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Kabuki-Z (World)

  1. Game infos
  2. Parent and Clones
  3. Sound
  4. Driver
  5. Inputs
  6. Controls
  7. Display
  8. Dipswitchs
  9. Roms list
  10. Chips list
  11. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Kabuki-Z (World)
Name kabukiz
Manufacturer Kaneko / Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1988
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .090u3
Romset size 2.31 MB
Romset file 7 files
Romset zip 942 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Fighter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status good
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound good
Driver graphic good
Driver cocktail
Driver protection
Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no
Input tilt no
Input players 2
Input buttons
Input coins 2

Controls infos

type ways minimum maximum sensitivity keydelta reverse
joy 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 59.15

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade b50-01.u46 524288 f4277751 8f50f843f0eda30d639ba397889236ff0a3edce5 gfx1 180000 good no
arcade b50-02.u43 524288 90b8a8e7 a55e327307606142fbb9d500e757655b35e1f252 gfx1 100000 good no
arcade b50-03.u39 524288 31489a4c a4b7e00e2074287b47c7e16add963c1470534376 gfx1 80000 good no
arcade b50-04.u35 524288 04829aa9 a501ec7c802478fc41ec8ef4270b1a6872bcbf34 gfx1 0 good no
arcade b50-05.u1 131072 9cccb129 054faf7657bad7237182e36bcc4388b1748af935 maincpu 0 good no
arcade b50-07.u34 131072 bf7fc2ed 77008d12d9bdbfa100dcd87cd6ca7de3748408c5 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade b50-08.1e 65536 cb92d34c 3a666f0e3ff9d3daa599123edee228d94eeae754 sub 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
Speaker speaker audio
YM2203 ymsnd audio 3000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 6000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.90u3 [?]

0.90 [Pierpaolo Prazzoli]


WIP:

- 0.144u7: David Haywood fixed Kabuki-Z graphic corruption in debug build.

- 0.143u8: Kanikani fixed difficulty DIPSW (EASY and MEDIUM is reversed) and added DIP locations to Kabuki-Z.

- 0.128u1: Changed 'Unknown' dipswitches to 'Unused'.

- 0.122u7: Changed Z80 CPU3 clock speed to 6MHz.

- 0.122u2: Changed Z80 CPU2 clock speed to 4MHz.

- 0.95u3: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added samples to Kabuki-Z with a new redumped rom for cpu3 too and fixed the garbage colors at startup. Added DAC sound.

- 0.91u2: Nicola Salmoria added sprite buffering to the TNZS driver. Fixes Kabuki-Z sprites and backgrounds, though there might still be a few glitches. Fixed sound - Game now playable.

- 0.90u3: Added Kabuki-Z (World). Renamed (kabukiz) to (kabukizj).

- 0.90: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added 'Kabuki-Z (Japan)' (Taito 1988).

- 24th December 2004: Pierpaolo Prazzoli - Quick addition to tnzs driver. Still no sound and lots of sprites glitches in Kabuki-Z.

- 20th December 2004: Corrado Tomaselli dumped Kabuki-Z (Japan) sample rom.

- 20th December 2004: Guru - Kabuki Z (Taito 1988) arrived. Thanks to the good guys at the Italian MAME Forum!


LEVELS: 5


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History


Arcade Video game published 31 years ago:

Kabuki-Z (c) 1988 Taito Corporation.

Control a samurai on 5 levels of slashing bloody action featuring a 'fatality' on each level's boss.

- TECHNICAL -

Prom Stickers: B50

Main CPU: (3x) Z80 (@ 6 Mhz)
Sound Chips: YM2203 (@ 3 Mhz), DAC

Screen Orientation: Horizontal
Video Resolution: 256 x 224 Pixels
Screen Refresh: 59.15 Hz
Palette Colors: 512

Players: 2
Control: 8-Way Joystick
Buttons: 2
=> Slash, Defend

- TRIVIA -

Kabuki-Z was released in August 1988.

- STAFF -

Developed by: Kaneko

Main Designer: Hiroshi Kaneko
Character Designers: Ayako Funatsu, Tokuhisa Tagima, Keisuke Matsuoka, Akiko Kuratan, Toshiko Okimoto, Junko Yazaki, Yuuko Mabuchi, Chiharu Takekoshi, Sadam Fuzihira, Hidefumi Ichikawa
Music & Effects: Tatsuya Watanabe
Sound Enginnier: Seiichi Aizu
Main Programmer: Nobuyuki Narita
Sub Programmer: Hidemi Hamada
Special Thanks: Hiroshi Kikuchi

- PORTS -

This game was supposed to be ported on Megadrive under the name "Tenkuu Retsuden Musashi" (translates from Japanese as 'Tales of heaven'), by Kaneko. 'Musashi' is the name of a legendary samurai, it then means a great warrior. The port was cancelled.

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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