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[htamas]

What exactly is the difference between the "unofficial" 501 and other ROMs (such as 500) ?

[adamstillman]

What exactly is the difference between the "unofficial" 501 and other ROMs (such as 500) ?

https://www.pinballcode.com/hook501

[iaakki]

 

 

@javier1515

Hey @Javier, i recently stumbled upon the nFozzy physics tutorial and have been implementing it on my favorite tables including Hook. All the posts and sleeves are hooked up to his dampening filters and the flippers can do live catches and are much more sensitive for tap passes.  I also made a few more modifications:

 

1. I baked out an ambient occlusion shadow layer and multiplied it over the top of the recently updated playfield. (I left the unshadowed playfield in the image manager.)

 

2. I added the flipper sounds and routines from Theater of Magic 2.0 and new ball rolling and rubber hit sounds.

 

3. This is the big one: I Edited the soundtrack and extended soundtrack for Hook and replaced all the music from the Hook Sound mode 1 audio folder that’s available. There’s quite a few hand crafted loops and some layered call outs but for the most part I left the call outs alone. This goes in the ‘alt sound’ folder with Rom set to sound mode 1.

 

Anyway here is the link if you decide to include any of what I’ve done. No worries if not. I’m looking forward to the next release!
 

 

 

A while ago, I had implemented those physics and other details, but I never finished the work.

I have many tables with unfinished adjustments like this, but due to my father's failure recently I have spent much of my work in VP.

 

Little by little I am going back to my previous live rhythm and I will begin to finish these updates and new projects.

 

Thank you very much for your work.

 

 

Hope you are doing good Javier? Me and Benji have been working with updating insert lights for various tables. Just thinking could we do the same upgrade for The Hook too? It has made huge improvement on how the tables look and Hook would improve a lot by this. We have a Discord server where we collaborate on these updates, DM if you want an invite. I wish we could help you with your work.