The King of Fighters '95 (Game Boy)

The Game Boy version of The King of Fighters '95 is a port of the Neo Geo fighting game, with a special guest appearance by Nakoruru of the Samurai Shodown series a good 20 years before she actually joined the series in KOF XIV.

DIP Switches#

There are a set of internal game flags called "DIP SW(itches)". Each flag, when set, enable one of the corresponding features. To set any of these flags, at the Takara logo enter a particular button combination from the table below to get a corresponding effect. Every time one of the flags are set, the corresponding sound will be heard. Note, some of the features available are only in Super Game Boy mode. To see what DIP switches are enabled, go to the options screen. At the bottom of the screen there will be a string "DIPSW-XX", where XX is a hexadecimal sum of all enabled DIP switch bits (see HEX values below, sum them in hexadecimal format to get the resulting display number).

For both Game Boy and Super Game Boy:

• Hold A + B, press Select 1 time (bit 5, HEX 20) - Allows the option to choose duplicate characters in a team.
• Press Select 3 times (bit 6, HEX 40) - Unlocks Saisyu and Rugal, which normally requires the game being completed on Normal mode.
• Press Select 20 times (bit 7, HEX 80) - Unlocks Nakoruru, which normally requires the game being completed on Hard mode.

For Super Game Boy only:

• Press Select 25 times (bit 3, HEX 08) - Gives both players infinite super meter in-game.
• Hold A + B + Left, press Select 30 times (bits 2 and 4, HEX 14) - Enables the SGB Sound test mode in the options menu. This DIP switch also turns Select + B or Select + A into shortcut commands for supers during gameplay.

Note that because of how specific the code input and check methods are, all button presses are counted at the same time, so if you enter one of the codes you are already entering all the others. So if you just quickly press Select at least 25 times, at least three codes will be enabled at once. To unlock all flags at once, first hold A + B, press Select once, while still holding those buttons hold additionally Left, then press Select very quickly 30 times. When you hear a final explosion sound that means all codes are activated.

Regional Differences#

Takara Logo#

Japan	US/Europe

The Takara logo is rather plain and in an oval for the Japanese version. The international versions made the logo red and fancier, with circles in some of the lettering.

Title Screen#

Japan	US/Europe

Aside from the logo change, the SGB border was made darker. The copyright info was also left-justified and placed into a black space.