RetroCoder Phoenix/Pleiads Emulator
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Info:
Full speed emulation of the Phoenix & Pleiads Arcade machines, this emulator should also work with other roms that use the
same motherboard as Pleiads.
There are a few things to note about Pleiads, I have been told
by many sources that Pleiads was a rom replacement for Phoenix!
I don't believe this to be true, my theory is that Phoenix came
out first & Pleiads was a new motherboard (based upon Phoenix).
Pleiads was such a bad game that people upgraded their Pleiads
machines to Phoenix!!! You may ask what evidence I have...
Okay, Phoenix ran on an 8080 processor. Pleiads will NOT run on
an 8080 processor, the instruction at address $27e3 is $30; a
Z80 instruction. The Pleiads motherboard MUST have had a Z80
rather than an 8080. You may not be aware, but when MAME tries
to emulate 8080 games, it does so with Z80 core; this is why
MAME runs Pleiads without problems.
Anyhow, the emulator requires original roms. When you have the
roms you can run the appropriate batch file.
Requirements:
A psx system with Caetla, or a friend who can copy the program
to an cartridge, disc or [executable] memory card!
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1. Get the rom files!
2. Put them in the same directory as the files within this zip
3. Run the appropriate batch file
(eg. type 'phoenix.bat' then [return])
