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[destruk]

Version 2.4 (August 19, 2011) - "Summertime"
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Eight months is a long time to go without a release, but we wanted to make some significant progress
with plenty of testing, so it's here now. We thought the rom fountain had run dry, but then
Seymour Shabow mentioned he had worked on free play roms, Micko alerted us to alternate Stern roms,
David Gersic posted his modified Zaccaria Free Play roms, and Inkochnito told us we were missing a lot
of roms from Oliver Okaegi... so...a whole lot of typing was required to add support for all of these!

One of our goals is to archive all pinball game code, as well as code that runs on pinball hardware.
If you think you have code we don't support, please let one of us know.

Changes:

*** CORE/CPU ***
Atari sound has been improved [Gerrit Volkenborn/Pascal Janin]
GamePlan Lady Sharpshooter's solenoids now work 100%
Added support for Jeutel - fully emulated with sound and speech [Gerrit Volkenborn]
Updated TMS 5220 to latest MAME core code
Added support for Valley Manufacturing [Gerrit Volkenborn]
Zaccaria - Added support for SenseInput line and enhanced diagnostic output [Gerrit Volkenborn/David Gersic]
Improved speech emulation for Bally 35, Nuova Bell, and Zaccaria Generation 2 [Gerrit Volkenborn]

Corrected spinners for PinMAME simulators [Steve Ellenoff]
Added simulator for Sega Harley Davidson [Steve Ellenoff/Brian Smith]
Improved simulator for Stern Monopoly [Brian Smith]

*** ROM SUPPORT ***
Bowlers: Aristocrat, King Tut, Pompeii, Tic-Tac-Strike L-1 and L-2
Corrected sound roms for Aristocrat, Pompeii, Shuffle Inn, Taurus, Topaz
Data East: Tales from the Crypt 3.02 Dutch (thanks Inkochnito!)
GamePlan: alternate Lady Sharpshooter set
Inder: Mundial 90
Juegos Populares: Halley Comet, Olympus (good game rom)
Sega: South Park 0.96 (thanks Inkochnito!) and Stern Harley Davidson 3rd Edition 4.0 (thanks Steve Ellenoff!)
Cut the Cheese and Cut the Cheese Deluxe
Taito: Zeke's Peak (Ice Cold Beer clone)
Valley Spectra IV

Added a whole bunch of Stern whitestar revisions (thanks Micko!)
Added Oliver Okaegi sets that were missing or skipped in previous PinMAME releases
Added FreeWPC sets that work in PinMAME/Visual PinMAME
Added Free Play and alternate rules roms for early Stern (thanks Seymour Shabow!)
Added Free Play roms for Zaccaria (thanks David Gersic!)
Added a lot of WPC/WPC-95 sets including the real Scared Stiff prototype rom with working kickback! (thanks Pete Haduch!)


Due to our loss of access to pinmame.com, files are now hosted on sourceforge.
Get PinMAME, PinMAME32, and Visual PinMAME v2.4 here: http://sourceforge.n...es/pinmame/2.4/

Visual PinMAME is also mirrored here on vpforums.org
http://www.vpforums....u...ail&f_id=19 = Visual PinMAME 2.4 desktop build
http://www.vpforums....u...il&f_id=967 = Visual PinMAME 2.4 cabinet build

[Itchigo]

Thanks Destruk. For all you do...

[Joe]

I need some of the missing roms

Attached Files

•  miss.txt   3.64KB   111 downloads

Edited by Joe, 20 August 2011 - 01:47 AM.

[wtiger]

Thanks Destruk and team!

[GeorgeT]

Thanks for continuing to support this!

[NEW]

thank you very much for your work.

[destruk]

I need some of the missing roms

All the roms are here. VPForums hosts a complete set and I keep it updated.
So click on search at the top right corner, for search downloads type in your romset name.zip and there you go.

One to show you it works
afm_f10.zip -
http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?automodu...m_f10\.zip

Or you can pull up the entire list of roms alphabetically by name here:
http://www.vpforums....u...=A-Z&pp=100

The WPC LED romsets we can't host here - I wish we could but Rick at Planetary Pinball October 2010 said that they were going to be updating all the WPC romsets and releasing them - who knows how many decades that will take though....

Edited by destruk, 20 August 2011 - 04:40 AM.

[B2K24]

When I scan with Clrmamepro I get misses of the LEDs which is understandable, but I am confused by this.

Spectra IV [folder: spectra - size: 3kb]
missing set: Spectra IV
missing rom: spect_u3.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: 9ca7510f] [SHA1: a87849f16903836158063d593bb4a2e90c7473c8]
missing rom: spect_u4.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: e6519689] [SHA1: 06ef3d349ea27a072889b7c379f258d29b7217be]
missing rom: spect_u5.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: 49e0759f] [SHA1: c3badc90ff834cbc92d8c519780069310c2b1507]

[Flying Dutchman]

Great Team Effort! Thanks!

Cheers,
FD.

[DnaDisturber]

Great news......
Thanks for all the hard work..

Are there any changes made in drivers that require deleting the nvram of certain roms (whitestar perhaps) ?

Just asking as the program PINemHi reads the hiscores out of the nvrams.
Want to know If changes should be made to the program (bytes of the hiscores are perhaps on other adressess because of the changes)

TIA,

Dna Disturber

[elton]

Thanks Brian for your dedication to the cause it's really appreciated.

[bolt]

Great NEWS. Thanks for the new version.

[ta2686]

Thanks to the team for this new version!

[JacKc]

Many thanks for this new release !!!

Destruk, on a side note, like B2KB4, after searching everywhere on VPForums, i can't find these roms :

Spectra IV [folder: spectra - size: 3kb]
missing set: Spectra IV
missing rom: spect_u3.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: 9ca7510f] [SHA1: a87849f16903836158063d593bb4a2e90c7473c8]
missing rom: spect_u4.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: e6519689] [SHA1: 06ef3d349ea27a072889b7c379f258d29b7217be]
missing rom: spect_u5.dat [size: 1024] [CRC32: 49e0759f] [SHA1: c3badc90ff834cbc92d8c519780069310c2b1507]

Best, JacKc

[MDG79]

First of all, thanks for the new release. But I ran into a little problem when installing VpinMAME32 via setup.exe when clicking on install

"Unable to register the class object

error 0x800700005 Toegang geweigerd (access denied)

Please check If you have a valid vpinmame.dll"

PinMAME32.exe 2.4 is functionally though. TMS5200 speech sounds far more better now.

I use Windows Vista with SP1.............Oh never mind, I forgot to run setup in administrator mode en Xp-compatibilitymode. It worked.

While trying out the zaccaria tables, I've experienced a glitch with the tms5200 emulation on this system; it is constantly resorting back to the broken speech as we know from 2.3
Sometimes I hear the improved speech (which is sounding like real) but often the broken speech is heard . At most zaccaria tables I lowered the speech clock to 626 hz, pitch is a bit too high in the improved speech.
Also is in the Squawk and Talk emulation. But besides of that the improvement is very well done, hats off to that!

Edited by MDG79, 20 August 2011 - 03:04 PM.

[destruk]

Spectra IV [folder: spectra - size: 3kb]

spectra.zip and spectr4a.zip are here:
http://www.vpforums....u...l&f_id=5734
http://www.vpforums....u...l&f_id=5735


Thanks - we had those for awhile, and then we got new reads and I missed uploading them.

Are there any changes made in drivers that require deleting the nvram of certain roms (whitestar perhaps) ?
Just asking as the program PINemHi reads the hiscores out of the nvrams.
Want to know If changes should be made to the program (bytes of the hiscores are perhaps on other adressess because of the changes)

I don't think you need to change nvram locations for whitestar games.

[JacKc]

many many thanks Destruk for spectra and spectr4a !!!

[B2K24]

Thanks Destruk, Everyone's work on PinMAME is very much appreciated
Thanks guys for all you do

[ta2686]

Thanks for the updated Spectra IV ROMs!

[RipleYYY]

cool...

even if i still cant succeed to set up & fix the DMD on the 2nd screen of my cab
still came back over the playfield on the 1st screen each time i launch a table...

btw i used the SETDMD utility, without result

(not a question of life but i'm tired lol)