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[destruk]

Version 2.5 (June 5, 2012) - "Playmatics on the loose!"
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A lot of work has been done on Playmatic. I was happy enough to simply be able to play the games, but then Gerrit went ahead and got the sound working too! We're still looking for roms for Playmatic Stop Ship and Playmatic Phantom Ship so if you see those, let us know please.
With help from Matt Elder and Basillo Garcia, we managed to get working roms for Inder Metal Man and Spinball's last game - Verne's World.
S1500 was kind enough to send us the game code for "White Force" and I hope to see it working soon. Enjoy!

*** CORE/CPU ***
Improved segmented displays for WPC alphanumeric games
Corrected DMD colors for Gottlieb system 3 games
Improved DMD displays for Alvin G
Preliminary support for IDSA SP0256 sound chip
Playmatic System 2 sound now works and games are playable!
Peyper/Sonic/Juegos Populares Dip Switch Handling has been changed - anyone who used dip menus for those games will need to adjust dip values - this affects Petaco
Playmatic Lamp Numbering has changed to match the schematics - this affects Antar
Spectra IV - new U4 for better game operation - if you play this game, grab the new romset from vpforums.org

*** ROM SUPPORT *** at least 55 new romsets!
Alvin G Mystery Castle - 3 DMD rom "enhanced romset"
Bally Strange Science (German) - Lee Buck
Bell Games World Defender (Free Play)
Funhouse 9.06H, Whitewater LH6C, Cirqus Voltaire 2.0HC (Coin Play Enabled)/T2 L-81/T2 L-82 - thanks MrGlee!
Apollo 13 1.00
Alternate versions of Ripleys, Sopranos, Nascar, Grand Prix, LOTR - thanks Micko!
Alternate Stern Harley Davidson
Stern Playboy 3.02/Simpsons Party 3.00/Terminator 3 3.01
FreeWPC Twilight Zone 0.97/1.00/FreeWPC Corvette .61
Cactus Canyon 1.04/1.00 - Lee Buck
Congo 1.1, F-14 Tomcat P-5, Secret Service b26 (alternate Sound) - thanks Inkochnito
Getaway P-B
Johnny Mnemonic 0.5R/No Fear 1.0 - John Wart Jr.
Judge Dredd L-4/L-5, Shadow LA-6
Safecracker 0.91
STTNG P-4 - Scott Charles
IDSA V1/Basket Ball
Inder Metal Man/Moon Light
Juegos Populares Halley Comet/Petaco 2/Pimbal "Pinball 3000"
Peyper Nemesis/Odin - Basillo
Playmatic Flash Dragon, Nautilus, Skill Flight, Star Fire (alternate set), The Raid
Playmatic Megaaton (alternate set) - Didier
Playmatic Zira - Lee Buck
Sonic Gamatron/Sonic Star Wars (alternate set)
Spinball Verne's World
Videodens Ator - Basillo
Videodens Papillon - Lee Buck


You can get PinMAME / PinMAME32 / and Visual PinMAME here:
https://sourceforge....es/pinmame/2.5/

Visual PinMAME official desktop release is here: http://www.vpforums....u...ail&f_id=19
Cabinet (unofficial) release is here: http://www.vpforums....u...l&f_id=6429

Corrected Petaco dips are:

CODE

'Petaco
Sub editDips
Dim vpmDips:Set vpmDips=New cvpmDips
With vpmDips
.AddForm 700,300,"Petaco - DIP switches"
.AddFrame 0,0,190,"Coins per Credit",6144,Array("1-1-3",4096,"1-3-5",2048,"1-3-6",6144,"2-4-6",0)
.AddFrame 0,78,190,"Balls per game",1024,Array("3 balls",1024,"5 balls",0)
.AddFrame 0,124,150,"Match Feature",16,Array("ON",0,"OFF",16)
.AddFrame 0,170,190,"Extra Ball at 300.000 Award",256,Array("Enabled",0,"Disabled",256)
.AddFrame 0,216,100,"Bookkeeping",4,Array("bookkeeping off",0,"coin audits",4,"play audits",2)
.AddLabel 0,291,280,20,"After hitting OK, press F3 to reset game with new settings."
.ViewDips
End With
End Sub
Set vpmShowDips=GetRef("editDips")

Corrected lamp numbers for Antar are specified in this post -
http://www.vpforums....s...st&p=154676

Edited by destruk, 06 June 2012 - 04:43 AM.

[destruk]

btw - for those who wanted, the current cabinet dll source code is here:
http://vpforums.org/...inet source.zip

[bolt]

Thank you very much for the new PinMAME version.

[s1500]

Hey, that's me!

I better get crackin' on scanning those playfield plastics in White Force. Someone on pinside emailed me a week ago, saying he just bought one, and found the ROMs elsewhere on the interwebs. Now trying to convince him to get me pics of the backglass.

[luvthatapex]

Thank you Brian and the team for the new pinmame release! Hopefully we will have some authors take advantage of the new romsets and make some nice tables! Woohoo!

[ced]

Thx Guys !!

@++
ced.

[Sabbat]

thank you !

[Pin-Pete]

Thank you for a billion for new VPinMAME!

[FDSystems]

Thanks VPM team!

[toxie]

btw: it doesn't seem like much in the readme, but the DMD on gottlieb and alvin g is now SO MUCH better, i literally drooled back then when it was commited to the dev svn..

[jpsalas]

Thanks!!!!

[Shooby Doo]

Awesome, thanks to the VPM team for their hard work.

[JAM0]

Thanks to the VPM team!

[serpiko]

nice !

thanks

[JAM0]

I don't know if it is just in my imagination, but I appear to have an improvement in both sound and micro stutter on the tables that I had it!

ONe question: I have been using the non-cab version and tried to replace the DLL with the cab version and VP crashes when the table tries to load. Does switching to the cab version just entail switching the DLL's, or is there more too it?

[martin]

Thanxs

[CaptainNeo]

btw - for those who wanted, the current cabinet dll source code is here:
http://vpforums.org/...inet source.zip

So if you use this, you only have to replace the .dll file and your all set?

[destruk]

You should be able to simply overwrite the dll file, but the setup program is included anyway as there were comments before that users wanted the setup file to be included....
If it crashes (as mentioned above), rerun the setup, select uninstall, and try reinstalling - but that hasn't happened on my computers so I'm not sure why it would crash.
If your pc requires it, you may need to run the setup program as administrator.

Edited by destruk, 06 June 2012 - 06:55 PM.

[mesk]

Sorry for a noob question but could someone please explain the differences between PinMAME,PinMAME32,VpinMAME & VpinMAME32? Thank you

[CaptainNeo]

dll replacement worked fine for me. Thanks a bunch.