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[endeemillr]

File Name: Strikes N' Spares Lebowski Mod

File Submitter: endeemillr

File Submitted: 21 May 2023

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME - MOD Tables

Author(s): mfuegemann- VP9
Warbler33 -VPX conversion
endeemillr- lebowski mod
Manufacturer: Gottlieb
Year: 1995
Permission to MOD?: Yes, with approval

Here is the "Other" Strikes N' Spares Lebowski Mod.  This is a Lebowski mod of the Gottleib game to pair with the already excellent Strike AND Spares Lebowski Mod based on the Bally game.  This one is much more a simple bowling game rather than the traditional Bally pinball table.  The Lebowski cast jeers and cheers your rolls.  The game already has a double DMD which PinMAME can handle, but DMDext can not (unless there is a way to tweak it) and I added a third DMD just to see if I could! Also the silverballs have been replaced by multicolored bowling balls.
 
To get this game to work, you must,
Place the music, nvram, and cfg files in the appropriate folders
Hit f1 if needed and enable the DMD and disable external DMD.
 
The nvram is needed to play the game. The cfg file silences the ROM's background music and cheers for Strikes, which I have replaced.  Delete the cfg file if you ever want to play the regular game normally.
 
Known bugs. In this and the the original vpx conversion on my underpowered machine, there is a memory leak that makes the game unplayable after about 40 frames of bowling, and I have to restart the table to keep playing. I don't understand why the game keeps killing and regenerating balls the way it does, but there is an option in the script to reduce extra balls, and keeping it at 1 keeps the game playable for me up to 40 frames. I would love it if anyone had ideas how I can fix this! I am still a beginner programmer here fumbling my way through the process!

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[nateynatenate99]

When I updated to the latest VPinMame, it seems the .cfg file no longer mutes the original table music and callouts. I have tried redownloading and replacing the cfg file but I still have the same issue. Is this unique to me? Anyone else? Anyone have any ideas? I love this table and the replacement music and callouts. I can just mute the rom, but then I lose the bowling sound effects. It worked fine with my previous version of VPinMame.

[endeemillr]

I don't know if you're still struggling, but I think the way you mute the rom music and keep the other sounds is by clicking on the pinmame dmd and pushing the tilde key "~". Then you use the arrow keys to cycle through the audio channels and lower one of them to nothing. Can't remember which one, but you'll find it.