Anyone ever trigger the Phoenix 204,000 scoring bug?

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Anyone ever trigger the Phoenix 204,000 scoring bug?

I did this a couple of days ago...didn't even know about this, but just like that, my score jumped way up. I don't have a proper Phoenix cab...I have this title on the Arcade SD. The sounds are a bit off (like the Taito Legends emulation available for the XBox/PS2 generation of consoles), but it's pretty accurate otherwise.

Here is a link to a description of the bug, and what causes it:

http://donhodges.com/phoenix.htm

Apparently it's somewhat well-known, but I wasn't aware of it at all.
 
It's pretty easy to do once you get the hang of it. You can do it at any point in the game but I find it easiest to go all the way left at the start of board 2, when that first pack of 3 birds comes around just wait and when they get all the way left and start to fly back up, track and field the fire button.
 
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