04299: bbprot: Unknown fighting game 'BB' is a bootleg of Martial Champion.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
04299	Documentation	Trivial	N/A	Mar 31, 2011, 23:06	Apr 3, 2011, 17:32

Tester	Heihachi_73	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	No change required	OS
Status [?]	Closed			Driver	nix/fitfight.cpp
Version	0.141u4	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	04299: bbprot: Unknown fighting game 'BB' is a bootleg of Martial Champion.
Description	According to this website, complete with screenshots, 'BB' Prototype is in fact a (very early) bootleg of Martial Champion. http://forum.unseen64.net/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1801 The sprites are slightly different to Konami's game, however they could have been hand-drawn by the bootleggers, unless there was a very early prototype of Martial Champion with different sprites that we don't know about...
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Additional Information	If someone can rip the graphics tiles to form the character selection portraits it would be very useful for identification, considering that the game itself doesn't know what it's doing for the most part. While 'fighting', you can see the portraits and name tags of Avu and Jin in the tilemap viewer, using the wrong palette.
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No.07358 Haze Senior Tester Apr 1, 2011, 11:47 edited on: Apr 1, 2011, 11:57	well it's by Nix who did the 'Fit of Fighting' (art of fighting) and 'History of Martial Arts' (fighters history) bootlegs, which were reprogrammed from scratch, so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd started (but abandoned) an attempt to bootleg Martial Champion too... That said, in the former bootlegs they'd simply ripped all the graphics, not redrawn anybody. There seems to be a fairly complete attract mode / game sequence running behind all the junk, so it's also possible that it STARTED as a complete bootleg of Martial Champion, but then they ripped out all the graphics, and most of the data, and started replacing things with their own characters in order to make a more legitimate game. Maybe we're just missing an 'original' bootleg.
No.07363 Tafoid Administrator Apr 3, 2011, 15:02 edited on: Apr 3, 2011, 15:02	PCB info for this game (dumper's notes): About the game: This is a prototype in VERY early stages of development. Maybe it was coded to gain some experience to be able to make Fit of Fighting bootleg. A lot of missing/random graphics, no sound, no game itself, just jump, move, crouch... :) Badly coded scroll, no screen when you power on the board (just start pushing first button, coin and start to get into a game) or leave it some seconds to see a dramatically lame fight)... Character selection just shows garbage, maybe stage selection shows rubbish, and the game itself is all the time displaying a lot of garbage.. But this is VERY nice! :) The most funny thing about this game is that the three visible fighter characters can be based on some of the NIX workers, but i really can't verify this :) Might be a testbed for other bootlegs or simply unfinished but it's hard to tell either way. Speculation is never truth. It's easier to keep it "unknown proto" rather than assuming it was going to be this or that.
No.07370 Fujix Administrator Apr 3, 2011, 17:32	Dropping the case because of insufficient evidence.