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[cyberpez]

File Name: The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (Data East 1993) 1.0

File Submitter: cyberpez

File Submitted: 20 Sep 2019

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME Recreations

Author(s): cyberpez
Manufacturer: Data East
Year: 1993
ROM: Link to ROM
Permission to MOD?: Yes, without approval

 

It's Showtime!!!!
 
This is one of my favorite tables for sure.  It has everything I love about pinball!!  Crazy ramps, great callouts and sounds, a great light show and a theme of one of my favorite shows.  Nothing up my sleeve....  presto............ The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Fiends.  
 
I'm finally calling this one done enough (for now).  I've been working on this off and on since the VPX beta days.  Pretty much 5 years now.  O_O  For those looking to get into VP table authoring, this is not the table to try and cut your teeth in blender with.  I think I've built and rebuilt about every object 3 times.  (ramps a good 5)  But I'm finally happy enough to share one of my favorite tables with everyone.
 
This was a scratch build.  Playfield I stitched together from some high-res photos I found online.  Plastics are scans from FBX.  Ramp decals, custom sidewalls, and a few other things I redrew myself.  Most all of the 3D models I did myself.  I know there are probably a few from Dark and Zany hiding in there somewhere.  Sliderpoint was a huge help off and on with this build.  He took a ton of pictures of his real machine.  Measured all of his ramps and tweaked the VP ramps to get them just right.  He also took videos of all of the SOL sounds that I edited and used for most all the VP table sounds.  He also helped align and tweak the placements of objects early on.  A while back Wrd came in and fine-tuned the physics.  For what its worth I think it plays great.
 
You will need to use the latest 10.6 version of VPX.  As always, check the top of the script for options!!!!
 
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Credits/Thanks:
 
Me: table build, playfield stitch, ramp decal redraws, ramps, lots of little primitives here and there.
Sliderpoint: Resource pics, ramp and table tweaks.  Big help making this table great!!
Wrd: Physics, playtesting and other tweaks along the way
Roth:  Being a code wizard and for putting up with Wrd and me. Playtesting.
Dark: Different models here and there
FBX: plastic scans.
themotherbrain: testing and feedback
nFozzy: I'm using his new fading lights + a few tweaks by me.
DJRobX: SSF code and thanks to RustyCardores for showing me the way, you can't go back!!  Ball drop tweaks by Roth and me.
Last but not least the developers and other table authors.  This community is nothing without everyone doing their part!!!!!!
 
Victory for the good guys!!
 
-cp

 

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Edited by cyberpez, 23 September 2019 - 01:18 PM.

[cestmoi]

Super Belle !

Merci beaucoup !

[STAT]

Thanks Guys, enjoyned the first Version but cant wait for this and the Color ROM

[bolt]

Great version. Thank you Cyberpez and all involved.

[arngrim]

Thanks cyber for another great vpx release, plays very well
 
one point of improvement, i enlarged the playfield to take more space in the screen, i didn't touch anything else about the pov.

Now, the blue on the sides of the playfield seems pretty basic to me, it should be maybe black or something with more contrast.

or is it possible to have more blue to the point we don't see the black on top of the blue in fullscreen mode?

Here's how it looks on my cab

[Practicedummy]

And FIENDS? Must be a new series lol!

[cyberpez]

And FIENDS? Must be a new series lol!

 

Yeah its the reboot... :S  Fixed it where I could.  That's what I get for blindly copying and pasting at the last minute.

 

@arngrim     ----You could try changing the ZSize for pSidewalls.  2-3 or 4 maybe?  That should change the height of the sidewalls.

[wrd1972]

CP,

IMO the side walls have always been a problem especially when you factor in everyone likes a different POV. I have just seen them do weird things especially if you try to maintain a true 1:1 aspect ratio. I have yet to find a happy medium with them. I am also growing more convinced that maybe the side walls should be done away with in favor of a basic background image that has the wood grain "faked in". This I think would address all of the POV issues with walls I think for everyone. We should give this a shot sometime and see.

[adamstillman]

CP,

IMO the side walls have always been a problem especially when you factor in everyone likes a different POV. I have just seen them do weird things especially if you try to maintain a true 1:1 aspect ratio. I have yet to find a happy medium with them. I am also growing more convinced that maybe the side walls should be done away with in favor of a basic background image that has the wood grain "faked in". This I think would address all of the POV issues with walls I think for everyone. We should give this a shot sometime and see.

i like this idea..

 

regarding this table, the blue sidewalls also didnt look right on my cab,  all i did was make them invisible so now all i have is black on the side,  I think it looks better, in my cab that is..

[BobAlbright]

You guys find this table really hard to get good scores on? I have played it a lot and can’t do squat with it!

[emuoyaji]

This table has a very flashing background.

Is there a way to prevent it from flashing?

If you comment out the 172nd line or the 2687th and 2693th lines, the GI of other parts will not be flushed. 

Is there a way to prevent the background from flashing while the bumper etc. is flashing?

I'm sorry that it is difficult to convey because I use GOOGLE translation.

[cyberpez]

Try commenting out this line.  I think thats what you are talking about?

 

 

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[emuoyaji]

Thank you.

My eyes aren't too tired.

[IlliniDawg01]

You guys find this table really hard to get good scores on? I have played it a lot and cant do squat with it!

One thing I love about VP vs real tables, is that you can tweak them if they are too difficult very easily.
Ways you can make tables easier until you master them:
-Adjust the size of the flippers
-Add a drain save post
-Adjust the entry size to side drain lanes
-Adjust the speed of the table by changing the slope of the playfield.

[WhenLit]

This table is hard maybe because of a slight flipper's lag.
Have you noticed this?