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[Rick2006]

I play this Pinball Table as Michael Schumacher.

It is the only "Stand Alone" VP table that I Know of.

Often ranked as one of the BEST VP TABLES.

Find it and play it if you can.

[tiltjlp]

I play this Pinball Table as Michael Schumacher.

It is the only "Stand Alone" VP table that I Know of.

Often ranked as one of the BEST VP TABLES.

Find it and play it if you can.

When it first came out, I played it twice and deleted it. It just wasn't my cup of tea. The fact that it's standalone wore off quickly when I saw that it didn't play that great. It may look nice, but after two games it bored me. I don't see why there's all this fuss about one table, which I always thought was overrated.

[faralos]

I am on the fence on its game play as it so resembles high speed but it is the fact that it is a stand alone that threw me! I was kind of hoping to be able to input its code into a wip to get it to run as a stand alone but nogo. that code is way beyond me! That is the reason it is special to me NOT its game play o ranything... but it still is a nice table considering it was made years ago!

[haggi]

I remembered this table and found it here.

I thought it was really great back then.

Unfortunately it is not displayed correctly under Win10.

 

After the start I can play but the graphics and sound don't load properly

 

 

Is there any way to get it to work properly on Win10?

 

haggi

[chepas]

I remembered this table and found it here.

I thought it was really great back then.

Unfortunately it is not displayed correctly under Win10.

 

After the start I can play but the graphics and sound don't load properly

 

 

Is there any way to get it to work properly on Win10?

 

haggi

 

Nice for bringing this up, never seen this before. It's Giving me ideas.

 

Packing that into VPPlayer is actually genius BUT the physics suck so bad so it would be nice to update that, so basically unplayable, piece of history.

 

Graphically it's still very nice, layout's good, sound, and this is almost 20 years on, so at the time this must have looked great.

 

 

The only thing I can help with is to say that it does work on Windows 10  (windowed and fullscreen). I didn't have to do anything special, just ran it and was fine.

 

[jpsalas]

Yes, that table looked very good at that time, as also did many other tables by other authors

[toxie]

So who tackles the port to VPX then?

[xenonph]

Also I think this table came as an All-In-One table that did not need Visual Pinball Installed or PinMAME.

It ran right out of the box, with no installs of anything.

[wiesshund]

So who tackles the port to VPX then?

How does one get the embedded table out of the stand alone VP that more resembles FP?

 

actually, if you look at it in a hex editor, it looks a lot like fp

[Shockman]

F1. That as far as I know is the entirety of VP7 and a part of the R/D of Future Pinball.

[haggi]

I found the reason why F1 didn't work properly for me.

After removing the VPReg.stg file, the table created a new one.

Everything is running now.


Thanks for the help.

[Shockman]

We are in our own realm here. We do not compete or leach revenue from anyone. Music is the number one filer of claims, but their claims are for loss of revenue. Gottlieb most likely won by just asking with maybe a hint of legal action (i doubt it). A case they had no chance of winning in court. For one the statute of limitations had run out and for another none of us ever recreated a pinball machine. I once crashed Ford into a Chevy showroom and bought a Chevy to drive out. Cool story. It was in a video game called Test Drive. Oh. Not the same thing is it. It would match the claimants story in a judges mind though, going after a video game for stealing from real life.

 

If I was worried, I would be worried about the companies that paid for rights to produce video games based on pinball (a cold description of what we do) for profit. Especially the ones that bought exclusives. Worried that they might sue, but not worried they would win. (I guess that is assuming competent lawyers)  I would sue (if it was me) the pinball asset holder that I paid the exclusive for and out of court of course settle for no less from them than to have them mitigate the damages.  No one else in a thousand years. Not music, not film or likeness, certainly not anyone that makes mechanical things.

 

I also doubt that F1 made a claim against Black's F1 table as he says. That would not make sense. Him pulling it did. It was not just F1 that was pulled remember, it was also VP7. Given how things developed at the time the ending was predictable.

[Shockman]

Also I think this table came as an All-In-One table that did not need Visual Pinball Installed or PinMAME.

It ran right out of the box, with no installs of anything.

I suspect that the editor was never stripped out. I believe it merely did what any low level hacker with a smattering of C++ understanding could do with every version of VP there ever was. Not that Black was that. At least the VP Player was in there. It hauled a lot on its back that it would not have need for with an installation of VP7 if it was structured so, which was expected.

Edited by Shockman, 13 May 2021 - 08:00 AM.

[Karlor]

Looks like a cool table would love a cool F1 theme table..

Also kinda makes me sad seeing Schumacher.. what shit way for a champ to go out

[xenonph]

Hard to believe this table is 18 years old!!

Notice the Ogg music format!!

 

Here is what the text file says that comes with the table...

 

F1 - © 2003 Black (Chris Leathley) & Stein Design (Matt Ellis)

Release: 1.3 (20th January 2003)

F1 uses the Visual Pinball core by Randy Davis and Chris Leathley © 2003

** F1 For Visual Pinball is in no way authorised by any official F1 or FIA party **
**     and is a game designed for free by F1 Fans for other Pinball/F1 Fans      **
**            All trademarks are copyright by their respective owners            **

F1 Web Page: http://members.iinet.../~cleathley/f1/

Visit www.vpforums.com for news on Visual Pinball and more pinball tables.



Setup Instructions..
--------------------

The F1.zip contains the following files

F1_VPinball.exe    - The Main Table Executable
F1_GfxPak.vpl    - Contains all the Graphics
F1_MusicPak.vpl    - Contains all the Music (Ogg format)
F1_SoundPak.vpl    - Contains all the Sounds
fmod.dll    - Required dll for Player (www.fmod.org)
VPReg.stg    - NvRam (Non Volitile Ram) file

Just extract them into a directory (of your choosing) or into the VP directory.  
To Run F1, double click on the executable.  Make sure all the files are together..

All High Scores are stored in the VPReg.Stg file..  

You can select you video screen mode while the game is running.  Pause the game and select
video options.  You must exit and restart F1 before the changes take effect.



F1 - Instructions / Rule set..
------------------------------


Keys
----

Left Shift - Left Flippers
Right Shift - Right Flipper
Enter - Fire Plunger
Space - Nudge Forward
Z - Nudge Left
/ - Nudge Right
ESC - Pause / Change Video mode / Exit Game
5 - to Insert Coin
1 - to Start, press 1 again to start 2 player game
End - to Open Coin Door
7 - Service / Menu ESC
8 - Volume Down / Menu Previous (Decrement)
9 - Volume Up / Menu Next (Increment)
0 - Operator Menu / Menu Enter
Home - Slam Tilt (table reset)
T - Bang Back

Before first ball is played, choose your Driver with left and right
flippers.

You can change game play via operator menus as per any standard
Williams System 11 Game.  To Do this First Open the Coin Door (END)
and Press Operator Menu (0).  Use Menu Next (8) / Previous (9) to
navigate the menus.  Press Menu Enter (0) to select a menu item and
next/previous to adjust it.  Press Menu Enter again (0) to commit
change.  Press menu ESC (7) twice to exit Operator Menu.  Close
the coin door and enjoy the new settings.

Easy Difficulty will enable Kickbacks on each ball and increase all
timers by 20%..   Hard difficulty will reduce all timers by 10%


** Rules **


Objective
---------
You must overtake 6 cars to Win the race (thus reaching
position 1). Each car must be overtaken at least once.

Overtaking car increments Bumper Jet Multiplier

Position 1 in 3 Ball Multiball - double all points and awards


T-Car (Ball Save)
-----------------
Left and Right T-Cars are enabled for First Ball

F1 Drop Targets Lights Left T-Car Enable

Left T-Car enable re-instates Left T-Car (Ball Save)

Pit Target Lights Right T-Car Enable

Right T-Car enable re-instates Right T-Car (Ball Save)


Multiplier
----------
F-U-E-L Lanes advance Multiplier

Multiplier Value Spins Ball in Top Right Ramp

5X Also lights Bumper 5K Bonus
6X Also lights Extra-Ball


2 Ball Mutli-Ball
-----------------
W.I.N Drop Targets Lights Race Letter

R.A.C.E Enables 2 Ball Multi-Ball (Head to Head Race)

2 Ball MultiBall - Bumper 5k Bonus and 50K Lights Lit

Advances Jackpot Award while in Multi-Ball Mode

W.I.N Drop Targets award 250,000 in Multi-Ball


3/4 Ball Multi-Ball
-------------------
Formula must be completed.. (First time can be in any order,
second time must be done in order)

F - F1 Targets Down
O - Overtake Left Car
R - 2 Successive Laps on Left Ramp
M - Win Targets Down
U - Perform a Turbo Loop
L - Pit
A - Overtake Right Bottom Car

Pit enabled after 5 laps and doubles after that (ie 10, 20 etc..)
(enabled for 30 seconds after first pit)

Completing Formula, Enables 'Open' Target

Hitting Open Target, Enables Top Lock and Raises Ramp

Locking Ball in Top Lock enables 3 Ball Multi-Ball.

If in position 1, then 4 ball Multi-Ball is awarded

3/4 Ball MultiBall - Jackpot Lit, Extra Ball Lit,
Bumper 5K Bonus Lit, 50K Lit, Jet Bonus at Maximum,
6X Multiplier, Pit Lit, Everything is lit

Advances Jackpot Award while in Multi-Ball Mode,
Jackpot Max of 6 Million

Completing R.A.C.E scores 1 million

Pit for 1 million

Position 1 doubles all points and awards.  Position lost
at end of Multi-Ball


Loop Combo
----------
Hit Ball around either right Car loops or left ball eject
enables Loop

Achieving loop (via top right flipper) awards loop combo bonus
and increments Bumper Jet Multiplier


Bumper Diverter
---------------
Bumper Diverter is enabled for a short period after shooting the
pitlane. Hold down right flipper to divert into the
multiplier/bumper area.


Bonus
-----
Bonus Awarded for each Lap and Loop Combo and
Multiplied my Multiplier

Points awarded for Position


Miscellaneous
-------------
Successive Laps Enables EB.  Grows with Each EB Awards

Bumper Bonus - High Points awards for Bumpers

Left Lock will hold Ball for 2 seconds during 3 Ball Mutli-Ball

Ball Save (Restart) temporarily enabled for start of each
new ball

Drive thru Pit lights Bumper Bonus enable

Left Thru Lane enabled Bumber 5K Award (if Bumper Bonus
enable lit)

Bumber award mulitplied by Jet Multiplier


Second Chance
-------------
Enabled (50% chance) on Last ball if player hasn't been
awarded a Mutli-Ball (either 2 or 3)

Enables 2 Ball Mutli-Ball (kickback must be active)



** F1 Credits **
----------------
"Formula One", "Formula 1", "F1" and
"FIA Formula One World Championship"
(together with their foreign translations and permutations)
are trademarks of the Formula One group of companies.

* This game is in no way authorised by any official F1 or FIA
party. All trademarks are copyright by their respective owners *

Voice: Murray Walker and Martin Blundle

Game Music: Philip Morris, Music Manager
            Mike Clarke, In-Game Music
            Stuart Ellis, Lead Guitar
            Recorded at Sound Company London

Attract music: Is from Grand Prix 4 by MicroProse (I think as
downloaded it from the Net many months before the game
was released)

[chepas]

So who tackles the port to VPX then?