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Kung-Fu Master (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. Serie
  12. Categories
  13. MAMEinfo
  14. History
  15. High scores
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Game infos

Description Kung-Fu Master (World)
Name kungfum
Manufacturer Irem
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .023
Romset size 178 KB
Romset file 28 files
Romset zip 88 B
Language English
Evaluation 90 to 100 (Best Games)
Genre Fighter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 1

Driver infos

Driver status imperfect
Driver emulation good
Driver color good
Driver sound imperfect
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 256 256 55

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade a-3e-.bin 8192 58e87ab0 3b03c101fec58eac13fc309a78df9a2cd44f7604 irem_audio:iremsound a000 good no
arcade a-3f-.bin 8192 c81e31ea f0fc58b929188c8802cd85549bdf9f4566e6a677 irem_audio:iremsound c000 good no
arcade a-3h-.bin 8192 d99fb995 caa6acdbc3b02d248fd123be95ea6fdcb4f35b59 irem_audio:iremsound e000 good no
arcade a-4d-c.bin 16384 7532918e 9d513d5a3b99cc54c4491371cd44af048ef0fb33 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade a-4e-c.bin 16384 b6e2d083 17e2cfe2b9d6121239803aba7132918e54ae02bf maincpu 0 good no
arcade b-1l-.bin 256 35e45021 511b94507f41b377f38184ed9a85f34949b28d26 proms 500 good no
arcade b-1m-.bin 256 76c05a9c 1f46f436a17f8c883bdd6d9804b828a81a76f880 proms 100 good no
arcade b-1n-.bin 256 23f06b99 6b3d6349f019aeab33838ae392bc3f3f89906326 proms 300 good no
arcade b-3m-.bin 8192 eba0d66b 028f82fc1853b86a3201b24871f41091c3e0b542 gfx2 e000 good no
arcade b-3n-.bin 8192 28a213aa 0d6d668490bdf4394bc9fed2f3cdc72f2fea46f9 gfx2 8000 good no
arcade b-4a-.bin 8192 6189d626 ce8e5e95c2684c685481e9c8d921380b20ac0460 gfx2 16000 good no
arcade b-4c-.bin 8192 01298885 d4edf5fe707c5b7231ba72b731b96120064a7ecd gfx2 10000 good no
arcade b-4d-.bin 8192 6a70615f f4683dc0a566567e95e85268612bcf0e6297d955 gfx2 14000 good no
arcade b-4e-.bin 8192 c77b87d4 c0f66f0130f6a290a58a3d77bba1d06f16016901 gfx2 12000 good no
arcade b-4f-.bin 8192 67745a33 fcc642fb1b932676c84c1a0901b989673c57c0e5 gfx2 2000 good no
arcade b-4h-.bin 8192 8ac5ed3a 9c88e8c82420428b43923cdee7eb4504882bec69 gfx2 6000 good no
arcade b-4k-.bin 8192 16fb5150 a49faf617f948d3ccec2bc6ef97bd399f0958f65 gfx2 0 good no
arcade b-4l-.bin 8192 bd1c2261 7155789a01801a9e1a55d4e68c94a3a3ee7d1b2e gfx2 4000 good no
arcade b-4m-.bin 8192 b16de4f2 512260e76c9cd21b8add771de53fbd27c2719213 gfx2 c000 good no
arcade b-4n-.bin 8192 d5228df3 836c4f95f873fbf07f9bec63a72c20a14651117c gfx2 a000 good no
arcade b-5f-.bin 32 7a601c3d 5c5cdf51b2c9fdb2b05402d9c260208ae73fe245 proms 600 good no
arcade b-6f-.bin 256 82c20d12 268903f7d9be58a70d030b02bf31a2d6b5b6e249 proms 620 good no
arcade g-1f-.bin 256 964b6495 76f30a65a0ded14babad2006221aa40621fb7ea1 proms 200 good no
arcade g-1h-.bin 256 550563e1 11edb45acba8b28a462c49956ebb1ba0a8b2ff26 proms 400 good no
arcade g-1j-.bin 256 668e6bca cd5262b1310821ba7b12873e4db35f081d6b9df4 proms 0 good no
arcade g-4c-a.bin 8192 6b2cc9c8 ba7c902d08c21a1e33f450406bfbfa35abde3b3f gfx1 0 good no
arcade g-4d-a.bin 8192 c648f558 7cc085d8dc4a770d2828e39859b7b18e80148a00 gfx1 2000 good no
arcade g-4e-a.bin 8192 fbe9276e 84181c8da79e2c92af04aef3ab5d23f70969dad8 gfx1 4000 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
AY-3-8910A irem_audio:ay_45l audio 894886
M6803 irem_audio:iremsound cpu 3579545
MSM5205 irem_audio:msm2 audio 384000
Netlist Sound Device irem_audio:snd_nl audio 48000
Speaker irem_audio:mono audio
Z80 maincpu cpu 3072000

Serie

Serie : Kung-Fu Master
  1. Kung Fu Master (Jpn) (1983)
  2. Kung-Fu Master (bootleg set 1) (1984)
  3. Kung-Fu Master (bootleg set 2) (1984)
  4. Kung-Fu Master (World) (1984)
  5. Kung Fu Master (1984)
  6. Kung-Fu Master (US) (1984)
  7. Spartan X (Japan) (1984)
  8. Spartan X (1984?)
  9. Kung-Fu Master (1985)
  10. Jackie Chan in Spartan X (1985)
  11. Spartan X (Jpn) (1985)
  12. Spartan X (1985)
  13. Kung-Fu Master (UK) (1986)
  14. Kung-Fu Master (1987)
  15. Vigilante (World, Rev E) (1988)
  16. Vigilante (Tourvision PCE bootleg) (1988)
  17. Vigilante (World, Rev A) (1988)
  18. Vigilante (US, Rev B) (1988)
  19. Vigilante (bootleg) (1988)
  20. Vigilante (World, Rev C) (1988)
  21. Vigilante (Japan, Rev D) (1988)
  22. Vigilante (US, Rev G) (1988)
  23. Vigilante (US) (1988)
  24. Kung-Fu Master (PAL) (1989)
  25. Vigilante (UK) (1989)
  26. Vigilante (UK) (Spain retail version) [Original] (1989)
  27. Vigilante (1989)
  28. Vigilante (Euro, USA, Bra) (1989)
  29. Vigilante (1989)
  30. Vigilante (1989)
  31. Spartan X (Jpn) (1990)
  32. Vigilante (Kor) (1990)
  33. Kung Fu Master (Jpn) (19??)
  34. Jackie Chan in Spartan X (Jpn) (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.24 [?]

0.23 [Mirko Buffoni, Ishmair, Nicola Salmoria]


Artwork available


NOTE:

- In slow motion mode, press 2 to slow game speed. In stop mode, press 2 to stop and 1 to restart. In level selection mode, press 1 to select and 2 to restart.


WIP:

- 0.172: Farzeno and Rockman added clone 'Spartan X (Tecfri hardware bootleg)' (bootleg (Tecfri) 1987). Make this bootleg work. P2 controls don't work if the 'cocktail' dipswitch is set, but since I see nothing to flip the screen I suspect that mode simply isn't supported in this bootleg [David Haywood].

- 0.151: Use 8-way joysticks in Kung-Fu Master and clones [Phil Bennett].

- 0.150: hap changed description to 'Kung-Fu Master (World)' and clone (Data East) to 'Kung-Fu Master (US)'.

- 3rd September 2010: Smitdogg - We got a rare version of Kung-Fu Master. It's one that is mentioned in the top of the driver as to where one of the bootleg versions we have originated from. It had 3 bad roms but luckily these were all ones whose label/revision matched up to some already-dumped roms, so the set is complete. It was the dustiest board set I have ever bought. I cleaned most of the dust off.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (kungfud) to (kungfumd).

- 0.114u1: Fixed rom names and added 17x proms to clone Kung-Fu Master (bootleg set 1).

- 5th November 2006: Mr. Do - Ad_Enuff optimized Kung Fu Master bezel.

- 29th October 2006: Mr. Do - Courtesy of ClassicArcadeGrafix, added Kung Fu Master bezel. I need to revisit Kung Fu later, though, as one thing still needs to be fixed on it.

- 0.104u8: Replaced 8k cpu2/gfx2 roms with 16k in clone (Data East).

- 0.37b15: Changed 8-way Joystick to 4-way.

- 0.37b14: Changed parent and clone descriptions to 'Kung-Fu Master'.

- 0.37b6: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 3072000 and M6803 CPU2 and the 2x AY-8910 to 894886 Hz.

- 0.36b12: Changed description of clone (Japan) to 'Spartan X (Japan)'. Renamed (spaltanx) to (spartanx).

- 0.36b10: Added clone Spaltan X (Japan).

- 25th June 1999: Zsolt Vasvari fixed Kung Fu Master sprite priorities at the end of a level.

- 0.35b11: Added prom ($620 - video timing, same as Battle-Road). Changed M6803 CPU2 clock speed to 1.5MHz.

- 0.35b7: Changed visible area to 256x256 and VSync to 55Hz.

- 0.34b7: Nicola Salmoria added clones Kung Fu Master (Data East) and Kung Fu Master (bootleg set 1). Changed description of clone (bootleg) to 'Kung Fu Master (bootleg set 2)'. Renamed (kungfub) to (kungfub2).

- 0.33b7: Added proms ($0, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600).

- 0.31: Control: In slow motion mode, press 2 to slow game speed. In stop mode, press 2 to stop and 1 to restart. In level selection mode, press 1 to select and 2 to restart.

- 0.29: Aaron Giles improved sound in Kung Fu Master. Fixed gfx rom loading.

- 0.26: Mauro Minenna introduced a new option (-dir4) that simplify the use of the joysticks to be connected on the keyboard. This modify resolves the problem of diagonal direction in games such as PacMan, Popeye, and Kung Fu Master.

- 0.24: Added 'Kung Fu Master' (Irem 1984). Nicola Salmoria fixed definitively Kung Fu Master driver which has now 100% perfect colors and sprite positioning. Thanks to Paul Swan for color scheme. Test mode doesn't work for bootleg version (as is right to be). Hi Score Support in each version as well. Mirko Buffoni finally fixed problems with ADPCM decoding, so now Kung Fu Master doesn't need separate samples anymore (he didn't distribute them because of copyright on sounds). The samples are now calculated during bootstrap of the game. Changed 'Kung Fu Master' to clone 'Kung Fu Master (bootleg)'. Renamed (kungfum) to (kungfub).

- 0.23: Mirko Buffoni added 'Kung Fu Master' (1984). Credits fly to Ishmair for the hardware information and to Nicola for fixing sprite bugs. Game is playable with wrong colors and no sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Kick, Alt = Punch and F1+F3 = Test mode.

- 15th April 1997: Dumped Kung-Fu Master.


STORY:

- A Kung-Fu master, Thomas and Silvia were suddenly attacked by several unknown guys. Silvia was kidnapped by them.


LEVELS: 5


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* FB Alpha

* JAE


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History


$vgmplay=kungfum,

Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Kung-Fu Master (c) 1984 Irem Corp.

For more complete information on the game itself, please see the original Japanese version entry; "Spartan X".

- TRIVIA -

Kung-Fu Master was released in December 1984 outside Japan. Originally known in Japan as as "Spartan X".

Licensed to Data East for US manufacture and distribution. Kung-Fu Master was the first game that Irem licensed to Data East and was also the first of two genre-defining fighting games released by Data East that year; the other being 'Karate Champ', the world's first one-on-one fighting game.

A bootleg of this game was released by O.K. corp. in 1985.

Mike Sullivan holds the official record for this game with 1,349,040 points.

- UPDATES -

Differences between Spartan X and Kung-Fu Master :
* During the demo screen the word Kung-Fu (in 'A KUNG-FU MASTER, THOMAS....') is spelled 'KANFU' in Spartan X.
* Spartan X has an additional copyright notice that is not in Kung-Fu Master : '(C)1984 Paragon Films Ltd., Towa Promotion'.

- SERIES -

1. Kung-Fu Master (1984, Arcade)
2. Vigilante (1988, Arcade)
3. Spartan X 2 (1991, Famicom)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicom [AS] (1984) "Kung Fu"
[US] Atari 2600 (may.12, 1987) "Kung-Fu Master [Model AG-039]" by Activision
[US] Nintendo NES (oct.1985) "Kung Fu [Model NES-SX-USA]"
[EU] Nintendo NES (apr.15, 1987) "Kung Fu [Model NES-SX-NOE]"
[US] Atari 7800 (1989) "Kung-Fu Master [Model AM-039-04]" by Absolute Entertainment

* HANDHELDS:
[EU] Nintendo Game Boy (1991) "Kung Fu Master [Model DMG-SX-NOE]"
[US] Nintendo Game Boy (feb.1991) "Kung Fu Master [Model DMG-SX]"

* COMPUTERS:
[US] Apple II (1985) "Kung Fu Master"
[US] Commodore C64 [EU] (1985) "Kung Fu Master"
[EU] Sinclair ZX Spectrum (1986) "Kung-Fu Master" by U.S. Gold
[EU] Amstrad CPC (1987) "Kung-Fu Master"
PC [MS Windows, Online] [EU] (dec.9, 2011) "IREM Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
Apple MacIntosh [Online] [US] (aug.21, 2011) "Irem Arcade Hits" by DotEmu
PC [Desura] [US] (nov.2, 2013) "IREM Arcade Hits" by Plug In Digital

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

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