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Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (Japan)

 
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Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (Japan)

| 1986
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Developer: Irem
Controls/Input Device: Control(joy8way), Buttons(2)
Number of Players: 2
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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:
Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (c) 1986 Irem.

- TECHNICAL -

Irem M-62 system hardware

Main CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Motorola M6803 (@ 894.886 Khz)
Sound Chips : (2x) General Instrument AY8910 (@ 894.886 Khz), (2x) MSM5205 (@ 384 Khz)

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

- TRIVIA -

Kaiketsu Yanchamaru was released in December 1986 in Japan. It is known outside Japan as "Kid Niki - Radical Ninja"

The title of this game translates from Japanese as 'Wonder Boy Yanchamaru'.

Alfa Records released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (R*Type : Irem Game Music - 28XA-199) on January 25, 1988.

- UPDATES -

In the non-Japanese versions ("Kid Niki - Radical Ninja"), Kid Niki has spiky hair and a little rat tail. In Kaiketsu Yanchamaru, Kid Niki has a more traditional Japanese haircut.

- SERIES -

1. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (1987)
2. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2 - Karakuri Land [Model IF-22] (1991, Nintendo Famicom)
3. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen (1993, Nintendo Famicom)

- PORTS -

* Consoles :
Nintendo Famicom [JP] (October 2, 1987) [Model IF-07]
Nintendo Game Boy [JP] (1991) "Gensou Yanchamaru"

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: http://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1249&o=2


Licensed from Alexis Bousiges under a CC Attribution 3.0 License
cheat.dat entry:
00000000 E122 0000005A FFFFFFFF Infinite Time
00000000 E200 00000009 FFFFFFFF Infinite Lives
00000000 E54A 00000008 FFFFFFFF Infinite POW
00000000 E21E 00000030 FFFFFFFF No Enemies
60000000 0000 00000000 00000000 See the Dip Switch Menu to enable Invincibility.
00000001 E15C 00000001 FFFFFFFF Finish the Last Boss with 1 Hit Now!
00000001 E003 00000003 FFFFFFFF Start this Level Again! Handy for when you have Invincibility DIP enabled and you want to die to change the level
00080300 E202 00000007 00000000 Select Starting Level

Credit Pugsy's MAME Cheat file
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