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Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (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. Categories
  12. MAMEinfo
  13. History
  14. High scores
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Game infos

Description Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (World)
Name kidniki
Manufacturer Irem
Year 1986
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P alt
Added to MAME .102u3
Romset size 515 KB
Romset file 34 files
Romset zip 206 B
Language English
Evaluation 70 to 80 (Good)
Genre Platform

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 384 256 55

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade dr00.3a 16384 458309f7 7dfd77e0cd76a4b6f913eb434ac20ef5a172e2f0 irem_audio:iremsound 4000 good no
arcade dr01.3cd 16384 e66897bd 04ea4a857a94d4e884fb28623ec6195dae701e25 irem_audio:iremsound 8000 good no
arcade dr02.3f 16384 f9e31e26 712b1bde4b3c18c9ac26d58ade48316af004e733 irem_audio:iremsound c000 good no
arcade dr03.4cd 16384 dba20934 a7aac4fcea5c1a94ddaf67e85bf2ce2e77c965cb maincpu 4000 good no
arcade dr05.2a 32768 2e6dad0c fe79c510cea3f57ba61ac2e8d9858c887688897b gfx1 10000 good no
arcade dr06.2b 32768 4d9a970f affeea31706644a9f1dcd1c4f739cadbdd58e597 gfx1 0 good no
arcade dr07.2dc 32768 ab59a4c4 4e1eca8d4185ef35e2be13fa6a4af01f36d19f27 gfx1 8000 good no
arcade dr08.4l 16384 32d50643 58bff370a3e24f21d5fb35289e85084b03178f88 gfx3 0 good no
arcade dr09.4m 16384 17df6f95 669a81906dfd81d807cbb2b5827ddb504536cb2c gfx3 4000 good no
arcade dr10.4n 16384 820ce252 910dbb910fdfcf9542360c0cd78c58c93d1d0c26 gfx3 8000 good no
arcade dr12.8l 65536 c0b255fd bdd74239a3490eb35cb736cac6f5030bec4b2392 maincpu 18000 good no
arcade dr13.3nm 16384 d5c3dfe0 c0e6b23bed9bf650d516a80c8b94f2d888d81c2d gfx2 1c000 good no
arcade dr14.3p 16384 76cfbcbc 3fdffc5893143b06535b5d85cd2a01c61d08e679 gfx2 10000 good no
arcade dr15.4a 16384 e0b88de5 08808ca90d34e494697a74e8a2314e32087e2f4d gfx2 2c000 good no
arcade dr16.4cb 16384 f1d1bb93 42103d2e89a0d1edc834d08a6c443065fdacdbf2 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade dr17.4dc 16384 4fb87868 73d779d687a6c319cd85793f95cb24413010b5e2 gfx2 28000 good no
arcade dr18.4e 16384 edb7f25b 394337132ff74b8d06d02233201f8ae8958e2aa6 gfx2 24000 good no
arcade dr19.4f 16384 b34605ad 56eba99c73527326f3428961732854753a6a5a2e gfx2 4000 good no
arcade dr20.4jh 16384 5fbe6f61 18ab120777fffe912c8fc139fda2977a44aa453f gfx2 c000 good no
arcade dr21.4k 16384 a06cea9a d78792b8e310fed3dc622c05d81303dad338afa7 gfx2 0 good no
arcade dr22.4l 16384 41303de8 7bffda2e4c95b021f21d8375cf2d6b14280ea7b5 gfx2 8000 good no
arcade dr23.4nm 16384 03469df8 f3ffc0419c9d9c9a69387f62ceb9081170f861d4 gfx2 18000 good no
arcade dr24.4p 16384 d51c8db5 be48478afa0acc33e6a02a0a31f1f07ce3c7a3b8 gfx2 14000 good no
arcade dr25.3f 256 8e91430b a7a1567a0fd31cd65260f3ddb5280368704378bd proms 0 good no
arcade dr26.3h 256 b563b93f 86aefdaa63b35fe82f9f70eff3e4c14629f7a184 proms 200 good no
arcade dr27.3j 256 70d668ef 2cc647f2708932105bb9a5130aacc5a8a160e418 proms 400 good no
arcade dr28.8f 512 6cef0fbd 0c5c63a203e7bd852a3574c18f212487caf529ca proms 620 good no
arcade dr29.1l 256 1173a754 dbb7d02b72ae1842e0d17aee324a5b85ff2a2178 proms 500 good no
arcade dr30.1m 256 28c73263 ffeb8d1310759bf20b1624ab92fc91078726679c proms 100 good no
arcade dr31.1n 256 3529210e 3042ec941bdcb873077e77cffe36d4a28298bbbb proms 300 good no
arcade dr32.5p 32 11cd1f2e 45ceb84ff373127ff370610c1ce8d83fc6045bcb proms 600 good no
arcade dr33.6f 256 34d88d3c 727f4c5cfff33538886fa0a29fd119aa085d7008 proms 820 good no
arcade ky_a-4e-g.bin 16384 2edcbcd7 fbb8e3cddfba01523c0d253cbc74ddb259b6197d maincpu 0 good no
arcade ky_t-8k-g.bin 32768 dbc42f31 a7c7fdde1a8b63660d3e38786dbc80b6d91bde1b maincpu 10000 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 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

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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* FB Alpha


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History


Arcade Video game published 33 years ago:

Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (c) 1986 Irem.

Export version. For more information about the game itself, please see the original Japanese version entry; "Kaiketsu Yanchamaru".

- TRIVIA -

Kid Niki Radical Ninja was released in December 1986. It is known in Japan as "Kaiketsu Yanchamaru".

In this Export version, Kid Niki has spiky hair and a little rat tail. In the Japanese version, Kid Niki has a more traditional Japanese haircut.

- SERIES -

1. Kid Niki - Radical Ninja (1986)
2. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 2 - Karakuri Land (1991, Nintendo Famicom)
3. Kaiketsu Yanchamaru 3 - Taiketsu! Zouringen (1993, Nintendo Famicom)

- PORTS -

* CONSOLES:
Nintendo Famicom (1987)
Nintendo Game Boy

* COMPUTERS:
Commodore C64 (1987)

- CONTRIBUTE -

Edit this entry: https://www.arcade-history.com/?&page=detail&id=1273&o=2

High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

majygool______________________213.000
fly_saya______________________162.900
equipe.droids_________________125.500
nicky634_______________________76.800
foxmulder______________________65.700
didyeah________________________43.000
hulkiii________________________27.900


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