Jue Zhan Tian Huang (決戰天皇, literally "The war against the Emperor") is an arcade beat 'em up game developed by IBS Co., Ltd. (also known as Sun Mixing and "Genie") and released in 2000.
Overview[]
The game is known to feature four characters from The King of Fighters series as playable characters: Kyo Kusanagi (misspelled in-game as "Kio"), Iori Yagami, Chizuru Kagura, and Chin Gentsai. It also notably features Street Fighter II: The World Warrior characters as enemies.
The game uses the Puckman Pockimon engine and runs on hardware similar to Sega System C-2 or Sega Mega Drive. As with many Sega Mega Drive bootleg games, it utilizes the High Seas Havoc sound engine.
Characters[]
Playable characters[]
- Iori (sprites taken from KOF 99)
- Chizuru (sprites taken from KOF 98)
- Kio (mispelling of Kyo) (sprites taken from KOF 99)
- Chin (sprites taken from KOF 99)
Iori Yagami, Kyo Kusanagi and Chizuru Kagura compose the Team Sacred Treasures in the original The King of Fighters series, the inclusion Chin Gentsai seems random though.
Enemies[]
- Jin, originally Mary from Final Fight 2.
- Dhalsim
- Luna, originally B. Jenet from Garou: Mark of The Wolves.
- Balrog (the claw)
- Ryu
- Sagat
- Chun Li
- Blanca
- Vega (dictator)
- Guile
- E. Honda
The enemies from Street Fighter II typically attack using their special moves from the original game.
Stages and bosses[]
| Stage | Name | Boss |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qustion Street | Two Fat Jacks (Wong Who, from Final Fight) |
| 2 | Old Pit | Heidern (actually Saizo from Power Instinct) |
| 3 | Secret Voyage | AT.112 (Golem, from Ninja Warriors Again) |
| 4 | Stow Away | Dark (Ninja, one of the protagonist of Ninja Warriors Again) |
| 5 | Choatic City | Blue (Black, final boss of Final Fight 3) |
| 6 | Special Troops | No boss |
| 7 | Crime Source | Rain (Kain from Garou: Mark of the Wolves) |
| 8 | Inferno Door | Orochi (From The King of Fighters 97) |
The assets for the stages as well as the pick ups were taken for several sources, usually other beat 'em ups but also fighting games, for example, Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, Final Fight, Final Fight 3, Fatal Fury II, etc.
Trivia[]
- Most bosses and some enemies have different names from their original source.
- Stage 2 boss is named after Heidern from The King of Fighters series.
- The Street Fighter II characters are using their Japanese names
- All Street Fighter II characters sprites are taken from the SNES/Megadrive port of Street Fighter II however "some" paletts on the characters uses the ones from Street Fighter II turbo: Hyper Fighting.
- Ken, M. Bison (the punch, boxer) and Zangief are excluded from the enemy rost for some reason.
- Kyo has the same voice as Iori when preforming the Oni Yaki.
- By pressing the "Start" button mid game. you can change your characters.
- All Item sprites are taken from Final Fight 3
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