game
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title Kicker
set name kicker
manufacturer Konami
year 1985
genre Platform (hof)
category Platform / Fighter (hof)
driver status good
driver source shaolins.c
snapshots PS: in game | title | scores / MW: in game / CT: in game | title / EJ: in game
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rating

65.8% after 36 votes
 
clones Shao-lin's Road
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display
colour emulation good
palette 4096
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x256
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 4 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 2
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hardware
cpu M6809 @ 1.536MHz
audio SN76496 @ 1.536MHz
audio SN76496 @ 3.072MHz
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data
version added .033b07
last change(s) none since version .53
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
kikrd8.bin  8192  2598dfdd  kicker    70a9d81b73bbd4ff6b627a3e4102d5328a946d20 
kikrd9.bin  16384  0cf0351a  kicker    a9da783b29a63a46912a29715e8d11dc4cd22265 
kikrd11.bin  16384  654037f8  kicker    52d098386fe87ae97d4dfefab0bd3a902f66d70b 
kikra10.bin  8192  4d156afc  kicker    29eb66e2ebcf2f1c1d5ece5413d1ebf54663f9cf 
kikra11.bin  8192  ff6ca5df  kicker    dfcd445c8b233a0a4168eb249472e53784eda25d 
kikrh14.bin  16384  b94e645b  kicker    65ae48134a0fe1e910a787714f7ae721734ded5b 
kikrh13.bin  16384  61bbf797  kicker    97d276099172975499f646f381a6fc587c022435 
kicker.a12  256  b09db4b4  kicker    d21176cdc7def760da109083eb52e5b6a515021f 
kicker.a13  256  270a2bf3  kicker    c0aec04bd3bceccddf5f5a814a560a893b29ef6b 
kicker.a14  256  83e95ea8  kicker    e0bfa20600488f5c66233e13ea6ad857f62acb7c 
kicker.b8  256  aa900724  kicker    c5343273d0a7101b8ba6876c4f22e43d77610c75 
kicker.f16  256  80009cf5  kicker    a367f3f55d75a9d5bf4d43f9d77272eb910a1344 
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cabinet art
cabinet kicker.png
marquee kicker.png
control panel kicker.png
flyer kicker.png
PCB kicker.png
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additional information
info 0.33b7 [Nicola Salmoria]

0.30 [Allard van der Bas]

Bugs:
  • Turn on service mode and when you go through the tests 6 coloured boxes stay on the bottom of the screen. Speedfreak (ID 00349)
WIP:
  • 0.123u1: Zsolt Vasvari unified transparency handling between Scooter Shooter, Shao-Lin's Road and Time Pilot '84. Removed color tables from Shao-Lin's Road. Added resnet.c color computations where appropriate. Changed palettesize to 4096 colors.
  • 0.122u7: Corrado Tomaselli verified/corrected frequencies in Kicker and clone Shao-Lin's Road. Changed M6809 CPU1 clock speed to 1536000 Hz.
  • 0.93: Changed 2nd SN76496 clock speed to 3072000 Hz.
  • 0.70: Added 'Single/Dual Control Upright' dipswitch.
  • 5th May 2002: David Haywood fixed the crash bug in clone Shao-Lin's Road.
  • 0.36b6: Changed the 2x SN76496 clock speeds to 1536000 Hz.
  • 23rd September 1999: Takahiro Nogi has corrected sound frequency in Mikie and Shao-Lin's Road.
  • 0.33b7: Nicola Salmoria added Kicker (Konami 1985). Sometimes there is a blinking sprite in the bottom left corner of the high score entry screen. The Shao-Lin's Road program ROMs are identical to Kicker, only the title graphics are different.
  • 0.31: Gerrit Van Goethem added hiscore save in Shaolin's Road and Gerrit Van Goethem accurate the colors.
  • 0.30: Allard van der Bas added Shao-Lin's Road (Konami 1985). Sometimes there is a blinking sprite in the bottom left corner of the high score entry screen.
ARCADE RELEASE: Shaolin's Road (Konami) - 1985/Apr/25

LEVELS: 5 (endless)

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Romset: 90 kb / 12 files / 49.3 zip
history Kicker (c) 04/1985 Konami.


A kung-fu platform game.


- TECHNICAL -


Game ID : GX477


Main CPU : M6809 (@ 1.25 Mhz)

Sound Chips : SN76496 (@ 1.536 Mhz), SN76496 (@ 3.072 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette Colors : 256


Players : 2

Control : 4-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- TRIVIA -


This game is also known as "Shao-Lin's Road".


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.

Machine's picture.



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cheats
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code comments
00000000:2A78:00000007:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives
20800000:8662:000000A6:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy
20810000:8587:000000A6:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy (2/2):Part 1 takes care of sprite collisions energy drains & Part 2 takes care of falling off platform energy drains
20800000:9984:00000012:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility:Note, you can still fall off gaps in platforms and lose energy use this with Infinite Energy or Walk on Air to counteract it.
20810000:9985:00000016:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (2/3):Part 1 + 2 = Changing a 4 byte branch to a 3 byte BRA, NOP first then a LBRA instruction (for most fighters)
20810000:9A66:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (3/3):Changes a BCC to a BRA (for bosses)
20800000:822B:00000020:FFFFFFFF  Walk on Air:This will stop you falling off ends of platforms
00000001:2A87:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Only 1 to kill on this level
00000001:32B4:00000004:FFFFFFFF  1 hit to kill boss Now!
62000000:0000:00000000:00000000  Select Perm. Next Weapon
00010000:3175:00000001:FFFFFFFF  Purple
00010000:3175:00000002:FFFFFFFF  Yellow
00010000:3175:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Green
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:2A13:00000060:FFFFFFFF  Sound Test Code Stop:[Unknown]Next Code
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