pleiadce: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Pleiads (c) 1981 Centuri, Inc.
- TRIVIA -
Released in July 1981 by Centuri in the USA under license from Tehkan International Corp.
For more information about the game, please see the original Tehkan entry.
- SOURCES -
See Machine's picture.
Game's ROM.
MAME Info:
0.35RC1 [Eric Hustvedt]
0.33b7 [Paul Swan]
0.07 [Nicola Salmoria]
Bugs:
- "Pleiads" side-by-side test. Gary Walton (ID 01027)
- [possible] The sounds that the enemy ships make in Pleiads are now WAY too low. Dutch (ID 01191)
- Clone pleiadce: Shot sound and melody is missing in Pleiads (Centuri). MASH (ID 01988)
WIP:
- 0.141u4: Couriersud fixed Pleiads colours (high/low palette bits exchanged). Swapped proms ($0, 100).
- 0.129u4: Changed Custom sound to Pleiads Custom.
- 16th November 2008: Guru - I recently picked up a pile of junk for spares and repairs from a local friend. It turned out there was quite a bit of interesting stuff in this lot. As far as I can make out, I got Pleiads.
- 0.125u9: Couriersud fixed Fatal error in Pleiads.
- 0.122u7: Pleiads updates [Couriersud]: Video timing from schematics. Palette from schematics (resnet.h). No more colortable. Changed 8085A CPU1 clock speed to 5.5MHz.
- 0.122u6: Robbert fixed background for player 2 is not displayed in cocktail mode. Changed visible area to 208x256 and VSync to 61.035156 Hz.
- 0.98u2: MASH fixed Pleiads palette banking.
- 0.95u3: Derrick Renaud removed Phoenix sound from Pleiads. Added Discrete sound to clone Capitol.
- 0.77u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Capitol (Universal Video Spiel 1981).
- 23rd November 2003: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added Capitol to the Phoenix driver.
- 0.37b15: Replaced 8080 CPU with 8085A (2.75 MHz). Added 'Demo Sounds' dipswitch.
- 9th April 2001: Zsolt Vasvari fixed the dipswitch settings in Phoenix and Pleiads.
- 0.37b14: Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch.
- 26th July 2000: Juergen Buchmueller fixed a palette bank select bug in Pleiads.
- 0.36: Removed 2nd TMS36XX.
- 0.36RC2: Added 2x TMS36XX sound.
- 12th March 2000: Juergen Buchmueller sent in a sound core for TMS36xx sound chips emulation and modified Phoenix, Pleiads, Naughty Boy, Pop Flamer and Monster Bash to use it.
- 0.36b7: Added Custom sound.
- 0.35RC1: Eric Hustvedt added Pleiads (Tehkan). Changed 'Pleiads (Tehkan, bootleg)' to clone 'Pleiads (bootleg)'. Renamed (pleiads) to (pleiadbl).
- 10th June 1999: Eric Hustvedt added the original romset of Pleiads (Tehkan).
- 0.35b6: Replaced I8085 CPU with I8080.
- 0.35b1: Zsolt Vasvari fixed protection in Pleiads (which made game resets not work). Changed description to 'Pleiads (Tehkan, bootleg)'.
- 0.34b4: Pleiads colors might be correct now [Nicola Salmoria].
- 0.33b7: Renamed (pleiads) to (pleiadce) and (pleitek) to (pleiads).
- 0.31: Paul Swan added clone Pleiads (Tehkan). Changed parent description to 'Pleiads (Centuri)'.
- 0.29: Fixed gfx rom loading.
- 0.27: Andrew Scott improved sound in Pleiads.
- 0.23: Added HiSore support.
- 0.21.5: Fixed a bug in sound init of Pleiads that caused the game to crash under DOS.
- 0.14: Renamed (pleiades) to (pleiads).
- 0.13: Richard Davies provided a new Phoenix/Pleiads driver with partial sound support.
- 0.10: I had broken Pleiades, fixed [Nicola Salmoria]. That's the drawback of emulating more than 60 games, I can't check them all before releasing a new version.
- 0.07: Added Pleiads (Centuri 1981)). Game is playable with wrong colors and no sound. Control: Arrows = Move around CTRL = Fire and ALT = Teleport. This runs on the same hardware as Phoenix.
LEVELS: 3
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Romset: 25 kb / 14 files / 16.4 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="pleiadce" sourcefile="phoenix.c" cloneof="pleiads" romof="pleiads"> |
| | | <description>Pleiads (Centuri)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Tehkan (Centuri license)</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.47" size="2048" crc="711e2ba0" sha1="62d9108b9066d3e2b99c712daf2b9412704970cc" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.48" size="2048" crc="93a36943" sha1="7cb4a9e8b60e28415df8401373ff4e595eaab7f5" region="maincpu" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic47.bin" merge="ic47.bin" size="2048" crc="87e700bb" sha1="0f352b5461da957c564920fd1da83bc81f41ffb9" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.50" size="2048" crc="5a9beba0" sha1="e9cf03c88d8db2a7cf97877a103cfdd1fe3f459e" region="maincpu" offset="1800"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.51" size="2048" crc="1d828719" sha1="54857a3de9f4c9c5f18b0d46cf428b4171f839e9" region="maincpu" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic50.bin" merge="ic50.bin" size="2048" crc="f1a8a00d" sha1="5c183e3a73fa882ffec3cb9219fb5619e625591a" region="maincpu" offset="2800"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.53" size="2048" crc="037b319c" sha1="2ff7a7777a63326e2abca2d1881df33a8e3f8561" region="maincpu" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.54" size="2048" crc="ca264c7c" sha1="3a6adfaa935a1a11cb62e73b9f43b228b711c2da" region="maincpu" offset="3800"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.45" size="2048" crc="8dbd3785" sha1="700cb9eb8ea64be99d843910cebcd29d601ab2e9" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="pleiades.44" size="2048" crc="0db3e436" sha1="cd1825775b0a10df66d2ccc01cb4b6a9a3d2141a" region="gfx1" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic39.bin" merge="ic39.bin" size="2048" crc="85866607" sha1="cd240bd056f761b2f9e2142049434f02cae3e315" region="gfx2" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic40.bin" merge="ic40.bin" size="2048" crc="a841d511" sha1="8349008ab1d8ef08775b54170c37deb1d391fffc" region="gfx2" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="7611-5.33" merge="7611-5.33" size="256" crc="e38eeb83" sha1="252880d80425b2e697146e76efdc6cb9f3ba0378" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="7611-5.26" merge="7611-5.26" size="256" crc="7a1bcb1e" sha1="bdfab316ea26e2063879e7aa78b6ae2b55eb95c8" region="proms" offset="100"/> |
| | | <chip type="cpu" tag="maincpu" name="8085A" clock="5500000"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="mono" name="Speaker"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="tms" name="TMS36XX" clock="247"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="cust" name="Pleiads Custom"/> |
| | | <display tag="screen" type="raster" rotate="90" width="256" height="208" refresh="61.035156" pixclock="5500000" htotal="352" hbend="0" hbstart="256" vtotal="256" vbend="0" vbstart="208" /> |
| | | <input players="2" buttons="2" coins="1"> |
| | | | <control type="joy" ways="2"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Lives" tag="DSW0" mask="3"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="3" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4" value="1"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5" value="2"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="6" value="3"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Bonus Life" tag="DSW0" mask="12"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="7K 70K" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="8K 80K" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="9K 90K" value="8"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="DSW0" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="16"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW0" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Demo Sounds" tag="DSW0" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="CAB" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="1"/> |
| | | <driver status="imperfect" emulation="good" color="imperfect" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="unsupported" palettesize="256"/> |
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