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[Mustang1961]

File Name: Freedom EM (Bally 1976)

File Submitter: Mustang1961

File Submitted: 24 Jul 2022

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME Recreations

Author(s): Loserman76
Allknowing2012
Hauntfreaks
WRD1972
Leeoneil
Manufacturer: Bally
Year: 1976
Permission to MOD?: Unspecified

Initial announcement from Jeff:
 
Freedom (EM Version) (Bally 1976)
https://www.ipdb.org...hine.cgi?id=952
 
This is the EM version of Freedom. There are some minor differences in gameplay (one being the center star target scores 40 points and moves the pointer 4 steps)
 
using Allknowing2012's SS table, WRD1972 did some physics tweaks and then I scripted it using my code templates.
New B2S EM backglass image provided by WRD1972
 
My view on Freedom:
I played the game 2015 the last time at an exhibition in Wolfsburg, Germany. All games shown were property of the Pacific Pinball Museum. They had both version on the show, EM and SS in transparent housings. I'll never forget that.
 
Today I offer "our" (Leeoneil improved the graphics and the DOF code) version 1.0b:
 
- all lights are adjusted in color temperature and brightness
- delayed new ball release, now the bonus counts to its end before the reel illumination changes 
- improved ball and ball position in the plunger lane (different plunger sound with or without ball)
- many new (nearly all) sounds e.g. gates, stand up targets, drop targets, kicker holes ....
- new game physics - cab optimized
- new POV for cab users
- rolling ball sound level switched on and adjusted -> Leeoneil with support of Thalamus (thank you!)
- slight corrections on all lights to realize the "bulb" effects at indicator lights 
- slight flipper fingers geometry corrections 
- switch levers at spinners added, the black misplaced one at left spinner removed
- the plastics illumination stays always on (the original behavior of all Bally EMs)
- the screws are now on the bumper caps in the right positions
- the kicker holes arms reject now much faster, I added a second time for this sequence
 
UPDATE version 1.0c:
 
Playfield
 
- further tuned physic (cab optimized), skill / luck ratio 50:50 
- all object sounds now in operation
- both spinners with animated rods
 
Backglass
 
- rolling score reels with improved aspect ratio, more "Bally- looking"
- big snippits for the decorations avoids overexposure at color edges
- 8 snippits for an improved player up - and can play - indication
- score memory: when you leave the table and reload it the score of the previous use will be indicated
-> attention: I changed the nv ram concept in order to implement this functionality, if you have still a nv ram in the user- folder delete it or replace it with the nv ram you find in the zip file (it is the Freedom_76VPX.txt), otherwise the table will crash when loading the 1st time.
- thanks to Jeff's provident script is was easier than I thought to synchronize sound and reset action of the reels
- no click sounds from the BG anymore, no interference between BG and game sounds
-> thanks to Jarr3 for his sound removal tool for BGs
- ZIP contains game, BG file, Freedom_76VPX.txt,  BG- and PF- pics for cab users
 

All this in kind tribute to Jeff Whitehead. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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[TallaNasty312]

This is an absolute godsend for me. Thanks for the much improved Freedom release!

[STAT]

wow what is Picture 3 exactly, soo much Hardware i have never seen in a Cab ;-) ?

[htamas]

I played this same machine (the EM in transparent cabinet) as well... Pacific Pinball Museum is about 45 minutes away from here 

[allknowing2012]

Thanks for the update .. I was looking at that in my cab thinking it needed an update.

[FredX]

Tonight I played the transparent cabinet at Pacific Pinball Museum.
It's actually more fun to watch someone else playing so you can see all the mechanics firing.

[djredick]

@Mustang1961, would you consider doing the Early Production model, as seen here? ->>> https://www.ipdb.org...952&picno=17145

 

One exists for VP8 (screenshot attached), but does not look like that it was made with the best of resources.

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[PEandS1Ws]

I updated the backglass image if you want to use it. https://mega.nz/file...CTILCEzELWb2ZXo