AKAGI TOPAITEN
Official Title  Akagi Topaiten
Common Title  Akagi Topaiten
Serial Number(s)  SLPS-00187
Region  NTSC-J
Genre / Style  Mahjong

Developer  Micronet.
Publisher  Micronet.
Date Released  13 January 1996
Disc Number &
Printed Serial Number
DISC 1

SLPS-00187
Serial Number In Disc SLPS-00187
Media Disc ID N / A
Number Of Tracks 11
( 1 Data Track &
10 Audio Tracks )
Approx. Image Size
( Image Format Used )
517 MB
( .bin / .cue )
Approx.Size On Disc MB
Approx. Archive Size
( Archive Type Used )
MB
( 1 RAR File with
2% Recovery )
Barcode Number(s)
( UPC / EAN )

From the back cover.
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Japanese
Menus and gameplay are in Japanese.

Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. It was called, meaning sparrow in ancient China, which is still the name most commonly used in some southern Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Minnan, as well as in Japanese. However, most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game má jiàng.

Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck (depending on the variation played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in winning). In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand, depending on the variation being played. On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw" by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus, a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.

Akagi is a mahjong centric Japanese manga, written by Nobuyuki Fukumoto and first published in 1992. It is featured in the weekly magazine Modern Mahjong, and is a prequel to the author's previous work Ten, in which Akagi's titular character also appears. Due to its popularity, the manga has been adopted into two live action movies (released in 1995 and 1997), and a 26 episode anime series which aired in Japan in the fall of 2005.

Story:
The story revolves around the Mahjong gambling exploits of Shigeru Akagi. After a death-defying game of chicken one evening in 1958, Akagi nonchalantly enters a Yakuza Mahjong parlor to shake the cops' trail. Even unfamiliar with the rules of Mahjong, his gambling intuition is enough to save a small time gambler, Nangou, and grant him a seat at the gambling table. As the night progresses, the stakes are raised both within the game and for Akagi, who is under the suspicion of local police. However, Akagi overcomes the situation with his tactics, defiant of both life and chance. When he leaves the gambling house, no one present is in doubt of his genius.

During the story arc, Akagi faces and defeats several opponents in Mahjong, each with their own, distinct style of play. Akagi's genius ultimately allows him victory, by defeating the "behind the stage king" of Japan and becoming a legend.

Akagi Topaiten (aka Akagi Touhaiden) is a mahjong game released for the 3DO & Playstation consoles that is based on the real actors movie adaptation of the manga, the game features the actors images and different game modes:
- Story mode: Following the plot of the movie the story will advance defeating the opponents.
- Free mode: Choose the opponents and the mahjong type.

  Manufacturer's description:

Series of articles in "the separate modern Mahjong" bamboo Shobo, and imposing appearance to the PlayStation "Den Akagi" V Cinema open this fall and "Akagi", popular cartoon Nobuyuki Fukumoto. Mahjong is a game full of unique work convey faithfully the world. The screen display image-intensive polygon, you can experience the sense of presence as if they were on the stage of actual play Mahjong. Enriched "Akagi" mode will feature, also feature original story and video.

  Features:
  • First person perspective.
  • 3D graphics
  • Cartoon graphics
  • Mahjong theme.
Number Of Players  1 Player
Number Of Memory Card Blocks  1 Block
Compatible Controllers Tested
( Official Gamepads Only )
 Standard Controller ( Digital Controller compatible only )
Compatible Light Guns
( Official Light Guns Only )
 None
Other Compatible Controllers
( Official Controllers Only )
 None
Special Controllers Included Or
Supported ( Official Only )
 None
Vibration Function Compatible  No
Multi-Tap Function Compatible  No
Link Cable Function Compatibile  No
Emulator  ePSXe v.2.0
Video Plugin  Pete's OpenGL2 GPU Core 2.0.0 ( internal X & Internal Y= Very High, Stretching mode: Stretch to full window size, render Mode: 2 (Use framebuffer object) text filt = 2 FPS limit= 63, Compatibility=2,3,2; Shader effects= 5 (GLSlang Files (gpuPeteOGL2-slv/slf))
Audio Plugin  ePSXe SPU Core v.2.0.0
CD-ROM Plugin  ePSXe CDRom Plugin
Game Pad Plugin  N / A
Vibration Compatible  The game doesn't have it (Digital only).
Console Bios Used  SCPH7502

  NOTE:   This is not the only possible combination of plugins. There are others that will work (better or worse) for your particular hardware. We provide you with one working set-up so that you may get the game up and running, hassle-free. Testing other emulators/plugins is up to you.
 

 BASIC CONTROLS:
  Move between actions or pieces -  D-Pad
  Select piece -  Circle Button
  Close up view to character's pieces -  Square Button
  Characters status -  Triangle Button
  In game menu -  Start Button

 

GAMESHARK CODES:
  Player has 99999 points -  
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  Opponent 1 has 0 points -  
800D18E8 0000
 
  Opponent 2 has 0 points -  
800D18EC 0000
 
  Opponent 3 has 0 points -  
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Dim. - 500 x 443 pix.
Res. - 300 dpi
File Size - 46 KB
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