kov2: MAME ROM Information. History:
Knights of Valour 2 (c) 2000 IGS.
A very good side-scrolling fighting game set in medieval China.
- TECHNICAL -
IGS PGM hardware
Main CPU : 68000 (@ 20 Mhz), Z80 (@ 8.468 Mhz), ARM7 (@ 20 Mhz)
Sound Chips : ICS2115 (@ 20 Mhz)
Control per player: 8-way Joystick
Buttons per player: 4
- TRIVIA -
Released in November 2000.
This game is also known as "Sangoku Senki Bushou Souha" (translates from Japanese as 'Knights of the Three Kingdoms - Commander's Struggle For Supremacy').
- TIPS AND TRICKS -
* Secret Characters : on the character selection screen, hold START button then input the following codes...
Koumei : D, B, D, C(x2), B, D, B, UP, DOWN
Chouzen : C, D, B(x2), C, D, UP, DOWN, UP, DOWN
Housuu : B, C, D, UP, DOWN, LEFT(x2), RIGHT, C, D
Sonken : B(x3), C, D, C, B(x2), DOWN(x2)
- SERIES -
1. Knights of Valour (1999)
2. Knights of Valour Superheroes (1999)
3. Knights of Valour 2 (2000)
4. Knights of Valour 2 - Nine Dragons (2001)
5. Knights of Valour 2 - Bushou Retsuden
6. Knights of Valour Superheroes Plus (2004)
7. Knights of Valour - The Seven Spirits (2004)
8. Knights of Valour 2 - New Legend (2008)
9. Knights of Valour 3 (2011)
- SOURCES -
Game's rom.
MAME Info:
0.137u1 [XingXing]
0.102u5 [?]
0.69a [?]
< Japan >
Artwork available
WIP:
- 0.141u3: Tafoid added clone 'Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 101, 101, 100HK)'.
- 0.137u2: Changed parent description to 'Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 107, 102, 100HK)' and the clones to (ver. 106, 102, 100KH), (ver. 103, 101, 100HK), (ver. 102, 101, 100HK) and (ver. 100, 100, 100HK).
- 0.137u1: XingXing added Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 107) and clones (ver. 102) and (ver. 103). Renamed (kov2) to (kov2100).
- 0.130u3: Changed description to 'Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 100)' and clones to 'Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 106)' and 'Knights of Valour 2 Plus - Nine Dragons / Sangoku Senki 2 Plus - Nine Dragons (ver. M204XX)/(ver. M205XX)'.
- 0.130u1: Xing Xing and David Haywood added experimental video change with a view to fix priorities on Knights of Valour 2. Changed parent description to 'Knights of Valour 2 (ver. 100)' and clones '(106)' to '(ver. 106)' and 'Plus - Nine Dragons' to 'Plus - Nine Dragons (ver. M204XX)'.
- 26th July 2008: Mr. Do - Funny story. Tormod sent me a BUNCH of instruction cards a long time ago. You've probably been seeing them added in every so often. Well, around July of last year, I had completed a whole bunch of them, but then had a computer crash, and they ended up on the "spare" hard drive by mistake. I found them again going through a cleanup. So thanks to Tormod, this week we have Knights of Valour 2.
- 0.111u6: MooglyGuy fixed Knights of Valour 2 - Game now playable.
- 0.105u4: Fixed sound1 rom address to $800000. Added missing ARM7 CPU3 to the clones.
- 1st May 2006: David Haywood - Been doing some work with ElSemi updating the Thumb support in the ARM core based on the Nebula code. As a result these are improved (but don't work properly due to various core bugs). They also run at about 25% speed because the ARM emulation is very demanding. Thanks to Mooglyguy for the original Thumb support (see Martial Masters and Knights of Valour 2).
- 0.104u5: R. Belmont hooked up ARM7 protection CPU (20MhZ) in KOV2. Boots but does not run or play due to the Thumb sign problems.
- 0.102u5: Added 'Knights of Valour 2' and clones 'Knights of Valour 2 (106)' and 'Knights of Valour 2 Plus - Nine Dragons'.
- 0.69a: Added Knights of Valour 2 Plus - Nine Dragons (Testdriver).
Other Emulators:
* FB Alpha
* Nebula
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Romset: 79888 kb / 12 files / 23.3 zip
MAME XML Output:
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   |    | <description>Knights of Valour 2 / Sangoku Senki 2 (ver. 107, 102, 100HK)</description> |
   |    | <year>2000</year> |
   |    | <manufacturer>IGS</manufacturer> |
   |    | <biosset name="v2" description="PGM Bios V2" default="yes"/> |
   |    | <biosset name="v1" description="PGM Bios V1"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="pgm_p01s.u20" merge="pgm_p01s.u20" bios="v1" size="131072" crc="e42b166e" sha1="2a9df9ec746b14b74fae48b1a438da14973702ea" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="kov2_v100_hongkong.asic" size="16384" crc="e0d7679f" sha1="e1c2d127eba4ddbeb8ad173c55b90ac1467e1ca8" region="prot" offset="0"/> |
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   |    | <rom name="pgm_m01s.rom" merge="pgm_m01s.rom" size="2097152" crc="45ae7159" sha1="d3ed3ff3464557fd0df6b069b2e431528b0ebfa8" region="ics" offset="0"/> |
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   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="68000" clock="20000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="soundcpu" name="Z80" clock="8467200"/> |
   |    | <chip type="cpu" tag="prot" name="ARM7" clock="20000000"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
   |    | <chip type="audio" tag="ics" name="ICS2115"/> |
   |    | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="0" width="448" height="224" refresh="60.000000" /> |
   |    | <sound channels="1"/> |
   |    | <input players="4" buttons="4" coins="4"> |
   |    |    | <control type="joy" ways="8"/> |
   |    | </input> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Service Mode" tag="DSW" mask="1"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="1" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Music" tag="DSW" mask="2"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="2" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Voice" tag="DSW" mask="4"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="4" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Free" tag="DSW" mask="8"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="8" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Stop" tag="DSW" mask="16"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="16" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="32"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="64"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <dipswitch name="Unused" tag="DSW" mask="128"> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="Off" value="128" default="yes"/> |
   |    |    | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
   |    | </dipswitch> |
   |    | <configuration name="Region" tag="RegionHack" mask="255"> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="China" value="0"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="Taiwan" value="1"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="Japan (Cave license)" value="2"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="Korea" value="3"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="Hong Kong" value="4"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="World" value="5"/> |
   |    |    | <confsetting name="Untouched" value="255" default="yes"/> |
   |    | </configuration> |
   |    | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="good" sound="imperfect" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="2304"/> |
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