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[Mustang1961]

File Name: Bow and Arrow (Bally 1975)

File Submitter: Mustang1961

File Submitted: 25 Mar 2024

File Category: VPX/VPinMAME - MOD Tables

Author(s): Goldchicco
Loserman76
JPSalas
Wildman (BG)
Manufacturer: Bally
Year: 1975
Permission to MOD?: Unspecified

Initial announcement from Jeff:
 
This is the EM version based off Goldchicco & JPSalas' Bow And Arrow table. 
Special Thanks to :
Goldchicco for allowing me to create the EM version of this one
JP Salas for the vp9 table used as base for create this one in VPX
@Arestis for redrawing  the plastics.
@Thalamus for the Playfield mesh
@batch for the backdrop image for Desktop users (modified to be EM appropriate)
EM DirectB2S image thanks to Wildman.
I did my best to keep all the goodies Goldchicco has in the SS version:
' Fleep sound package
' Table physics (using nfozzy/roth/fleep guidline)
'  nFozzy flippers physics
' JP's LUT code
 
hopefully I didn't break any of those things when I shoehorned my EM code base into this.
 
All Logos, Copyrights and Trademarks are property of their respective owners.
 
PROVIDED STRICTLY FOR PERSONAL / HOME USE AND NOT FOR COMMERCIAL SALE / RE-SALE OR DISTRIBUTION!
 
My view on Bow and Arrow: This game was the last table Jeff donated us before he passed away. We will never forget his life work for pinball recreation.
 
Here I offer you my version 1.0c with these changes:
 
Playfield
 
- the physic were so perfectly balanced, I saw no need for any change
- new flipper geometry, more Bally- like 
- many new sounds e.g. light- motor, at kicker holes, gate clicks, at drain
- tilt function corrected, now all lights on playfield are switched off
- right bottom side lane "Special"-light assignment corrected
- animated spinner rods plus protective mini posts plus "holes" in playfield added
- spinner light lines are now reset after each ball and tilt
- improved ball and ball position in the plunger lane
- new timing for ball release - now after bonus count ends and 1/3 turn of the score motor
- new POV for cab use
- after switch on and in game over state the plastics illumination stays on (the original behavior of all Bally EMs)
 
Backglass
 
- new aspect ration for the score reels - more Bally- like
- rolling score reels 
- snippits for the game name avoids overexposure at color edges
- supplemented blinking effect for the game name
- 8 snippits for an improved player up - and score reel - indication / illumination
- 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 BowAndArrowEM_74VPX.txt), otherwise the table will crash when loading the 1st time.
 
- 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, nv ram (BowAndArrowEM_74VPX.txt), BG- and PF- pics for cab users
 
All this in kind tribute to Jeff Whitehead.
 

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[digitalarts]

Thank you Christian for your work

[Urko]

Great work.