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[batch]

File Name: Panthera

File Submitter: batch

File Submitted: 25 May 2015

File Category: VP/VPinMAME 9.x - MOD Tables

Author(s): JP Salas (Original table PANTHERA 5.1 VP8)

SERPIKO
Manufacturer: Gottlieb
Year: 1980
ROM: Link to ROM
Permission to MOD?: Yes, with approval

1.1 : changed table ratio  (Y Scale = 1.3 x X Scale) thanks to StevOz for the information
 
 
1.0 : This is a DT version of Gottlieb's Panthera with permission from JP Salas and Serpiko
 
I did a new Apron, cleaned the playfield and plastics and added a "look like" Night MOD effect
 
And I did a new backdrop using a backglass image
 
I too join a file with alternate versions of Apron

Click here to download this file

[jpsalas]

I see the animation of the bumper rings is wrong. And before someone says that it is because the rings (which are made with walls) have their Top Height lower than their Bottom Height, that's right. That's how we made a wall "non collidable" in those days

 

Now the ring animation is longer than needed. It starts by showing the lowest ring, move up and then down again (!?). So this part of the script (starting at line 273):

 

Sub Bumper1_Hit:vpmTimer.PulseSw 24:playsound "bumperg2":Bump1 = 0:Bumper1.TimerEnabled = 1:Bumper1_Timer:End Sub
Sub Bumper1_Timer
    Select Case Bump1
        Case 0:Ring1a.IsDropped = 0:Ring1b.IsDropped = 1:Ring1c.IsDropped = 1
        Case 1:Ring1a.IsDropped = 1:Ring1b.IsDropped = 0
        Case 2:Ring1b.IsDropped = 1:Ring1c.IsDropped = 0
        Case 3:Ring1c.IsDropped = 1:Ring1b.IsDropped = 0
        Case 4:Ring1b.IsDropped = 1:Ring1a.IsDropped = 0
        Case 5:Ring1a.IsDropped = 1:Bumper1.TimerEnabled = 0
    End Select

    Bump1 = Bump1 + 1
End Sub
Sub Bumper2_Hit:vpmTimer.PulseSw 24:playsound "bumperg2":Bump2 = 0:Bumper2.TimerEnabled = 1:Bumper2_Timer:End Sub
Sub Bumper2_Timer
    Select Case Bump2
        Case 0:Ring2a.IsDropped = 0:Ring2b.IsDropped = 1:Ring2c.IsDropped = 1
        Case 1:Ring2a.IsDropped = 1:Ring2b.IsDropped = 0
        Case 2:Ring2b.IsDropped = 1:Ring2c.IsDropped = 0
        Case 3:Ring2c.IsDropped = 1:Ring2b.IsDropped = 0
        Case 4:Ring2b.IsDropped = 1:Ring2a.IsDropped = 0
        Case 5:Ring2a.IsDropped = 1:Bumper2.TimerEnabled = 0
    End Select

    Bump2 = Bump2 + 1
End Sub

 

Could be replaced with my original script for animating those rings:

 

 Sub Bumper1_Hit:vpmTimer.PulseSw 24:PlaySound "bumper":bump1=1:Me.TimerEnabled=1:End Sub
 Sub Bumper1_Timer()
    Select Case bump1
       Case 1:Ring1a.IsDropped=0:bump1=2
       Case 2:Ring1b.IsDropped=0:Ring1a.IsDropped=1:bump1=3
       Case 3:Ring1c.IsDropped=0:Ring1b.IsDropped=1:bump1=4
       Case 4:Ring1c.IsDropped=1:Me.TimerEnabled=0
    End Select
 End Sub
 
 Sub Bumper2_Hit:vpmTimer.PulseSw 24:PlaySound "bumper":bump2=1:Me.TimerEnabled=1:End Sub
 Sub Bumper2_Timer()
    Select Case bump2
       Case 1:Ring2a.IsDropped=0:bump2=2
       Case 2:Ring2b.IsDropped=0:Ring2a.IsDropped=1:bump2=3
       Case 3:Ring2c.IsDropped=0:Ring2b.IsDropped=1:bump2=4
       Case 4:Ring2c.IsDropped=1:Me.TimerEnabled=0
    End Select
 End Sub

 

Nice work on the desktop wallpaper

 

Greetings

JP

[batch]

Thanks for the information, JP

 

I'll try it a little bit later because now I have to go to sleep

 

It's the change of hour in France

[hauntfreaks]

you guys to that dumb daylight savings crap too?... i'm on the east coast of the US and we do it as well....  

 

oh great DT mod!

[jpsalas]

Yes, we do the same thing in Norway. I too should like to sleep, but I got a terrible cold and I have been coughing for a week now. I hope the penicillin will kill those streptococcus soon

 

This is one of my older tables that I never updated to VP9, so thanks again Serpiko, and Batch for the desktop version.

[batch]

You're welcome, JP, and take care of yourself !

 

I can't remember if I told you, but I've had this pinball in the real life when I was a young man

 

But it's been a long time, a long, long, long, long, long ti-ime

 

And thanks for the information about the change of hour, Hauntfreaks

 

I didn't think it was a worldwide problem !