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Phoenix

Phoenix emulates 3DO and Atari Jaguar. It reads 4 files, 2 of them required: without a required file it does not start games. A required file is needed only by the machines that use it.

About this profile
Detail Value
Type standalone
Classification Other
Source http://www.arts-union.ru
Version 2.8.JAG
Profiled 2026-10-20
Profile YAML, JSON
Cores phoenix
Systems 3DO, Atari Jaguar
Install this emulator's files

With RetroBat: the installer finds RetroBat and its BIOS folder, then downloads only the files Phoenix reads there and checks each one.

Open the Start menu. Type PowerShell and open it. Paste the line. Press Enter.

PowerShell
&([scriptblock]::Create((irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Abdess/retrobios/main/install.ps1))) --emulator phoenix
Technical notes

Closed-source 3DO and Atari Jaguar emulator by Altmer (Arts-Union), the author of FreeDO. This profile reads the build RetroBat installs, PhoenixEmuProject.exe 2.8.JAG (x86-64, dated 2023-01-05), with objdump and the strings it carries.

Phoenix names no BIOS file. Every dump is registered in phoenix.config.xml under a platform and a dump type: BIOS, CD-ROM, FMV-ROM, FONT-ROM and NVRAM for 3DO, BIOS and CARTRIDGE for Jaguar. emulatorlauncher rewrites that file before each launch, registering the game and, as the BIOS, panafz10.bin for 3DO or "[BIOS] Atari Jaguar (World).j64" for Jaguar from the RetroBat bios folder (emulatorLauncher Generators/Phoenix.Generator.cs:23-95).

The 3DO machine is emulated at hardware level (MADAM, CLIO, the CEL engine and the ARM CPU) and starts from the BIOS dump. Its md5 is compared with two values, the PAL Anvil BIOS a48e6746 and the same image with RSA disabled cf11bbb5 (function at 0x4a10d0, strings at 0xb03a38 and 0xb03a60), which the 2.8.J changelog lists as PAL BIOS support. FMV-ROM is the video module ROM, which the 1.2 changelog describes as viewable only, and FONT-ROM the kanji font of Japanese consoles. Two further md5 values (0xb03bd0, 0xb03bf8) are compared against the CD-ROM dump and set per game video parameters.

Jaguar cartridges run through the boot ROM, and the File menu offers to add a header, or a generic header, to a headerless cartridge dump so that the boot ROM accepts it.

Files

Section titled “Files”

4 files: 2 required, 2 optional.

In this collection: 4 in repo and 0 missing.

Required

Section titled “Required”

panafz10.bin required for 3DO in repo

3DO BIOS

  • Any BIOS dump is accepted, registered as the 3DO BIOS. The name is the one RetroBat registers.

[BIOS] Atari Jaguar (World).j64 required for Atari Jaguar in repo

Jaguar boot ROM

  • Registered as the Jaguar BIOS. The name is the one RetroBat registers.

Optional

Section titled “Optional”

panafz10e-anvil.bin optional in repo

PAL Anvil BIOS

  • Recognized by md5 for PAL operation (0xb03a38, compared at 0x4a1144).

panafz10e-anvil-norsa.bin optional in repo

PAL Anvil BIOS, RSA check disabled

  • Recognized by md5 for PAL operation (0xb03a60, compared at 0x4a120d).

Next steps

Section titled “Next steps”
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Maintained by Abdess on GitHub. Report a problem.

Packs from release v2026.10.10, .

MIT for the tooling and metadata. BIOS and firmware files are third-party system software, preserved for personal backup, archival and interoperability.