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[Bob5453]

Nice table. Thank you Serpico!

FS settings may vary greatly. Mine below for 16x9, I like the one level playfields to fill the screen.

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Edited by Bob5453, 18 October 2011 - 05:35 PM.

[yukiko1701d]

Nice works!!!
I'm fun at your table.

You are great french creater!

What is next table?
Totem?Hulk???

Edited by yukiko1701d, 18 October 2011 - 05:46 PM.

[jimmyfingers]

Serpiko great work and thank you very much! This is one table I had hoped to see updated so a huge thanks to your efforts and this great recreation. Also, thanks for making it angle independent, which was been a problem for the existing versions of this table (for VP8), and your previoius Joker Poker table as well. This has allowed FS users to realtively easily convert and use.

I absolutley love that you are on a system-1 mission and to me these seem iconic of what I think or remember of pinball growing up in that same genre. These system are good choices too as they seem to be essentially EMs (and most have their EM counterpart as well as the SS) but by being SS they allow for the use of things like pinMAME scripting / development and UVP. These systems have a great median of old meets new and it's a treat that you are tackling them.

One other point or recommendation is that the transparencies around the plastics as you have done them ties up sigificant system resources / performance and there is a technique to do essentially the same that would allow it to run smooth on a larger range of systems. You can see JP's Harlem Globe Trotters or Star Trek from bally, released last winter / spring, where he uses one large ramp PNG image with just the edges drawn for the plastics and that one ramp / image, when placed at the right height and transparency on the table shows nothing else but the edges and has done so by using one ramp with 2 access points.

The performance change is massive and when simply converting your 4 or 5 plastic edges from alpha to solid as a test on my system, the fps went from around 150 to 1000 (with alpha slider all the way to right / full) showing that these very curvey alpha ramps are a big culprit. It also seems like the hit of alpha ramps is a bit higher on Windows 7 system vs. Windows XP which may affect some of the people providing feedback as I think more are on XP than Windows 7

It may be useful for people to know too that a quick performance change is to simply turn one or all of these ramp edges to solid vs. alpha and with the right .png image / VP transparency settings / importing, you may not notice any difference in how the edges look except for when the ball travels underneath.

PM me if you want regarding this stuff as I've had some help from JP when I was modifying some tables for this very aspect of plastic edge transparencies.

Thanks again for all your work

[serpiko]

hi ,

tanks again for you comments.

@yukiko1701d
next table is.......... surprise

@jimmyfingers
I read everything,at least, all translated.
you are right on the alpha ramps,but I still have much to learn.
if you knew how much time I put to run the roto.....
for now,I work at my level.and later I would update.
make a table is very long,achieve perfection,It's very hard.

greetings

[Sabbat]

Serpiko i love this game. I have found some bugs though with the Extra Ball and Special. ABC completed lights extra ball, when you hit the left roto target it does not score the extra ball. When you go down the left drain though that scores the left roto. It will give you your Extra Ball.

However, if you light the extra ball by completing the drop target bank. Hitting the EB on the roto will work as normal and award you one. This same problem happens also with the Special target on the roto.

Edited by Sabbat, 24 October 2011 - 01:58 PM.

[yukiko1701d]

Serpiko i love this game. I have found some bugs though with the Extra Ball and Special. ABC completed lights extra ball, when you hit the left roto target it does not score the extra ball. When you go down the left drain though that scores the left roto. It will give you your Extra Ball.

However, if you light the extra ball by completing the drop target bank. Hitting the EB on the roto will work as normal and award you one. This same problem happens also with the Special target on the roto.

Thanks!sabbat!
I had noticed the same thing...
But in my language skills are not noted...

Mr.serpiko...
Please... As soon as possible, hope for improvement.
I love this table too mach...

Go for it!!!Number one of french creator...

Edited by yukiko1701d, 24 October 2011 - 02:46 PM.

[serpiko]

hello friends

so long ago that I have not played at this game ......

what I remember:

Hit A B C light EB and SPECIAL.
or
Hit 5 drops targets light EB and SPECIAL.

When the star is in left : make EB
When the star is in right: make SPECIAL.

if the EB and SPECIAL is lit,lose by a left drain give EB and lose by right drain give SPECIAL.

here is my new Wip.it is called SPIRIT OF GENIE.
it'a 50% spirit of 76 and 50% genie

[JAM0]

I like Spirit of Genie

[blur]

great table serpiko - i've just tested it yesterday
it looks and feels great! brings back memories when i played it as a kid - i remember rotating star target
it is great recreation, very real

looking forward to other sys1 recreations

[kruge99]

Beautiful recreation! and thanks for the FS tips guys.

Just want to point out there is a spelling mistake in the script that prevents the Pinball Wizard or Nanotech diy plunger from working:

look for line #192 which looks like this:

CODE

        Plungers(AnPlOldPos).WidthBottom = 22:Plungers(AnPlOldPos).WidthTop = 22 'change to the width of the ramps

and change it to look like this

CODE

        Plungers(AnPlNewPos).WidthBottom = 22:Plungers(AnPlNewPos).WidthTop = 22 'change to the width of the ramps

Also, don't forget to put the enable mechanical plunger check mark on the Plunger object or you won't be able to launch the ball.


Best Regards,
Todd.

Edited by kruge99, 04 March 2012 - 08:54 PM.