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title Killer Instinct 2 (v1.0)
set name kinst210
manufacturer Rare
year 1995
genre Fighter (hof)
category Fighter / Versus (hof)
driver status good
driver source kinst.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent / PS: in game | title | select | versus | parent
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rating

70.3% after 85 votes
 
parent Killer Instinct 2 (v1.4)
other clones Killer Instinct 2 (v1.1)
Killer Instinct 2 (v1.3)
Killer Instinct 2 (v1.3k, upgrade kit)
Killer Instinct 2 (v1.4k, upgrade kit)
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display
colour emulation good
palette 32768
display type raster
orientation horizontal
resolution 320x240
frequency 60.000000Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P sim
controls 8 way joystick
buttons 6
coin slots 4
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hardware
cpu R4600 (little) @ 100MHz
cpu ADSP2105 @ 10MHz
audio DMA-driven DAC
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data
version added .087u3
last change(s) .126u3
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
ki2-l10.u98  524288  b17b4b3d  kinst210    756629cd1b51ae50f2b9818765dd3d277c3019b3 
ki2_l1.u10  524288  fdf6ed51  kinst2    acfc9460cd5df01403b7f00b2f68c2a8734ad6d3 
ki2_l1.u11  524288  f9e70024  kinst2    fe7fc78f1c60b15f2bbdc4c455f55cdf30f48ed4 
ki2_l1.u12  524288  2994c199  kinst2    9997a83432cb720f65b40a8af46f31a5d0d16d8e 
ki2_l1.u13  524288  3fe6327b  kinst2    7ff164fc2f079d039921594be92208973d43aa03 
ki2_l1.u33  524288  6f4dcdcf  kinst2    0ab6dbfb76e9fa2db072e287864ad1f9d514dd9b 
ki2_l1.u34  524288  5db48206  kinst2    48456a7b6592c40bc9c664dcd2ee2cfd91942811 
ki2_l1.u35  524288  7245ce69  kinst2    24a3ff009c8a7f5a0bfcb198b8dcb5df365770d3 
ki2_l1.u36  524288  8920acbb  kinst2    0fca72c40067034939b984b4bf32972a5a6c26af 
CHD
name md5 set
kinst2  2563b089b316f2c8636d78af661ac656  kinst210 
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cabinet art
cabinet kinst2.png kinst2.png
marquee kinst2.png
control panel kinst2.png
flyer kinst2.png
PCB kinst2.png
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additional information
info 0.63 [Aaron Giles, Bryan McPhail]

HardDisk required

WIP:
  • 0.126u3: Brian Troha added clone Killer Instinct 2 (v1.3k, upgrade kit), not working. Renamed (kinst2k) to (kinst2k4).
  • 0.125u7: Aaron Giles added save state support to the Killer Instinct driver.
  • 0.122u5: Aaron Giles fixed volume adjustment saving.
  • 0.107u3: ClawGrip updated Killer Instinct 2 input ports to use IPT_BILL1 for bill acceptors (Dollar Bill).
  • 0.87u3: Aaron Giles added clones Killer Instinct 2 (v1.0) and (v1.4k, upgrade kit).
  • 0.86u1: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.
  • 0.84u3: Fixed sound1 roms addresses.
  • 0.81u4: Added clones Killer Instinct 2 (v1.1) and (v1.3). Aaron Giles cleaned up memory maps, found second bitmap page, fixing a bunch of video problems and romoving an egregious hack, fixed sound reset and initialization, all diagnostics pass, fixed coinage dipswitches and added 2 alternate ROM sets. This fixes two reported bugs. Fixes the MIPS 3/4 x86 dynamic recompiler. This fixes the sky graphics in several of the kinst2 levels.
  • 0.79u2: Replaced Custom sound with DMA-driven DAC.
  • 0.78u4: Changed region cpu2 to sound1.
  • 0.74: Changed ADSP2105 clock speed to 10MHz.
  • 0.63: Aaron Giles and Bryan McPhail added Killer Instinct 2 (v2.1) (Rare 1994). Several tests hang because of our hacking screen flipping code.
  • 8th December 2002: Aaron Giles included a perfectly working driver for Killer Instinct and Killer Instinct 2 written by him and Bryan McPhail (sorry, your 3 GHz P4's are obsolete now).
LEVELS: 11

Other Emulators:
  • Ultra64
Romset: 4608 kb / 9 files / 4.33 zip

Harddisk: 436.5 MB (Heads: 13, Cylinders: 1463, Sectors: 47 - Compressed: 129.5)
history Killer Instinct 2 (c) 1994 Rare.


Not as widely received as its predecessor, ten characters nevertheless rack up the combo hits for another go.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : R4600 (@ 100 Mhz)

Sound CPU : ADSP2105 (@ 10 Mhz)

Sound Chips : DMA-driven (@ 10 Mhz)


Screen orientation : Horizontal

Video resolution : 320 x 240 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 32768


Players : 2

Control : 8-way joystick

Buttons : 6


- UPDATES -


REVISION 1 :

* Software version : 1.0


REVISION 2 :

* Software version : 1.1


REVISION 3 :

* Software version : 1.3


REVISION 4 :

* Software version : 1.4


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* Play As Gargos : At the character selection screen, hold Up on the joystick, then press FP, MP, MK, FK, MP, QP, QK, MK.


* Random Select : At the character selection screen, hold Up on the joystick and press the Start button.


* Speed Codes : The following combinations should be held at the 'VS' screen to change the speed setting of the match.

Turbo speed - Down+MP or MK.

Ultra speed - Down+FP or FK.

Cancel speed code - Down+QP or QK.


* Stage Select / Music Select : After choosing the character you want with the Start button, immediately press and hold Up or Down along with one of the Punch or Kick buttons. Different combinations allow different boards. The first player to choose their character gets to choose the stage. The second player gets to choose the music with the same method.

Up+LP - Sabrewulf stage.

Up+MP - Maya stage.

Up+HP - Glacius stage.

Up+LK - Tusk stage.

Up+MK - Fulgore stage.

Up+HK - Orchid stage.

Down+LP - Jago stage.

Down+MP - Gargos stage.

Down+HP - T.J. Combo stage.

Down+LK - Kim Wu stage.

Down+MK - Spinal stage.

Down+HK - Spinal stage.

Down+MK (both controllers) - Sky Platform.


* Alternate Costumes : At the character select screen, press Up or Down on the joystick.


* Finishers : ''Ultra combo'' and ''Ultimates'' are within-combo, ''No Mercy'' can be done anywhere.


COMBO :

Assault : B, F, [FK]

Ultra Combo : F, B, [FP]

Ultimate - ''Screen Punch'' : Hold [QK], release [QK]. TJ punches opponent, he flies the friendly skies.

No Mercy - ''Gun'em Down'' : (F), DF, D, DB, B, F [FK]. TJ takes out a gun, and shots the crap out of the opponent.


FULGORE :

Assault : F, D, DF, [QP]

Ultra Combo : F, D, DF, [QK]

Ultimate - ''Heavy Artillery'' : F, B, DB, D, DF, F, [MK]. Fulgore turns into a battletech and shoots heavy artillery at opponent.

No Mercy - ''Lazer'': B, DB, D, DF, F, B, [MP]. laser falls from the sky, your opponents veins and a whole bloody mess is left behind.


GLACIUS :

Assault : D, DB, B, [QK]

Ultra Combo : D, DF, F, [QK]

Ultimate - ''Ice Spear'' : D, DB, B, F, [MK]. Glacius stabs the opponent with an ice pick.

No Mercy - ''Ice Crusher'' : B, F, DF, D, DB, B, [QK]. Glacius grabs his opponent, freezes him and blam!


JAGO :

Assault : DB, D, DF, [QK]

Ultra Combo : DF, D, DB, [QK]

Ultimate - ''Laser Sword Stab'' : F, D, DF, [FK]. Uhm hah yiha! Nice swords play by Jago.

No Mercy - ''Fireball Scorcher'' : F, DF, D, DB, B, F ,[MP]. The tiger spirit within Jago causes a dragon to appear. He burns the crap out of the character.


KIM-WU :

Assault : D, DB, B, [QK]

Ultra Combo : D, DF, F, [QK]

Ultimate - ''Star'' : B, DB, D, DF, F, B, [QK]. A star explodes in your face!!!

No Mercy - ''Chest Stomp'' : (B), F, B, DB, D, DF, F, [MK]. Kim-Wu goes wild and steps on your chest! Yippie!


MAYA :

Assault : (F), B, [FP]

Ultra Combo : (F), B, [FK]

Ultimate - ''Elephant'' : F, DF, D, DB, B, F, [QK]. An elephant magically fall on your opponent.

No Mercy - ''Shrinker'' : B, DB, D, DF, F, B, [QP]. A red ray its emitted from Maya's forehead. The opponent is shrunk down to size.


ORCHID :

Assault : D, DF, F, [FP]

Ultra Combo : D, DB, B, [QK]

No Mercy - ''Scorcher'' : B, F, DF, D, DB, B, [MK]. Orchid throws a fireball that frys the opponent.


SABERWULF :

Assault : F, B, [QK]

Ultra Combo : B, F, [QK]

Ultimate - ''Electrocution'' : Hold [FK], Release [FK]. Electrifing!

No Mercy - 'Bat Attack' : Hold [QP] Release [QP]. A flock of bats carry the character off screen. Then you hear a loud scream and blood drips.


SPINAL :

Assault : B, DB, D, DF, F, [FP]

Ultra Combo : F, DF, D, DB, B, [FP]

Ultimate - ''Sword Play'' : D, D, [QK]. Spinals starts cutting the opponent then he fries him with lighting!

No Mercy - ''Skull Drop'' : D, DF, F, D, DF, F, [QP]. A BIG ass skull falls on the opponent.


TUSK :

Assault : B, DB, D, DF, F, [MP]

Ultra Combo : F, DF, D, DB, B, [MP]

Ultimate - ''Dinosaur Attack'' : F, D, DF, [MK]. A dinosaur appears in the middle of nowhere and has a snack.

No Mercy - ''Meteor Shower'' : B, DB, D, DF, F, B, DB, D, DF, F, [MP]. Lots of meteors come down at the opponent.


- SERIES -
  1. Killer Instinct (1994)
  2. Killer Instinct 2 (1994)
    3. - STAFF -
    • * Game Development :
    • Head programmer : Mark Betteridge
    • Gameplay programmer : Chris Tilston
    • Character design and models : Kevin Bayliss
    • Background design and models : Chris Seavor
    • Music and sound : Robin Beanland
    • 3-D background, frontend programmer : Robert Harrison
    • Artificial intelligence programmer : Tony Wong
    • Additional programming : Martin Mollis
    • Rendered sequences : Lee Musgrave
    • Additional graphics : Don Murphy, Philip Dunnie, Keri Gunn
    • Character voices : S. Yamashiro, M. Yamada, Luise Stamper, Chris Seavor, Isaac Marshall, Armond Williams, Adrian Smith, Keiko Tamura, Keri Gunn, Ken Lobb, Chris Sutherland
    • Vocals : Faye Newborough
    • Live guitar and trumpet : Grant Kirkmope
    • Chants and sound FX : The Lads
    • Motion capture Actors : Kevin Bayliss : Simon Farmer, Louise Stamper, Dean Smith, Jon Paul Jenkins
    • Quality assurance : Huw Ward, James Charlesworth, Gavin Hood, Ken Lobb, ISaac Marshall, Henry Sterchi, Armond Williams, Melvin 'Medium kick' Forest, Shane Lewis, Kyle Carlson, Joe Stamper, Darren Walker, Eddie Ferrier
    • Game design and game producers : Chris Tilston, Mark Betteridge, Kevin Bayliss
    • Additional design : Ken Lobb, James Charlesworth, Gavin Hood
    • Hardware design : Chris Stamper, Pete Cox
    • * Game Manufacture :
    • Executive producers : Neil Nicastro, Ken Fedesna, Paul Dussault
    • Hardware : Cary Mednick, Steve Correll, Pat Cox, Al Lasko, John Lowes, Mike Lynch
    • Mechanical : Ted Valavanis, Chris Bobrowski, Donna Conrad, Gail Jonkovski, Keith Novak, Tom Sedor
    • Cabinet graphics : Nik Ehrlich
    • - PORTS -
    • * Consoles :
    • Nintendo SNES [Unreleased Prototype]
    • Nintendo 64 ("Killer Instinct Gold")
    • - SOURCES -
    • Game's rom.
    • Machine's picture.
    • Edit this entry at Arcade-History.com: http://www.arcade-history.com/?n=killer-instinct-2&page=detail&id=1281&o=2
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code comments
00000000:87F7A10:00000046:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time
00010000:87F7A11:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/3)
00010000:87F7A12:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Time (2/3)
60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:87FC105:00000078:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1
00010000:87FC106:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL1 (2/2)
00000001:87FC105:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1
00010001:87FC106:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL1 (2/2)
00100000:87FF150:0000FF20:FFFFFFFF  Always play as Gargos PL1:Use on or before the character select screen
60000000:0000000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:87FC205:00000078:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2
00010000:87FC206:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Energy PL2 (2/2)
00000001:87FC205:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2
00010001:87FC206:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Drain All Energy Now! PL2 (2/2)
00100000:87FF280:0000FF20:FFFFFFFF  Always play as Gargos PL2:Use on or before the character select screen
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