Best of the Best Championship Karate
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(Super Nintendo - PAL, Fighting)
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Developed_By:
Futura
Published_By:
Electro Brain Corp.
Released On:
01 Jan 1993
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Best of the Best Championship Karate is a fighting game that lets you choose from 55 different moves for your fighter. Before each real fight, you can train at a gym to improve your fighter's parameters such as strength, stamina and resistance.
The key to mastering Best of the Best Championship Karate is finding a balance between training and fighting. The more you train, the better your fighter will be. However, if you lose too many fights, your fighter's parameters will suffer, making it harder to win in the future.
Best of the Best Championship Karate was released on November 24, 1993 for the Super Nintendo console.
UPC-A:
3327491740039 (Spain)
Nintendo Media PN:
SNS-BE-FAH (France)
Media #:
SNSP-BE-ESP (Spain)
Part #:
SNSP P BE [SNSP-BE-ESP] (Spain)
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Number of Players Supported:
1-2 Players
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Manual
Game Guide
Extracted from the original game manual
This is a martial arts fighting game where players step into the ring as the 16th-ranked karate fighter in the world. Having trained since childhood, players must compete on the international circuit, defeating masters of the sport to rise through the ranks and become the "Best of the Best." Between matches, players must continue their training to hone their skills and master the highly efficient punches, kicks, and lethal strikes required to secure decisive knockouts.
Story
Concentration of Spirit
"One must climb the mountain in order to determine the height of Heaven. .. One must search himself that he might find the way to reach it..."
Grand Master Kang Suh Chong
10th Dan
The Sport of Karate
Welcome to the international sport of karate. Called the fighting sport, karate involves an incredibly skillful mastery of lethal movements and strikes directed from both the foot and the fist.
Keep in mind that karate is a quite recently developed, and still to be perfected, fighting sport. Its primary characteristic is the high efficiency of the landed punches, kicks and other blows. It is important to always remember the knock out is, more time than not, the final, and possibly fatal, decisive issue of the fight.
Your Journey
At an extremely young age your interests were drawn to the mystical, and almost magically mysterious, martial arts of the far away Orient. You began to train at the age of six. You ate, slept and drank the sport.
Each and every day you honed your skills and worked to perfect every move. Your goal was to become the Best of the Best in the sport and to one day be able to call yourself a master. That was twenty years ago and your training is taking you to world competition and recognition.
The World Circuit
You are the newest addition to the karate world circuit. Your training has taken literally years and you have been instructed by the very best senseis the international sport of karate has ever had to offer.
Your training is, however, far from complete. You are still just the learner and there is still many a master. You still desire to become the Best of the Best. You want it so very badly you can almost taste it.
Currently, you are ranked as the 16th best fighter in the world and you are far from achieving your goal. Everything you have learned over the course of the last twenty years is on the line—jump into the ring, take charge and keep training in between matches.
How to Play
Starting the Game
Insert your "Best of the Best Championship Karate" game pak into your Super Nintendo Entertainment System and turn the power on.
As the title screen appears, you will see yourself practicing for your upcoming matches. Press the Start-button when you are ready to enter the ring and face your first challenge.
Navigating the Menu Screen
The menu screen allows you to orient yourself with the game's many options. To move between options, push the control pad in the direction of the option you want and press the B-button to enter.
The available menu options are:
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GRADING
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PAD-VS-SNES
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SELECT HITS
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PHYSICAL TYPE
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OPTIONS
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ALTER LOOK
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PREVIEW
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MATCH
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NEXT BOXER
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TRAINING
Option #2: Pad-vs-SNES
This option defines the configuration of the commands for your game. Move the selection to the "Pad-vs-SNES" block and press the Select-button to cycle through the following choices:
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Pad-vs-SNES: You select the left kickboxer and play against the SNES.
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SNES-vs-Pad: You select the right kickboxer and play against the SNES.
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Pad-vs-Pad: Activates two-player mode. Player one is the boxer on the left, and player two is the boxer on the right.
Option #3: Select Hits
There are 55 different hits available in the game, and you are able to select 13 of them for your moveset. This limitation to 13 blows allows immediate access to your desired techniques, resulting in faster striking and higher precision.
Use the following color-coded button inputs on this screen:
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L-Button or R-Button: Go to the next or previous "Select Hits" page.
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Y-Button: Visualize the current selection you just made.
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X-Button: Quit the screen without validating your shots.
Option #5: Options
This mode opens an entirely new menu screen to customize your game. All changes made here apply to player one (and player two only if you are playing a two-player simultaneous game).
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Change Boxer Name: Move the control pad to "Change Name", press the B-button, select the left or right boxer, and press the B-button again to input the change.
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Reset Boxer: Return a boxer's name to default. Move to "Reset Boxer", press the B-button, select the boxer, and press the B-button again.
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Change Nationality: Move to "Change Nationality" and press the B-button. Select your boxer, press the B-button, and use Left or Right on the control pad to cycle through the flags. Press the B-button to confirm.
Option #6: Alter Look
This option allows you to alter the appearance of your kickboxer. Move to the "Alter Look" block and press the B-button to cycle through the choices.
Once satisfied, move the control pad in any direction to exit the block. Changing your look will also change your attributes.
Option #7: Preview
This option allows you to preview the fighting styles of both you and your opponent. Study your opponent's moves here so you can select the most effective counter-moves in the "Select Hits" mode. Press the Select-button to escape this mode.
Option #8: Match
Press the B-button on this option to begin the fight and enter the ring.
Option #9: Next Boxer
This option lets you cycle through the opponents you will face in the ring. Move to the "Next Boxer" block and press the B-button to cycle through the contenders.
If you have already defeated an opponent, advance to the next contender. You cannot fight top-notch kickboxers immediately; if your ranking is too low, you must keep training and winning matches to face them.
Button Controls
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Y-Button: Visualizes your current selection in "Select Hits" mode. Also controls movement #28 in "Select Hits" mode.
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X-Button: Quits "Select Hits" mode without validating shots. Also controls movement #33 in "Select Hits" mode.
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A-Button: Quits "Select Hits" mode without validating shots. Also controls movement #26 in "Select Hits" mode.
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B-Button: The main fire button. Use this button in coordination with the control pad to execute your moves.
Entering the Match
To start the fight, highlight "Match" on the menu and press the B-button. If there is too much of a difference between the two boxers' levels, the fight will be refused.
Before the fight and between rounds, a Pom Pom girl will display the round number. Press the B-button to clear her from the screen.
The Information Board
The information board is located above the ring and features a chronometer and two rows of footlights. Each round lasts for one minute, tracked by the chronometer.
The footlight strands are located above each boxer's corner. The brighter strand indicates which boxer is currently leading the match. The brightness varies based on landed blows.
Each footlight strand has four projectors, which display three different lighting intensities to reflect physical shape:
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YELLOW: Maximum lighting (maximum physical shape).
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ORANGE: Medium lighting (medium physical shape).
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BLACK: Null lighting (null physical shape).
When all four projectors above a boxer's corner turn black, that boxer is knocked out and loses
Controls
CONTROL PAD
move the boxer around the screen (press it either left or right to advance or retreat, up or down and diagonally to strike), take you from "option" to "option" on the menu screen and "Select Hits" modes, cycle through all selections in any given "option"
START BUTTON
Pauses and unpauses the game play
SELECT BUTTON
Allows the player to escape from any "option", fight or training sequence, cycle through all selections in any given "option"
L- OR R-BUTTON
Brings you to the next or previous "Select Hits" page, control special movements such as the deadly "Double Kick"
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