Near Dark (2025) v1.0

Near Dark (Stern 1979) [VPX Table] v1.0

Inspired by the 1987 film “Near Dark” directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, and Jenny Wright.

This is a  VPX reskin/mod of bord’s Stern Dracula (1979) v2.1.1 (adding puppack triggers - no other functional changes were made)

I owned a real Stern Dracula years ago but I was craving different graphics so I jumped into this mod. I've never attempted anything like this but hopefully some folks will enjoy it.

This table was designed for my 3 screen cabinet, with the video player running on the full DMD.  I suppose the PupPack isn't required, but it really is the whole point so I'd recommend giving it a try.

I have not attempted to make versions for other cabinet use-cases yet but feel free to dig into it, if you're so inclined.

Since folks sometimes skip the ReadMe...

ROM Installation & Alias Setup (REQUIRED!):
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Download dracula.zip (do NOT unzip) from VPForums and place it in your Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\roms folder.

Open (or create) the file Visual Pinball\VPinMAME\VPMAlias.txt in a text editor.

Add this line to the bottom:

neardark2025,dracula

Save the file.

Do not rename dracula.zip. The alias tells the table to use the correct ROM.

The DOF effects from Dracula now run on this version of the table as well, FYI.