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title Champion Wrestler (World)
set name champwr
manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
year 1989
genre Sports (hof)
category Sports / Wrestling (hof)
driver status imperfect
driver source taito_l.c
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rating

66.6% after 31 votes
 
clones Champion Wrestler (Japan)
Champion Wrestler (US)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 256
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x224
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation imperfect
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu Z80 @ 6.66528MHz
cpu Z80 @ 4MHz
cpu Z80 @ 4MHz
audio YM2203 @ 3MHz
audio MSM5205 @ 0.384MHz
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data
version added .036b04
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
c01-13.rom  131072  7ef47525  champwr    79789fa3bcaeb6666c108d2e4b69a1f9341b2f4a 
c01-04.rom  131072  358bd076  champwr    beb20a09370d05de719dde596eadca8fecb14ce5 
c01-08.rom  65536  810efff8  champwr    dd4fc046095e0e815e8e1fd96d258da0d6bba298 
c01-07.rom  131072  5117c98f  champwr    16b3a443eb113d2591833884a1b0ff297d8c00a4 
c01-01.rom  524288  f302e6e9  champwr    456b046932c1ee29c890b8e87d417c4bb508c06a 
c01-02.rom  524288  1e0476c4  champwr    b7922e5196990ad4382f367ec80b5c72e75f9d35 
c01-03.rom  524288  2a142dbc  champwr    5d0e40ec266d3abcff4237c5c609355c65b4fa33 
c01-05.rom  131072  22efad4a  champwr    54fb33dfba5059dee16fa8b5a33b0b2d62a78373 
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cabinet art
marquee champwr.png
flyer champwr.png
PCB champwr.png
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additional information
info 0.36b4 [Olivier Galibert]

Bugs:
  • After the fix to Fighting Hawk's slowdown problem in 0.122u2, champwr now runs too fast (faster animations and missing music). Since the clock measurements by Kold666 have been confirmed, the problem is probably somewhere else in the driver (which is quite old and maybe needs a rewrite). etabeta (ID 01546)
WIP:
  • 0.122u2: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 6665280 Hz and Z80 CPU3 to 4MHz.
  • 0.93u3: Nicola Salmoria fixed Champion Wrestler MSM5205 playback, including volume.
  • 0.93: Changed ADPCM to MSM5205 (384000 Hz).
  • 0.37b13: Nicola Salmoria added Speech in Champion Wrestler. Added ADPCM sound and changed cpu1 rom ($50000) to sound1 ($0).
  • 0.37b11: Added dipswitches 'Difficulty', '1 minute Lenght' and 'Unused'.
  • 0.37b6: Changed Z80 CPU1/2 clocks speed to 6MHz and Z80 CPU3 to 4 Mhz and swapped cpu2/3 roms.
  • 0.37b3: Added dipswitches 'Flip Screen', 'Demo Sounds', 'Time' and 'Allow Continue'.
  • 3rd August 2000: Jarek Burczynski fixed sound in Raimais and Champion Wrestler in the Taito L driver.
  • 0.36RC1: Added clone Champion Wrestler (US).
  • 0.36b16: Added clone Champion Wrestler (Japan).
  • 0.36b4: Olivier Galibert added Champion Wrestler (World) (Taito 1989).
  • 26th August 1999: Olivier Galibert sent in a Taito system L driver with support for American Horseshoes, Cachat, Champion Wrestler, Fighting Hawk, Palamedes, Plotting, Puzznic and Raimais. None of them have sound though, and some have graphic bugs.
PLAY INSTRUCTIONS:
  • Press Button 1 for punch, Button 2 for kick, ->-> for run and both buttons for cover.
  • Move your stick and hit buttons as fast as you can to make power moves.
  • Each Wrestler have his own move. Try them all to find your favorite fighting style.
LEVELS: 8 (with 2 cages match and also a defence match)

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  • Raine
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Romset: 2112 kb / 8 files / 887 zip
history Champion Wrestler (c) 1989 Taito.


8 original wrestlers fight for glory, money and win the title belt of TWF circuit in a single or tag-team match.


- TECHNICAL -


Taito L System hardware

Prom Stickers : C01


Main CPU : (2x) Z80

Sound CPU : Z80

Sound Chips : YM2203, MSM5205


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


Rastan, the "Rastan Saga" hero appears in this game as Miracle Rastan.


Don't miss the funny pictures in win/lose screen :).


- STAFF -
  • Director : Takeshi Murata
  • Progammers : Takeshi Murata, Tsui Kato, Creamy Tetsu, Takahisa Horimoto
  • Game designers : Kenji Kaito, Hiroyuki Maekawa
  • Character designers : Kenji Kaito, Minori Ishino, Makoto Fujita, Oolong Yamada, Noritaka Kawamoto, Kenji Hazama, Seiji Kawagishi, Kazumasa Fuseya, Minako Morimoto
  • Sound (Zuntata) : Pochi, Hidehito Kitamura
  • Hardware design : Katsumi Kaneoka
  • Design : Atsushi Iwaoka
  • - PORTS -
  • * Consoles :
  • NEC PC-Engine (1990)
  • Sony PlayStation 2 (2007, "Taito Memories II Vol. 1") (Japan only)
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=champion-wrestler&page=detail&id=437&o=2
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cheats
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code comments
00000000:8A8A:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Round Time
00000001:8A88:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Round Time Up Now!
00010001:8A89:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Round Time Up Now! (2/3)
00010001:8A8A:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Round Time Up Now! (3/3)
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  ---------------------------------------------------------------
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  The Referee never counts cheat gives you Infinite Time out of
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  the ring, when you are on the corner and makes it impossible
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  to Get a fall. Either disable it or use the CORRECT 'Time ='
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  cheats. These can also be useful to enable when it's to
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  your advantage!! ;-)
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000  ---------------------------------------------------------------
00000000:A83C:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Referee never counts
00000001:A83C:00000014:FFFFFFFF  Out of Ring Time = 20 Now!
00000001:A83C:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Fall Count Time = 3 Now!
00010001:A83D:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Fall Count Time = 3 Now! (2/2)
00000001:A83C:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Corner Count Time = 4 Now!
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:A039:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00010000:A66E:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000000:A66D:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Power PL1
00000001:A039:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Energy Now!PL1
00010001:A039:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Energy Now!PL1(2/2)
00000001:A66D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Power Now! PL1
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:A139:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00010000:A670:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000000:A66F:000000A0:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Power PL2
00000001:A139:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Energy Now!PL2
00010001:A670:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Energy Now!PL2(2/2)
00000001:A66F:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain all Power Now! PL2
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