Star Trek The Next Generation (Williams 1993) VPW Mod

1 hour ago, Wylte said:

Check out work by Bord, UnclePaulie, and Shlabber34 - they might have what you're looking for!

Thanks... I've got 'em.  They are all making great tables!

So...I downloaded version 1.1 (No idea how to download previous versions) and I am getting the following script errors...

Line: 57

Variable is undefined:  'RenderingMode'

Line: 192

Variable is Undefined:  'vpInit'

Line: 1126

Object required:  'Controller'

Can anyone help out or tell me what to have in those specific lines of script.

I am running VPX version 10.7 but have loaded many VPW table saved with version 10.72 and all I do is save it after loading it and everything runs fine.

Thanks in advance.

On 2/25/2023 at 1:04 AM, outhere said:

https://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/3942-star-trek-the-next-generation/?do=findComment&comment=69094

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Complete Pin2DMD Colour File List for Virtual & Real Pins
https://vpuniverse.com/forums/topic/5391-complete-pin2dmd-colour-file-list-for-virtual-real-pins/

Thanks for posting that. Evidently I'm not allowed to see the first link and there's no listing for Star Trek The Next Generation color DMD file.

8 hours ago, Wylte said:

There are some colorization creators who are hiding their files after the PAC drama.  You'll just have to hope they come back to the vpin world

PAC drama? Weird, ok. Thanks for the reply.

Thank you for the awesome table.  Really appreciate all of the hard work you put into it.  Happy Holidays.

Hello I am new to this.  I couldn’t get this to load I received a rom error.  I downloaded the zips from the site provided and placed in my tables folder.  Did I miss something can someone help

Hello I am new to this.  I couldn’t get this to load I received a rom error.  I downloaded the zips from the site provided and placed in my tables folder.  Did I miss something can someone help

I've never been able to get the color dmd working, nor find the "non pup pak" alt sound files. The Pup Pak alt sound mutes music for calls in the PUP. Maybe my .pal and .vin files (there is a blue Borg cube vs green .pal as well) are bad? They are supposed to work with sting_l7 according to the readme.txt that came with them. I'm also updated to VPinMAME 3.6, and VPX 10.80 (thanks nail buster). I'm at my wits end, and I'm normally pretty sharp about this stuff.

Also, I don't know if anyone noticed or experienced this, but once you upgrade to VPX 10.80 and vPinMAME 3.6 if you attempt to save this board it forever breaks the rom lookup  (i.e., cGameName = "NAME"). At first I thought it was my rom file, but I tested them in vPinMAME 3.6, and they worked just fine. I had to restore from a backup copy. I noticed this when I was updating the script to point to sttng_x8 or sttng_l8. After that, no rom would work no matter what. @jayhawk72 maybe this what happened to you (i.e., saved the board)? If so, re-download a fresh copy of the table.

If someone has the files, or setup doc I can follow to get the colorDMD going, or the non-pup altsound files, I would be grateful. 

Also, just an FYI: I used my VPMalias.txt file in vPinMAME to test using alternate rom files without need to commit the save to the table, so it didn't break the board as I keep fiddling with alternate ROMs. Again, keep a backup of your table BEFORE you save anything. 

On 2/21/2023 at 9:55 AM, SixOfTwelve said:

 

Not at the table right now, but from memory (since I did the very same thing last night):

Look for all occurences of the term "If keycode = PlungerKey" (there should be two) and add

"or If keycode = LockBarKey" to each line

I had an issue where the lock bar launch button seemed to only really work once per ball, and the button was ignored after that.  Couldn't launch cannons, probes, etc.  Your suggestion got me to a solution, when I added exactly what you typed, that extra "If" gave me a syntax error, but changing it so the two occurrences of:

If keycode = PlungerKey Then

to now read:

If keycode = PlungerKey or keycode = LockBarKey Then

That suddenly fixed the issue, and the lock bar fire button would reliably always launch the ball.

This is one of my favorite tables of all time, and it was really frustrating it wouldn't play right until now.  Thanks!

Is there a way to adjust the size of the DMD in desktop mode?

On 7/10/2024 at 5:29 PM, jw15851 said:

I had an issue where the lock bar launch button seemed to only really work once per ball, and the button was ignored after that.  Couldn't launch cannons, probes, etc.  Your suggestion got me to a solution, when I added exactly what you typed, that extra "If" gave me a syntax error, but changing it so the two occurrences of:

If keycode = PlungerKey Then

to now read:

If keycode = PlungerKey or keycode = LockBarKey Then

That suddenly fixed the issue, and the lock bar fire button would reliably always launch the ball.

 

This is one of my favorite tables of all time, and it was really frustrating it wouldn't play right until now.  Thanks!

Thanks for this - I was having the same issue with my lockdown bar only working the first time - this fixed it!

On 2/20/2023 at 2:17 AM, Gamblegamble89 said:

I feel like the game or ball is lagging. The only other table Ive experienced this on was Cactus Canyon.  Any tips to make it run better?  all other games I run 4k on 3060 with 120HZ monitor no issues

Did you figure this out? When the lights flash I see stuttering all over the place

@VPinWorkshop unbelievable table. Thank you guys so much, I can't get enough of this. Learnt about the Picard Manoeuvre etc! 

Thanks again, 10 out of 10 as always!! 

A fantastic table and another amazing job by VPW - thank you!

When the lights start flashing during the start of multiball I get black lines on the screen and its almost like a sort of screen tearing type of thing, it's hard to describe. Only seems to happen on this table, wondering if this happens for anyone else?

Many thanks

I love this table. Used to play it in a bar with my friend for countless hours. 

One question. How do I change the DMD colour from blue to yellow?

How to hide the built-in DMD? I unchecked to ShowDMD to hide it to no avail. Thx.

10 minutes ago, mystereo said:

How to hide the built-in DMD? I unchecked to ShowDMD to hide it to no avail. Thx.

Open in edit mode, click the toggle to backglass view. If you see it there just grab with your mouse and slide it out of the bounding box. If it won't move it's gray, meaning locked. click edit/lock.

If you dont see it there then make sure all layers are checked in properties

Thanks Cliffy! I enabled all of the layers to finally see it and moved it out of the way. Thanks for the quick response! Plus, now I can apply this technique to other tables I'm having this issue with.

Read through everything I can find and I can't quite figure out why I'm seemingly the only person having issues with this table. It essentially seems like it struggles to find the balls. Especially if it's time to launch a probe. The game just kind of stops and the game eventually starts spazzing out trying to kick balls out of everywhere it can think to find one but most of the time it isn't able to. Sometimes there will be a ball sitting in the right probe but when it tries to kick it out it doesn't have enough power to fire it out of there.

I've tried both the sttng_l7 rom as well as the sttng_x8 with the patch. I've confirmed my ROMs are valid with vPinMAME.

I've tried deleting the cfg and nv files and starting fresh.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd truly appreciate it because I want so badly to be able to enjoy this table the way its meant to be played.

Thanks in advance!

4 hours ago, khangames said:

It essentially seems like it struggles to find the balls. 
I've tried both the sttng_l7 rom 

Weird. Yeah, never seen that. I've always used STTNG_L7.zip rom ... with this VPW version and also ran Bigus MOD of Knorr's for many years. If you want help, click Get-Support button above or drop by VPF.