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[jpsalas]

File Name: Solar Wars (Sonic 1986)

File Submitter: jpsalas

File Submitted: 02 Jun 2022

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME Recreations

Author(s): jpsalas
Manufacturer: Other - Pinball
Year: 1986
ROM: Link to ROM
Permission to MOD?: Yes, with approval

Based on the table by Sonic from 1986.
 
Thanks to:
- akiles for the images of the real table
- destruk for parts of the vpinmame script
- inkochnito for the dip switch sub

Click here to download this file

[wiesshund]

Looks cool JP

[teisen]

hey!!!

 

 

JP is inspired!!! may God keep you like this...

 

thank you so much

 

hugs

[bolt]

Very nice, thank you JP.

[akiles50000]

I asked to JPSalas to build the table because I,m the only person that has good pictures of that rare pin of Sonic.

 

https://ibb.co/YcwJGTC

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https://ibb.co/0FxhyCW

 

Teisen and Bolt the minimum is to thank everyone involved because otherwise it would never have been possible to build it.

Edited by akiles50000, 04 June 2022 - 07:45 AM.

[Mrtr32]

Another superb table!

 

Thanks to all involved!

[xenonph]

Another masterpiece preserved for all time!!

Thanks for making this JP!!

Thanks for the great images Akiles!! (If people only knew how much work you actually put into these images, they would be in awe!!)

Thanks Destruk for the PinMAME script!! 

Thanks inkochnito for the dip switch sub!!! (And your great Pinball Cards site!!)

 

Your work is appreciated my friends!!

 

I have not downloaded any new tables for a year, as i have been too busy.

So I have alot of catching up to do!!

 

Carry on.

[STAT]

Thanks JP, Akiles and teisen

[Mike DA Spike]

Thanks All,
really nice table.

Vpinmame doesn't show it correctly on my real DMD, so I used scutters tutorial to change the display from dmddevice.dll to flex DMD

 

Here's how it looks like :

and here's the modified script

@JP,It looks like that the Match feature is not working, although it is enable via F6. 

great work on this table guys !
 

Attached Files

•  Solar Wars (Sonic 1986).zip   10.08KB   2 downloads

Edited by Mike DA Spike, 03 June 2022 - 09:06 AM.

[jpsalas]

About the match feature: it is controlled by the rom, so it is not much I can do. The only thing that can be done is to go thought Inkochnito's dip switch routine in case there is a mistake, but I'm afraid I'm not very good at those routines. But remember that after setting the dip switches, sometimes you need not just to restart vpinmame by pressing F3, but you need to quit VP completely to do stop vpinmame too. And after that things used to work.

 

I have not played much the table, since I finish it very quickly before I went to Mallorca, and I just have arrived there I love being retired, although the money runs away faster than a speeding bullet Anyway we live only once Now I guess I'll have some more time to play the table and see if there are any bugs or something to change. I have  used my new flipper settings for this table, which I also used in Lap by Lap, and they are different to the settings I used i my "arcade physics". I think they are better now (this remind me of Microsoft when they say "this new OS is the most secure ever...", hahaha

[digitalarts]

Hi JP,
Have a nice time in Mallorca! I was some time ago in Cala'dor, Sa Coma and Alcudia... Very nice Island!
Refresh your mind, your physics and just relax. We gently awaiting great new tables ☺️

Karl (from rainy Bavaria)

[jpsalas]

Hi JP,
Have a nice time in Mallorca! I was some time ago in Cala'dor, Sa Coma and Alcudia... Very nice Island!
Refresh your mind, your physics and just relax. We gently awaiting great new tables ☺️

Karl (from rainy Bavaria)

 

Thanks! I was born in Mallorca so I know those places you mention Yes, Mallorca is a nice island.

[batch]

Thanks to all involved in this nice recreation

 

I've been away from this hobby for months and I think I'm a bit late with my VP10.7 version

 

When I open this table, I get this error message

 

 

Where can I get this version (10.72) ?

 

On GitHub, the last version is VPinballX-10.7.1-187-ebe5596-Release-win-x86

Edited by batch, 06 June 2022 - 12:41 PM.

[wiesshund]

Thanks to all involved in this nice recreation

 

I've been away from this hobby for months and I think I'm a bit late with my VP10.7 version

 

When I open this table, I get this error message

 

 

Where can I get this version (10.72) ?

 

On GitHub, the last version is VPinballX-10.7.1-187-ebe5596-Release-win-x86

Just re-save the table if you have 10.7.1, there is no 10.7.2
think vpx needs the version number to reflect more accurately 
not quite sure what equated to 10.72 version wise

Edited by wiesshund, 06 June 2022 - 01:18 PM.

[jpsalas]

UPDATE

 

4.0.0 Updated 06.11.2022

- Updated to my VPX7 physics

- Some small script updates, like the Rolling sound, Fading Lights and PlaySoundAt routines.

- cleaned up and deleted unused graphics & reduced the size of the table

 

The physics were almost the same in this table as the v4 physics, so actually I just replaced a few parts of the script and reduced the size of the table, but converting the png's  with webp's.

[Mike DA Spike]

Thanks All,
really nice table.

Vpinmame doesn't show it correctly on my real DMD, so I used scutters tutorial to change the display from dmddevice.dll to flex DMD

 

Here's how it looks like :

and here's the modified script

@JP,It looks like that the Match feature is not working, although it is enable via F6. 

great work on this table guys !
 

 

Here's my Flex DMD version of this table.

 

Just add the VBS to your table directory (and make sure it matches the same name as the table)
By default Flex DMD is turned on in this script.
 

Attached Files

•  Solar Wars (Sonic 1986) v4.zip   10.17KB   3 downloads

[Mike DA Spike]

About the match feature: it is controlled by the rom, so it is not much I can do. The only thing that can be done is to go thought Inkochnito's dip switch routine in case there is a mistake, but I'm afraid I'm not very good at those routines. But remember that after setting the dip switches, sometimes you need not just to restart vpinmame by pressing F3, but you need to quit VP completely to do stop vpinmame too. And after that things used to work.

I dont have a solution for it, but the dips doesnt works as expected (not caused by inkochnito, but the vbs that translate the hex to the dips switch numbers is not correct for this table.
When I ignore the sub from inkochnito's and use the standard dipswitch menu, and set all dipswitches to off, matching and 5 balls is working (this according to the manual). Setting inkochnito's to match the manual (with hex values from peyper.vbs) doesnt set the correct dipswitch settings.

I dont know how I can find out which hex values should correspond to the 2 dip switch banks. If this is figured out, a new and working dipswitch menu can be created.
For now, the dipswitches definitely not matches the orginal dip numbers in peyper.vbs

To be continued ...

Edited by Mike DA Spike, 09 November 2022 - 12:37 PM.

[wiesshund]

 and use the standard dipswitch menu, and set all dipswitches to off, matching and 5 balls is working 

 

Standard menu from where?

 

the MAME menu?

[Mike DA Spike]

No, the menu from the peyper.vbs (that will show the dipswitch numbers 0-15 (so skipped the fancy inkochnito menu in the normal VBS script)

' Dip Switch / Options Menu
Private Sub peyperShowDips
	If Not IsObject(vpmDips) Then ' First time
		Set vpmDips = New cvpmDips
		With vpmDips
			.AddForm 200,300,"Peyper / Sonic switches"
			.AddFrame 0,0,80,"DIP switches",0,_
			  Array("Dip 0",&H00000800,"Dip 1",&H00000400,"Dip 2",&H00000200,"Dip 3",&H00000100,_
			        "Dip 4",32768,     "Dip 5",&H00004000,"Dip 6",&H00002000,"Dip 7",&H00001000,_
				"Dip 8",&H00000008,"Dip 9",&H00000004,"Dip10",&H00000002,"Dip11",&H00000001,_
			        "Dip12",&H00000080,"Dip13",&H00000040,"Dip14",&H00000020,"Dip15",&H00000010)
		End With
	End If
	vpmDips.ViewDips
End Sub
Set vpmShowDips = GetRef("peyperShowDips")
Private vpmDips