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Ninja Gaiden/Shadow Warriors
🕑 Added 2025-01-03 17:14:13 +0000 UTCHappy New Year and welcome to the first release of 2025. We just had JTTWIN16 beta featuring Dark Adventure a few days ago so I am sure you did not see today's one coming!
Update your BETA.KEY file for this release
History
Developed by Tecmo, this belt-scrolling action game was first released in North America and Europe in October 1988, note that the Japanese release came later! The evil general Bladedamus, who has the blood of Nostradamus in his veins, had kidnapped the President of the USA, and what they had in their hands was the command switch to launch an ICBM. As was customary in America in the 80's, they called two ninjas from Tokyo to crush Bladedamus' organization. The game is full of ninja-like five-body techniques, such as the "Hang Kick", the "Flying Neck Throw" and the "Tightrope Walk".
There are five types of items. They are hidden within objects (like bins) but you cannot destroy them with your attacks but by throwing an enemy at them. Also, if an enemy throws you at them!
Mini ninja doll: 1UP
Clock: time +20
Sword: crush up to 10 enemies! You lose it when advancing stage
Small / big jewellery: more points
Red Capsule / Blue Capsule: energy recovery
Final boss Bladedamus (round 6)
If you stand exactly on the vertical axis with him, he will not move at all. Then you move quickly to his elbow and launch a series of attacks!
The Core
For once, this core is derived directly from MAME, with small changes where it makes sense from a hardware perspective. I have two boards of this game (thanks to Yeahbuddy and Raul Chicon) but they are full of customs and even regular logic has the product numbers erased. So, rather than trying to extract schematics for the full board, I decided to make the core first to identify which parts of the board are worth examining.
Thanks for your continuous support for the last six years. We have come a long way, from supporting only Ghosts'n Goblins to covering more than 1,000 games. I count on you for 2025.
Comments
Sean Gourgaud
Thanks man!
Patrick Domingo
i also am getting this same error when i run pupdate
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I would like to congratulate you on all the wonderful work you do. Please tell me one thing. In the analogue pocket version of namco system 1, the world stadium is displayed upside down by default. Please tell me how to save the service mode settings and return to the title. Good luck to you.
HanJeSu
I tried that, following the instructions from the link in the welcome email and it still doesn't work for me. I made sure to use the latest beta.bin file, and am on the latest Pocket version and the latest version of PUpdate. Still can't get certain betas to work. It says it's missing keys for: jotego.jtflstory jotego.jtngpc jotego.jtriders jotego.jts18 jotego.jttwin16 jotego.jtxmen I even manually put in the keys in the common folder for each core, even though I don't need to, and it still doesn't work. I'm not sure what to do here.
Bomanden
@VINSTER try @Retro_Active_'s tip it worked for me. Thanks for both of your suggestions. Time to play some Shadow Warriors :)
Retro_ Active_
I don't know if you fixed this already or not, but I ran into the same issue and think I know the fix. I'm on MisterPi also, and I went into update_all settings (press up when prompted) and under 6 Extra Content, I had Arcade ROMs Database toggled off, which may be a default settting or something, so I turned that on and I think that was necessary to download the arcade ROM zip into the games/mame folder that is reported missing. Hopefully that works!
VINSTER
I've been having to add the mame roms manually for MISTer, for the last few months.
John Milon
same
John Milon
same here.
HanJeSu
I tried using the Beta key from this release and even extracted the bin file and placed it in every common folder for JT cores under Assets, and I still get this error when running PUpdate, and the cores still don't work for me. Is there something else I'm missing? I was following the steps in GitHub but still got an error saying that licenses are missing for the following cores: jotego.jtflstory jotego.jtngpc jotego.jtriders jotego.jts18 jotego.jttwin16 jotego.jtxmen
Jonlad1
Is JTFriday still a thing? Releases seem to be sporadic now. Not a criticism, maybe I missed an announcement or something
Dan H.
I am having the same issue. I updated the Beta Key and Ninja Gaiden works but the above cores do not.
Bomanden
No one gets the error below ? any forums you can recommend ? Game does not start , just shows this message, for a few seconds. games/mame/shadoww.zip/21.4b 21.4b not found For The Fairyland Story , this error games/mame/flstory.zip/a45-20mcu a45-20.mcu not found
Matt
Its the beta key from my post above.
Matt
Just to confirm with the latest beta key the following cores through up checksum errors: Missing or incorrect License file for the following cores: jotego.jtflstory jotego.jtngpc jotego.jtriders jotego.jts18 jotego.jttwin16 jotego.jtxmen
James Wyld
love all the gradius/nemesis games... excited to have them added!
HanJeSu
Thanks! I didn’t realize there was yet another release after the last update I pulled. I’ll do that. Much appreciated!
JOTEGO
You need to use the BETA KEY from this release.
Bomanden
Not sure what I am doing wrong I have a MISTer PI, I added the JTPremium option to get all beta cores. I have copied the newest jtbeta.zip to games/mame. When I try to start ShaddowWarriors and The Fairyland Story I get a similar error games /mame/shaddoww.zip/21.4b 21.4b not found Sorry if it is obvious what courses the error Thanks JOTEGO for bringing all these nostalgic games to life again - I love it
JOTEGO
Thank you for your report about the X-Men. We will check it.
HanJeSu
Thank you so much for this core! I remember playing this arcade game in a local video rental store growing up. Much appreciated seeing this come out. One bug I want to report though on the X-Men core: The latest update now just shows the Jotego credits overlayed on the game and it cannot be removed. It just keeps scrolling and won’t go away with any button press. As such, you cannot play the game.
THE_MAQ
Thank you..
OldManBog
https://xcancel.com/topapate/status/1875230490418098323#m
Adam Davis
Agree 100%! Have had audio issues with my board for a long time and would love to see this board reverse engineered for troubleshooting purposes as well 🙌🏼
Tony T
Thanks
ShadowX
As an owner of the actual boards with a graphics issue that I have been putting off trying to fix (bad opticoupler, I believe), I am therefore very happy to see this release and soon learn more about these enigmatic boards with no schematics that I could find out there. The arcade manual is very... reduced for this one. It appears the MarsFGPA team is also working on a core and documentation which is great too. I really had to scrape the internet to find out about my boards' potential fix o.O It would be lovely to have more info at last! Thanks!
PAUL G
Thank you. Will do that 🙂
JOTEGO
Copy the unzipped jtbeta.zip file to the mister SD card in the folder games/mame
PAUL G
I tried remapping controls but that didn't resolve it
PAUL G
Maybe just a weird glitch but I can't get Ninja Gaiden/Shadow Warriors to start on my MisterPi? It loads up but no controller is recognised for inserting coins or starting a game. Any help appreciated and thank you for all the other amazing cores!
Darren Newman
Vanguard being developed by Jimmy Stones I think.
Gabriel S
For Pocket: Download jtbeta.zip from this post—> unzip to beta.bin—> place in assets/jtpatreon/common
Matt
Do we need a update to other cores - as when updating it says incorrect license key for 5 of the other beta cores ?
Jason Wixom
Putting on a request for the long forgotten 1986 arcade game “Gladiator.” Help me relive the better parts of my childhood.
blktiger
Great nostalgic game and NY surprise, thanks! Any plans for blood bros / cabal?
c c
me funciona, pero rompe otros cores como sunset riders y la sega twin
THE_MAQ
I was hoping for some cps3 news?
Craig Somerfield
This has been on my wishlist for the longest time, just need Vangard by SNK and my wishlist is complete ;)
PolloLoco
Thank you Jotego! That famous continue screen was forever seared into my kid brain seeing it for the first time all those years ago 🤣
Findamember
Another legndary game joins JT roster. Great "Three Wise Men" (Reyes Magos) present. Thanks so much!!
Baz M
thanks jose
Adam Davis
DUDE!!! Thank you so much Jose!!!! I’ve been waiting for this one! You are AMAZING!!! 🤩🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Jeruro
¿Es muy diferente el hardware a Darius 2? Sería impresionante también contar con ese título.
Jason Ng
Amazing! Happy New Year!
Pixel Cherry Ninja
Thanks JT and team. This is a childhood favourite of mine.
Juco
Thank you! Just one thing, the images in the post are not visible.
Jordi Clement
Awesome. Thanks!!
Jon
Thank you for sharing all your hard work. Happy new year!
Daniel Thomas Stack
sounds like an interesting reverse engineering project. Hope it remains a fun one and thank you for letting us play the working WIP
MEG4DRIVER
T H A N K Y O U so much Jotego <3
Tony Shong
Wow!! What another amazing JTfriday!! Two in a row!! Thank you soooo much Jotego for such a fantastic New Year present!!!
gg heenok
merci beaucoup pour ton travail !!!!
Mark Saunders
Wow what a surprise didn’t see this coming ! I remember the 8 Bit computer conversions well . Thanks so much
Nik Gilbert
Thank you for this great release. Hopefully 2025 will bring the completion of the NGPC core too 👍
KSzy
One of my favorites!! You and your team are the BEST!! Thank You!!
Juan E. Gayon
Espectacular!!!
ElloMrChris
One of my favourites! Thank you so much.
Ashley Kingsley
Thank you. This is an awesome addition.
XC-3730C
I hope so. I became a jotego Patreon member back in I think 2022 so I don't know if I even have the welcome email when I first signed up
Joe Nichols
I assume they mean the jtbeta zip file included in this post
Jimmy Dozier
I just know 2025 will be the year of cps3!!!! And maybe turtles in time ……
JOTEGO
Please check the welcome message that you got when you subscribed
XC-3730C
Please excuse my ignorance but what is the beta.key for and where do I get it? I have a MiSTer-Pi and Analogue Pocket
Gillaxian
We count on you for 2025 as well! (Especially for CPS3) 😉
ronalvel .
Excelente juego!!! Muy buena adición a la libreria del Mister!!! Gracias!!!
Pons Cremator
Thanks so much, sir! This has been on my MiSTer wish list forever!!!
