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Help me find a shinobi arcade manual
« on: March 11, 2007, 07:40:53 pm »
I downloaded these shinobi files in zip from arcade archive, but inside the zip are a bunch of files named shiobi.ai, .a2, .a3 etc.

I tried to open them with photoshop cause I thought maybe they were picture files of somekind but that doesn't work.  Anyone have a clue as to what program I can use to open these?

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Re: Help me open these files for an arcade manual
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2007, 08:13:19 pm »
This is not an arcade manual.  It is a shinobi rom.  If you look at the contents of the shinobi rom that I have, it has some of these files including shinobi.a1 the contents of which is identical to the shinobi.a1 in your shinobi.zip file.

Not sure what version of rom or how old it is, but I don't think its the latest.

ADDITION:
Looks like a rom version prior to .36 beta 2 as the names of the drivers in that rom were what you have prior to then. Below you can see all your file names and when they were changed in beta 2.

Go here:
http://mamerominfo.retrogames.com/

then click the following heading

Version 0.36B1 to Version 0.36B2 (Text 136Kb)

[Because they do not allow direct linking to the text file.]
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Re: Help me open these files for an arcade manual
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2007, 08:14:44 pm »

^^^^^
Edited

Doh.


Yeah, what he said, lol.
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Re: Help me open these files for an arcade manual
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2007, 08:09:12 pm »
Sounds like you got your download figured out. But did you find the manual yet?

If you just need the operations manual, head over to www.crazykong.com

Usually you can find manuals there or at arcarc.xmission.com (although they don't have shinobi)

Usually manuals are scanned in as PDF files.
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Re: Help me find a shinobi arcade manual
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2007, 10:07:59 am »
Sounds like you got your download figured out. But did you find the manual yet?

If you just need the operations manual, head over to www.crazykong.com

Usually you can find manuals there or at arcarc.xmission.com (although they don't have shinobi)

Usually manuals are scanned in as PDF files.

Yeah, I didn't realize it was a rom as I didn't know they stored those there at arcarc.  I still haven't found a manual.  I have checked everywhere I know of and everything google gives me to check but no shinobi arcade manual yet.  Tried arcade archive, crazykong, mikes arcade, and a few other places and still haven't seen one.

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Re: Help me find a shinobi arcade manual
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2007, 10:15:33 am »
As posted before, it can be downloaded from crazykong.com. I'm not sure what their policies are on direct links, but here it is:

http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/Shinobi.man.pdf

I mentioned arcarc since most manuals can be found at one place or the other.
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Re: Help me find a shinobi arcade manual
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2007, 10:58:11 am »
As posted before, it can be downloaded from crazykong.com. I'm not sure what their policies are on direct links, but here it is:

http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/Shinobi.man.pdf

I mentioned arcarc since most manuals can be found at one place or the other.

Thanks so much, I am completely blind as I went there and didn't see it.  ???  I feel completely worthless, but am happy I have the manual now.  Thanks again.

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Re: Help me find a shinobi arcade manual
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2007, 03:05:10 pm »
As posted before, it can be downloaded from crazykong.com. I'm not sure what their policies are on direct links, but here it is:

http://www.crazykong.com/manuals/Shinobi.man.pdf

I mentioned arcarc since most manuals can be found at one place or the other.

Thanks so much, I am completely blind as I went there and didn't see it.  ???  I feel completely worthless, but am happy I have the manual now.  Thanks again.

No problem. Their show-every-manual-by-a-marquee-thumbnail gets confusing. It also takes a couple minutes to load. I've overlooked things because the thumbnail hadn't loaded yet. Then again, it's awesome if you're trying to find good examples of marquees.

If you would like to learn a bit more about the System-16B hardware, check this out:
http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=701

Good info on suicide batteries found here: http://www.arcadecollecting.com/dead/dead.html

Shinobi is my favorite arcade game, so I've read up on it quite a bit. Unfortunately, the board I have was falsely advertised on eBay and now I need to replace two caps and a resistor to even test it out.
Brevity is not my strong suit.