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title Kaiser Knuckle (Ver 2.1J 1994/07/29)
set name kaiserkj
manufacturer Taito Corporation
year 1994
genre Fighter (hof)
category Fighter / Versus (hof)
driver status good
driver source taito_f3.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent / Mr. Do: parent / EJ: parent / PS: in game | title | parent
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rating

64.4% after 25 votes
 
parent Kaiser Knuckle (Ver 2.1O 1994/07/29)
other clones Dan-Ku-Ga (Ver 0.0J 1994/12/13) (Prototype)
Global Champion (Ver 2.1A 1994/07/29)
display
colour emulation good
palette 8192
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x224
frequency 58.970000Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels stereo
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 6
coin slots 4
hardware
cpu 68EC020 @ 16MHz
cpu 68000 @ 16MHz
audio ES5505 @ 15.23805MHz
data
version added .037b11
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
d84-25.20  524288  2840893f  kaiserkn    079dece4667b029189622476cc618b88e57243a6 
d84-24.19  524288  bf20c755  kaiserkn    9f6edfe9bb40051e8a93d06a391c993ed7288db6 
d84-23.18  524288  39f12a9b  kaiserkn    4b3fe9b8b0abb46feacd11ffb6b505568f892483 
d84-22.17  524288  762f9056  kaiserkj    c39854d865210d05fe745493098ef5990327c56e 
d84-03.rom  2097152  d786f552  kaiserkn    f73146892f714b5706d568fc8a135fddaa656570 
d84-04.rom  2097152  d1f32b5d  kaiserkn    35289cce64fdbb8d966dd1d5307b5393be5e7799 
d84-06.rom  2097152  fa924dab  kaiserkn    28a8c3cd701f8df0c53069bb576bb2a820f3a331 
d84-07.rom  2097152  54517a6b  kaiserkn    6e2c213c7ec1a3b78ad7e71db2326602557fd0f8 
d84-09.rom  2097152  faa78d98  kaiserkn    da3a2c5a45dd169743f113aa08e574f732e1f0fd 
d84-10.rom  2097152  b84b7320  kaiserkn    f5de0d6da50d8ed753607b51e46bc9a4572ef431 
d84-19.rom  524288  6ddf77e5  kaiserkn    a1323acaed37fce62a19e63a0800d9d1dc2cfff7 
d84-20.rom  524288  f85041e5  kaiserkn    6b2814514338f550d6aa14dbe39e848e8e64edee 
d84-05.rom  2097152  31a3c75d  kaiserkn    1a16ccb6a0a03ab715e5b016ab3b1b2cd0f1ae41 
d84-08.rom  2097152  07347bf1  kaiserkn    34bd359933acdec7fd1ce047092a30d1177afc2c 
d84-11.rom  2097152  a062c1d4  kaiserkn    158912aa3dd75c3961bf738f9ac9034f0b005b60 
d84-21.rom  524288  89f68b66  kaiserkn    95916f02f71357324effe59da4f847f2f30ea34a 
d84-12.rom  2097152  66a7a9aa  kaiserkn    a7d21f8b6370d16de3c1569019f2ad71d36e7a61 
d84-13.rom  2097152  ae125516  kaiserkn    d54e76e398ab0b0fb82f3154ba54fc823ff49a1a 
d84-16.rom  1048576  bcff9b2d  kaiserkn    0ca50ec809564eddf0ba7448a8fae9087d3b600b 
d84-17.rom  1048576  0be37cc3  kaiserkn    b10c10b93858cad0c962ef614cfd6daea712ef6b 
d84-14.rom  2097152  2b2e693e  kaiserkn    03eb37fa7dc68d54bf0f1800b8c0b581c344a40f 
d84-18.rom  1048576  e812bcc5  kaiserkn    3574e4a99232d9fc7989ec5d1e8fe76b4b30784a 
d84-26.32  262144  4f5b8563  kaiserkn    1d4e06cbea7bc73a99d6e30be714fff420151bbc 
d84-27.33  262144  fb0cb1ba  kaiserkn    16a79b53651a6131f7636db19738b456b7c28bff 
d84-01.rom  2097152  9ad22149  kaiserkn    48055822e0cea228cdecf3d05ac24e50979b6f4d 
d84-02.rom  2097152  9e1827e4  kaiserkn    1840881b0f8f7b6225e6ffa12a8d4b463554988e 
d84-15.rom  1048576  31ceb152  kaiserkn    d9d0bc631a6a726376f566a49605b50485ac7bf4 
cabinet art
art no cabinet, marquee, flyer, control panel or PCB images found
additional information
info 0.37b11 [Bryan McPhail]

Bugs:
  • When the "Best Players" list is displayed in attract mode, there is nothing listed. Firebrand (ID 00899)
  • Clone gblchmp: Music dont play in battle. Other sets are OK. Tiago (ID 00897)
  • [possible] The color of characters' shadows are wrong (they are green). Smitdogg (ID 01172)
WIP:
  • 0.126u1: Nicola Salmoria fixed P1/2 button 4 mapped twice and character gets all messed up when thrown by Azteca's medium punch throw the palette of the thrown.
  • 0.61: Fixed sound1 roms addresses.
  • 0.57: Added gfx1 roms ($c00000, c00001, 1980000) and sound1 rom ($e00000).
  • 0.37b11: Bryan McPhail added Kaiser Knuckle (World) (Taito 1994) and clones (Japan), Global Champion (US) and Dan-Ku-Ga (Japan).
  • 16th January 2001: Bryan McPhail fixed some memory corrupting bugs in the Taito F3 driver and added clone Dan-Ku-Ga.
  • 15th January 2001: Bryan McPhail finally submitted his Taito F3 driver, which is not graphically perfect and crashes hard sometimes but has complete ES5505 sound emulation thanks to Aaron Giles, Ian Schmidt and R. Belmont. Not all games are working due to 68020 core bugs, but these are: Ring Rage, Arabian Magic, Riding Fight, Grid Seeker: Project Stormhammer, Gunlock / Rayforce, Super Cup Finals / Hat Trick Hero '93, Top Ranking Stars, Light Bringer, Kaiser Knuckle / Global Champion, Bubble Bobble 2 / Bubble Symphony, Space Invaders DX, Taito Power Goal / Hat Trick Hero '95, Quiz Theater - 3tsu no Monogatari, Akkanvader, Moriguchi Hiroko no Quiz de Hyuu!Hyuu!, Puzzle Bobble 2 / Bust-A-Move Again, Puzzle Bobble 2X, Kyukyoku Tiger 2, Bubble Memories, Cleopatra Fortune, Puzzle Bobble 3, Arkanoid Returns, Kirameki Star Road, Puchi Carat and Pop 'N Pop.
LEVELS: 12

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  • Raine
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Romset: 36864 kb / 27 files / 12.2 zip
history Kaiser Knuckle (c) 07/1994 Taito.


A one-on-one fighting game featuring nine selectable characters and three end bosses, controlled with a single joystick and six buttons. In addition to the usual kicks and punches, each character also has a number of special moves, that can be utilized via complex joystick and button combinations. In the one player game, players can chose their first opponent, with subsequent opponents chosen randomly by the game.


Unusually for a game of this type, Kaiser Knuckle features blood; something that had hitherto only been associated with Midway's "Mortal Kombat" series. The blood option can be switched off in the game's dip settings.


Kaiser Knuckle was Taito's answer to the Capcom and SNK fighting games that were dominating the arcade scene in the early 90's, and while playable enough in its own right, and featuring, as it does, colourful graphics and highly animated backdrops, Taito's offering couldn't compete with the "Street Fighters" of the world, either on commercial or gameplay terms.


- TECHNICAL -


Taito F3 System hardware

Prom Stickers : D84


Main CPU : 68EC020 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound CPU : 68000 (@ 16 Mhz)

Sound Chips : ES5505 (@ 15.23805 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels

Screen refresh : 58.97 Hz

Palette colors : 8192


Players : 2

Control : dial

Buttons : 6


- TRIVIA -


This game is known in US as "Global Champion".


An updated prototype of this game is known as "Dan-Ku-Ga".


- UPDATES -


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


- STAFF -
  • Image illustrator : Nobuteru Yuki
  • Project leader : Takeshi Kobori
  • Planners : Takeshi Kobori, Hiromi Mikami, Yuji Sakamoto, Hiroshi Aoki
  • Main character designers : Yuji Sakamoto, Takeshi Kobori
  • Character designers : Hiroto Nizato, Hiromi Mikami, Atsushi Iwata, Shinichi Arai, Makoto Fujita, Horitaka Kawamoto, Takayuki Isobe, Shin Tanaka, Shinjiro Sugitani, Seiji Kawakami, Kazuhiro Numata, Yukio Abe, Nobuhiro Hiramatsu, Hiroyo Kujirai, Tomohisa Yamashita, Tsuyoshi Tanigawa, Hideyuki Kato, Keisuke Nishioka, Tatsuya Ushiroda, Hiroshi Nishida
  • Assistants : Peacock, Production IG, VAP
  • Main programmmer : Hiroshi Aoki
  • Programmers : Kosuke Usami, Kumi Tsuchiya, Tatsuo Nakamura, Isao Oyama
  • Music composer : Yasuhisa Watanabe (Zuntata)
  • Sound effect designers : Katsuhisa Ishikawa (Zuntata)
  • Recording engineers : Munehiro Nakanishi (Zuntata)
  • System engineers : Katsumi Kaneoka, Hironobu Suzuki
  • Designers : Kumi Mizobe, Takeshi Kobori
  • Mechanic engineer : Koichi Otsu
  • * CAST :
  • Kazuya : Kazuki Yao
  • Barts : Ryutaro Okiayu
  • Lihua : Saeko Shimazu
  • Liza : Aya Hisakawa
  • Gekkou : Hideo Ishikawa
  • J-McCoy : Kazunari Tanaka
  • Wulong : Yasushi Horibata
  • Marco : Ichiro Otowa
  • Boggy : Andrew Holms
  • Gonzales : Hisao Egawa
  • Azteca : Ryu Kuzu
  • General : Steve Yamashita
  • Narrator : Randy Sexton
  • - SOURCES -
  • Game's rom.
  • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=kaiser-knuckle&page=detail&id=1250&o=2
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code comments
00000000:409733:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00010000:409737:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/2)
00000001:409733:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Round Now!
00010001:409737:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Finish this Round Now! (2/2)
20800000:042435:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Can Select Anyone:Either move up from Kazuya or down from Marco to get to the other characters.
20810000:042447:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Can Select Anyone (2/2)
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:41322D:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00000001:41322D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Character PL1:Free player selection - Use on Character selection or Winner/Loser screen.
00010000:40B321:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kazuya
00018000:41454D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kazuya (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Barts
00018000:41454D:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Barts (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Gekkou
00018000:41454D:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Gekkou (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Wulong
00018000:41454D:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Wulong (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Lihua
00018000:41454D:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Lihua (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Liza
00018000:41454D:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Liza (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000006:FFFFFFFF  J. McCoy
00018000:41454D:00000006:FFFFFFFF  J. McCoy (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Boggy
00018000:41454D:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Boggy (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Marco
00018000:41454D:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Marco (2/2)
00010000:40B321:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Gonzales
00018000:41454D:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Gonzales (2/2)
00010000:40B321:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Azteca
00018000:41454D:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Azteca (2/2)
00010000:40B321:0000000B:FFFFFFFF  General
00018000:41454D:0000000B:FFFFFFFF  General (2/2)
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:41342D:00000063:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00000001:41342D:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Character PL2:Free player selection - Use on Character selection or Winner/Loser screen.
00010000:40B521:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kazuya
00018000:41454F:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Kazuya (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Barts
00018000:41454F:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Barts (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Gekkou
00018000:41454F:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Gekkou (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Wulong
00018000:41454F:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Wulong (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Lihua
00018000:41454F:00000004:FFFFFFFF  Lihua (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Liza
00018000:41454F:00000005:FFFFFFFF  Liza (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000006:FFFFFFFF  J. McCoy
00018000:41454F:00000006:FFFFFFFF  J. McCoy (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Boggy
00018000:41454F:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Boggy (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Marco
00018000:41454F:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Marco (2/2)
00010000:40B521:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Gonzales
00018000:41454F:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Gonzales (2/2)
00010000:40B521:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Azteca
00018000:41454F:0000000A:FFFFFFFF  Azteca (2/2)
00010000:40B521:0000000B:FFFFFFFF  General
00018000:41454F:0000000B:FFFFFFFF  General (2/2)
60000000:000000:00000000:00000000 
62000000:000000:00000000:00000000  Select Region:After you enable this cheat to see any effect you will have to reset the game (F3). Then you may have to turn the Test Mode ON (F2), reset again (F3), wait for Test Mode to appear then turn the Test Mode OF
20810000:1FFFFF:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Japan (Kaiser Knuckle)
20810000:1FFFFF:00000002:FFFFFFFF  US (Global Champion)
20810000:1FFFFF:00000003:FFFFFFFF  World (Kaiser Knuckle)
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