game
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title Capitol
set name capitol
manufacturer Universal Video Spiel
year 1981
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Gallery (hof)
driver status imperfect
driver source phoenix.c
snapshots MW: in game | parent / CT: in game | title | parent / EJ: parent / PS: in game | title | parent
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rating

66.4% after 28 votes
 
parent Pleiads (Tehkan)
other clones Pleiads (bootleg)
Pleiads (Centuri)
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display
colour emulation imperfect
palette 256
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 208x256
frequency 61.035156Hz
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sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
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controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 2 way joystick
buttons 2
coin slots 1
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hardware
cpu 8085A @ 5.5MHz
audio TMS36XX @ 0.000372MHz
audio Custom
audio Discrete @ 0.12MHz
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data
version added .077u2
last change(s) .078
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
cp1.45  2048  0922905b  capitol    501342b0162bba43570b1cbefa1ada6302a54017 
cp2.46  2048  4f168f45  capitol    8d268dad54a2cf7081f22a29a3e025174ae462e7 
cp3.47  2048  3975e0b0  capitol    d509398aa8b90c7c451d9e60bc1ca6488b1563a9 
cp4.48  2048  da49caa8  capitol    274c8dcabb9f43a2cbf9682b849ffd2bc8cf6496 
cp5.49  2048  38e4362b  capitol    c5aeb8b7d49b3da760904a16b57604e782cf29fc 
cp6.50  2048  aaf798eb  capitol    660774db4195aaa499569804a2304e969f168cdf 
cp7.51  2048  eaadf14c  capitol    753a46317e98b1ae63f88f5c3e70ff1c7ec04286 
cp8.52  2048  d3fe2af4  capitol    f0c9bfc17ba6f55fbe95136da40a3de775aa46d2 
cp11.23  2048  9b0bbb8d  capitol    cde7c0140e773fe28e97e36486d4e048710f6004 
cp12.24  2048  39949e66  capitol    21a204f22f04c5808538b21d49ebc6b7cb7625e8 
cp9.39  2048  04f7d19a  capitol    9b8e55ad0e374d4e7538e82c7b3f081b3bb98124 
cp10.40  2048  4807408f  capitol    4aa81e934a65e9986b194e9a9bab99f6c85ff7a5 
ic40.prm  256  79350b25  capitol    57411be4c1d89677f7919ae295446da90612c8a8 
ic41.prm  256  e176b768  capitol    e2184dd495ed579f10b6da0b78379e02d7a6229f 
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cabinet art
cabinet pleiads.png pleiads.png
marquee pleiads.png
control panel pleiads.png
flyer pleiads.png
PCB pleiads.png
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additional information
info 0.35RC1 [Eric Hustvedt]

0.33b7 [Paul Swan]

0.07 [Nicola Salmoria]

NOTE:
  • When the final alien is killed on the very first wave, the game says that you be rewarded x amount of points, but this bonus is never added to your score.
  • On the second round, shoot all but one alien. Then move the ship to the far left, wait for the alien to be in a firing line, then shoot. Its bullets will now go through you as long as you keep him in that position. You can quickly dart left and right, shooting it to death, racking up points very quickly. After about three minutes of this, the alien becomes highly annoyed and will hover right below you, and do all kind of neato moves. It is quite a sight to see!
Bugs:
  • Shot sound and melody is missing in Pleiads (Centuri). MASH (ID 1988)
  • "Pleiads" side-by-side test. Gary Walton (ID 01027)
  • The sounds that the enemy ships make in Pleiads are now WAY too low. Listen at the sounds on the first wave in MAME v35 Final; these are accurate. In MAME v36b6, they almost sound one octive too low. Dutch (ID 01191)
WIP:
  • 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 dip switch 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 Buchmuelller 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). 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).
  • 0.34b4: Nicola Salmoria corrected Pleiads colors (might be correct now).
  • 0.33b7: Renamed (pleiads) to (pleiadce) and (pleitek) to (pleiads).
  • 0.31: Paul Swan added clone Pleiads (Tehkan).
  • 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: Nicola had broken Pleiades, fixed. 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) (no sound). This runs on the same hardware as Phoenix.
LEVELS: 3

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  • Retrocade
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Romset: 25 kb / 14 files / 16.7 zip
history Capitol (c) 1981 Universal Video Spiel.


An old German shoot'em up.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : 8085A (@ 2.75 Mhz)

Sound Chips : TMS36XX (@ 0.372 Khz), Discrete


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 208 x 248 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.00 Hz

Palette colors : 256


Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick

Buttons : 2


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.



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code comments
00000000:438F:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Credits
00000000:43A6:000000DD:FFFFFFFF  Never have shields
00000040:43A6:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Shield Always Ready
20800000:0CC4:000000C9:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
60000000:0000:00000000:00000000 
00000000:4390:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL1
00000000:4391:00000009:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives PL2
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