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Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight

  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 Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight
Name wildfang
Manufacturer Tecmo
Year 1989
Runnable yes
System arcade /
Number of players 2P sim
Added to MAME .035b01
Romset size 2.5 MB
Romset file 12 files
Romset zip 1 B
Language English
Evaluation 50 to 60 (Not Good Enough)
Genre Platform

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 8 no

Display infos

type rotate flipx width height refresh pixclock htotal hbend hbstart vtotal vbend vbstart
raster 0 no 256 224 59.17

Dipswitchs

Roms list

console name bios size crc md5 merge sha1 region offset status optional
arcade 1.3st 131072 ab876c9b b02c822f107df4c9c4f0024998f225c1ddbbd496 maincpu 0 good no
arcade 14.3a 131072 0d20c10c 209ca4e166d0b91ff99a338e135e5388af2c51f5 gfx2 0 good no
arcade 15.3b 131072 3f40a6b4 7486ddfe4b0ac4198512548b74402f4194c804f1 gfx2 20000 good no
arcade 16.1a 131072 0f31639e e150db4f617c5fcf505e5ca95d94073c1f6b7d0d gfx2 40000 good no
arcade 17.1b 131072 f32c158e 2861754bda37e30799151b5ca73771937edf38a9 gfx2 60000 good no
arcade 2.5st 131072 1dc74b3b c99051ebefd6ce666b13ab56c0a10b188f15ec28 maincpu 1 good no
arcade a-6v.mcu 4096 mcu 0 nodump no
arcade tkni3.bin 65536 15623ec7 db43fe6c417117d7cd90a26e12a52efb0e1a5ca6 audiocpu 0 good no
arcade tkni4.bin 131072 a7a1dbcf 2fee1d9745ce2ab54b0b9cbb6ab2e66ba9677245 oki 0 good no
arcade tkni5.bin 65536 5ed15896 87bdddb26934af0b2c4e704e6d85c69a7531aeb1 gfx1 0 good no
arcade tkni6.bin 524288 f68fafb1 aeca38eaea2f6dfc484e48ac1114c0c4abaafb9c gfx3 0 good no
arcade tkni8.bin 524288 4931b184 864e827ac109c0ee52a898034c021cd5e92ff000 gfx4 80000 good no
arcade tkni9.bin 524288 d22f4239 360a9a821faabe911eef407ef85452d8b706538f gfx4 0 good no

Chips list

name tag type clock
M68000 maincpu cpu 9216000
OKI6295 oki audio 1000000
Speaker mono audio
YM2203 ym2 audio 4000000
Z80 audiocpu cpu 4000000

Categories

MAMEinfo

0.64 [Thierry Lescot]

0.34b2 [Nicola Salmoria]


Bugs:

- wildfang and clones: Small graphic glitch in the map screen. izius (ID 06106)

- Original PCB running through an RGB board and into my PC. Smitdogg (ID 03947)


WIP:

- 0.138u4: Stefan Lindberg and The Dumping Union added clone Wild Fang. hap fixed missing screen shaking effect in Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight.

- 17th July 2010: Smitdogg - Stefan Lindberg dumped an alt set of Wild Fang earlier that doesn't have the title screen choice dipswitch. I'm not sure what else is different. I attached his pics of the PCBs. When I was testing the Tecmo Knight PCB we recently got for decapping, I noticed there was an effect that shook the entire screen during some jump landings and parts where enemies break through walls. The effect was missing from MAME but thanks to hap it's going to be in .138u4 so be sure to try out Tecmo Knight / Wild Fang in the next release to check out this effect.

- 15th July 2010: Smitdogg - We got Tecmo Knight for decapping.

- 0.133u1: Changed VSync to 59.17 Hz.

- 0.71: Changed MSM6295 clock speed to 7575 Hz and palettesize to 4096 colors.

- 0.66: Changed M68000 CPU1 clock speed to 9216000 Hz.

- 0.64: Changed clone 'Wild Fang' to parent 'Wild Fang / Tecmo Knight'.

- 0.37b2: Changed OKI6295 clock speed to 7576 Hz.

- 10th February 1999: Phil Stroffolino has worked a little bit more on the tilemap code, and Ninja Gaiden now draws all sprite sizes correctly (helps also with later sections of Tecmo Knight).

- 0.35b1: Thierry Lescot added clone Wild Fang.

- 0.34b2: Nicola added 'Tecmo Knight' (Tecmo 1989). Known issues: There might be some misbehaviours caused by imperfect emulation of the protection. Some gfx glitches caused by missing support of 8x8 sprites.

- 15th June 1998: Dumped Tecmo Knight.


LEVELS: 5


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History


Arcade Video game published 30 years ago:

Wild Fang (c) 1989 Tecmo.

Wild Fang is a sideways scrolling beat-em-up for 1 or 2 players with a medieval setting. Players take on a variety of orcs, ogres, demons and other mythical creatures in their bid to destroy Satan, decapitating each enemy they encounter in order to collect their skulls for points and power-ups.

The player's character is an armor wearing beastmaster who sits atop of a fist-fighting giant. Upon the player's command, the player may switch his mount into a tiger and attack with his mace. Within each stage, there are also power-ups that allow the player to morph into a laser breathing dragon for a limited period of time.

The player's life bar is represented by a fire breathing dragon in the upper corner. With each hit the player takes, the fire breath grows smaller. Once the life bar is depleted the player's mount is killed and the player travels on foot and fights with throwing daggers. If hit in this form then the player loses a life. The game is over when all of a players lives are lost.

- TECHNICAL -

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 9.216 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : (2x) Yamaha YM2203 (@ 4 Mhz), OKI6295 (@ 7.575 Khz)

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3

- TRIVIA -

Released in May 1989.

This game is also known as "Tecmo Knight".

- STAFF -

Programmers : Pochi, HB.M, EXP2148
Graphic designers : Bruter, Noise, Yohkun, D.H.Max
Character designers : Bruter, Noise, S?nager, Yohkun
Sound creators : Mikio Saito (Metal Yuhki), Mayu
Hardware : Yoshida San
Directed by : Strong Shima

- CONTRIBUTE -

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High scores

MAMESCORE records : 02/04/2017 13:01

fly_saya______________________236.700
majygool______________________233.450
lorddraakh____________________151.350
foxmulder______________________55.000
dark_kariya____________________31.150
hulkiii________________________19.600