ninjaw: MAME ROM Information.
History:
The Ninja Warriors (c) 1987 Taito.
Two ninjas fight an entire army to destroy an evil dictator in this horizontal action game, which features physical damage on our heroes
- TECHNICAL -
Board Number : M4300086H
Prom Stickers : B31
Main CPU : (2x) 68000 (ID : K1100325A, K1100312A) (@ 8 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Z80 (ID : K1100313A) (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz), (4x) Volume (@ 8 Mhz)
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 2 (DAGGER, SHURIKEN)
- TRIVIA -
Released in February 1988 in Japan (even if the title screen says 1987).
Licensed by Romstar for US distribution.
The strange resolution of this game was due to the original cabinet which had a wide screen made out of three monitors.
Banglar, the main enemy who looks like Yoda from the star wars films makes a cameo appearance in "Aqua Jack" 2 years after appearing in The Ninja Warriors.
Brian Chapel holds the official record for this game with 188,900 points.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors : G.S.M. Taito 1 - D28B0001) on 21/06/1988.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors - Famous Recording Series - PCCB-00074) on 21/10/1991.
Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (The Ninja Warriors - Complete Album - PCCB-00116) on 19/03/1993.
- SERIES -
1. The Ninja Warriors (1988)
2. The Ninja Warriors Again (1994, Nintendo Super Famicom)
- STAFF -
Produced by : Yojiro Suekado
Directed by : Masaki Ogata
Written by : Onijust
Executive producer : Hisao Yunoki
Director of software : Daisuke Sasaki
Programmers : Yoshihisa Nagata, Yuji Iwasaki, Yoshiyuki Watabe, Masaki Ogata, Daisuke Sasaki
Production designer : Yukiwo Ishikawa
Character designers : Masami Kikuchi, Yoshihiro Wakita, Toshiyuki Nishimura, Taira Sanuki, Shinobu Iwabuchi, Sachiko Yamana, Junji Yarita, Kohzoh Igarashi, Tetsuro Kitagawa, Yukiwo Ishikawa
Assistant character designers : Visual Arts Produtcion, Animation 20, Space Creative
Supervising editor : Tetsuro Kitagawa
Editors : Masami Kikuchi, Yukiwo Ishikawa
Costume designer : Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Hardware designer : Toshiyuki Sanada
Assistant hardware engineer : Satoru Shimomura
Music composed and directed by (Zuntata) : Hisayoshi Ogura
Assistant sound programmer (Zuntata) : Naoto Yagista
Sound editor (Zuntata) : Yasuhisa Watanabe
Sound hardware designer : Tsukasa Nakamura
Publicity supervisor : Hisayoshi Nakane
Game designed by : Onijust
- PORTS -
* Consoles :
NEC PC-Engine (1989)
Sega Mega CD
* Computers :
Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1989)
Commodore C64 (1989)
Amstrad CPC (1989)
Commodore Amiga (1989)
Atari ST (1989)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
Machine's picture.
MAME Info:
0.37b10 [David Graves]
Bugs:
- Some enemies slide relative to the background when they should be standing still. Source (ID 02415)
- When the player flash there's a strange black shadow on the screen. Robiza (ID 00813)
WIP:
- 0.144u1: Stefan Lindberg and The Dumping Union added clone The Ninja Warriors (US). Fixed rom names.
- 0.143u8: Kanikani added DIPSW notes to Ninja Warriors.
- 0.131u3: Guru added Ninja Warriors README.
- 0.112: Added 'Continue Price' dipswitch.
- 0.111u1: Robiza fixed sprite drawing in Ninja Warriors.
- 0.106u8: Aaron Giles added multiscreen support (3x 288x224) to Ninja Warriors.
- 0.97u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed video problems in The Ninja Warriors, which broke with the new colscroll addition.
- 0.93: Removed Custom sound and added 4x Volume_Filter.
- 0.37b14: Andrea Mazzoleni improved subwoofer sounds in Ninja Warriors. Added Custom sound and changed the 2x 68000 clock speed to 8MHz.
- 0.37b13: Added 2x user1 roms (unknown). Fixed rom names.
- 0.37b12: Changed 68000 CPU1/2 clock speeds to 13343000 Hz.
- 10th February 2001: Gerardo Oporto fixed dipswitch settings in Taito B system and Ninja Warriors drivers.
- 0.37b11: Added clone The Ninja Warriors (Japan). Changed parent description to 'The Ninja Warriors (World)' and visible area to 864x224. Added dipswitches 'Difficulty' and 6x 'Unused'.
- 16th December 2000: David Graves fixed a few problems in Taito multiscreen games and added a few clone romsets.
- 0.37b10: David Graves added The Ninja Warriors (Japan) (Taito 1987).
- 4th December 2000: David Graves added support for a third Taito TC0100SCN chip emulation.
- 1st December 2000: David Graves updated the TC0100SCN Taito chip emulation to support extra wide tilemaps, making Darius 2, Ninja Warriors and Warrior Blade playable.
- 16th October 2000: David Graves sent in a preliminary Taito multiscreen driver with Darius 2, Ninja Warriors and Warrior Blade, however the extra wide background tilemaps are not emulated.
- 22nd December 1997: Malcor dumped The Ninja Warriors (World) TAITO 1987.
LEVELS: 6
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
* Raine
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Romset: 6401 kb / 27 files / 2.61 zip
MAME XML Output:
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| | | <description>The Ninja Warriors (World)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Taito Corporation Japan</manufacturer> |
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| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="audiocpu" name="Z80" clock="4000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="sub" name="68000" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="lspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="rspeaker" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="ymsnd" name="YM2610" clock="8000000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="2610.1.l" name="Volume Filter"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="2610.1.r" name="Volume Filter"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="2610.2.l" name="Volume Filter"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="2610.2.r" name="Volume Filter"/> |
| | | <display tag="lscreen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="288" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <display tag="mscreen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="288" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <display tag="rscreen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="288" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="2" tilt="yes"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Allow Continue" tag="DSWA" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="No" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Yes" value="1" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWA" mask="2"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="2" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSWA" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSWA" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin A" tag="DSWA" mask="48"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="32"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="48" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coin B" tag="DSWA" mask="192"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/2 Credits" value="192" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/3 Credits" value="128"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/4 Credits" value="64"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/6 Credits" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Difficulty" tag="DSWB" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Easy" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Medium" value="3" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hard" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Hardest" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="4"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="4" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="8"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSWB" mask="128"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="12288"/> |
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