phoenixa: MAME ROM Information.
History:
Phoenix [Upright model] (c) 1980 Centuri.
- TECHNICAL -
Dimensions :
Height : 139,7 cm (55in.)
Width : 52,7 cm (20-3/4in.)
Depth : 59,7 cm (23-1/2in.)
- TRIVIA -
Titlescreen's copyright notice :
PHOENIX COPYRIGHT 1980
AMSTAR ELECTRONICS CORP.
MFG. BY CENTURI INC.
Even if titlescreen says 1980, this game was released in March 1981.
Official releases :
Phoenix (Amstar Electronics Corp.)
Phoenix [Maxi model] (Centuri, Inc.)
Phoenix [Upright model] (Centuri, Inc.)
Phoenix [Japanese Cocktail Table] (Taito Corp.)
Bootlegs/hacks :
Phoenix (Irecsa G.G.I Corp.)
Phoenix (T.P.N.)
Griffon (Videotron)
Falcon (BGV)
Vautour (Jeutel)
Condor (Sidam)
Batman Part 2
- SOURCES -
Game's ROM.
MAME Info:
0.07 [Brad Oliver, Mirko Buffoni]
Artwork available
Bugs:
- "Phoenix" side-by-side test. Gary Walton (ID 01026)
- [possible] During the demo, after the first game over, the last line low of the screen does not come cleaned up. zaxxon1 (ID 01192)
- falcon, fenix: Initialisation "garbage" differs between 32bit and 64bit Firewave (ID 03329)
- phoenix, phoenixa, phoenixb, phoenixc, phoenix3, phoenixt: Ship's firing shot sound is incorrect. inkeye (ID 03339)
WIP:
- 0.143u5: Changed description of clones 'Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp)' to 'Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp, set 1)' and 'Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp - set 2)' to 'Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp, set 2)'.
- 0.143u4: f205v and robotype added clone Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp - set 2).
- 0.138u1: Changed description of clones 'Phoenix (Taito Japan Ver.)' to 'Phoenix (Taito Japan)' and 'Phoenix (IRECSA, G.G.I Corp)' to 'Phoenix (Irecsa / G.G.I Corp)'.
- 18th May 2010: Smitdogg - We dumped a Model racing bootleg of Phoenix/Griffon.
- 18th March 2010: ANY Dumping Union dumped Griffon (alt bootleg of Phoenix). griffon.03 is the only different rom from the supported set, don't know what the difference are. griffon.k11 is the real prom used on griffon PCB. maybe the data is the same as the 2 proms.
- 18th March 2010: Smitdogg - We got an alt. version of Griffon.
- 22nd February 2010: Mr. Do - Gregf pointed out an auction for a Taito Phoenix bezel, which looked a lot like Rock Climber. After checking through The Arcade Flyer Archive, it seems there quite a few Taito Japan games that used this type of bezel, just with different colors. So, based on the TAFA flyers, there are new bezels for Phoenix.
- 0.134u4: Changed 'Phoenix Part 2' from a parent set to a clone of Phoenix. Changed region gfx2 to gfx1 and gfx1 roms addresses in 'Phoenix Part 2'.
- 0.134u3: Andy Welburn and Dumping Union added Phoenix Part 2 (bootleg 1981).
- 6th October 2009: Smitdogg - Another dump from our friend Andrew Welburn. BrianT hooked it up. It has some issues on my pc which may or may not be specific to my computer but either way as you can see, some nice progress has been made. This is a bootleg running on Galaxian style hardware.
- 0.129u4: Team Japump added clone Phoenix (Taito Japan Ver.). Changed Custom sound to Phoenix Custom.
- 0.128u2: More Discrete module optimizations [Derrick Renaud]. This module optimizations speed up Phoenix 13%.
- 0.124u2: Changed description of clones 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 1)' to 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (8085A CPU)', 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 2)' to 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (Z80 CPU)', 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 1)' to 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (8085A CPU)' and 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 2)' to 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (Z80 CPU)'. Renamed (falcona) to (falconz) and (vautour2) to (vautourz).
- 0.122u7: Changed 8085A CPU1 clock speed to 5.5MHz.
- 0.122u6: Phoenix and clones [Couriersud]: Video timing from schematics, palette from schematics (resnet.h), no more colortable and added save state. Changed visible area to 208x256 and VSync to 61.035156 Hz.
- 0.121u2: David Haywood added clone Next Fase (bootleg of Phoenix). Changed description of clones 'Condor' to 'Condor (bootleg of Phoenix)', 'Fenix' to 'Fenix (bootleg of Phoenix)', 'Falcon (bootleg set 1)' to 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 1)', 'Vautour (set 1 - Jeutel France)' to 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 1)', 'Vautour (set 2)' to 'Vautour (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 2)', 'Griffon' to 'Griffon (bootleg of Phoenix)' and 'Falcon (bootleg set 2)' to 'Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (set 2)'.
- 14th November 2007: Paturlas dumped Next Fase (bootleg of Phoenix). It's a clone of Phoenix, developed in Spain. It looks like they changed title screen and DIPs. A more accurate code analysis is needed to tell apart differences.
- 18th February 2007: Mr. Do - Added cocktail layout for Phoenix, thanks to the BYOAC group purchase.
- 0.110u5: Brian Troha added clone 'Phoenix (Centuri), Set 1'. Changed description of clone 'Phoenix (Centuri)' to 'Phoenix (Centuri), Set 2'. Renamed (phoenixa) to (phoenixb). Fixed rom names.
- 2nd December 2006: f205v dumped Phoenix (Centuri), Set 1. This is an Original Amstar PCB, where EPROMs 1,2,3,4 have been replaced from original with Centuri licensed ones. The main important thing is that there is a different version/revision of the sound chip and the background music as game start is different!
- 0.110u2: Added clone Fenix (bootleg 1980). This is an italian bootleg based on Vautour.
- 0.104: Derrick Renaud changed R22 to 470 ohm per real board of the Phoenix discrete sounds. This should fix the remaining complaints with the discrete sound. The shot & explosion noise sounds still need discrete emulation.
- 0.103u5: Derrick Renaud tweaked Phoenix effect #2 sound to be more accurate matching oscilliscope data. Changed the Phoenix discrete clock rate to a fixed rate of 120000 allowing the simulation to be more accurate with less alaising noise at the cost of speed.
- 0.103u2: Hans Andersson fixed discrete sound effect #2 in Phoenix.
- 0.99u1: Added clone Vautour (set 2) (bootleg 1980). Changed description of clone 'Vautour (Jeutel France)' to 'Vautour (set 1 - Jeutel France)'.
- 0.97u5: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added coin 2 and fixed some dipswitches in the Phoenix clones: Phoenix (T.P.N.), Condor, Griffon and Falcon (bootleg set 2).
- 0.97u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Falcon (bootleg set 2). Changed description of clone 'Falcon' to 'Falcon (bootleg set 1)'.
- 10th June 2005: Alessio dumped Falcon (bootleg of Phoenix) (Z80 CPU).
- 22nd May 2005: f205v dumped Fenix (1980).
- 0.95u3: Derrick Renaud updated tone sounds in Phoenix to use discrete system. Added Discrete sound.
- 0.80u2: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Griffon (Videotron 1980).
- 0.69: Smitdogg added clone Falcon (bootleg).
- 0.68: Chris Hardy added clone Vautour (Jeutel France).
- 12th May 2003: Chris Hardy added Vautour to the Phoenix driver.
- 0.61: Added clone Condor (Sidam 1981).
- 24th May 2002: Stephane Humbert fixed dipswitch settings in Condor.
- 23rd May 2002: Zsolt Vasvari added Condor to the Phoenix driver, which is basically a version of Phoenix running on Z80 instead of I8085, and it has a time limit.
- 30th March 2002: Smitdogg Jones re-submitted the Phoenix driver with Falcon added to it.
- 7th October 2001: William Kucharski fixed the Phoenix cocktail mode bug.
- 0.37b16: Added clone Batman Part 2 (bootleg).
- 0.37b15: Replaced 8080 CPU with 8085A (2.75 MHz).
- 9th April 2001: Zsolt Vasvari fixed the dipswitch settings in Phoenix and Pleiads.
- 0.37b14: Added 'Cabinet' dipswitch. Added 2nd player input.
- 17th September 2000: Zsolt Vasvari fixed a problem in Phoenix hiscore loading.
- 20th March 2000: Juergen Buchmueller fixed some SN76477 and Phoenix sound bugs.
- 0.36RC2: Rewritten sound emulation in Phoenix, samples are no longer used [Juergen Buchmueller]. Added 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. Phoenix samples are no longer used.
- 9th March 2000: Juergen Buchmueller sent a preliminary Phoenix analog sound driver.
- 0.36b11: Mike Haaland added clone Phoenix (Centuri).
- 29th November 1999: Mike Haaland added another Phoenix romset.
- 0.36b7: Added Custom sound.
- 0.35b11: Richard Davies fixed tune in Phoenix.
- 0.35b6: Replaced I8085 CPU with I8080.
- 0.35b1: Zsolt Vasvari fixed two players games in Phoenix.
- 0.34b5: David Winter added clone Phoenix (IRECSA, G.G.I Corp).
- 0.33b7: Added color proms ($0, 100 - palette low and high bits).
- 0.30: Brad Oliver support music in Phoenix, via samples.
- 0.29: The background was clipped too low in Phoenix [Nicola Salmoria]. Accurate colors in Phoenix [Tim Lindquist, Nicola Salmoria]. Fixed gfx rom loading.
- 0.27: InputPorts now can automatically handle VBlank bits [Nicola Salmoria]. No more need to write custom code. Phoenix use this feature. Renamed (phoenix) to (phoenixt) and (phoenixa) to (phoenix). Changed 'Phoenix (Centuri)' to clone 'Phoenix (Taito)' and clone 'Phoenix (Taito)' to parent.
- 0.26a: Mirko Buffoni worked with the wrong source, now everything is back to normality in Phoenix.
- 0.26: Andrew Scott provided a better sound support for Phoenix. Melody is still missing, because Shaun's board doesn't have it.
- 0.23: Added clone Phoenix (T.P.N.). I've also added hiscore support to all Phoenix and Pleiads as well [Mirko Buffoni].
- 0.22: Added clone Phoenix (Amstar).
- 0.21.5: Fixed a bug in sound init of Phoenix that caused the game to crash under DOS.
- 0.20: Brad Oliver found a lot of bugs around the code, Phoenix sound init routine (all those caused trashes on MAC).
- 0.19: Shaun Stephenson provided me original Phoenix sound samples [Mirko Buffoni], so I adjusted sound driver to achieve correct sound modulation and frequency, and substituted noise generator for shots and explosions with a couple of samples. Noise generator can be still used (just don't put the samples in the directory) with Phoenix and it's used in Pleiads. I changed white noise waveshape and adjusted frequency, so now it sounds better.
- 0.14: Richard Davies updated the audio routines in Phoenix, sound is now closer to the original and noise is emulated.
- 0.13: Richard Davies provided a new Phoenix/Pleiads driver with partial sound support.
- 0.10: Thanks to Richard Davies for info on Phoenix.
- 0.091: Even this time I managed to screw up one game (Phoenix). It works again [Nicola Salmoria].
- 0.07: Brad Oliver and Mirko Buffoni added 'Phoenix (Centuri)' (Centuri 1981). Game is playable, colors are close to be accurate and no sound. Control: Arrows = Move around, CTRL = Fire and ALT = Barrier.
- 26th April 1993: Dumped Phoenix (Amstar).
LEVELS: 5
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Romset: 25 kb / 14 files / 15.6 zip
MAME XML Output:
| | <game name="phoenixa" sourcefile="phoenix.c" cloneof="phoenix" romof="phoenix"> |
| | | <description>Phoenix (Centuri, set 1)</description> |
| | | <manufacturer>Amstar (Centuri license)</manufacturer> |
| | | <rom name="1-ic45.1a" size="2048" crc="c7a9b499" sha1="cda61de47956b3603ff6e48556ce528b5f45deab" region="maincpu" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="2-ic46.2a" size="2048" crc="d0e6ae1b" sha1="63c6df8365dcb8befa338e8479482e34a4259abf" region="maincpu" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="3-ic47.3a" size="2048" crc="64bf463a" sha1="6cd876e80b85fbac6374ea1f26620c026ba9e99a" region="maincpu" offset="1000"/> |
| | | <rom name="4-ic48.4a" size="2048" crc="1b20fe62" sha1="87d2da6b9bde9049825245ca4b994fc84543e8b9" region="maincpu" offset="1800"/> |
| | | <rom name="h5-ic49.5a" merge="h5-ic49.5a" size="2048" crc="a105e4e7" sha1="b35142a91b6b7fdf7535202671793393c9f4685f" region="maincpu" offset="2000"/> |
| | | <rom name="h6-ic50.6a" merge="h6-ic50.6a" size="2048" crc="ac5e9ec1" sha1="0402e5241d99759d804291998efd43f37ce99917" region="maincpu" offset="2800"/> |
| | | <rom name="h7-ic51.7a" merge="h7-ic51.7a" size="2048" crc="2eab35b4" sha1="849bf8273317cc869bdd67e50c68399ee8ece81d" region="maincpu" offset="3000"/> |
| | | <rom name="h8-ic52.8a" merge="h8-ic52.8a" size="2048" crc="aff8e9c5" sha1="e4164f85ec12d4d9bcbffba27ab1f51b3599f6d0" region="maincpu" offset="3800"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic23.3d" merge="ic23.3d" size="2048" crc="3c7e623f" sha1="e7ff5fc371664af44785c079e92eeb2d8530187b" region="gfx1" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="ic24.4d" merge="ic24.4d" size="2048" crc="59916d3b" sha1="71aec70a8e096ed1f0c2297b3ae7dca1b8ecc38d" region="gfx1" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="b1-ic39.3b" merge="b1-ic39.3b" size="2048" crc="53413e8f" sha1="d772358505b973b10da840d204afb210c0c746ec" region="gfx2" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="b2-ic40.4b" merge="b2-ic40.4b" size="2048" crc="0be2ba91" sha1="af9243ee23377b632b9b7d0b84d341d06bf22480" region="gfx2" offset="800"/> |
| | | <rom name="mmi6301.ic40" merge="mmi6301.ic40" size="256" crc="79350b25" sha1="57411be4c1d89677f7919ae295446da90612c8a8" region="proms" offset="0"/> |
| | | <rom name="mmi6301.ic41" merge="mmi6301.ic41" size="256" crc="e176b768" sha1="e2184dd495ed579f10b6da0b78379e02d7a6229f" 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="372"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="cust" name="Phoenix Custom"/> |
| | | <chip type="audio" tag="discrete" name="DISCRETE" clock="120000"/> |
| | | <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="3K 30K" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="4K 40K" value="4"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="5K 50K" value="8"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="6K 60K" value="12"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Coinage" tag="DSW0" mask="16"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="2 Coins/1 Credit" value="0"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="1 Coin/1 Credit" value="16" default="yes"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW0" mask="32"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="32" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Unknown" tag="DSW0" mask="64"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Off" value="64" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="On" value="0"/> |
| | | <dipswitch name="Cabinet" tag="CAB" mask="1"> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Upright" value="0" default="yes"/> |
| | | | <dipvalue name="Cocktail" value="1"/> |
| | | <driver status="good" emulation="good" color="good" sound="good" graphic="good" savestate="supported" palettesize="256"/> |
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