King of Dragons Japanese glitched - Begging for a proper fix

[Layer]

I also have this prob of sprites vewable at the launch checks. It's due to the fact that the palette value is fixed to 0F at the boot for this game, like Mega Twins and a few other.
I tried to fix that prob but I didn't succeed... but I can remove the checks screen and let a black screen instead, changing the value with more than 2.

[Green beret]

I also have this prob of sprites vewable at the launch checks. It's due to the fact that the palette value is fixed to 0F at the boot for this game, like Mega Twins and a few other.
I tried to fix that prob but I didn't succeed... but I can remove the checks screen and let a black screen instead, changing the value with more than 2.

Main issue are the missing monster sprite layers though. That's the part you should concentrate the most and you will make a lot of people happy!!

[jepjepjep]

I'm fine with that if it's just the images required and not a full set.

Yes, it is Only the roms to replace. As it's not done at Dead Battery Society, I did them. I hope that they would help.
Depending of your B-board, choose the right one.

KoD jap 910805 for B-Board 90629B-3 : http://speedy.sh/cwdmT/The-King-of-Drag ... 629B-3.rar

KoD jap 910805 for B-Board-89625B-1: http://speedy.sh/BjYM5/The-King-of-Drag ... 625B-1.rar

Hi Layer, thanks for sharing your patches. I have a desuicided KoD board with the World version patches, and I can confirm the missing Hydra tail and Red Dragon body. I tried out your patches tonight (KoD jap 910805 for B-Board 90629B-3) and I played up to the Hydra boss. Unfortunately the tail was missing as well.

[bytestorm]

oh crap! I didnt know about this... I just went ahead and descuicided my board not to long ago, just in case... man! why did I do that ;(. I really hope there will be a solution to this one.
Thread states solution found thou, but thats just referring to getting a new pcb on battery right?

Fingers crossed for this one to be solved aswell! Thanks in advance!

[Green beret]

oh crap! I didnt know about this... I just went ahead and descuicided my board not to long ago, just in case... man! why did I do that ;(. I really hope there will be a solution to this one.
Thread states solution found thou, but thats just referring to getting a new pcb on battery right?

Fingers crossed for this one to be solved aswell! Thanks in advance!

Right! A board on battery! I will change the title and will beg someone for a patch!

[Green beret]

User Bonky from another forum said:

"Death battery society seem to be not updated
If you want decrypted set on 512k or 128k KOD Japan, you can dowload it here : http://arcade-area.lebonforum.com/t701- ... 0014#47100
A lot of decrypted set are tested by me on original hardware and you can found wonder3 decrypted set working (on Death battery society, the japan set is not completely decrypted)

Crédits are for Willax."
If someone can try those and tell us if the missing tails are visible!

[jepjepjep]

User Bonky from another forum said:

"Death battery society seem to be not updated
If you want decrypted set on 512k or 128k KOD Japan, you can dowload it here : http://arcade-area.lebonforum.com/t701- ... 0014#47100
A lot of decrypted set are tested by me on original hardware and you can found wonder3 decrypted set working (on Death battery society, the japan set is not completely decrypted)

Crédits are for Willax."
If someone can try those and tell us if the missing tails are visible!

Just tried it and no hydra tail. (tried the ETC 910711 version)

[Green beret]

User Bonky from another forum said:

"Death battery society seem to be not updated
If you want decrypted set on 512k or 128k KOD Japan, you can dowload it here : http://arcade-area.lebonforum.com/t701- ... 0014#47100
A lot of decrypted set are tested by me on original hardware and you can found wonder3 decrypted set working (on Death battery society, the japan set is not completely decrypted)

Crédits are for Willax."
If someone can try those and tell us if the missing tails are visible!

Just tried it and no hydra tail. (tried the ETC 910711 version)

Thank you for the feedback. It seems we are facing a dead end.

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

You have to hack the the hell out of those roms and I think the pal/gal as well. I have a set that gets it to the point where the only glitch is in the end credits using a 90629B-3 B board. Not sure how to share it here.

[Green beret]

You have to hack the the hell out of those roms and I think the pal/gal as well. I have a set that gets it to the point where the only glitch is in the end credits using a 90629B-3 B board. Not sure how to share it here.

There is a Hydra tail and a red dragon body?

[Layer]

User Bonky from another forum said:

"Death battery society seem to be not updated
If you want decrypted set on 512k or 128k KOD Japan, you can dowload it here : http://arcade-area.lebonforum.com/t701- ... 0014#47100
A lot of decrypted set are tested by me on original hardware and you can found wonder3 decrypted set working (on Death battery society, the japan set is not completely decrypted)

Crédits are for Willax."
If someone can try those and tell us if the missing tails are visible!

Thanx, it's my name on Arcade-area

I'm fine with that if it's just the images required and not a full set.

Yes, it is Only the roms to replace. As it's not done at Dead Battery Society, I did them. I hope that they would help.
Depending of your B-board, choose the right one.

KoD jap 910805 for B-Board 90629B-3 : http://speedy.sh/cwdmT/The-King-of-Drag ... 629B-3.rar

KoD jap 910805 for B-Board-89625B-1: http://speedy.sh/BjYM5/The-King-of-Drag ... 625B-1.rar

Hi Layer, thanks for sharing your patches. I have a desuicided KoD board with the World version patches, and I can confirm the missing Hydra tail and Red Dragon body. I tried out your patches tonight (KoD jap 910805 for B-Board 90629B-3) and I played up to the Hydra boss. Unfortunately the tail was missing as well.

I didn't know Hydra had a body, I believed it was only their necks or tails.

I think I can fix that with a VB patch, or maybe the pal/gal sprites/scrolls range is not complete, I will try.

[bytestorm]

this is from the snes version i think, but heres the body and tail.

would be so awesome if you could fix it

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

You have to hack the the hell out of those roms and I think the pal/gal as well. I have a set that gets it to the point where the only glitch is in the end credits using a 90629B-3 B board. Not sure how to share it here.

There is a Hydra tail and a red dragon body?

Everything is fixed but the end credits had some white lines like I said.

[Green beret]

This is great! How can you give it to us?

[Muchi Muchi Spork]

Don't know. I guess I'd need an OK from an admin to link to roms?

[distropia]

Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but i'm exactly on the same situation. Did you solved the problem with the "Muchi Muchi Spork" fix?

[Green beret]

Muchi Muchi Spork where are you?

I bought the game again desuicided as I couldn't find a copy on battery all this time and Hydra's tail is missing again. Awesome game! If it only looked properly! Is there someone with a properly decrypted set? I would pay for replacement roms with a proper desuicided fix that would display Hydra and red Dragon with their bodies.

Thanks

[parodius]

Now you can revive them and use the original roms.
I assume it would fix those issues.
Haven't done mine yet though.

[Green beret]

Now you can revive them and use the original roms.
I assume it would fix those issues.
Haven't done mine yet though.

Yes you are right but my boards uses a C board from Street Fighter 2 which didn't have a battery in the first place and I don't know if someone can put a battery there...

[parodius]

Now you can revive them and use the original roms.
I assume it would fix those issues.
Haven't done mine yet though.

Yes you are right but my boards uses a C board from Street Fighter 2 which didn't have a battery in the first place and I don't know if someone can put a battery there...

Quite likely if it's a B-21 C board.

[Green beret]

Now you can revive them and use the original roms.
I assume it would fix those issues.
Haven't done mine yet though.

Yes you are right but my boards uses a C board from Street Fighter 2 which didn't have a battery in the first place and I don't know if someone can put a battery there...

Quite likely if it's a B-21 C board.

I forgot to make clear that I am waiting in mail King of Dragons to come. From a picture when bought it I can tell, for desuiciding it has been used a C board with no battery from factory. The rest of the board is original King of Dragons. I can't tell if it's a B-21 C board from that picture though. It's blury and low res.

In worst case scenario I have to buy a Kabuki programmer and someone has to provide me ready already burnt roms from mame code, with payment of course. I could use my captain commando's C board (have to move Captain Commando original sticker without destroying it), while it needs to be restored to battery too.

This scenario is very complicated to become true.

[distropia]

In worst case scenario I have to buy a Kabuki programmer and someone has to provide me ready already burnt roms from mame code, with payment of course. I could use my captain commando's C board (have to move Captain Commando original sticker without destroying it), while it needs to be restored to battery too

I truly don't like the Kabuki programmer solution, you have to put again a battery that sooner or later will die and eject lithium all over the board. The phoenix is a permanent and clean solution.

Let's hope someone publish the right patch

[CaptainCommando]

I hope somebody will patch the game correctly.

[parodius]

you have to put again a battery that sooner or later will die and eject lithium all over the board. The phoenix is a permanent and clean solution.

Coin cell batteries such as the ones used on CPS1 C boards almost never have this issue. I have yet to see one myself.

[Green beret]

...and they are holding charge for 10 years.

[distropia]

you have to put again a battery that sooner or later will die and eject lithium all over the board. The phoenix is a permanent and clean solution.

Coin cell batteries such as the ones used on CPS1 C boards almost never have this issue. I have yet to see one myself.

I can send you some pictures of C boards corroded that way. As you point out is very rare but it happens. Anyways, if they don't spill lithium they die and the game is rendered again unusable, so we're not on a permanent solution. We're helping the planned obsolescence. nonono.

i still have hopes that user "layer" kept the right phoenix patch
is one of my favourite games and impossible to finish without being able to see the final dragon

[Green beret]

Muchi Muchi Spork seems to have the right patch, but where is he?

[IronGiant]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I was recently asked to revive a King of Dragons (World set, 910711, 27C010 EPROMs) which had suicided then been de-suicided with the relevant details and binaries on the Dead Battery Society site. Maybe the following info will be of use.

This boardset also had the problems mentioned in this thread such as the Hydra's tail being missing.

Using an Arduino Uno and the instructions here:

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.co.uk/2015 ... pdate.html

I reversed the C board custom chip mods, re-programmed the original code into four 27C010 EPROMs, added a new battery and re-programmed the C board with the key file from the Arduino. I then tested the game up to the Hydra and all is fine - the tail is back!

[jepjepjep]

That's great new, IronGiant! Thanks for the info. To follow along the question posed earlier by Green beret, if you have a SFII:CE c-board, one that originally did not include a battery, is it dangerous to hook up a battery and try to program the encryption keys?

[IronGiant]

That's great new, IronGiant! Thanks for the info. To follow along the question posed earlier by Green beret, if you have a SFII:CE c-board, one that originally did not include a battery, is it dangerous to hook up a battery and try to program the encryption keys?

I assume you're referring to a board that has had a battery removed, C board modded and some EPROMs replaced? If so then all of those changes would need to first be reversed (and a new battery added) before a new key could be uploaded. You wouldn't want to hook up a battery to the C board before the wire mod had been removed and cut pins restored.

As for boards that NEVER had a battery then, of course, you wouldn't need to upload a key.


As an aside, the Arduino Uno can also be used to re-upload keys to pre-CPS1, CPS1.5 and CPS2 boards. So far I've only done CPS1 and CPS2 but it's a similar procedure for either, mainly just different connection points for the Arduino.

Full pre-CPS, CPS1, CPS1.5 details here:

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.co.uk/2015 ... pdate.html

Full CPS2 details here:

http://arcadehacker.blogspot.co.uk/2016 ... guide.html