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[Sindbad]

File Name: Buck Rogers (Gottlieb 1980) (VP9.9 DX9 FS)

File Submitter: Sindbad

File Submitted: 02 Sep 2014

File Category: VP 9.x Cabinet Tables (FULL SCREEN)

Author(s): Sindbad
dboyrecords
Manufacturer: Gottlieb
Year: 1980
ROM: Link to ROM
Media Pack: Link to Media Pack
Permission to MOD?: Yes, without approval

Buck Rogers by Gottlieb (1980)
 
Thanks for being patient. It tooks two more days to bring this one to an end. So here it is, the Buck Rogers FS table (desktop version will follow tomorrow). First of all: I'd like to thank the whole testing crew: The Loafer, Shadowsclassic, Arngrim, dboyrecords, naboodiver, gtxjoe, ICPjuggla and Fuzzel. Without those guys it wouldn't have been gone that fast. Do you remember, in my first WIP post I promised the release for end of September...
 
So please take the time and read this before contacting me: This table needs VP9.9 in order to work correct. There's no right slingshot - yes, there is one, but without an active shoot-back- functionality. This is also on the original table, I tried to come as near as possible to the original. Please turn on sound (not tone) in the sound settings of the option menu (via F6). Otherwise the table does awful ding-dong-ding sound. You might find some bugs (as my tables always had in the past). If you find some abnormal behavior, please contact me and I'll fix it. Releasing the table doesn't mean "It's done and that's it".
 
 
Credits go to:

Shadowsclassic, Naboodiver, Arngrim, dboyrecords, Fuzzel, The Loafer, gtxjoe, ICPjuggla: Thanks for all the testing
Luvthatapex: DIP switch routines
JPSalas: Lamp routines, flash routines, some sounds
Koadic: Plunger code and images
Noah: nudging routines
mfuegemann : sound routine
Uncle Willy: primitives and templates for bumpers, posts, slingshots
Zany: primitives (screws and stuff)
The Hunter: Thanks mfor the pics
all others: Thanks for keeping the hobby alive.
 
Permission to mod: Yes, absolutely - no permission required for using all resources of this table for whatever
 
Final thanks to dboyrecords, who's done the VP8-to-VP9 conversion and who encouraged me to build this table
 

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[BobAlbright]

Thanks for the table---The table runs for me, but I get a couple errors when it loads up.---One of them being about the gts. vbs. Another something about pinmame. I DO have the latest 3.43 vbs files too.

[The Loafer]

Hi Bob, can you be more specific on the error messages?

Edited by The Loafer, 03 September 2014 - 12:57 AM.

[Shadowsclassic]

I know you need the gts1.vbs in the folder you have the tables in. When I setup the night version in the nightMODs directory I had to copy the gts1.vbs to that directory before it would run.

Don't know about the pinMAME had no issues there.

[randr]

Am I only one that can't get to download?

[LoadedWeapon]

no i can't download it either..

[The Loafer]

I cannot download either, probably needs approval.  Not sure though how it could have been available first though.

[open6l]

Worked fine for me. Had to change the vpinmame.controller to b2s.server (as usual for db2s). Leaving it with vpinmame (static backglass) gave me errors during launch.

[sammyvee]

Any updates on why we can't download this table?  Thanks.

[german]

BUCK ROGER FUE FABRICADO POR Gottlieb Y NO POR BALLY, SALUDOS A TODOS

BUCK ROGER FUE FABRICADO POR Gottlieb Y NO POR BALLY, SALUDOS A TODOS

BUCK ROGERS IS GOTTLIEB'S  1980 ,NOT BALLY

[dazzadasha]

Yeah- maybe admin pulled it cause of Bally/Gottlieb error ???

just a thought.

[Sindbad]

Yep, that happens when working on two tables at the same time...

 

The last days I was working on Truck Stop, that's Bally. Sorry for that inattention.

... download works now ...

[dazzadasha]

Well I supoooose we'll forgive ya.

Wicked table. Thanks a lot.

[Sindbad]

... and now found the root cause for the problem with "gts1.vbs". I will upload a new version in a few minutes.

[Sindbad]

... just uploaded a new version. Maybe it takes some time until it's available. 

 

The table has the ability to switch between day and night during game play. Reason for the reported problem was that I forgot to disable the switch when no controller is active. B2S.Server ignores that error, VPinMAME not. Sorry once more...

[mkl66]

Hi Sindbad,

since I have all my vbs scripts in a separate script directory and not in the same as the tables, the method OpenTextFile will always throw errors in my case.

To prevent this kind of error I alway replace this kind of methods by simply replacing the complex line

   ExecuteGlobal CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject").OpenTextFile(VBSfile, 1).ReadAll

by

   ExecuteGlobal GetTextFile(VBSfile)

 

Hope this will help you

[Sindbad]

mkl66,

 

that was not the problem in this case, but Thanks for this info. I'll use it in the next table.

[zany]

Wow....look and plays amazing!

I would love to se more of these oldies comming!

And thanx for the cred!

[BobAlbright]

Got it working properly Thanks Sindbad

[kruge99]

I've rotated the table for desktop mode and the pop bumper caps did not render properly under VP 9.2.1 - is this table supposed to support 9.2.1 because the description says 9.x so maybe it should show 9.9.x instead?

 

 

Best Regards,

Todd.

 

Edit: confirmed - graphic corruption of bumper caps is fixed when using Vpinball 9.9.0

Edited by kruge99, 03 September 2014 - 08:01 PM.