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Chinese Hero

  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 Chinese Hero
Name chinhero
Manufacturer Taiyo
Year 1984
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .037b12
Romset size 147 KB
Romset file 30 files
Romset zip 78 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 4 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 90 no 288 224 60

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade ic110.14 8192 9bc2d568 a4ee8822709645b0dc088635c0a9c263fb5a2245 gfx3 4000 good no
arcade ic111.15 8192 20f6052e e22ddb3fb90ff8df5ce7fda6a26c1b9fce2f59ab gfx3 2000 good no
arcade ic112.16 8192 dd5170ca e0a9d1dbc021a8ad84dd7d1bd7e390e51e6328b7 gfx3 0 good no
arcade ic113.17 8192 d713d7fe 8dd97f96a1190c5be5e19721227dd80adf060b4d gfx2 2000 good no
arcade ic114.18 8192 fc4183a8 4bc891a9e16cd84ce353180705cc8fcadf414a49 gfx2 0 good no
arcade ic2.1 8192 8974bac4 932a677d0928f4146201f206b71ac2bcc0f6735c maincpu 0 good no
arcade ic21.11 8192 3a37fb45 4c631cf924f1e1dfea6db3f014ab7d9cb9f4b0c4 gfx1 0 good no
arcade ic22 32 84bcd9af 5a5afeb6aedb8ac6ac49fb8da62df57fbd8b1780 proms a40 good no
arcade ic22.12 8192 bc21c002 4fc5e4dfe8331a3feb1c370a8aca9c8303eb7b4e gfx1 2000 good no
arcade ic3.2 8192 9b7a02fe b17593262ec24b999d66634b84eee95c1088f7eb maincpu 2000 good no
arcade ic31.6 8192 7c56927b 565a10b39f2d5d38cb5415aadd7fbdb90dcf13cb bbx 0 good no
arcade ic32.7 8192 d67b8045 0374cafb8d4828e195791784ac187772c49c18f9 bbx 2000 good no
arcade ic4.3 8192 e86d4195 5081500e0a6d4fd19690134efd6f35b6047e6727 maincpu 4000 good no
arcade ic42 32 2ccfe10a d89ea91e5da436805fca9ded9b33609f4a862724 proms a60 good no
arcade ic47.8 8192 3c396062 2c1540eb123b3124e1679ba09e063e80f2423022 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade ic48.9 8192 b14f2bab 3643b430e3b464b0bc9aca81122b07fb8eb0fb9f audiocpu 2000 good no
arcade ic49.10 8192 8c0e43d1 acaead801b4782875c8b6092e987b73f9973f8b0 audiocpu 4000 good no
arcade ic5.4 8192 2b629d2c 7e92e2c2d09d3501ddbf79a14228cf273f4a17df maincpu 6000 good no
arcade ic6.5 8192 35bf4a4f 2600c57d40355775847eed8a9592c67f5d11f1f1 maincpu 8000 good no
arcade ic8 32 84bcd9af 5a5afeb6aedb8ac6ac49fb8da62df57fbd8b1780 proms a20 good no
arcade ic99.13 8192 a8e2a3f4 db9f954d4b46660f5f1cb4122838e6418f92d0a3 gfx2 4000 good no
arcade v_ic108 512 d33c02ae 1a2146ae404a5e8a701e1d547a8409a376d4bee4 proms 600 good no
arcade v_ic12 256 0de07e89 5655bce6ff3abad63f5b31add402cdbb51c323f0 proms 800 good no
arcade v_ic15_p 256 7e0a0581 e355a6ef21a65a1e828d7bd5b0f2224b06438b4a proms 900 good no
arcade v_ic27_b 256 353a2d11 76f21e3e092024592d9ccd33ae69c438254c5755 proms 200 good no
arcade v_ic28_m 256 7ca273c1 20d85547d96bea8b310c943c45e4978a7e5b5585 proms 300 good no
arcade v_ic35_g 256 b3d0a074 e955fda8cb8df389507e17b7b4609e845e5ef0c4 proms 100 good no
arcade v_ic36_r 256 16ae1692 e287b96890da4815350af72e9f2189d0c72313b6 proms 0 good no
arcade v_ic69 512 410d6f86 3cfaef3702dbda3e7c7eb84a93561e36778aec3e proms 400 good no
arcade v_ic8 32 4c62974d fd5970b5ba1d9e986515ae06c2e83f8bf20b3cdc proms a00 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
8-Bit R-2R DAC dac audio
AY-3-8910A aysnd audio 1536000
Speaker speaker audio
Z80 audiocpu cpu 3072000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.37b12 [Phil Stroffolino]


WIP:

- 0.148u2: Zab added clone Chinese Hero (older, set 2). Changed description of clone (older) to 'Chinese Hero (older, set 1)'.

- 0.141u1: Corrado Tomaselli and Pierpaolo Prazzoli fixed sprite drawing in Chinese Hero (bad sprite on level 7). Pierpaolo Prazzoli added sprites wrap around-y to fix gorilla sprites entering from the left.

- 0.133u1: Renamed (chinher2) to (chinhero2) and (chinhert) to (chinherot).

- 0.122u6: Corrado Tomaselli verified and changed CPU frequencies in Chinese Hero. Changed Z80 CPU1/2/3 clock speeds to 3072000 Hz and AY-3-8910A to 1536000 Hz.

- 0.117: Zsolt Vasvari fixed clone Chinese Heroe (Taito) - Game now playable.

- 0.112u3: David Haywood added clone Chinese Heroe (Taito). This set has problems booting the first time in MAME, and the sound CPU crashes leaving it with no samples, strange because the sound CPU code is the same. In a debug build this causes MAME to crash. Why does this happen?

- 25th January 2007: Tirino73 dumped Chinese Heroe (Taito), comes from an original Taito licensed PCB. There are present 12 bipolar proms but i cannot dump them, but i think that code is identical to Taiyo board.

- 0.78: Stefan Jokisch added clone Chinese Hero (older).

- 21st December 2003: Stefan Jokisch added an older version of Chinese Hero to the Shanghai Kid driver.

- 14th November 2001: Phil Stroffolino added an alternate set of Chinese Hero.

- 0.37b13: Removed 3rd coin slot.

- 15th February 2001: Marco Cassili fixed dipswitch settings in Chinese Hero.

- 0.37b12: Phil Stroffolino added 'Chinese Hero' (Taiyo 1984).

- 24th January 2001: Phil Stroffolino added Chinese Hero to the preliminary Shanghai Kid driver, but unlike Shanghai Kid, it doesn't have protection so it works perfectly.


LEVELS: 7 (endless)


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History


Arcade Video game published 35 years ago:

Chinese Hero (c) 1984 Taiyo System Company, Limited.

Chinese Hero is a cute kung-fu action game with an overhead view. Lee and Loo must save the princess from 24 evil villains (only 12 in an 1-player game).

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : (2x) Zilog Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 3 Mhz)
Sound Chips : DAC, AY8910 (@ 2 Mhz)

Players: 2
Control: 4-way joystick
Buttons: 4

- TRIVIA -

Chinese Hero was released in October 1984.

This is the first game in the Super Chinese (Ninja Boy in the United States) series of console video games. The series evolved into an RPG/beat 'em up hybrid.

Alberto Zanetti holds the official record for this game with 2,828,000 points on July 5, 1985.

- SERIES -

1. Chinese Hero (1984)
2. Super Chinese (1986, Nintendo Famicom)
3. Super Chinese 2 (1989, Nintendo Famicom)
4. Super Chinese Land (1990, Nintendo Game Boy)
5. Super Chinese 3 (1991, Nintendo Famicom)
6. Super Chinese Land 2 (1991, Nintendo Game Boy)
7. Super Chinese World (1991, Nintendo Super Famicom)
8. Super Chinese World 2 (1993, Nintendo Super Famicom)
9. Super Chinese Fighter (1995, Nintendo Super Famicom)
10. Super Chinese Land 3 (1995, Nintendo Game Boy)
11. Super Chinese World 3 (1995, Nintendo Super Famicom)
12. Super Chinese Land 1-2-3 (1996, Nintendo Game Boy)
13. Super Chinese Fighter GB (1996, Nintendo Game Boy)
14. Super Chinese Fighter EX (1999, Nintendo Game Boy Color)
15. Super Chinese I+II Advance (2004, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)
16. Twin Series Vol. 3 - Konchuu Monster/Super Chinese Labyrinth (2004, Nintendo Game Boy Advance)

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

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olivier_______________________142.100
thegamer_______________________33.700
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