Stakes Winner 2

30 Years old SNK Neo-Geo MVS cart. Saurus [Japan]

TECHNICAL

Runs on the SNK "Neo-Geo MVS" hardware.
Game ID : 0227

Main CPU : Motorola 68000 (@ 12 Mhz)
Sound CPU : Zilog Z80 (@ 4 Mhz)
Sound Chips : Yamaha YM2610 (@ 8 Mhz)

Screen orientation : Horizontal
Video resolution : 320 x 224 pixels
Screen refresh : 59.19 Hz
Palette colors : 4096

Players : 2
Control : 8-way joystick
Buttons : 3
=> [A] Slight acceleration/Decelerate, [B] Sharp acceleration, [C] Special move

TRIVIA

Released in September 1996.

This game is known in Japan as 'Stakes Winner 2 - Saikyou Uma Densetsu' (translates from Japanese as 'Stakes Winner 2 - Legend of the Mightiest Horse').

TIPS AND TRICKS

* How to unlock the endings: The game has between 16 and 18 races depending on your performance. If you get a game over and change your horse, the race count will reset. Reset the count mid game or near the end to get the extra endings. Also, the endings are slightly different depending on the gender of the horse.
- Good Ending 1: Win in all the races. It doesn't matter on how many you participate in, it can be 1 out of 1 or 17 out of 17, but you need to win on every one of them.
- Good Ending 2: Participate in over 8 races and don't win all of them.
- Bad Ending 1: Participate in between 1 and 7 races and don't win all of them.
- Bad Ending 2: Participate in just 1 race and lose it.

SERIES

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1. Stakes Winner (1995)
2. Stakes Winner 2 (1996)

STAFF

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Game designer : Hajime Yasuhara, Yas
Chief programmer : Yas
Programmers : Yas, Takuya Kawamura
Technical adviser : Masaaki Yuuki
Chief designer : Ryoumi Momota
Graphics designers : Ryoumi Momota, Motohiro Toshiro, Yasunori Hayashi, Chigusa Yokoyama, Yoshinori Hayashi, Hiroaki Fujimoto, Kyoosuke Motoya, Takayuki Koyama
Animation : Ryoumi Momota, Motohiro Toshiro, Chigusa Yokoyama
Fonts : Ryoumi Momota
Cource designers : Hajime Yasuhara, Yasunori Hayashi
Title designers : Koutarou Noumura
Illustlation : Miso Suzuki
Music composers : Hiroyuki Takei, Shuichi Kurosawa, Hiromu Sasaki, Tsuyoshi Sasaki
Sound effects & Sound programmer : Hideki Suzuki
Voices : Rintarou Hamano
Tuning : Hajime Yasuhara, Yas, Ryoumi Momota, Motohiro Toshiro, Takuya Kawamura, Yasunori, Hayashi, Chigusa Yokoyama, Yoshinori Hayashi, Hiroaki Fujimoto, Kyoosuke Motoya, Takayuki Koyama
English version : Bob Timbello
Sales promoters : Osamu Nagano, Miwa Izumi, Tomoo Yoda
Producer : Takahiro Shima
Executive producers : Nobuyuki Tanaka

PORTS

CONSOLES

Sega Saturn (1997, "Stakes Winner 2 - Saikyou Uma Densetsu")
Sony PlayStation (1997)

SOURCES

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ROM dump (MAME).