Rygar - Legendary Warrior

Manufacturer: Tecmo
Year: 1986
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Scrolling Fighter
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Tehkan
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 8-way
Buttons: 2 [Shoot|Jump]

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Rygar - Legendary Warrior Description

A warrior with a huge mace travels through a strange world killing monsters. Pick up insignias and stars for bonus points. The game has 27 different levels.

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Cabinet Information

This game was only sold as a conversion kit.

Cheats, Tricks and Bugs

With regard to the US ROM Sets, it appears that the 'rygar' set is a bug fix release for 'rygar2' ROMs. The original version was probably renamed to 'rygar2' when the new, fixed 'rygar' set was created.

The differences between these revisions are:

'rygar2' has a bug in the code which lets player two start a game when player one is already playing. You need to set a DIP switch to enable this behaviour (it is usually on by default). If you press '2' while player one is playing a one-player game, 'rygar2' will check if you have one or more credits before it registers that you're now in a two-player game, but it won't deduct the credit.
'rygar2' has some code that's not in 'rygar'. It seems to be blanking out seven characters on the screen. Maybe it's removing the word 'player 2' or 'player 1'.
In 'rygar2', if player two starts while player one is already playing, it says 'player 2' instead of 'player 1' at the top right.
The first screen of 'rygar2' says "ALL RIGHT RESERVED" which is missing the 'S' that is present in 'rygar'.

On level 13 there is a hidden star that will award you 1000000 points!

Conversion

Any cabinet equipped with a Tehkan wiring harness will accept this PCB. The game only requires one joystick and two buttons. However, two joysticks and four buttons will be required if the game is installed in a cocktail cabinet.

Game Introduction

You play the part of a barbarian warrior trying to reclaim the land from an evil Dominator and his legions of minions. You have to fight your way through 27 rounds using a unique weapon that has a lethal razor sharp disk that is thrown at enemies!

Miscellaneous

COPY OF: Argos No Senshi - Legendary Warrior

The differences between the US and Japanese ROM sets are: the demo sequences differ

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,485 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,728 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 61,148 machines (3,629 unique titles).

Common - There are 39 known instances of this machine owned by Rygar - Legendary Warrior collectors. Of these, 4 of them are original dedicated machines, 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 33 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

This game ranks a 24 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - No members have added this machine to their wish list. Please note that many collectors are not members or do not list their desires here, and it is likely that a number of collectors might purchase this machine if offered it at the right price. There are 4 VAPS members looking for Rygar - Legendary Warrior board sets.

This game ranks a 11 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

For Sale - There is one VAPS member with a Rygar - Legendary Warrior machine for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
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In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
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Technical

CPU: Z80 7.6 MHz
SOUND CPU: Z80 4 MHz
SCREEN: 256x224 (horz) 60Hz
COLORS: 1024 (dynamic)
SOUND: YM-3812 4 MHz

Manuals

Service Instruction Manual 11 Pages, 822 KB File.

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