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  • Submitted: Aug 09 2017 06:20 PM
  • Last Updated: Sep 13 2025 04:34 AM
  • File Size: 15.27MB
  • Views: 21776
  • Downloads: 6,901
  • Author(s): jpsalas
  • Manufacturer: Stern
  • Year: 1981
  • IPDB Link:
  • ROM: Link to ROM
  • Permission to MOD?: Unspecified

Previous Versions

  • 13 Dec 2024 Download Lightning (Stern 1981) 5.5.0

Download Lightning (Stern 1981) 6.0.0

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Lightning Stern



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Based on the Stern table from 1981.
Script based on destruks script from his old table together with TAB.
Graphics based on the graphics redraw by Francisco666 as found on his FP table.
 
So here it is another "oldie" from the 80's :)

What's New in Version 6.0.0 (See full changelog)

  • 6.0.0 Updated September 2025
  • - Moved LUT to User Options (F12)
  • - Added some extra options to the User Options (F12)
  • - Updated physics to my latest rev 4.3.1. mostly bouncier rubbers and harder flippers.
  • 5.5.0 Updated 13.12.2024
  • - New playfield mesh to avoid the ball getting stuck on top of the flippers.
  • - Fixed my ball spin control, which were too aggressive, and it killed the ball's acceleration, making the ball too slow, getting stuck on ramps, and also being unable to climb the ramps on many tables.
  • - Updated for VPX8 (adjusted reflections, equirectangular ball, linked flashers to lights, incandescent lights)
  • - Updated physics to my Rev3. Including physics materials, flipper code and slingshot shapes.
  • - Updated LUT images and display system, 10 darker shades and 10 warmer shades.
  • - some graphical changes (playfield mesh with holes, metal wall guides, lights warmer)
  • - added a screenshot for scutters file explorer handler
  • 4.0.1 Updated 18.10.2022
  • - Fixed top playfield droptargets not being visible.
  • 4.0.0 Updated 16.10.2022
  • - Updated to my VPX7 physics
  • - Updated my mechanical set of sounds to a more "under the glass" sound.
  • - cleaned up and deleted unused graphics & reduced the size of the table
  • - Added my VPX7 LUT changer to darken the table (hold down LEFT CTRL while change with RIGHT CTRL).
  • - Changed the Environment image to enhance a little the object shadows.
  • - Some small script updates, like the Rolling sound and PlaySoundAt routines.
  • - Made the light inserts warmer.
  • - Added SSF sound commands.
  • 1.0.0 Released 09.08.2017


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GordonJames
May 29 2024 08:40 PM

Great table yet again and again and again lol. Thank you!!!!

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nromo
Jan 07 2026 02:40 AM

Plunger fails at least 50% of the time. Not enough power to keep ball from rolling back down the shooter lane.


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