Ninja Gaiden (US) | 1988

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Developer: Tecmo
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(3)
Number of Players: 2
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Ninja Gaiden (US) VGMuseum Game Endings
Ninja Gaiden (US) on CAESAR
Ninja Gaiden (US) high score and replay at MARP
Ninja Gaiden (US) on datObase

Mameinfo.dat entry:
0.37b10 [Yochizo]


WIP:

- 0.147u2: hap fixed clone Omega Fighter Special. The game fails to boot or finish post. After showing bad rom errors, the game resets.

- 0.147u1: Fixed maincpu rom loading.

- 0.122u7: Fixed gfx1/2/3/4/5 rom loading.

- 0.89u3: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 5MHz.

- 0.37b10: Yochizo added 'Omega Fighter' (UPL 1989) and clone Omega Fighter Special.

- 21st November 2000: Yochizo fixed some graphics bugs in the Omega Fighter / Atomic Robo-kid driver.

- 8th November 2000: Yochizo sent in a driver for Omega Fighter and Atomic Robo-kid.

- 25th April 1999: Dumped Omega Fighter Special.


LEVELS: 8 (restarts once)


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* Raine


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Romset: 2016 kb / 8 files / 457.8 zip


Credits Mameinfo and Mametesters Project Robert J. Rabgno et al.

History.dat entry:
Ninja Gaiden (c) 1988 Tecmo.

Ryu, the Dragon Ninja, travels the world to defeat evil wherever he finds it.

- TECHNICAL -

Game ID : 6215

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 9.216 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 4 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.575 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Even though the title screen says 1988, Ninja Gaiden was released in February 1989 in North America.

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Ninja Side Story'.

This game is known in Japan as "Ninja Ryukenden" and outside US as "Shadow Warriors".

- SERIES -

1. Ninja Gaiden (1988)
2. Ninja Gaiden (1989, NES)
3. Ninja Gaiden Episode II - The Dark Sword of Chaos (1990, NES)
4. Ninja Gaiden Episode III - The Ancient Ship of Doom (1991, NES)
5. Ninja Gaiden (2004, XBOX)
6. Ninja Gaiden Black (2005, XBOX)
7. Ninja Gaiden Sigma (2007, PS3)
8. Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword (2007, DS)
9. Ninja Gaiden II (2008, XBOX 360)
10. Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 (2009, PS3)
11. Ninja Gaiden 3 (2012, PS3, XBOX 360)
12. Ninja Gaiden 3 - Razor's Edge (2012, Wii U; 2013, PS3, XBOX 360)

- STAFF -

Supervision, Script, Background, Dark corps design : Strong Shima
Musician : Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki), Putaro, Ryuichi Nitta (Shitamachi Kajiya), Angirus
Art design : Bayashi

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo NES [US] (March 1989) "Ninja Gaiden [Model NES-NG-USA]"
Nintendo Wii [Virtual Console Arcade] [US] (December 21, 2009)

* Hanhelds :
Atari Lynx [US] (1991) "Ninja Gaiden [Model PA2039]"
Sega Game Gear [US] (1991)

* Computers :
PC [MS-DOS] [US] (1990)

* Others :
Tiger Handheld LCD Game (1988)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1781&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License

cheat.dat entry:
00000000 62F15 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Credits
00000000 61E89 00000099 FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
60000000 00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 61E8E 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL1
00000000 61EC3 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL1
00000000 61EBA 0000000A FFFFFFFF Infinite Sword PL1
00000000 61EB0 0000002C FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL1
00000000 61E32 00000000 00000002 Rapid Fire PL1
60000000 00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 61E8F 00000003 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives PL2
00000000 61F03 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Energy PL2
00000000 61EFA 0000000A FFFFFFFF Infinite Sword PL2
00000000 61EF1 0000002C FFFFFFFF Invincibility PL2
00000000 61E32 00000000 00000022 Rapid Fire PL2

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file

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