Mame game : karatblz : Karate Blazers (World, set 1)

Game infos

Description Karate Blazers (World, set 1)

Name karatblz

Manufacturer Video System Co.

Year 1991

Runnable yes

System arcade /

Number of players 4P sim

Added to MAME .037b01

Romset size 6.38 MB

Romset file 13 files

Romset zip 2 B

Language English

Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)

Genre Fighter

Driver infos

Driver status good

Driver emulation good

Driver color good

Driver sound good

Driver graphic good

Driver cocktail preliminary

Driver protection

Driver savestate yes

Inputs infos

Input service no

Input tilt no

Input players 4

Input buttons

Input coins 4

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	352	240	60

Dipswitchs

Cabinet
- 2 Players
- 3 Players
- 4 Players
- 4 Players (Team)
Coin Slot
- Individual
- Same
Coinage
- 1 Coin/1 Credit
- 1 Coin/2 Credits
- 1 Coin/3 Credits
- 1 Coin/5 Credits
- 1 Coin/6 Credits
- 2 Coins/1 Credit
- 3 Coins/1 Credit
- 4 Coins/1 Credit
Continue Coin
- Start 1 Coin/Continue 1 Coin
- Start 2 Coin/Continue 1 Coin
Demo Sounds
- Off
- On
Flip Screen
- Off
- On
Freeze
- Off
- On
Lives
- 1
- 2
Number of Enemies
- Easy
- Hard
- Hardest
- Normal
Service Mode
- Off
- On
Strength of Enemies
- Easy
- Hard
- Hardest
- Normal

Roms list

console	name	size	crc	sha1	region	offset	status	optional
arcade	1.u15	262144	d16ee21b	d454cdf22b72a537b9d7ae73deb8136a4f09da47	maincpu	40000	good	no
arcade	3.u44	131072	34bdead2	99f9a8cac807fcd599db55d2dc624ed92a3862ef	spritegfx	100000	good	no
arcade	4.u45	131072	be4d487d	6d19c91d0498c43017219f0c10f4845a51ccfa7f	spritegfx	300000	good	no
arcade	5.u92	131072	97d67510	1ffd419e3dec7de1099cd5819b0309f7dd0df80e	audiocpu	0	good	no
arcade	gh9.u61	524288	5d1676bd	6227d489c9c6259a0ac2bef62821fbf94efca8c6	gfx2	0	good	no
arcade	gha.u55	524288	3e0cea91	bab41715f106d364013b64649441d280bc6893cf	gfx1	0	good	no
arcade	ghd.u60	524288	73180ae3	e4eaf6693826d9e72032d0a0e25938a23ab7d792	gfx4	80000	good	no
arcade	rom2v3	262144	01f772e1	f87f19a82d75839b5671f23ce14218d7b910eabc	maincpu	0	good	no
arcade	u104	1048576	5795e884	a4178497ad0a1e60ceb87612b218d77b36d2a11b	ymsnd	0	good	no
arcade	u105.gh8	524288	7a68cb1b	1bdd0000c2d68019b9e5bf8f7ad84a6ae1af8443	ymsnd.deltat	0	good	no
arcade	u42	1048576	65f0da84	0bfbc6f4b87583703246704eb9fa13b1b3e6f90e	spritegfx	0	good	no
arcade	u43	1048576	7b349e5d	8590a328f403e2c697a8d698c08d4adaf01fff62	spritegfx	200000	good	no
arcade	u59.ghb	524288	158c9cde	a2c1b404d40e6c2627691f5c7a3f63484bd5d2de	gfx4	0	good	no

Chips list

name	tag	type	clock
M68000	maincpu	cpu	10000000
Speaker	rspeaker	audio
YM2610	ymsnd	audio	8000000
Z80	audiocpu	cpu	4000000

Serie

Serie : Karate Blazers

Karate Blazers (World, set 1) (1991)
Karate Blazers (World, set 2) (1991)
Karate Blazers (bootleg with Street Smart sound hardware) (1991)
Karate Blazers (US) (1991)

0.37b1 [Nicola Salmoria]

Bugs:

- Right at the beginning, the heroes are introduced using a zoom effect. Several frames are glitched. Frotz (ID 00261)

WIP:

- 0.175: Found out that Karate Blazers (bootleg) uses a sound system copied from SNK's Street Smart. Hooked up preliminary sound. SFX are wrong [Osso]. Changed description of clone (bootleg) to 'Karate Blazers (bootleg with Street Smart sound hardware)'.

- 0.171: Robbbert fixed save state problem in clone Karate Blazers (bootleg) found by Tafoid.

- 0.168: caius added clone Karate Blazers (World, set 2). Changed parent description to 'Karate Blazers (World, set 1)'.

- 0.165: hap and Tempora changed description to 'Toushin Blazers (Japan)'.

- 0.164: Thierry and Gerald added clone Karate Blazers (bootleg). Note: No sound, sound hardware is different, has a 7759 like some System16 stuff? [David Haywood].

- 0.133u1: Renamed (karatblu) to (karatblzu) and (karatblj) to (karatblzj).

- 0.126u4: Changed description to 'Karate Blazers (World)'.

- 0.98u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed 2nd background priorities in Karate Blazers (see final 5th level).

- 0.91u2: Gerald added clone Karate Blazers (Japan).

- 0.81u7: Brian Troha fixed dipswitches in Karate Blazers. Added dipswitches 'Number of Enemies' and 'Strength of Enemies'.

- 0.37b5: Added dipswitches 'Coinage', '2 Coins to Start, 1 to Continue', 'Lives', 'Cabinet', 'Difficulty' and 'Flip Screen'.

- 0.37b1: Nicola Salmoria added 'Karate Blazers (World?)' (Video System 1991) and clone (US).

- 4th April 2000: Nicola Salmoria added Karate Blazers and Spinal Breakers to the Aero Fighters driver.

LEVELS: 5

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History

Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

Karate Blazers (c) 1991 Video System Company, Limited.

A horizontally scrolling fighting game for 1 to 4 players. Each playable character (chosen from Mark, Glen, Akira and Gil) kicks and punches their way through a number of enemy-packed levels. In addition to kicking and punching, each character also has their own unique 'special attack'; a move that injures multiple on-screen enemies at the cost of some of the player's health.

While in no way original (drawing most of its inspiration from Capcom's "Final Fight"), Karate Blazers is both hugely playable and very fast and frenetic, with the amount of on-screen enemies at times overwhelming. The graphics are also well drawn and nicely animated.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 10 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Players : 4
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 4

- TRIVIA -

Released in August 1991 in Japan.

The boss of the 3rd stage is inspired by Sato, a character of the movie 'Black Rain' (directed by Ridley Scott and acted by Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia). Sato was interpreted by the Japanese actor Yusaku Matsuda, died shortly after the movie was made. Even the stage when you fight the boss (the factory) seems somehow inspire from the movie's background (in a movie's scene, Nick - interpreted by Michael Douglas - try to defeat Sato in a steelworks, quite similar to the game's stage).

- STAFF -

Game Designer: Naozumi Yorichika (N. Yorichika)
Programmers: Good Townsman, Moo Yagiyama2, Willful Rabbit
Visual Designers: Naozumi Yorichika (N. Yorichika), Shoko Ishimoto, Yoshihiro Funada (Y. Funada), T. Nishigaki, Hikihara, T. Akamatsu, K. Yamamotoya, H. Motono, Hikari Hino (H. Hino), Hyoue Ogawa, Akira, Takashi Itoh
Sound Designers: Kenji Okuda, Naoki Itamura, Suda Akira
Special Thanks: Akisama, Yamacyan, A. Nonami, W. Yamazaki

- CONTRIBUTE -

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Karate Blazers (World, set 1)