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[bigus1]

File Name: Antar (Playmatic 1979)_Bigus(MOD)

File Submitter: bigus1

File Submitted: 28 Dec 2023

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME - MOD Tables

Author(s): Bigus1, Schinkenpeter
Manufacturer: Other - Pinball
Year: 1979
ROM: Link to ROM
Permission to MOD?: Unspecified

This interesting table from Schinkenpeter comes by request.
I've converted it to VPX and done a makeover and fixes.
1.1 fixes script issues.
Enjoy

Click here to download this file

[bolt]

Thank you for all those great table mod this year..

Wishing you a very happy New Year 2024.

 

bolt

[pepegarcia]

Thanks, I really like your mod tables

[Roadblock]

Thanks for all your mods and Happy New Year!

 

I had to comment out some lines to get the keys to work:

 

 Sub antar_KeyDown(ByVal Keycode)
 '     If keycode = 33 Then 'f
 '        Exit Sub
 '     End If
 '     If keycode = 34 Then 'g
 '        Exit Sub
 '     End If    
 '   If keycode = 36 Then 'j
 '      Exit Sub
 '   End If
 '   If keycode = 37 Then 'k
 '      Exit Sub
 '   End If
     If vpmKeyDown(keycode) Then Exit Sub
     If keycode = PlungerKey Then : Plunger1.Pullback: End If
 End Sub

[Itchigo]

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

[BostonBuckeye]

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

Works for me. Are you using the antar2 rom?

[telmoabff]

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

 

Try F3 to reset rom...

[Itchigo]

I wasn't before, but I am now and still no change. The game boots and has GI and that's it. No score lights light up, just GI. The plunger doesn't move with the enter key either. This is AFTER adding the Antar2 rom. Pinmame says the rom is good and it's able to use it.

 

I noticed the script was only like 97 lines long, is there an external script that this is looking for? I didn't see anything in the zip file.

 

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

 

Try F3 to reset rom...

 

Nothing happens when I hit F3, F6, or F1.

[clyde]

I wasn't before, but I am now and still no change. The game boots and has GI and that's it. No score lights light up, just GI. The plunger doesn't move with the enter key either. This is AFTER adding the Antar2 rom. Pinmame says the rom is good and it's able to use it.

 

I noticed the script was only like 97 lines long, is there an external script that this is looking for? I didn't see anything in the zip file.

 

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

 

Try F3 to reset rom...

 

Nothing happens when I hit F3, F6, or F1.

Are you using VP10.8 or 10.7? I'm using 10.7 & no issues at all.

[Mustang1961]

Hi ALL & thank you Bigus for your work,

 

I have had the same issues like Itchigo, emulation starts, can't add credits, display player 1 shows "St" at the left digits and "00" in credits, all other digits were blank. Then I quit the emulation and started the game again - and then it works ok.

 

All this with 10.7.

 

Sincerely, Christian. 

[bigus1]

It does that periodically. I think the roms are buggy for this table, according to the previous author's blarb. Restart and it's fine, as you said

[wiesshund]

I wasn't before, but I am now and still no change. The game boots and has GI and that's it. No score lights light up, just GI. The plunger doesn't move with the enter key either. This is AFTER adding the Antar2 rom. Pinmame says the rom is good and it's able to use it.

 

I noticed the script was only like 97 lines long, is there an external script that this is looking for? I didn't see anything in the zip file.

 

Do I need an updated vbs for this? The table won't start. It loads with no errors though.

 

Try F3 to reset rom...

 

Nothing happens when I hit F3, F6, or F1.

 

DO NOT rename table to Antar.vpx

 

REASON: Antar.vbs is the name of a deprecated machine translation.

 

It will cause the table to load that instead of the table's script and the table will never run

 

@Bigus1

change this line as follows (line 16)

LoadVPM "01560000", "Play2.vbs", 3.32

@Everyone else
You can probably safely go in your scripts folder and rename antar.vbs to antar.vbs.deprecated, IF you make sure any antar table you use uses the Play2.vbs machine translation, in case you use any old vp9 versions etc.

 

And before anyone asks
No, best i can tell, the upper left flipper in antar is not wired as a staged flipper

[Itchigo]

This is what I get with 10.72 and 10.8.

 

(Edit), I missed Weisshund's post above and renamed the table to Antar..VPX. with no change. I didn't notice I still had the vp9 in that folder, but after I removed it there was no change.

 

Edited by Itchigo, 29 December 2023 - 06:47 PM.

[wiesshund]

Antar..vpx is still probably going to be seen as antar

try rename it Antar(Playmatic).vpx

 

Mind you if you do what i advised above

 

1) change line 16 of the table script as shown

 

2) go in scripts folder and rename antar.vbs to something else, antar,vbs,bak or soemthing

 

It should run for you with 0 conflicts

[Itchigo]

Antar(Playmatic).vpx doesn't seem to help.

 

Line 16 doesn't look right. Do I have the wrong download or something? I also tried to do a find next on LOADVPM, and that's not in the script.

[xenonph]

Antar(Playmatic).vpx doesn't seem to help.

 

Line 16 doesn't look right. Do I have the wrong download or something? I also tried to do a find next on LOADVPM, and that's not in the script.

 

 

 

The table script for this table mod should look like this...

 

[digitalarts]

Hi Itchigo, what YOU see is the "antar.vbs" - it's not the in-game script of the table.vpx!
There is a technique in vpx to load and use an external vbs-script INSTEAD of the normal table script - if there exist a .VBS with same name as the table
So do the hint of Wiesshund, rename the table OR the "antar.vbs"

[Itchigo]

Hi Itchigo, what YOU see is the "antar.vbs" - it's not the in-game script of the table.vpx!
There is a technique in vpx to load and use an external vbs-script INSTEAD of the normal table script - if there exist a .VBS with same name as the table
So do the hint of Wiesshund, rename the table OR the "antar.vbs"

What I posted was in the table itself. I tried renaming the table and backglass, and left the vbs as antar. Then I tried renaming the vbs to the same thing as the table, as well as Antar2.vbs.

 

Xenonph, are you using the vp9 script in the vpx table? Maybe that's what my problem is because neither of my scripts look like that.
 

[xenonph]

 

Hi Itchigo, what YOU see is the "antar.vbs" - it's not the in-game script of the table.vpx!
There is a technique in vpx to load and use an external vbs-script INSTEAD of the normal table script - if there exist a .VBS with same name as the table
So do the hint of Wiesshund, rename the table OR the "antar.vbs"

What I posted was in the table itself. I tried renaming the table and backglass, and left the vbs as antar. Then I tried renaming the vbs to the same thing as the table, as well as Antar2.vbs.

 

Xenonph, are you using the vp9 script in the vpx table? Maybe that's what my problem is because neither of my scripts look like that.
 

 

I just downloaded the table, and then opened the table script, and took a snapshot to show you what the script looks like.

I have not changed anything.

[Itchigo]

The only thing I can think of is I had a bad download. I redownloaded it for the 3rd time, and it finally worked. The one that worked has a script of 511 lines and the first one I downloaded had 97 (which I knew wasn't right unless it had an external script in addition).

 

A big thank you to Weisshund, Digitalarts,, Xenonph, Clyde, and Telmoabff as well as Bigus for converting and upgrading this.

Edited by Itchigo, 29 December 2023 - 11:43 PM.