulators which could theoretically be ported to Rockbox (note that Mame is not released under a GPL-compatible license):

• SIDE - Space Invaders Didactic Emulator - from the same author as PIE (the source for PacBox);
• siemu - Another GPL'd Space Invaders emulator
• vecsim - Atari 6502 vector-game emulator: Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battle Zone, Black Widow, Gravitar, Lunar Lander, Red Baron, Space Duel and Tempest.

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