Lost In Translation/Rival Schools - United by Fate

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Rival Schools
United by Fate
No screen shot.
Rival Schools control panel.
Manufacturer Capcom
Released 1997
Control
Method
8-way Joystick
6 Button(s)
Main CPU PlayStation
PSX CPU (@ 16.934 MHz)
Z80 (@ 8.000 MHz)
Sound CPU Stereo
SPU (@ 4.000 MHz)
Q-Sound
Video
Details
Raster (Horizontal)
640 x 480 pixels
60.00 Hz
65,536 Palette colours
Screens 1
ROM Info 14 ROMs
43,253,760 bytes (41.25 MiB)
MAME ID rvschool · jgakuen · rvschola

About The Game

Rival Schools - United by Fate is a 3-D, one-on-one fighting arcade video game.

Trivia

This game is known in Japan as "Shiritsu Justice Gakuen - Legion of Heroes".

Justice Gakuen is the name of one of five schools in this game. They are :

  1. Taiyou Gakuen (translates from Japanese as 'Solar Academy') : Batsu, Hinata and Kyousuke are students at this school.
  2. Gorin Koukou (translates from Japanese as '5-Ring High School') : Shouma, Natsu, Roberto are students at this school. The word 'gorin' is made up of two kanji : 'go' and 'rin' .
  3. Pacific High School : This is an American school, where exchange students Roy, Tiffany and Boman attend.
  4. Gedou Koukou (translates from Japanese as 'Heretical Doctrine High School') : Edge, Akira, Gan are students at this school for bad kids.
  5. Justice Gakuen (translates from Japanese as 'Justice Academy') : Hideo, Kyouko, Raizou and Hyou are faculty at Justice Gakuen.

Suleputer released a limited-edition soundtrack album for this game (Shiritsu Justice Gakuen - Legend of Heroes Orignal Soundtrack - CPCA-1002) on 29/01/1998.

Tips and tricks

Play Against Hyo

When you get to the seventh chapter (what would normally be the last fight), defeat your opponents with a Team Up Attack and you will go on to fight Hyo, the real boss. After beating him you will also receive a different ending then you normally would.

Free Select Mode

After 2 weeks of installation, characters can be teamed up freely (but no story).

Free Select Mode Code

(no need for time-release) : Go to test mode's 'Dot Cross Hatch' and press on the player 1 side Up(x2), Down(x2) LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

Play As Hyo / Raizo

After 3 weeks of installation, insert your coin(s) and hold Start. Hyo and Raizo will be selectable.

Play As Hyo / Raizo

(no need time-release) : Go to test mode's 'Sound&Voice' and press on the player 2 side Up(x2), Down(x2), LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

Play As Sakura / Akira

After 4 weeks of installation, insert your coin(s) and hold Start. There will be two arrows above Hyo and Raizo.

Play As Sakura / Akira

(no need for time-release) : When Hyo and Raizo can be used, go to test mode's 'Input' and press on the player 2 side Up(x2), Down(x2), and on the player 1 side LK, HP. Exit test mode and start a game holding Start button until character select screen appear.

Series

  1. Rival Schools - United by Fate (1997)
  2. Project Justice - Rival Schools 2 (2000)

Staff

Cast

Taiyou Gakuen
Batsu Ichimonji
Nobuyuki Hiyama
Hinata Wakaba
Tomoe Hanba
Kyosuke Kagami
Isshin Chiba
Hayato Nekketsu
Takumi Yamazaki
Gorin Koukou
Shoma Sawamura
Yuji Ueda
Natsu Ayuhara
Narumi Tsunoda
Roberto Miura
Tomoyuki Morikawa
Pacific High School
Roy Bromwell
Ryutato Okiayu
Tiffany Rose
Miki Narahashi
Boman Delgado
Takashi Nagasako
Gedou Koukou
Eiji Yamada (Edge)
Yoshiharu Yamada
Akira Kazama
Chiharu Tezuka
Gan Isurugi
Takashi Nagasako
Daigo Kazama
Koichi Yamadera
Justice Gakuen
Hideo Shimazu
Tetsuo Mizutori
Kyoko Minazuki
Kotono Mitsuishi
Raizo Imawano
Tomomichi Nishimura
Hyou Imawano
Kaneto Shiozawa
Tamagawa Minami Koukou
Sakura Kasugano
Yuko Sasamoto
Sub-characters
Shizuku Itsumonji (Batsu's mother)
Kotono Mitsuishi
Kohai B / Hisho / Committee Chairman
Miki Narahashi
Kohai A
Tomoe Hanba
Tiffany's Dad
Tetsuo Mizutori
Professor
Tomomichi Nishimura
Narration
Kaneto Shiozawa

Cabinet and Artwork

Ports

Consoles
Sony PlayStation (1998)

Soundtrack Releases

Album Name Catalogue No. Released Publisher Comments
Burn! Justice High School Original Soundtrack CPCA-1047[1] 2000-12-20 Suleputer CD version.

References

The contents of this page are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
The sources used include MAME (version 0.113u2) and history.dat (revision 1.28 - 2008-10-18).
Please see http://www.arcade-history.com for credits.