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cityatta: MAME ROM Information.


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


Other Emulators:

* JAE

* Retrocade


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Pleiads

Satan's Hollow

Space Tactics

War of the Worlds

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Senjyo

Repulse

D-Con

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Romset: 25 kb / 14 files / 16.4 zip