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icon
title Pisces (bootleg)
set name piscesb
manufacturer bootleg
year ????
genre Shooter (hof)
category Shooter / Gallery (hof)
driver status good
driver source galdrvr.c
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rating

71.5% after 18 votes
 
parent Pisces
other clones Omni
display
colour emulation good
palette 32
display type raster
orientation vertical
resolution 224x768
frequency 60.606061Hz
sound
sound emulation good
channels mono
controls
players 2
nplayers 2P alt
controls 2 way joystick
buttons 1
coin slots 2
hardware
cpu Z80 @ 3.072MHz
audio Samples
data
version added .005
last change(s) .059
roms
name size crc set flags sha1
pisces.a1  2048  856b8e1f  piscesb    24d468b5f06f54c3fa1cb54ceec8a0c8e285430e 
p2.bin  2048  055f9762  pisces    9d821874dd48a80651adc58a2f7fe5d2b3ed67bc 
pisces.b2  2048  5540f2e4  piscesb    b069a7e46fa2c1f732371ef056caaf8f343e11a8 
p4.bin  2048  44aaf525  pisces    667bf4c3a36169c3ddddd22b2f1f90bcc9308548 
p5.bin  2048  fade512b  pisces    ccef2650f1d9dc3fdde2d441774246d47febc2cc 
p6.bin  2048  5ab2822f  pisces    bbcac3aab943dd9b173de11ddf02ff75d16b1582 
g09.bin  2048  9503a23a  pisces    23848de56841dd1de9ef74d5a9c981c784098175 
g11.bin  2048  0adfc3fe  pisces    a4da488632d9906066db45ae62747caf5ffbf2d8 
g10.bin  2048  3e61f849  pisces    efa0059bc843af0c3bb94f4bc0a8286ca5069179 
g12.bin  2048  7130e9eb  pisces    e6bb7a9b4f2fc001296e1060d0671b7a88599c8b 
colour.bin  32  57a45057  pisces    d4ec6a54f72640e5b485aa59e206c090e67ff640 
cabinet art
additional information
info 0.59 [Mike Coates]

0.05 [Nicola Salmoria, Robert Anschuetz]

Bugs:
  • Sometimes there is a square block on the bottom right in attract mode, or gameplay. Update by Machone: This seems to be related to the main CPU speed. If you underclock or overclock the z80 processor by just 1%, the problem goes away. The current speed of the z80 in MAME is 3.072mhz, so perhaps this is wrong and should be set at 3mhz? pisces095u6gre Thenasty / Machone (ID 00448)
  • When you warp after the first level, the noise completely overrides the music. Robbbert (ID 01594)
WIP:
  • 0.99u1: Pierpaolo Prazzoli added clone Omni.
  • 0.59: Mike Coates added Pisces (Subelectro 19??). Renamed (pisces) to (piscesb).
  • 16th March 2002: Mike Coates added the Subelectro version of Pisces to the Galaxian driver, it appears to have better colors than the current version.
  • 0.28: Mike Balfour added hiscore save in Pisces.
  • 0.18: Nicola added some lousy noise to Pisces.
  • 0.06: Nicola Salmoria added star background in Galaxians & co. The way Nicola calculate it is probably not correct, anyway it looks reasonable.
  • 0.05: Nicola Salmoria added Pisces (correct colors, limited sound). This game runs on a modified Galaxians board. Only one sound channel is emulated and the game has no star background.
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  • GalEMU
  • Sparcade
  • VAntAGE
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Pisces

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Romset: 21 kb / 11 files / 14.0 zip
history Pisces (c) 19?? Subelectro.


- TECHNICAL -


Main CPU : Z80 (@ 3.072 Mhz)

Sound Chips : Tone generator and discrete circuits


Screen orientation : Vertical

Video resolution : 224 x 256 pixels

Screen refresh : 60.61 Hz

Palette colors : 98


Players : 2

Control : 2-way joystick

Buttons : 1 (FIRE)


- TRIVIA -


A bootleg of this game is known as "Omni".


- SCORING -


Shooting a yellow ship on stage 1 : 80 points.

Shooting a blue ship on stage 1 : 80 points.

Shooting a falling blue ship on stage 1 : 100 - 800 points.

Shooting a bird dead center on stage 2: 100 points.

Shooting a bird's wing on stage 2 : 20 points.

Docking the ship on stage 3 : points awarded for remaining fuel.

Shooting the falling ships on stage 4 : 100 points.

Destroying the mother-ship : 800 points.


- TIPS AND TRICKS -


* On stage 1, you can ignore as many yellow ships as possible, and only aim for the blue ones. When the yellow ones move off screen there is often a chance that the next wave will include a blue ship. Since the blue ships are worth more points they are worth waiting for.


* On stage 2 the birds do not fire until they are fully developed. You can usually take out 3 or 4 of them before they start firing.


* On stage 2 you can concentrate on continual fire on birds wings when there are only 2 or 3 remaining, as this awards 20 points per hit and does not destroy the bird. You can rack up a good score by doing this, but watch out for the falling bullets.


* The asteroids positioning on the docking stage is totally random, so this stage is often down to chance. Do not use your thrusters to maximize your bonus points.


* On stage 4, the ships which come down from the cloud move across you from left to right and back again. You can time your firing so that they are hit when directly above you. Note that only the mother-ship fires at you so you can take out the ships when not directly below the cloud, and be safe in the knowledge that you have no bullets to avoid.


- SOURCES -


Game's rom.

Arcade Retro Lounge; http://tips.retrogames.com/



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code comments
00000000:4110:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Lives
00000000:5160:00000069:FFFFFFFF  Infinite Fuel
20800000:049C:000000C3:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility
20810000:0ED8:000000C3:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (2/5):1st = Enemy, 2nd = Fire
20810000:1A86:000000C9:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (3/5):Scenery (Scene 3). You can't move until finish docking though
20810000:1D81:000000C9:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (4/5):Asteroid (Scene 3)
20810000:2548:000000C3:FFFFFFFF  Invincibility (5/5):Boss (Scene 4)
00000000:407B:00000000:FFFFFFFF  Rapid Fire
00000000:4113:00000003:FFFFFFFF  Always Have Triple Shot
20800100:05F6:00000008:FFFFFFFF  Select Bullet Speed:Default = 0x06
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