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rvschool: MAME ROM Information.

History:

Rival Schools - United by Fate (c) 1997 Capcom.

- TECHNICAL -

Sony ZN-1 hardware

Main CPU : PSX (@ 16.9344 Mhz)

Sound CPU : Z80 (@ 8 Mhz)

Sound Chips : SPU (@ 8 Mhz), Q-Sound (@ 4 Mhz)

Control per player: 8-way joystick

Buttons per player: 6

- TRIVIA -

Released in November 1997.

This game is known in Japan as "Shiritsu Justice Gakuen - Legion of Heroes".

Justice Gakuen is the name of one of five schools in this game. They are :

1) Taiyou Gakuen (translates from Japanese as 'Solar Academy') : Batsu, Hinata and Kyousuke are students at this school.

2) Gorin Koukou (translates from Japanese as '5-Ring High School') : Shouma, Natsu, Roberto are students at this school. The word 'gorin' is made up of two kanji : 'go' and 'rin' .

3) Pacific High School : This is an American school, where exchange students Roy, Tiffany and Boman attend.

4) Gedou Koukou (translates from Japanese as 'Heretical Doctrine High School') : Edge, Akira, Gan are students at this school for bad kids.

5) Justice Gakuen (translates from Japanese as 'Justice Academy') : Hideo, Kyouko, Raizou and Hyou are faculty at Justice Gakuen.

Suleputer released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Shiritsu Justice Gakuen - Legend of Heroes Orignal Soundtrack - CPCA-1002) on 29/01/1998.

- TIPS AND TRICKS -

* Play Against Hyo : When you get to the seventh chapter (what would normally be the last fight), defeat your opponents with a Team Up Attack and you will go on to fight Hyo, the real boss. After beating him you will also receive a different ending then you normally would.

* Free Select Mode : After 2 weeks of installation, characters can be team up freely (but no story).

* Free Select Mode Code (no need time-release) : Go to test mode's 'Dot Cross Hatch' and press on the player 1 side Up(x2), Down(x2) LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

* Play As Hyo / As Raizo : After 3 weeks of installation, insert your coin(s) and hold Start. Hyo and Raizo will be selectable.

*Play As Hyo / As Raizo (no need time-release) : Go to test mode's 'Sound&Voice' and press on the player 2 side Up(x2), Down(x2), LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

* Play As Sakura / As Akira : After 4 weeks of installation, insert your coin(s) and hold Start. There will be two arrows above Hyo and Raizo.

* Play As Sakura / As Akira (no need time-release) : When Hyo and Raizo can be used, go to test mode's 'Input' and press on the player 2 side Up(x2), Down(x2), and on the player 1 side LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

- SERIES -

1. Rival Schools - United by Fate (1997)

2. Project Justice - Rival Schools 2 (2000)

- STAFF -

* CAST :

1) Taiyou Gakuen :

Batsu Ichimonji : Nobuyuki Hiyama

Hinata Wakaba : Tomoe Hanba

Kyosuke Kagami : Isshin Chiba

Hayato Nekketsu : Takumi Yamazaki

2) Gorin Koukou :

Shoma Sawamura : Yuji Ueda

Natsu Ayuhara : Narumi Tsunoda

Roberto Miura : Tomoyuki Morikawa

3) Pacific High School :

Roy Bromwell : Ryutato Okiayu

Tiffany Rose : Miki Narahashi

Boman Delgado : Takashi Nagasako

4) Gedou Koukou :

Eiji Yamada (Edge) : Yoshiharu Yamada

Akira Kazama : Chiharu Tezuka

Gan Isurugi : Takashi Nagasako

Daigo Kazama : Koichi Yamadera

5) Justice Gakuen :

Hideo Shimazu : Tetsuo Mizutori

Kyoko Minazuki : Kotono Mitsuishi

Raizo Imawano : Tomomichi Nishimura

Hyou Imawano : Kaneto Shiozawa

6) Tamagawa Minami Koukou :

Sakura Kasugano : Yuko Sasamoto

7) Sub-characters :

Shizuku Itsumonji (Batsu's mother) : Kotono Mitsuishi

Kohai B / Hisho / Committee Chairman : Miki Narahashi

Kohai A : Tomoe Hanba

Tiffany's Dad : Tetsuo Mizutori

Professor : Tomomichi Nishimura

Narration : Kaneto Shiozawa

- PORTS -

* Consoles :

Sony PlayStation (1998)

- SOURCES -

Game's rom.

MAME Info:

0.144u5 [Corrado Tomaselli, The Dumping Union]

0.86u1 [Brian Troha]

0.74u2 [?]

0.36RC1 [?]

WIP:

- 0.144u5: Corrado Tomaselli and The Dumping Union added Rival Schools: United By Fate (Euro 971117). Renamed (rvschool) to (rvschoolu).

- 7th January 2012: Smitdogg - Corrado Tomaselli has dumped Rival Schools (Euro).

- 0.144u4: Changed description to 'Rival Schools: United By Fate (USA 971117)' and clones to 'Rival Schools: United By Fate (Asia 971117)' and 'Shiritsu Justice Gakuen: Legion of Heroes (Japan 971117)'.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (rvschola) to (rvschoola).

- 0.86u1: Brian Troha added Rival Schools (USA 971117). Renamed (rvschool) to (rvschola).

- 0.82u2: Tourniquet, Olivier Galibert, smf, R. Belmont, [red], Malice, Renegade, Twisty, Dox, BUT and many other MAME.net board users helped out to find the missing ZN protection key - Game now playable.

- 3rd April 2004: R. Belmont and smf updated the ZN driver, making Rival Schools, Street Fighter Ex 2, Shanghai Matekibuyuu and Cool Boarders Arcade Jam playable and Gallop Racer 2 works up to the title screen.

- 0.74u2: Added Rival Schools (ASIA 971117) (Capcom 1997) and clone Justice Gakuen (JAPAN 971117).

- 0.36RC1: Added Rival Schools (ASIA 971117) (Testdriver) and clone Justice Gakuen (JAPAN 971117).

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Romset: 41728 kb / 13 files / 26.1 zip

MAME XML Output:

<description>Rival Schools: United By Fate (Euro 971117)</description>

<manufacturer>Capcom</manufacturer>

</input>

</dipswitch>

</dipswitch>

</dipswitch>

</dipswitch>

</game>

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