____ ______________ ___________ ______ ___ ___ | | | | |/ /*/ __ |/ / / / / / / / __ / _______/ / <_/ / <_/ / / /___/ / / | / /_____ \___ /\___ / / ____/ / / / / / / / / _ _/_ _/\ _ \__/_ /__/ _/_________/ ____ /__/_ __/__/____ ____ ____ | |/ | | \| |/ ___|// _ \| __|| __| |/ ___| |_| |_ _| __| _ \/ __| | <| | | |_ || |_| | _| | _|| | |_ | _ | | | | _|| _ <\__ \ |_|\_|_|_|\__|\__,_|_\___/|_| |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| |_| |____|_| \_|____/ / / /___/ |________/ / | / | / The King Of Fighters '94 FAQ |_/ ------------------ |_/ ------ Release 5 94k25.5 -------------------- _ _ _ _ _ | |_ _ | | _ _ __ _| |_ _ ___ | |(_) __ _ _ | | ' \| _| '_/ \/ ' | || |/ _/| _| |/ \| ' \ We are opening.. |_|_||_|\__|_| \__/\_,_|\_,_|\__\ \__|_|\__/|_||_| ___________________ | | As early as the first crop of Street Fighter II clones hit the | arcades, people have dreamed of pitting their favorites from one | game with the top contenders of another. To a limited degree this | has happened with Ryo Sakazaki in Fatal Fury Special (and somewhat | with Geese Howard in Art of Fighting 2). But in the Summer of 1994 | comes the first real effort, "The King of Fighters '94". | SNK has pooled together the stars of the Art of Fighting and | Fatal Fury series, introduced several new characters, and in a | surprising twist, invited personalities from two previous games, | Psycho Soldier and Ikari Warriors in a super 24 character battle. | Prepare for the KING OF FIGHTERS '94. | |Rumors! Questions! |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send anything to the address at the bottom. | - Bugs...er..features? | - Anything to make this writer giddy with joy. =^) |_____________________________________________________________________ ___ _ ___ _ | \ _ _ ___(_) ___ | \| | _ _ _ _ | (sp) |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ...is the sponsor of the King of Fighters | tournament this year, (note the "R" flags in England) _and_ the | final "boss" who fights _alone_. The fight takes place in his | (aircraft) carrier Blacknoah. The first round, he uses no special | attacks (be warned that he still does heavy damage this way.) | Second round, he begins fighting "at full strength", you can look | forward to these heavy attacks: | ReppuuKen Like that of Geese Howard | Kaiser Wave Like that of Wolfgang Krauser. | Genocide Cutter Spiraling Kick | God Press Rushes and slams opponent into opposite wall. | Dark Barrier Like Athena's Psycho Barrier. | chest grab Lift and strength drain. |_____________________________________________________________________ ____ _ | __| __ __ _| | ___ | |_ |/ \/ \/ ' |( / ..honored custom. This year we will adopt a.. |__,_|\__/\__/\_,_|/__) ______________________________________________ | |Software |~~~~~~~~ Released in it's various formats (JAMMA late August?, MVS | early September, Home early to mid October) the game soft size is | 196 Megabits. And for Western home units, it's CENSORED! To keep | the kids who carry $200 in pocket change from turning into crack | sucking homicidal rapists who tear tags off of mattresses, and to | appease paranoid overcautious parental groups, KOF'94 has been | censored. "Blood" and certain extraneous bodily motions have been | removed when the game is run on an American console. It's still in | there however and can be brought out via installation of arcade | ROMs into your NeoGeo console (be warned, that this will void any | warranty.) OR, through a code ("Blood Code" or "Bouncy Code", | depends how you view it. =^) | When the high score screen appears simultaneously press AD on | controller 1 and BC on controller 2, no signal will sound. Start | the game and all will be restored. The censor will reset when the | game ends. | |Music |~~~~~ "The King of Fighters '94" | Artist: Neo Sound Orchestra | Company: Pony Canyon / Scitron | Catalog#: PCCB-00162 | Price: 1500yen | Release: 1994.10.21 | Length: 45'01" (31 tracks) |_____________________________________________________________________ _ ___| | ___ / _/ _|/ _/ _ _ _ ..special rule of competition between teams of \__|\__|\__\(_)(_)(_) _____________ three fighters. That's all... [R] | |FAQ History |~~~~~~~~~~~ ...if anyone's really keeping record. | Release 0: September 13, 1994 | Initial release. Basic moves and some supermoves. | Release 1: September 25, 1994 | Premature maintenance release. Remaining supermoves added. | Release 2: October 2, 1994 | Corrections, Supplemental Document. | Release 3: October 7, 1994 | Translations, corrections to Information. | Release 4: November 1, 1994 | Informational reformat, additions, updates. | Release 5: Maintenance release, corrections, small updates. | Addenum, for things "not quite in the FAQ yet." | |THE KINGS OF FIGHTERS |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ some people who helped. thanks! =^) | Gamest magazine various | Masahiro Abe pen@win.or.jp moves,translation help | Robert Deloura deloura@pmel.noaa.goc lots 'n lots of corrections | Emperor Chris emperor@wam.umd.edu various | Ryo Saeba ryosaeba2@aol.com various | Dave Villanueva dvillnva@kaiwan.com Blood/Bouncy Code & various | |FTP |~~~ This FAQ is available via FTP from ftp.netcom.com in the | /pub/vi/vidgames/faqs directory, or from kaiwan.kaiwan.com in | /user/dvillnva/neogeo_faqs. Filenames to look for (following the | 'stoopid' 8.3 MeSsyDOS convention =^): | kof_adde.txt addenum | kof_info.txt game information (this document) | kof_move.txt move sheet | kof_quik.txt ten-key quick move sheet | |Note on Translation |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To appease those non-Japanese speakers playing | the game, I've written English translations to the Japanese names. | Some were borrowed from SNK givens (i.e. Andy: Kuhadan --> Sonic | Split) the rest are my own work (Kyo: OboroGuruma --> Twilight Ride) | Be warned however, that not all are _literal_ translations. Many | only use a part of the original name as I've tried to write English | names to capture the "feel" of the Japanese name (translating the | _entire_ name word for word sometimes makes for a rather silly | result). There is a difference in "definition" and "emotion". | Use the [bracketed] translations if you wish, but I highly | encourage you to use the Japanese original. |_____________________________________________________________________ Copyright 1994 Galen Komatsu. No part of this FAQ is to be altered without author's consent. Permission granted to freely distribute provided no fee is charged outside of raw reproduciton costs. Contact author for any inclusion in media, print, or otherwise. gtk __ ______ ______ ____ __ __ / / / / _ \/ ____/*/ __ |/ / / / yatta ze! / /__/ / / > / /__ / <_/ / /_/ / / _ __/ / / / ___/ \__ /\__ / Galen Komatsu / / \ \/ <_/ / / / / / / gkomatsu@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu / / /_/\____/ / /_/ /_/ |/ |/ The King of Fighters '94 send corrections