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[humid]

North Star VP9 Mod



Version: 1.0.0
Category: VP/VPinMAME 9.x - MOD Tables

Author(s): Humid and Leon Spalding

Description:
Thanks to Leon for allowing me to update his table. New playfield and plastics, and a few tweaks to make it play quicker in VP9.


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Submitted by humid, on Jul 31 2010, 04:52 PM

[clyde]

Thanks Humid, this table really needed a makeover & you did an excellent job!

[pharaoh]

Whats up with this table?
Theres nothing - ZIP - no information on it (Table/Table info)
I load it up /w VP9 - hit key 5 several times - hit 1 key to play
NO BALL - ugh.
C'mon this looks nice wish it worked out of the box!
It also really needs some documentation added.
bummed
pharaoh

[moogster66]

Hit the 5 button for credits, S to start, and A to add a ball. You have to hit A to add a ball every time the ball drains. Thanks for the table mod Humid, very nice!

Edited by moogster66, 31 July 2010 - 10:00 PM.

[bolt]

Thanks for the nice VP9 mod Humid.

[pharaoh]

Hit the 5 button for credits, S to start, and A to add a ball. You have to hit A to add a ball every time the ball drains. Thanks for the table mod Humid, very nice!

Thanks for the game keys
Nice table!! - Great job on the oldskool Gottlieb Scoring

[pinball buzz]

Thanks Humid - nice job done

Hope you get permission to do some more of these old em`s - would love to see a new version of Aquarius or Gottlieb`s 300

Cheers Buzz

[Sabbat]

Thanks man I'm going to go replace my old file and play this version now

EDIT: There is still the problem of being able to add all 5 balls at once creating multiball if you keep pushing A. Other then that its a great release man

Edited by Sabbat Moon, 31 July 2010 - 11:38 PM.

[FDSystems]

Thanks man I'm going to go replace my old file and play this version now

EDIT: There is still the problem of being able to add all 5 balls at once creating multiball if you keep pushing A. Other then that its a great release man

This is not a problem as this was possible on the real EM tables

Great initiative Humid, Thanks a whole lot. Hopefully we will see more table updates of this period of pinball!

[Sabbat]

Thanks man I'm going to go replace my old file and play this version now

EDIT: There is still the problem of being able to add all 5 balls at once creating multiball if you keep pushing A. Other then that its a great release man

This is not a problem as this was possible on the real EM tables

Oh ok, thats cool to know! thanks dude. Though kind of bogus that there is no true highscore IMO to any of those games that you can do it on because if someone gets a good score doing 1 at a time, then another guy puts all 5 balls in at once and gets them to projectile off eachother in multiball to really rack up the points, wouldn't that be cheating to some degree?

[Bob5453]

Oh ok, thats cool to know! thanks dude. Though kind of bogus that there is no true highscore IMO to any of those games that you can do it on because if someone gets a good score doing 1 at a time, then another guy puts all 5 balls in at once and gets them to projectile off eachother in multiball to really rack up the points, wouldn't that be cheating to some degree?

I use to play an EM game called Tropic Isle all of the time in 1970-1971. There were 5 balls and when you put in your nickel for a credit, pushed start, all 5 balls entered a tray, you then pushed in a lever and it raised a ball into the plunger lane to shoot. Yes, you could then raise another ball and shoot it, you could play all five balls at once. There were 5 lanes at the top and if you lit them all, the special lit and if you earned a special the special light stayed on. So we would play this game with one person flipping the flippers and another person skillfully shooting up balls to light the lanes. This way, on a good game, you could win 5 or more credits, the credit counter went to 15 (I think)

If the ball drained on the left outlane, you could bump the table when the ball hit the drain wall and it would bounce up for a chance to save it with the flippers. Great fun. We use to also play this game a lot with one guy playing each flipper.

Tropic Isle is probably my greatest pinball playing memory. This was in my 11th and 12th school grade and it was in a pool hall/card room which I hung out in regularly for over 35 years.

If the real machine lets you play all 5 balls at the same time, then it's not cheating, but most of the old VP tables won't let you play all 5 balls, but that doesn't mean the real machine didn't allow you to do it.

[Pin-Pete]

Thanks for release,humid.Excellent job.
And thanks to Leon Spalding for permit to modify.

[bha19]

I get this error message "line 887 input past end of file" I am using the latest VP9

Edited by bha19, 01 August 2010 - 12:50 PM.

[humid]

When does this error occur bha19? It's a VP8 table with some adjustments made for playing on VP9. I played many games and have seen no errors with the latest version of VP9. That line number looks like it may be in the highscore save txt part of the script. Try deleting the North Star txt. file from the 'User' folder, then restarting.

Thanks to all for the kind comments you've given my mod.

[bha19]

When does this error occur bha19? It's a VP8 table with some adjustments made for playing on VP9. I played many games and have seen no errors with the latest version of VP9. That line number looks like it may be in the highscore save txt part of the script. Try deleting the North Star txt. file from the 'User' folder, then restarting.

Thanks to all for the kind comments you've given my mod.

The error occurs when I try to load the table. I deleted the .txt file and now it works, thanks for the advice.

[humid]

Glad this worked for you bha19. Hope you enjoy the table.

[FDSystems]

I use to play an EM game called Tropic Isle all of the time in 1970-1971. There were 5 balls and when you put in your nickel for a credit, pushed start, all 5 balls entered a tray, you then pushed in a lever and it raised a ball into the plunger lane to shoot. Yes, you could then raise another ball and shoot it, you could play all five balls at once. There were 5 lanes at the top and if you lit them all, the special lit and if you earned a special the special light stayed on. So we would play this game with one person flipping the flippers and another person skillfully shooting up balls to light the lanes. This way, on a good game, you could win 5 or more credits, the credit counter went to 15 (I think)

If the ball drained on the left outlane, you could bump the table when the ball hit the drain wall and it would bounce up for a chance to save it with the flippers. Great fun. We use to also play this game a lot with one guy playing each flipper.

I can´t remember the names of the first tables I played, but they definitely had the same caracteristics.
I can still hear the noise of the lever used to push up the balls, as well as the noise of the balls "flowing" to the tray, Some VP recreations reproduce this very well.

Experienced players were able to coordonate the gesture so that raising the ball to the plunger lane & shoot it would be done in one soft movement, two fingers pushing the lever & two pulling the plunger, ...straight to the lane to be lit!

I remember saving a lot of balls between the flipperd with a strong bump at the right moment.

After each ball we would look at the tilt mechanism to check if it wasn´t balancing too much. We would eventually wait a bit before shooting the next ball.

Back to topic:
I played the table & I like it !

[bha19]

Glad this worked for you bha19. Hope you enjoy the table.

Great table and very challenging