Bally's 1980 Frontier! Rugged entertainment from out of the pinball wilderness!! Frontier was released in November 1980 with a mountain man and hunting theme, and features a unique scoring system focused on animal targets and bonus features.
Thanks to Bord for providing a high resolution playfield scan. Thanks also to @redbone for updating, scaling, and cleaning the playfield up, as well as assisting in the many other graphics including the plastics, flippers, apron, targets, and spinner.! I used Hauntfreaks higher resolution backglass for VR. And thank you to iaakki for helping with some physics on the inlanes to get an accurate bounce / springiness, as well as the left 3 drop targets to get accurate bounce back on those as well. Iaakki also assisted in getting some insert color tones just right.
This table was done from scratch placing everything, and implementing the latest VPW (2025) standards, physics, alllamps and 3D inserts, backglass for desktop, roth drop and standup targets, standalone compatibility, sling corrections, optional DIP adjustments, updated flipper physics, VR and fully hybrid, playfield mesh for the saucer, Flupper style bumpers and lighting. I also baked the GI and interior wood walls. I've also put in some moving gate rods and other movements as well. I've once again studied hours of videos to ensure accurate placement, gameplay, bounces, physics, etc.
You WILL notice there's a slight bounce on the rail by the flippers... that IS intended. The real table does that.
This table is loaded with options in the F12. Various balls, ball brightness, flippers, screw caps, plastic edge colors, LUTs, Dip settings, and plenty of other VR stuff, including LED undercab lighting.
I've also provided a .nvram file for the ROM menu settings, and I've hard coded the DIP switch settings as usual.
Please NOTE there are several items to consider on the ROM settings: The default settings for the ROM options are hard coded into the script and are based on the recommended values from Bally for 3 balls. If you want to change the ROM settings themselves, you need to change the "SetDIPSwitches to 1" in the script, and then use the F6 menu to change. However... I am not able to hard code the ROM menu options. Typically, there are levels of score achievements that award a free play. The default ROM has that set to off. I've included an nvram file you can use that sets that to match the instruction/score cards and Bally's recommendation (440,000 and 680,000). I also have instructions in the script on how to change that if you wish to do yourself.
Thanks again to Bord, Redbone, and Iaakki! Also thanks to everyone else from the VPW team that provided testing and feedback!
Required Software (64-bit versions):
VPX 10.8.0 or later: https://github.com/vpinball/vpinball/releases/tag/v10.8.0-2051-28dd6c3
VPinMame 3.7.0.47 or later recommended: https://github.com/vpinball/pinmame/actions/runs/15769888098
B2S Server 2.1.3 or later (if B2S used): https://github.com/vpinball/b2s-backglass/releases/tag/v2.1.3
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