Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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parodius
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Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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Yesterday I stumbled upon this auction for a PCB of a shmup I didn't know :
https://www.ebay.com/itm/SOLITE-SPIRITS ... _cvip=true

Information about the game is very scarce on Google (no reference on those forums either), that piqued my interest.
So according to the interweb 1945k III from the same company(ies) is based on this game, one in-game screenshot in the auction actually shows some of the same enemies you can see in 1945k III.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/arcade/93 ... images/214

I placed a snipe, but the bids went way higher than I expected, so I won't be the happy owner of this board.

Still interesting to know that it exists.
Hopefully we'll see a dump made available, eventually.

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Re: Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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Very cool! Always interesting to see obscurities like this pop up, and yes, hopefully it gets dumped at some point. Looks like the PCB isn't that large, either.
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Re: Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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Cant find any youtube movie from this game.
Please upload.
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Re: Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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What's a Solite,anyway?
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Re: Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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It's just the original Promat distributed release of 1945kIII, probably the one that got distributed in Korea.

1945kIII even still has the Solite Spirits text in the background of the plane select and other places.

Presumably this is the name Promat distributed it under and it was later decided to try and cash in on the 1945 name with a last minute title screen mod for other markets.
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Re: Solite Spirits (Promat Co. Ltd, 1999)

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heli wrote: Tue Feb 04, 2020 5:28 pm Cant find any youtube movie from this game.
Please upload.
um dude, there is a gameplay of this early demo/public build of solite spirits/1945k III :? man
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