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[kristian]

Solar Fire



Version: 2.3
Category: VPinMAME 9.x Recreations

Author(s): Kristian, Destruk

Description:
Solar Fire 2.3 VP9 Fix
Fixed the instruction cards transparency glitch for VP9.

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Submitted by kristian, on Feb 3 2009, 10:21 AM

Edited by kristian, 05 February 2009 - 11:14 AM.

[humid]

When ball drops from the upper playfield down center ramp the rubber on the left side at the bottom of ramp kicks the ball into the right drain. Went and checked VP8 version and found no interference on center ramp shots.

[kristian]

The trigger9 caused that...I'm not sure what was the original purpose of that trigger on the ramp.... maybe Brian remembers....but I commented it from the script for now....at least temporarily...I doubt it affects anything significant....weird... anyway...redownload.

PS: I really appreciate these reports...we'll get them all fully working....I'll take a look at Defender as soon as I can. Brian checks Jungle Lord as it has some weird problems with VP9.

PS2: Back when this was released I was especially proud of this one....me and Brian constructed this from virtually ZERO resources. There was no playfield image at all...I just twisted, turned and repainted the playfield and apron from extremely angled shots.

Edited by kristian, 05 February 2009 - 11:41 AM.

[humid]

Glad to be of help with all these tables from my era. You are a very patient artist to have created this masterpiece the way you described Kristian. It's great having so many VP9 conversions so quickly.

[Hansaplast]

PS2: Back when this was released I was especially proud of this one....me and Brian constructed this from virtually ZERO resources. There was no playfield image at all...I just twisted, turned and repainted the playfield and apron from extremely angled shots.

Your fine vpm-version of this Williams masterpiece drove me to buy one.
What Medival Madness is for the DMD-area, is Pharaoh for the early electronics generation.
Massive respect to the ladies that wired the ultra complex playfield-undersite of this feature-monster.
A machine its time way ahead.

Edited by Hansaplast, 06 February 2009 - 02:17 AM.

[kristian]

Thanks guys....I agree that Solar Fire and Pharaoh are excellent, underrated tables...but it was Black Knight which was the first truly revolutionary pinball (of this era).

Just think about it...magnasave, double playfield, magnets, timer droptargets, multiball and utterly amazing artwork and scary sounds on top of that....I would say it was the TZ of solid state era....for me TZ is the king of all machines....of course I appreciate MM as a masterpiece, but in my book it doesn't quite match the utter brilliance of ToM and TZ.

I would say that BK and TZ are the most revolutionary pinballs of the electronic era. Pharaoh and Solar Fire are a lot like The Shadow...highly underrated machines that were all based on the "Big One".

PS: Brian fixed Jungle Lord and it's ready for VP9...I wonder what would the VP community do without him....!! Will upload tomorrow...!!

Edited by kristian, 06 February 2009 - 03:29 AM.

[humid]

I was still having the problem, so I checked the script and saw a line with trigger 9 mentioned. I changed the 9 to an 8 and that worked for me. Now the ball hits that post on the left side of the center ramp with no ill effect.

[kristian]

But I commented the trigger9 completely off in my update and put an apostrophe in front of these lines....it shouldn't affect anything anymore....did you download the latest?

'Sub Trigger9_Hit
'Set MyBall=ActiveBall
'If MyBall.VelY>0 Then
'MyBall.VelX=MyBall.VelX+.5
'End If
'End Sub

[humid]

Sorry, thought I had the updated table Kristian, my mistake. New version is working fine now.

[kristian]

Cool....so now it's only Defender left....all others work. Not bad...considering how many tables got updated in 2 days.