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The Ninja Kids (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 The Ninja Kids (World)
Name ninjak
Manufacturer Taito Corporation Japan
Year 1990
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 4P sim
Added to MAME .037b05
Romset size 4.06 MB
Romset file 10 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Fighter

Parent and clones

Parent This game is the parent

Sound infos

Sound_channels 2

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 yes
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 320 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade c85-01.ic19 1048576 a711977c b6b79ff6086a7b6e242fe26eec448f025ab431af gfx2 0 good no
arcade c85-02.ic17 1048576 a6ad0f3d 6d3a661807dd64f0b56ae6252a7e980fd678feef gfx2 100000 good no
arcade c85-03.ic65 524288 4cc7b9df aaf0e587b86a7bf9fbfd4e19127a7295da8a3676 gfx1 0 good no
arcade c85-04.ic31 524288 5afb747e e4f03582221f3a97f0e24693aa77264663eb1b47 ymsnd 0 good no
arcade c85-05.ic33 524288 3c1b0ed0 08920dc55d695debae3eea5a8ff1d17bb11afd45 ymsnd.deltat 0 good no
arcade c85-06.ic47 131072 d126ded1 fc4b6504d0234e7e006a63e33fd061411f008c38 maincpu 40001 good no
arcade c85-07.ic48 131072 3eccfd0a 54f20d852ab88a19e9ddee95b9c6057887a8d433 maincpu 40000 good no
arcade c85-10x.ic50 131072 ba7e6e74 d6fc7529f1df348fedc6f32edd7691a6da35423d maincpu 0 good no
arcade c85-13x.ic49 131072 0ac2cba2 18e1b458995051c8d4a0077a41fa24dbaa318afc maincpu 1 good no
arcade c85-14.ic54 65536 f2a52a51 951793c65a3436a7fb36f3058bc7a3b4265a90bb audiocpu 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 12000000
Speaker rspeaker audio
YM2610 ymsnd audio 8000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Serie

Serie : Ninja-Kid
  1. Ninja-kun (Jpn) (1983)
  2. Ninja-kun (1983)
  3. Ninjakun Majou no Bouken (1984)
  4. Ninja-kun - Majou no Bouken (Jpn, v1.1) (1985)
  5. Ninja-kun (1986)
  6. Ninja-Kid II / NinjaKun Ashura no Shou (set 1) (1987)
  7. Ninja-Kid II / NinjaKun Ashura no Shou (set 2, bootleg?) (1987)
  8. Ninja-Kid II / NinjaKun Ashura no Shou (set 3, bootleg?) (1987)
  9. Ninja-Kid II / NinjaKun Ashura no Shou (set 4) (1987)
  10. Ninja-kun - Ashura no Shou (Jpn) (1987)
  11. Rad Action / NinjaKun Ashura no Shou (1987)
  12. The Ninja Kids (World) (1990)
  13. The Ninja Kids (Japan) (1990)
  14. The Ninja Kids (US) (1990)
  15. Super Ninja-kun (Jpn) (1994)
  16. Ninja-kun - Ashura no Shou (Jpn) (19??)

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b5 [David Graves, Nicola Salmoria]

0.37b4 [Testdriver]


WIP:

- 0.100u4: Brian Troha added clone The Ninja Kids (US).

- 0.97u1: Bryan McPhail implemented column scroll in TC0100SCN chip (used in The Ninja Kids, Gun & Frontier, Growl and Galmedes...).

- 0.88u6: Bryan McPhail added support for extra effects in the Taito F2 driver. This fixes priority problems in Ninja Kids (ninjak058gre).

- 0.67: Changed descriptions to 'The Ninja Kids (World)' and clone (Japan) to 'The Ninja Kids (Japan)'.

- 0.56: Fixed rom names.

- 8th June 2001: Uki fixed the palette animation and other graphical problems in Ninja Kid.

- 0.37b5: David Graves and Nicola Salmoria added 'Ninja Kids' (Taito 1990) and clone (Japan).

- 19th July 2000: David Graves sent in a huge Taito F2 driver update with working drivers for Gun Frontier, Ah Eikou no Koshien, Thunder Fox, The Ninja Kids, Solitary Fighter, Dino Rex, Quiz Chikyu Bouei Gun, Quiz Torimonochou, Quiz HQ, Yuuyu no Quiz de GO!GO!, Mahjong Quest, Quiz Quest, Don Doko Don, PuLiRuLa, Dead Connection and Football Champ.

- 16th June 2000: Brad Oliver sent in yet another Taito F2 driver update, and now Ninja Kids works.

- 0.37b4: Added (Testdriver) Ninja Kids.


STORY:

- ... In the 7th month of 1999, a great king of terror flyed down from the sky... Now is the end of a century. Because of the "Satanists" who wished the resurrection of Satan realized, the town became an unlawful town. But there is a ray of hope. Four young men who have mysterious "Ninja" power: People call them as "Ninja Kids".


LEVELS: 5


Other Emulators:

* FB Alpha

* Raine


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Lightning Swords

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Hangzo

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History


Arcade Video game published 28 years ago:

The Ninja Kids (c) 1991 Taito Corporation.

The Ninja Kids is a horizontally-scrolling hack 'n' slash beat-em-up for up to four players who must defeat a demented cult plotting to summon Satan. A karate sensei sends out his four ninja puppets to combat this looming threat.

All four ninjas carry different weapons and have different fighting styles. As well as their weapons, each ninja also has a screen-filling magical attack based on one of four elements (earth, fire, wind and water).

* Hanzo (blue) uses a fast katana that generates waves for extra range. He uses water magic.

* Sasuke (yellow) wields a kusarigama (chain and sickle) for close and long-range attacks. He uses wind magic.

* Akame (red) prefers to keep his distance while pelting enemies with shuriken and fire magic.

* Genta (green) is quite powerful with his sansetsukon (three-part staff) and earth magic.

As well as the standard jump and attack-based combat, double-tapping the joystick any direction makes the ninja puppets perform an evasive tumble that damages any enemies they come into contact with.

Each of the game's stages is littered with background objects (such as litter bins, tables, etc.) and destroying these reveals hidden power-ups and bonus items. These range from health-restoring sushi to items that make the ninjas temporarily invincible, surrounding them with an elemental shield that allows them to mow down enemies.

The Ninja Kids consists of five stages, with a tough boss battle at the end of each.

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "Taito F2 System" Hardware.

Prom Stickers: C85

Screen Orientation: Horizontal

Players: 4
Control: 8-Way Joystick
Buttons: 2
=> Attack, Jump

- TRIVIA -

The Ninja Kids was released in April 1991.

- UPDATES -

The US version has the 'Winners Don't Use Drugs' screen.

In the US version, all the references to 'Satan' were changed to the 'Evil One'.

- STAFF -

Game Director: Takeshi Ishizashi
Game Designer: Keppel Maekawa
Programmers: Takeshi Ishizashi, Fzr.Mom
Hardware Designers: Eikichi Takahashi, S. Watanabe
Character Designers: Pokeel Yamada, Jsunji Matsumoto
Sound Composers: Fumiaki Imaoka (FUMMY), Hiroshige Tonomura (TONO), Norihiro Furukawa (WIZ. MASTER), V. Ohashi (Underground Sound Guerrilla Team PINCH-PUNCH) (PINCH PUNCH)
Designer: Rintaro Doi
Special Thanks: Kawamoyan

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
[EU] Microsoft XBOX (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[EU] Sony PS2 (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends [Model SLES-53438]"
[US] Microsoft XBOX (oct.25, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[US] Sony PS2 (oct.25, 2005) "Taito Legends [Model SLUS-21122]"
[KO] Sony PS2 (jul.18, 2006) "Taito Legends [Model SLKA-15056]"
[JP] Sony PS2 (jan.25, 2007) "Taito Memories II Joukan [Model SLPM-66649]"

* COMPUTERS:
[EU] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (oct.14, 2005) "Taito Legends"
[US] PC [MS Windows, CD-ROM] (nov.10, 2005) "Taito Legends"

- CONTRIBUTE -

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