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title Fighter's History (World ver 43-07)
set name fghthist
manufacturer Data East Corporation
year 1993
genre Fighter (hof)
category Fighter / Versus (hof)
driver status good
driver source deco32.c
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rating

65.7% after 25 votes
 
clones Fighter's History (Japan ver 42-03)
Fighter's History (US ver 42-03)
Fighter's History (US ver 42-05, alternate hardware )
display
colour emulation good
palette 2048
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 6
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu ARM @ 7MHz
cpu HuC6280 @ 4.0275MHz
audio YM2151 @ 3.58MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 1.006875MHz
audio OKI6295 @ 2.01375MHz
data
version added .074u2
last change(s) .119u2 .106u12 .105u1 .075
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
kx00-unknown.bin  524288  fe5eaba1  fghthist    c8a3784af487a1bbd2150abf4b1c8f3ad33da8a4 
kx01-unknown.bin  524288  3fb8d738  fghthist    2fca7a3ea483f01c97fb28a0adfa6d7980d8236c 
kz02.18k  65536  5fd2309c  fghthist    2fb7af54d5cd9bf7dd6fb4f6b82aa52b03294f1f 
mbf00-8.8a  1048576  d3e9b580  fghthist    fc4676e0ecc6c32441ff66fa1f990cc3158237db 
mbf01-8.9a  1048576  0c6ed2eb  fghthist    8e37ef4b1f0b6d3370a08758bfd602cb5f221282 
mbf02-16.16d  2097152  c19c5953  fghthist    e6ed26f932c6c86bbd1fc4c000aa2f510c268009 
mbf04-16.18d  2097152  f6a23fd7  fghthist    74e5559f17cd591aa25d2ed6c34ac9ed89e2e9ba 
mbf03-16.17d  2097152  37d25c75  fghthist    8219d31091b4317190618edd8acc49f97cba6a1e 
mbf05-16.19d  2097152  137be66d  fghthist    3fde345183ce04a7a65b4cedfd050d771df7d026 
mbf06.15k  524288  fb513903  fghthist    7727a49ff7977f159ed36d097020edef3b5b36ba 
mbf07.16k  524288  51d4adc7  fghthist    22106ed7a05db94adc5a783ce34529e29d24d41a 
kt-00.8j  512  7294354b  fghthist    14fe42ad5d26d022c0fe9a46a4a9017af2296f40 
ve-00.3d  260    fghthist  no dump   
ve-01.4d  260    fghthist  no dump   
cabinet art
control panel fghthist.png
flyer fghthist.png
PCB fghthist.png
additional information
info 0.74u2 [Bryan McPhail, Guru]

0.58 [Bryan McPhail, Guru]

TEST MODE:
  • Reset with both start buttons held down for test mode. Reset with P1 start held for Pattern Editor.
Bugs:
  • The penultimate boss 'Clown' performs no attacks (and there is a MAME generated message at the bottom during this match stating 'port error' or something). The final boss, 'Karnov' glitches and causes the game to be 'unwinnable'. Shortly after the fight begins he falls through the floor and then falls from the sky and repeats this indefinitely. When the game timer runs out the game just stays like that until the user quits. The 'port error' is also displayed throughout the final stage. fghthist0118yel Lemmy Levesque
  • Clone fghthstu: Some priority problems in Ryoko's stage. Namely, the old man, the cat and the kid. Tafoid: I thought there was a screenshot here already, but since there wasn't I've attached a recent one which illustrates the priority problems. I also verified it happens on all four related sets. fghthstu0106gre Kitsune Sniper (ID 00421)
WIP:
  • 0.119u2: Team Japum added clone Fighter's History (Japan ver 42-03). Fixed rom names.
  • 0.114: Aaron Giles fixed crash in Fighter's History.
  • 0.111u2: Aaron Giles improved cycle timings in the ARM CPU core. Altered the DECO32 CPU clocks to be more realistic. Changed ARM CPU1 clock speed to 7MHz.
  • 0.105u1: Bryan McPhail fixed Fighter's History - Game now playable. Renamed (fghthist) to (fghthstu) and (fghthstw) to (fghthist).
  • 9th April 2006: Bryan McPhail - Fighter's History finally emulated, a long, long time after I first started examining it (7 years?). The breakthrough came because I was able to map the use of the protection chip (Deco 146) on the Fghthist board to that of the Nitro Ball board which I had managed to attach the PCB target manager to. In the end it turns out it is a 'simple' address line swap, but I had to check the possibilities such as data line swapping, different address swap for read & write data (which sounds strange, but makes perfect sense for this chip) or even the possibility the chip has different hardware configurations that mean there may be no mapping.
  • 0.74u2: Added Fighter's History (US) (Data East 1993) and clones (US Alternate Hardware) and (World).
  • 0.67: Added clone Fighter's History (US Alternate Hardware) (Testdriver).
  • 0.58: Bryan McPhail added (Testdrivers) Fighter's History (US) and clone (World). ARM CPU emulation [Bryan McPhail, Phil Stroffolino].
  • 4th December 2000: Guru - Dumped Fighter's History (Alt).
Romset: 12354 kb / 14 files / 5.28 zip
history Fighter's History (c) 1993 Data East.


Players choose one of 9 international fighters and battle to be the best in the world.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : MBF


Main CPU : ARM (@ 7 Mhz), HuC6280 (@ 4.0275 Mhz)

Sound Chips : YM2151 (@ 3.58 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.627 Khz), OKI6295 (@ 15.255 Khz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 2048


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 6


- TRIVIA -


In 1993 Capcom sued Data East for the similarities between Fighter's History & "Street Fighter II - The World Warrior". Despite Data East successfully defending itself in the lawsuit, Fighter's History was not rid of its reputation as a 'shameless Street Fighter rip-off' and went ignored by many gamers. Its sequels, which added little to the series, helped cement this reputation.


In a bit of payback, Capcom added most of the moves of Lee into the characters Yang and Yun in Street Fighter 3.


This is one of the rare Japanese-made fighting games where the characters yell out the names of their moves in their native language. Most Japanese-made fighting games, including "Street Fighter II - The World Warrior", have the Asian characters (usually comprised of East Asians) speak Japanese while all the other characters speak English or Japanese, regardless of their nationality.


Both Ryoko and Jean's endings mention the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.


Mizoguchi later appeared as a selectable character in the Sony PlayStation 2 game "KOF - Maximum Impact Regulation A".


Pony Canyon / Scitron released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Fighter's History - PCCB-00123) on 18/06/1993.


A Fighter's History unit appears in the 1998 movie 'The Replacement Killers'.


- UPDATES -


The US version is slightly different, it has the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.


- SERIES -
  1. Fighter's History (1993)
  2. Karnov's Revenge (1994)
  3. Fighter's History - Mizoguchi Kiki Ippatsu!! (1995, Nintendo Super Famicom)
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cheats
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code comments
00000000:100184:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00000000:1009E5:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00000001:1009E5:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Round Now!
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:1005DC:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00010000:100A00:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000001:1005DC:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1
00010001:100A00:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1 (2/2)
00000000:1005DD:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00010000:100B00:000000FF:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000001:1005DD:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2
00010001:100B00:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2 (2/2)
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