0.102u3 [Stefan Lindberg]
0.34b8 [Phil Stroffolino]
Artwork available
Bugs:
- On real hardware it is possible to see the shape of his hair when in the darkness during the title sequence. Stefan Lindberg (ID 00200)
WIP:
- 0.173: Couriersud added m62(kidniki) to nl.lua. Started some experiments around parallel solving of linear equations. This code is not active. Fixed Kid Niki audio performance. Significant speed improvement: Added a new solver using compressed row format. Fixed sorting. As a result, netlist performance on Kid Niki nearly doubled. The performance increase is mainly due to the fact that sorting decreases the number of operations for gaussian elimination of the Kid Niki matrix from ~7800 to 707. In addition, compressed row format improves L1 usage. Converted Kid Niki netlist into an external one.
- 0.172: Prepared discrete netlist code so that matrices can be allocated in one chunk of memory. Fixed Kid Niki sound speed. Make more class members private [Couriersud].
- 0.164: Improved Kid Niki sound quality while maintaining speed by adding more frontiers. Added LOGIC_INPUT to netlist which allows to specify a logic family, i.e. output characterics. Used this for improved AY8910 port modeling. Added macro models of LM324 and LM358. Made Kid Niki use those (audio\irem.c) [Couriersud].
- 0.163: Added Kid Niki sound board netlist to nl_examples. Currently the netlist boils down to a 87x87 matrix. This is due to a total of 6 opamps which all are submodels and thus add their own internal nets. Gauss Seidel iterative solving comes to it's limits. nltool runs this at about 50% speed on my machine. Given the complexity this is quite good. Yet, any M62 game currently will not be playable [Andrew Gardner, Couriersud]. Formatted Kid Niki nl_examples to be easier to read. Completely integrated the GMRES solver into netlist solver templates and recoded it from scratch. GMRES now runs at 122% (kidniki), that's a real improement from 60% before. AT the same time, the code should be easier to read and closer to the GMRES algorithm. Ultimately, kidniki will not use this solver but instead use some frontiers to keep it playable. But going forward, for larger matrices this solver is an opton [Couriersud]. Added analog drums and filtering for Kid Niki and others. In addition: Generalized the device family concept. Truthtable device can now define their own device family model [Andrew Gardner, Couriersud].
- 0.157: David Haywood removed old redundant hack for Kid Niki, our core / memory system are more intelligent these days.
- 28th May 2012: Mr. Do - Thanks to Mikonos, we have a new bezel for Kid Niki, on loan from Vintage Arcade.
- 0.102u3: Stefan Lindberg added 'Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (World)'. Renamed (kidniki) to (kidnikiu).
- 0.92u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Little Hero.
- 12th February 2005: f205v Corrado and Tomaselli dumped Little Hero.
- 0.90u2: Nicola Salmoria fixed priority bug in Kid Niki and crash on last level.
- 0.37b6: Changed clock speed of the M6803 CPU2 and the 2x AY-8910 to 894886 Hz.
- 0.36b10: Added clone Kaiketsu Yanchamaru (Japan). Changed parent description to 'Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (US)'.
- 0.35b13: Changed description to 'Kid Niki - Radical Ninja'.
- 0.35b2: Changed Z80 CPU1 clock speed to 4MHz. Added 3rd coin slot. Known issues: Kid Niki crashes/messes up in the confrontation with the final boss. Reason unknown.
- 0.35b1: Changed VSync to 55Hz. Added proms ($620, 820 - unknown and video timing).
- 0.34RC1: Dave W. added high score saving to Kid Niki.
- 0.34b8: Phil Stroffolino added 'Kid Niki, Radical Ninja' (Data East 1986).
STORY:
- You are a tatally rad ninja swordsman. Princess Margo is being held captive by the Stone Wizard. Save her!
LEVELS: 8
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